Considering for a fact that Foo Fighters is just a continuation of Nirvana (Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana), I'd take Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Kris Novoselic in that short lived run by a band recommended by Sonic Youth.
Nirvana, hands down. Now Foo Fighters are great too, and fantastic live, but pick any Nirvana album and it's full of better songs than Foo's entire catalog.
i would take nirvana. in utero is one of my all time favorite albums and they had so many b-sides that i really like. the foo fighters first album was pure gold though.
on a side note, dave recently said the foo's will be workingwith butch vig on their next album to commemerate the 20th anniversery of "nevermind" which is awesome. for those that don't know butch vig produced the album, he was also the drummer for garbage which was another great band of the 90's.
Foo Fighters. A straight-forward, no nonsense arena rock band that doesn't try to be anything they're not. Quite enjoyable for the most part.
Whereas Nirvana often tried too hard a was limited in effectiveness and were very hit or miss from song to song. Also, the hype around Nirvana has made them out to be something they're not, and while it's slightly unfair to include that in this argument, it's not something I can look past while listening to Nirvana's music. All in all they have some good songs, but not many, and there's quite a lot of filler.
Nirvana. Kurt Cobain's lyrics are have more depth and gravity behind them then Grohl's.
I really like Everlong, but I like a lot more Nirvana songs a lot more.
What's really impressive about Nirvana is the fact that a lot of the songs were very minimalist. Technically speaking, they aren't that hard to play or understand, but what they convey goes far beyond the sum of the parts.
Foo Fighters gets kinda grating after a while.
Nirvana is a better band and has a much more impressive catalogue.
Well I love Dave Grohl and I love both bands, got to be Foo Fighters though, they're pretty damn awesome live and I like a lot of their songs, Stacked Actors is my favourite. :)
I think they are both REALLY overraterd.. nirvana are better though, and they wouldnt be foo fighters if it wasnt for nirvana. foo fighters are terrible in my opinion, nirvana are alright
yeah that's why he got choosen as the 13th best guitarrist of all time... If Kurt Cobain is the 13th best guitarist of all time, I'm a top ten synthesizer. Fun fact: he was voted into such a category because he's popular, not because he was any good. He had the ability to write good, simple pop songs, and merged those songs with a grunge sound. Yet, so did dozens of others. My Chemical Romance was voted the greatest band of all time, but it's hard to take such sweeping rankings seriously. Falling back to other people's equally educated opinions isn't a solid defense. Just saying.
yeah that's why he got choosen as the 13th best guitarrist of all time... If Kurt Cobain is the 13th best guitarist of all time, I'm a top ten synthesizer. Fun fact: he was voted into such a category because he's popular, not because he was any good. He had the ability to write good, simple pop songs, and merged those songs with a grunge sound. Yet, so did dozens of others. My Chemical Romance was voted the greatest band of all time, but it's hard to take such sweeping rankings seriously. Falling back to other people's equally educated opinions isn't a solid defense. Just saying.
Yeah. Kurt himself said he's the first person to say he's no virtuoso. He then said something like "I can't play like Yngwie Malmasteen but then he probably can't play like me either."
I will have to say Nirvana. I like both but Foo Fighters have been pretty bad since the turn of the century. Their 90s stuff is pretty damn good, Everlong has to be one of the best songs I've ever heard, however, Nirvana stuff overall seems much better.
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