Without the label, radio, and MTV push? at the level it was then? naw, neither would they have most likely. Plenty around Seattle as good or better, never did. These days so much is FREE, or very cheap to access in any genre. New rock band achieve at that level? My answer is No, the way they did. A new way? A way where the band prospers more?

This. Kurt looked, dressed, and acted a lot like a lot of kids throughout the 70’s and 80’s who were stoners/punks/artists in their school. Ripped jeans and shaggy greasy hair was already kind of a thing among that community. See the movie “Over The Edge” if you want to see a lot of the inspiration for Kurt’s style and attitude, or even Judd Nelson’s character in “The Breakfast Club.” Both were films about typical American teenagers of the time and predate Grunge by quite a few years. Bands like Ramones, Black Flag, Die Kruezen, Dinosaur jr, Replacements, and Sonic Youth are good examples of bands outside of Seattle that already had that look and attitude and sound waaaaaaaay before the members of Nirvana had even met! He liked those bands and fit into that community of weirdos and did a great job writing songs that evoked feelings of alienation and championing the dreams and imaginations of the neuro atypical mind. He happened to get in with the right people at the right moment which helped bring that community to the forefront and made it cool and acceptable to be an outsider. Before that, being in that community would’ve got you shoved into a locker or a toilet lol But Nirvana was just a marketable catalyzation of a community and lifestyle that already existed in the underground and the mainstream world was ready to adopt it

Absolutely. It's the look the feel the tone. The exposure. Mtv. The interviews. Young ppls state of mind. All of that stuff. Nirvana could've come n gone in 3 months with nobody knowing if they're still around or whatnot.

Exactly!!!!!

Add marketing and classic rock tempos and viola. The right place at the right time.

Thanks Jake! Cheers

Thanks man!

You hit the nail on the head about the fact things don't come from the same source: Back when everything was centralized via radio/MTV, it was a lot more challenging to get noticed - however, those who did get noticed had a higher chance of getting big, because the selection pool was smaller. It's definitely a different situation now, but I'm still optimistic one day we'll see another huge band tear things up.

But we are still trying 😂😂😂#mfilesband

You're right, I doubt, it's possible. It was more School-'Tribalism' that created these bands. Everybody followed the cool-kids, and if the gang-leaders listen to a band, so will you. As a band you first needed to tour, and then being favoured by the big radio stations most young people listen too, and those are gone. And Nirvana was a teenage band, I for once didn't take it serious, back then. And exchanging casettes was a very tribal in&outgroup-thing in schools. And the most important thing to sway the female half of a class perhaps was, that Kurt Cobain looked handsome, and even the girls followed their classmates that were into punk music, because developing a crush on him, and their producer had the sense to pretty the Nevermind-songs up for the mainstream. But ever since Win 95 computers getting more accessible with highchool students most young people turned into computer-nerds, and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates turned into the new Idols of a generation. And their Net also 'helped' individual taste: you had no longer any need to spend hours waiting on the Radiostation to play your favourite song, but the music you personally wanted was only a click away, and one staring at a screen alone in a room doesn't form ingroups, and if, only virtual. For getting big as an artist these days, you need to be pushed by platorms. Like Adele - everbody listens to Adele. I wouldn't have known about her, hadn't she shown up in my next video suggestions. The decades before that was Nordic Metal and more ear-friendly opposed to it: Nightwish in Europe. I liked Nightwish, after it was played on a Gothic-night in a local dance-club, and thought this tribal/gothic/symphonic/metal was a pretty ingroup thing only for goths and pehaps the scandinavian countries - until I noted that even the EC in the early 2010's (that hadn't been that popular with school-kids for about two, three decades, being a parents/grandparents thing) had turned into a 2hour concert of Nightwish-Epigons from the farest corners of Europe. I do think Nightwish's and this tribal/gothic/symphonic/metal's fame came from their videos being exchanged on platforms in early 2000's. And I just recently realized I can't name a single 'new' American band from the 2000's on, I even lost sight of the bands I knew in the early 90's, being locked in my own ingroup 'bardcore' echo-chamber for the past 30 years.

Skaters and hippies have great taste in music lol.

@@DanielSarkissian we did

Thanks my friend! Always good hearing from ya

Alice in chains, Layne era ofcourse🎉

my toenails are so dirty i was banned from three counties

Hair is there for a reason, it's an extension of the nervous system 😮

😂😂😂

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What about them ?

@@SmokeWithMeInCT you a Creed stan or something? Get woke

@@APMTenants lol🍪😂 shut up. Clearly a gen z puke

@@APMTenants why don’t you get real. You sound stupid as hell

Naaa mate the guy wrote the most original pop rock songs that's it everyone likes it and has an edge

naah this is false. Nirvana is much more popular and revolutionary than any band of its generation by far.

Right!!! They been carrying the torch!

thats what we all say :)

@@jakevaux pop took over and thats all you see now days

@@masonatorgaming669 yeah bro fuck pop

@@jakevaux agree 👍

We need grunge!!!!

Who?

She’s great

@@DanielSarkissian Yeah, I haven't heard her speak on anything for a while now, made that vid gold for me. Thanks brother, keep it rockin.

Appreciate it bro, cheers!

Nah

@@ListedMia-sm4xm 🫵

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Hahaha hey fair enough! Hope all's well Rich, good luck in the Euros this year

@@DanielSarkissian cheers Danny hope you and yours are doing well , and C'mon England 🦁🦁🦁 lol 🤣 hope we meet France in the final mate 👍

Danny do you watch the Copa America??

Hey, no I include new interviews on previous subjects as I get more footage over time. Some of these interviews here are in different videos.

@@DanielSarkissian Wait ! did I miss Suzi in a previous one?

Why? there is nothing to get over, its just discussion, like all art has.

No.

As long as there’s Elvis and Beatles fans in the world there will be Nirvana fans.

Nevermind

im 58 and been in bands and always known people into music but ive always been the only person ive known who loves nirvana, even in the day my friends made fun of em and were even glad when he died, all the love of nirvana ive seen has never been in real life, it's bizarre.

there’s tons of rockstars and rappers who have died but aren’t put on as big of a pedestal as kurt cobain or tupac or biggie it’s the fact that they were extremely talented that makes it such a great loss

Yeah, selling 50,000,000 albums worldwide is kids play….

No way