Sunday, January 01, 2006

Smells like Teen Spirit!

Wild angry guitars were strumming in my ears while Kurt Cobain’s voice swam in my head:

With the lights out it’s less dangerous,
Here we are now, entertain us.
I feel stupid and contagious,
Here we are now, entertain us.

Nirvana: arguably one of the best rock bands that ever came out and that too at a time (the 90’s) when there was a serious dearth in musical talent as far as this particular genre of music was concerned. They had a unique sound that the so-called music industry experts in all their wisdom described as being “grunge”. Although what “grunge” means is, at best, anybody’s guess! What distinguished Nirvana was the voice that sang out the mood of a whole generation:

Here we are now, entertain us… [politicians]!!
Here we are now, entertain us… [shrieking teachers]!
Here we are now, entertain us… [false prophets]!

Hello, hello, hello, how low!…
O well, whatever, Nevermind!