I don't blame you

It was Kurt Cobain's deathiversary last week and i was listening to Cat Power singing I Don't Blame You earlier, which is apparently about Cobain, and i thought he was due a small post. I find my liking of Nirvana's music unusual really, when i think about it there weren't an awful lot of grunge bands that i really liked (the Melvins and Mudhoney etc), and certainly the nu-metal etc stuff, a large part of which consisted of Nirvana imitators was a scene which i despised. The more i think about it the more i come to the conclusion that i really shouldn't like Nirvana, Kurt's vocal style, or the hype surrounding them. HOWEVER, i find that i do like them and it. I suppose some of the bands i like do have tinges of Nirvana about them, No Age and stuff, although more the punk side of it than the metally side of it. And that over-masculine throaty vocal style (Eddie Vedder) generally turns me off big-time. But i think Nirvana and Cobain were a one off, with no easy comparisons, and certainly i enjoy them regardless. Alot of folk like to say if he hadn't died they would've been a flash in the pan and been dead and buried, in a non-literal sense, by now anyway. Although they're probably the same people who think Dave Grohl was the real genius and Foo Fighters are the greatest band ever. Really it doesn't matter as we never got to find out.