[QUOTE="shani_boy101"][QUOTE="jalexbrown"]Not very many bands have enough longevity to last even a solid ten years without a decline in quality, so I'd imagine that Nirvana would sound like crap today if they were still around and making music.theone86
Muse has, they celebrated ten years just a few months ago. back on topic, i'd think they'd sound exactly the same. they would have gotten old and completely forgotten by around 2004.Don't get me started on Muse. Good, yes. As good as everyone makes them out to be, not by a VERY longshot.
Anyways, the Nirvana haters either just aren't fans of their style or they don't get what Nirvana was supposed to be about. Nirvana was about defying convention, communicating a certain type of angst counter to the kind found in metal, and bringing back a style of songwriting that was lacking at the time. You can talk about simplicity all you want, but some of the most acclaimed artists are simplistic. That was part of what Kurt was going for in his songs, was a sort of simplicity. If you're only judging on how intricate the structure is then you're not really getting what he was about. As for judging a band solely on their hits, usually not a good idea and it gets even worse when you judge on only a coule of hits. Yeah, songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit and In Bloom can be similar, but songs like Dumb, Polly, The Man who Sold the World, and others give more of a varied picture to what the band was about than if you just look at a couple of hits that are overplayed to hell. You also ahve to take them in the context of the times, most of the renowned artists in rock are renowned for sticking out. Just because a wave of similar artists follows them doesn't diminish that they were trying to do something unique when no one else was.
Anyways, I don't think Nirvana would have stayed together for very long. Kurt was known for not wanting to be commercial and not wanting to fall into holding patterns with his songwriting, I think part of his depression was that he was doing just that. They probably would have gone their seperate ways, Kurt doing weird songs that no one gets like John did, the bassist pursuing his projects, and Dave forming Foo Fighters. I think their post-mortem single proves that, it was one of the most commercial songs I've ever heard from Nirvana. I don't think we'd have nay more classic albums from them at the very least.
Um...you do realize that Nirvana wasn't the first to do The Man Who Sold the World, don't you? Anyways, I have a hard time defending a band on the grounds that they wanted to be different just for the sake of being different. It's actually this very mindstate that makes music seem so lackluster today in comparison to older music. In the old days even people who were different weren't doing it just to be different. 
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