i know everyone likes them. but i can’t stand them. they seem so dark and depressing and noisy. never liked them…so today? don’t know, don’t care.

I think they were going to be splitting up and Kurt was going to do his Michael Stipe collaboration-which I am sure would have been amazing.

Please stop talking about me….I can’t get any sleep!

they would probably be doing festival’s in europe with all the other shitty “yarler” bands like creed and pearl jam.

I don’t even like to think about where Nirvana or Kurt Cobain would be today. It’s way too depressing. No matter where he was, the world would have been a better place for still having him around.

easy, kurt woulda broke up the band, gone on to write some solo stuff, bad mouth dave and kris about the old days in the band and the have a reunion tour around 2009.

They would have broken up anyway.
Kurt would have gone on to become a great singer/songwriter, Dave would have started the Foos anyway, and Krist would be doing what he does now. I don’t think much would have changed.

they are dark and depressing and screwed me up as a teenager. i think if they were still around today that there would be no fake pop or rock music and everything would be less commercial and less about the money. Rollingstone would still be about good rock music.

they would have seperated by now and probly have a reunion this year. i really dont think they would have got more famous, maybe we r missing a great record that “you know your right” should have been on. But the band would probly be the same as it is today with the excption of kurt being alive. Foo Fighters would still have come out, kurt would go solo like every other lead singer of every great band, would he have achieve golden glory who knows.
the only thing that might be diffrent is mtv, not as much crap thats on it now

Lets be real, “You Know You’re Right” was and is a god awful song and only got radio time because it was “new Nirvana music.” It lived up to the hype? Honestly, I don’t think Nirvana would be nearly as legendary today if Kurt hadn’t killed himself back in 1994. They were the first of a genre, but are a little overated. Lets face it, Kurt Cobain’s shocking suicide is a big reason, not the only one, but a big reason why Nirvana is so revered today.

Uhm, everything would be the same. If Kurt hadn’t taken his life then, he would’ve done so 3-, 6-, 12 months or 2 years down the road.

Kurt was a great artist and, for a time, he had “his fingers on the pulse of America” but, ultimately, he was a chronically depressed drug addict with a serious need to destroy himself/others. He neither warrants nor deserves the praise he recieves today and said as much in his suicide note.

Suicide is the act of a coward, not a hero.

Spin magazine did a very comprehensive review of this topic a year or two ago… come on, guys… make me proud to have a lifetime subscription…

Sorry to say this, but Nirvana is only as popular as they are because of Kurt’s suicide. Let’s look at other grunge bands of the day:

Pearl Jam. From 1998 to 2003 released forgettable albums and had a minor “hit” with Worldwide Suicide in 2006. Other than that, nowhere near as popular as they were.

Soundgarden. Broke up after poor sales of 1996’s Down on the Upside. Chris Cornell found success in Audioslave, but nothing spectacular.

Alice in Chains. Broke up after poor sales of their 1995 album.

Let’s all stop treating Nirvana like this be-all, end-all rock band. They released 3 studio albums, only 1 of which was any good.

if kurt/the band were going to further progress in any direction he would’ve had to have kicked his drug habit & attendant depression, which he just didn’t seem very capable of doing, esp. w/ courtney love as his wife (that would drive most anyone to the needle). given that, i think kurt would’ve eventually gone into prolonged (but creative) quietude while the other guys went and did their own shit. their essential legacy would remain the same.

Just let go of Nirvana. If Kurt hadn’t killed himself no one would care about Nirvana today. We would have forgotten about them along with every other “grunge” band of the 90s. In retrospect, they are one of the most overrated bands of all time, and this is coming from a guy who used to be a diehard for the band. I was a kid.

It’s fair to imagine Kurt would have gone solo – especially since Nirvana was very close to being broken up around the time of his death. His solo career would have produced some more amazing rock lyrics that would have continued to make me identify with him, but musically, who knows? Dave would have done the Foos and Krist, the same. The biggest difference would have been made in Kurt’s daughter’s life.

They DEFINITELY would have broken up, Kurt would have become a recluse, he would have divorced Courtney Love and she would have no say on what does/doesn’t get released to this day. That’s the biggest crime of all, that that trainwreck who had nothing to do with the band has a stake in it.

i love people who post just to ditract from one of rock’s greatest bands. kurt’s words were the hight of imagination, and he always communicated clearly what he was feeling without ever sounding trite or cliche. not an easy task. so where would we be? it’s hard to imagine. take a look at other super-stars who have had bouts of bitter darknesss: lennon, elton john… people who have recovered. if an artist can really touch you like kurt did, they can always suprise you down the road with another gem. Like a day in the life leading to instant karma. you know your right wasn’t the best thing he had written, but whether using or clean and sober i’m sure he would have had something interesting to say and found a novel way to say it.

I think by 1994 the band had already reached its pinnacle and passed it.

The music and the message up until the band’s demise was awesome, no doubt. But as a number of people have already argued here, the enduring and practically mythic legacy of Nirvana centers on Cobain’s death.

Without the suicide, Nirvana would be remembered as a great band from the 1990s, an iconic band within their chosen genre. But it is difficult to imagine Nirvana being the stuff of rock mythology without the Cobain suicide.

“The height of imagination”, Lord Bunny?? Please.

What about “He’s the one who like/all them pretty songs/and he likes to sing along/and he likes to shoot his gun” ?? That may sound nice, but it doesn’t approximate imagination, much less its apex. How about “Grandma take me home”? Is that what you were referring to?

Kurt Cobain would kick your ass for idolizing him in such an absurd fashion…he was a punk rocker and much more honest about himself and his place in the world than all the mythologizing bullcrap you people try to impose on him…Get a grip.

How many of the people who have written above actually plays music, and knows what it is all about? I’m waiting. The rest of us can understand the dynamics of a band and the work that people put into their music. This band was not a “splash in the pan”, they were the fire below it. No question in my mind as to the substance of the music and the culture……

Grunge was on the way out, so unless they changed their sound and reinvented themselves I don’t think they’d be relevant today at all.

Simply… we will never know.

I’m sorry, but the cliché is “flash in a pan” not splash… and your grammar is just terrible.

i think kobain knew that he blew his proverbial wad on nevermind and probably couldn’t top it…he perhaps felt pressure he did not expect or want, and made a quick exit – an exit he probably wouldn’t have made were he not a heroin addict though…

(and with courtney leaving on tour to compete with him, wanting something he knew better than to want [fame] that was just like his mother leaving when the divorce happened so long ago; it pushed the wrong buttons and his drug-addled brain just couldn’t take it…i really felt sorry for the guy)…

…anyone on here downgrading Nirvana is just simply misguided and did not see this band live when they blowing the roofs off places. I saw them in Buffalo in 1993 and till this day have never experienced the kaos and beauty that was their live show. Tunes like “Unit Shifter” and “Milk It” changed the atmosphere in the room, it was the equivelant of a musical atom bomb going off, and yet there were moments of silence that were awe inspiring in between…This band was not overratted by a long shot. See the Mtv “live and loud”, that’s about as close as it gets to getting a taste of the grand kaos & insanity that was Nirvana live, and that just barely touches the surface of the show I experienced..RIP Kurt.

Nirvana would NOT have been some average 90’s band had Kurt not have died… that is such an idiotic statement… His voice was a voice of a generation… his screaming wasn’t annoying and fake like all of these AWFUL screaming bands today… and the music was raw and powerful with a underlying hypnotic beat to each song… and they could go from quiet to loud and back and forth so elegantly… AMAZING BAND… it is so easy to overlook how great they were, yes… especially with time…

I just read Kurts biography – which I think is the best Rock n Roll book written to date “Heavier Than Heaven” and your answer could very well be inside that book, specially in the final act where we see a man so deep into his addiction that it’s surprising those final session even took place. I don’t think Kurt Kubain didn’t really create any art after 1992 that could be on the same level as his most regarded work. And this work came out of suffering, came out on this journey he had to just kill himself. He had it all planned. How ever if something might of happened and taken that death wish of his soul he certainly had that SOUL and with tit he could ve continued writing wonderful songs. With or without the other two and yeah that bitch.

‘…teenage angst has paid off well, now I’m bored and old..’

Opening line from Utero tells the story that I think that Cobain was a little tired of being ‘angry’ and would’ve gone in a different direction with the next album.

Whethere it would’ve had the critical success and/or media success I’m not sure. Even the best artists can go down a path even the most dedicated fan can’t follow. Ex. The Doors ‘Soft Parade’

Overall, the music will stand the test of time and to me will always be one of the best bands to ever surface.

yeh iKNOWiMright (see posting below), that thing on MTV pretty much proved how good they were as a loud, heavy-duty punk/metal/rock band…

I think it might have been a good thing that Nirvana stopped where they did, don’t get me wrong they were an amazing band. But after so long people might start to get sick of them. Green Day is a perfect excample, then again that might just be because I’m not too hot for Green Day.

I think after Kurt would have done one more Nirvana recording and become a devoted house husband. Then in 2007, along with the Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana would rise again. Kurt would definately be a voice to any generation, not just we, are around 40. He really told our story in a beautifully violent way. I miss him!

you people are stupid, why don’t you people watch a Nirvana Concert, it’s exciting. And I don’t think they’de have to change they’re sound, they would be popular no matter what they did. In Utero was better than Nevermind by the way, so quit your bitching. The truth is Nirvana presents mystery to the rock world, gave it something we were missing, like it or not Kurt was the closest thing to Jim Morrison than we will ever see. Deep dpwn everyone like to talk about kurt, or watch kurt, he was incredibly carasmatic whether he liked it or not. If you think I’m wrong than stop posting shit to take away from him. His music will be passed on through out the years. And if he was alive today we would still be listening to the old stuff and still hold on tight to hear what would come next. And this goes to Grawp, you’re an idiot, you pick to random lines from songs that prove what ever stupid point you’re trying to make, why don’t you go suck eddie veddar’s dick and swallow some pearl jam you asshole.

I think he may have made one or two more Nirvana records before breaking the band up. If he was really miserable to the point of suicide, it’s silly to think if he’d lived he would’ve kept pumping out the same kind of music with his band.

I feel either he would’ve dropped out of music entirely for an extended period, or simply gone on to have a solo career, which I think would’ve explored some musical areas he didn’t touch with Nirvana.

One thing I do strongly believe is that the success of the Unplugged performance and LP (which likely would’ve been released anyway, even if he’d lived) would’ve pushed Kurt and the band to pursue a more acoustic direction with new songs in the future.

Nirvana doesn’t strike me as a band that would’ve intentionally developed musically to keep up with the times in order to continue striving for commercial success like U2 or the Chili Peppers.
As such, I doubt they would’ve been able to maintain their level of success though, no matter how good their music might have been had Kurt lived. They were the right band at just the right moment, and like Pearl Jam, always would’ve maintained a very dedicated following, but probably would’ve faded from the mainstream a bit toward the end of the 90’s.

johnny’s got it spot-on!

Well, Kurt stated in an interview that he was going to try and change the musical direction of the band because they were all getting tired of playing “grunge” music… whatever that is anyway. By the way, you can’t just plop a group of bands that come out at around the same time, from the same general area, into the same genre. And believe it or not, in most of his songs… Kurt’s lyrics weren’t depressing or eerie; they were either satirical or angry. He was one funny dude with a temper who liked to write music. Whether or not he’d be a legend today depends more on the general publics acceptance of the genius behind his music. The general public is so stupid that they think that Fall Out Boy is a good band, and that light beer won’t make them fat. My point is… Kurt wrote catchy music… comparitive to the Beatles and wrote intelligent lyrics (for the majority of the time) There was never such a thing as grunge… there was Nirvana, and everyone else trying to be them, and they’re still trying to this day; I think that fact pretty much answers your question.

i believe that what gave nirvana its credibility was weird al doing the cover ’smells like nirvana’. like coolio and michael jackson before them, weird al is at the forefront of bringing the underground aboveground.

there is no way kurt would not have self destructed, which is why the music was so good in the first place

rocking out

was he their lead guitarist?

top 5 guitarist behind dylon

They would have broken up. Kurt Cobain would’ve still killed himself. I hate every last one of you.

If Cobain didn’t kill himself, Nirvana would have continued to be one of the most influential bands of the 90s. Kurt then would have became a recluse for many years…….only to re-emerge again with a duet album with Axl Rose.

Angel is more depressed than Cobain ever was… Angel most likely thinks they’re pessimism is clever and witty… hooray for daddies special opressed comedian… everybody give Angel a BIG hug… (

Angel is more depressed than Cobain ever was… Angel most likely thinks their pessimism is clever and witty… hooray for daddies special opressed comedian… everybody give Angel a BIG hug… (

Nirvana had a huge say in music even in the short time they where around. Bands today base so much of their own music from them. Nirvana would be huge if they were still around.

If Cobain hadn’t killed himself on April 5th he would have killed himself a few days later. The guy wanted to die.

Cobain would be in a super-group with Hendrix, Ian Curtis, D. Boon, and (sure, why not?) Robert Johnson. They would be called Dead Rock Stars.

Naturally, their sound would never mesh, and they would call it quits after one sloppy EP and a lackluster full-length called Better Dead Than Santana.

Rolling Stone would still give the record four stars, but would make unflattering references to Cream and the final third of All Things Pass.

Robert Christgau would observe: “Listening to famous people jerk off is only slightly more interesting than listening to anyone else jerk off. C+”

Pitchforkmedia would give the record a 3.4/10.0, saying, “Whoever introduced Jimi to the keyboard should be have their asshole burned closed. [...] Kurt’s ode to anti-depressants ‘Zero to Zoloft’ is less a song than a commercial. Listen to the way he hits the chorus with that torn-throat wail: ‘Zo-lift me aloft/Zo-o-loft.’ Tell me you won’t hear that between segments of the Desperate Housewives. The only funny part is after the cringe-worthy line ‘Zero plus Zoloft equals One,’ D. Boon says, ‘Where you learn your math, kid?’ […] Boon’s ‘Communist, Communist, Killer Communist—Reagan!’ is about as outdated as Johnson’s much touted electric blues ‘Trane’s Train Blues on the Blue Train.’ […] Only Ian Curtis escapes embarrassment, contributing only to the between song chatter, which is, invariably, the best part of the disc. Curtis and Boon get the biggest laugh.
“CURTIS: Bass. Bass! Bloody twat. We need more bass.
“BOON: Maybe we get Sid Vicious for the next album.”

Personally I think if he would’ve never died he more than likely would left the business for quite some years. Then maybe he would have a talk with Frank Black and they would do an album togther and toured like Frank does today. I also think that they would have always been rembered as they are today.

Kurt was doomed from the beginning like Jim Morrison or Brian Jones; Keith Richards said that he couldn’t imagine Brian getting old and I think the same applies to Kurt.

If by some miracle he failed every suicide attempt, in 2007 Nirvana would still be in limbo after a public break-up in late 1994. Dave Grohl would still have formed the Foo Fighters and Krist would emerge from obscurity every now and then to whine that Kurt isn’t being fair to him and his contributions to Nirvana (and that he needs a Nirvana reunion tour to pay his bills.)

Kurt and Courtney would have a Tommy Lee-Pam Anderson relationship, perpetually breaking up and getting back together for the sake of the kids.

I doubt Kurt would have wanted to have anything to do with grunge after 1994. Most of his new music would be jangly pop made with Scott Litt and Michael Stipe.

I could see him collaborating with Courtney, David Bowie, Neil Young and guest starring on R.E.M. and Sonic Youth albums. He’d release one mediocre solo album but everyone would agree his collaborations with other artists is better than his own stuff which tends to be too introspective.

We’d all be agreeing now that Kurt needed the pressure cooker of Nirvana’s sudden rise to fame to make the urgent grunge music that he’s famous for, not the esoteric pop he’d be making in 2007. A true Nirvana reunion would be near impossible at this point since Krist would have basically alienated himself from Kurt through his whining that he needs Nirvana royalties to pay his mortgage.

Oh, and Kurt would be teaching Frances to play bass so she can replace Krist in the Nirvana reunion tour of 2008.

Where would Aerosmith be today if Steve Tyler was still alive? Who knows? Certainly not me.

well… since 1994 he’s put out more new material dead than axl rose has alive

its kind of a trick question, since kurdt was murdered:

http://www.cobaincase.com/

Whatever direction Kurts music may have taken it’s obvious Kurt’s (or grunge’s) star wouldve faded eventually and he would become a curiousity like Frank Black. If Evan Dando had taken Kurts place in the choir in the sky,he would have sold ten times more than he currently has.

kurt would have invented emo. instead he went up to heaven and worked with lennon and biggie on some dumb Wings cover album (how many times do we need to hear ‘Let ‘em In’?). lame-o.

does anyone hear honestly like the foo fighters now? their older stuff is decent but that “in you honor” crap, i mean come on…

I think they would be doing Pearl Jam covers.

I’m more curious as to why Rolling Stone magazine continues to beat this dead horse to death than where Nirvana would be today if Kurt was alive.

You’re asking me where Nirvana would be today? Here’s your answer Rolling Stone

Quit the rhetoric – There are a lot of great bands out there that deserve to be talked about – Quit living in the past – Get over it – Stop wondering where Nirvana wouldve gone & talk about where music is going in the future.

It’s no wonder why this magazine isn’t respected – you guys are no different than Blender or anyone else.

and yes, I noticed the “dead horse to death thing”. When Rolling Stone is this repetitive, it catches on a bit.

not half as big as pearl jam today

kurt would get togther with billy corgan andplot to kill courtney love before she did to him then release a bunch of solo albums then reform nirvana what could of been thanks courtney you WHORE

It’s hard to imagine a world with Cobain in it. After all, he has well-documented emotional problems, and one of their final songs was entitled “I Hate Myself and Want to Die.”

If he were alive, he would have had a Syd Barret kind of meltdown and left the public eye forever, or he’d intentionally make a bad Nirvana album.

you guys are such fools

that is, you fools that are responding.

why would you waste your time bitching at rolling stone or at nirvana with the shit that comes out nowadays.

i think it’s YOU idiots who need to move on.

Right on Jesus!

Kurt would kick some ass if he knew he was idolized. He fuckin’ knew his band was mediocre and no better than any of the other seatle bands. I also hate each and every one of you, especially you, Angel.

Well I guess I will get these reminders every few years from now till the day I die. The reminder of Kurt’s last days still bothers me. It still doesn’t sit well in my stomach, I’m sure sorta like the problems that didn’t sit well in his.

I remember the day it all came to end. I remember hearing it on my walkman on a news break from the top 5 at 5 as I walked home from detention for being late that morning.

I remmeber the an overwhelming eptyness and nauseau come over me that still repeats itself on days of one of these reminders. I think it took me almost an extra hour to get home that day cause I just started to walk slowly in disbelief, almost like I was mourning the death of a family member.

Kurt is why I come to this website. Kurt is the sole reason I love music today. In September I turned 28 years old and have pushed almost 5 months passed that “27″ that claimed so many great musicians. After years of reading and studying everything about Kurt and Nirvana I could get my hands on, I still can’t figure out why he did that. I guess we will never know. R.I.P Kurt, and remember it’s DEFINITLEY not better to burn out than to fade away. Life’s pretty rad man, I just wish you were still on my top 5 at 5 with a new tune solo or not.

“Loved you so much, it made me sick” – Kurt/Nirvana Anuerysm/Incesticide

they would make some weird acoustic albums throughout the 90s as kurt slowly weaned himself off heroin, divorced that bitch, etc. then with the rise of teenypop/emo music in the 2000s kurt would get all pissed off again and start making powerful, angry, fire-breathing albums again. RIP kurt.

oh, and if rolling stone had as many well written articles as it does advertisements, then maybe it would be half as cool as Mojo. Rolling stone used to be revolutionary, but not its just another example of what’s wrong with this greedy world.

All these scenarios, and none of us can honestly say we know what would’ve happenened. This is a great band that’s been tarnished by rehashed questions and dumber ramblings from all of us who think we have a clue. Please spend your time burning Fall Out Boy records and don’t beat this dead horse.

they were a very one dimensional band…Kurt even said that himself…they never would have lasted….they just werent nearly as good as the media was hyping them up to be….and Kurt killed himself in the middle of the hype therefore alot of that hype still hasnt died down….they were an ok band….

face the facts folks kurt cobain was murdered look into the details
http://www.cobaincase.com the truth will come out eventually

kurt would have despised every one of you cocksucking misogynists. Why don’t you blame frances for his death since you’ve blamed his wife and mother for his hereditary manic depression I presume she would be the next “logical” suspect to you female hating losers.

I don’t think Nirvana would have lasted even if Cobain didn’t kill himself.I think,like every band,they would have known their time as a band was up and they would have one,last major concert at Madison Square Garden or some big arena.They would have stayed in touch and probably would have played on eah other’s solo albums but,then,Cobain would have killed himself.

who cares really, his music was sincere and he was sincere.

There has not been an act in music since that’s been able to fill the void left by Kurt’s passing.

Sure, he left on a high note. A handful of good records that defined not only a sound but also a mentality and clothing style (grunge, self-loathing, plaid!)

it’s better that we were left wondering if they (Nirvana) would continue to be great, than actually finding out. Instead of being remembered as Great Band, had massive impact then went shit, theres that whole sense of cult band about them. They stopped existing at their height, and the fact it involved the lead singers suicide will forever go down as one of the great rock n roll stories.

They would have disbanded shortly after/or in 1994. Cobain’s mind/ego would’ve killed everything, including himself (again).

Harsh, but that’s the way I see it.

Judging by the pretty average sale of In Utero in 1993, I think they would have continued to make decent music for the loyal faithful, with nobody else caring. Pretty much like pearl jam have done.

all of us know that kurt was not a perfect but no one has his talent & knack for ever ………………………… ………………………… ……………………and ever…………………….. …

all of us know that kurt was not a perfect but no one has his talent & knack for ever …………… ….. ….. ….. ………………………… ……………………and ever……….. ….. ….. ….. …

I doubt he would have approved of this blog. Sorry RS, but you know I am right.

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Gee… Ever heard of Guns ‘N Roses? A band that defined the zeitgiest of the late 80’s and early 90’s that had a charasmatic lead singer who drove away his band mates…. Hmmm… Interesting paralell here. My guess is Kurt would’ve broken up the band and reformed it a few years later with lesser talents and we’s still be waiting on the Nirvana equivilent of Chinesse Democracy.

acc_cheerleader…why don’t you go play with your pom-poms because you odviously have no idea what your talking about. I grew up during “Nirvanamaina” and no band since then can even touch “the last great rock and roll band”. So go back to your Fall Out Boy and watch them become the next REO Speedwagon!

He would have broken up the band and become a recluse. He wouldn’t reform it, he’s just not like that….It’d be like Lennon when he left the Beatles.

But what he left behind was amazing. He shaped the sound of the whole decade….his songs were short, catchy, and his lyrics are unparalleled.

He still sparks debate 13 years after his death, and that’s what makes a great artist!

He would have had one successful solo album and many less successful ones that were damn good and have a Neil Young-like existance.

this is a stupid question because there is no basis for speculation of what might have happened to someone if they had not died.
Every now and then Mark David Chapman comes up for parole and there are people who say that Lennon would have forgiven him eventually had he not died because that was the kind of person he was. That kind of assumption based on what you think an artist is/was like is rediculous. You can’t know, why? because their dead.

They would have released an overblown concept album with a 50-piece orchestra, Kurt would have played only a handful of shows on the following tour looking all Jesus-like with white robes and scruffy beard. He would have then completed lost it and disappeared to start a commune in mountains of British Columbia. 60 Minutes would have interviewed five years later, and been spooked by his cult-like lingo of talking about loving each other and being part of the inner being that is Boddah.

Krist would have had a nervous breakdown following Kurt’s disappearance, lost it all, and worked in a Church’s Chicken talking about the days that they could have been really big, but it never happened, ending with him giving the finger to some camera crew and riding away on a bicycle.

We all know what would happen to Dave, he would have probably left Nirvana before the concept album was complete because he was fed up with Kurt’s bullshit. Formed Foo Fighters, and become just as successful commercially as he is now anyway, just not as musically groundbreaking as Nirvana. That was also a small piece to what led to Kurt’s disappearance, his resentment for Dave going on his own and succeeding without melting down like a disillusioned junkie.

Then in 2005, Cobain comes out for the grammy awards wearing a bathrobe, shaved bald, with those bug sunglasses, unrobes, shows his nakedness, and says he has returned to be bigger than Michael Jackson, that causes the first and only time that the Grammy’s end abruptly with the whole audience running out of the Staples Center in horror.

Meanwhile Courtney Love would have become a very successful coordinator of a hard core porn site.. but we knew that already, and that doesn’t have anything to do with Nirvana’s music.

C’est la vie.

Kurt would have become Axl’s bitch and worshipped the ground he walks on. He once said, “Guns N Roses are so pathetic and untalented, and they are the most popular thing out there”… it is true, Guns N Roses was the only metal band that could handle the brunt force of “alternative” music, but when you listen to GnR now, compared to Nirvana, its obvious who was more talented, and that is why Guns N Roses is still around and is the greatest band to emerge from the 20th century.

Kurt’s not coming back. He’s a dead, rotting corpse…..exactly where he belongs. Six feet under.

He’s a maggot-filled stiff……..not much different from when he was onstage….

Probably smells better now, too…

Who cares what this hack would’ve been doing today. Just be thankful we have great bands today like Nickleback, and forget about dead musicians.

He would have gotten the job as lead singer of Audioslave. THAT or he’d just be doing lots of H.

Nickel Back…ARE YOU KIDDING! Someone should shoot you; or take your lame and pointless post out of the comments.

he probably would have sh*t himself and died over all of the pozer ass eyeliner crybaby bands out today.

wow skullfreak your parents did a great job raising you.

yea, carts, youre a huuuuuge douchebag.. nickelback sucks and is scum amongst today’s music.. so why dont you abandon your tight jeans and straw cowboy hat and listen to something better, you tool

I think they all would have done exactly what they had did. The Foos, Eyes Adrift, but Nirvana would have been the wife they came back too. Even if Kurt did a solo record (with Mark Lanegan?) they would come back to their baby, Nirvana.

I definitely think the band would have made some increasingly bad albums…sad truth is, most bands do. Plus, if they wanted to keep the grunge style going strong, that would have been extra hard in a world where rap was taking up the music reins. Bummer.

WTF!…..so sorry, but your leader is DEAD. I guess he wasn’t having fun anymore shooting heroin in front of Francis Bean…

Now….he rots in HELL…

He’d probably wouuuld have dissapeared around the time he died and after eventually divorcing courtney, he’d become one of those part-time recluses who have career “comebacks” every five to ten years. That tiny piece of himself that craved the spotlight (the piece that ended up killing him) would have kept him from any permanent absense.

The most overrated band ever…the guy writes a FEW good songs, can’t handle stardom or fatherhood, so he takes the puss-bag way out and kills himself.

All of a sudden, all you idiots think he’s Lennon. Give me a break…I hope worms are chewing on his face right now….

Wah!!! Wahh!!! Wah!!! Can’t take the truth……

Curt’s just a bag of bones, wrapped up in a crappy, crusty old sweater…again – much like he was during his life. oh yeah….and a mouthful of maggots…

I love Nirvana but I cannot imagine my life without the Foo Fighters, When asked who my favorite bands are I list both.

Skullfreak, what is your problem with nirvana?? Are you pretentious enough to believe you know something about nirvana that most serious music critics have missed? I’m curious, what are your favorite bands?

Nanoprobe – Go probe yourself with your thumb. Their an average band at best, and you know it. Stop elevating Kurt to diety status. Most of his songs are 3 simple chords with a lot of screaming. Funny how they became 10 times bigger after he did us all a favor. Best career move he ever made was blowing his friggin’ face off.

I’m sorry everyone, I’m gay, I actually love Kurt, I hate him for killing himself, I can’t F**king get over it, the way he tastes, the way he moves in my mouth, he was glorious, I’m gonna go cry now. R.I.P Kurt I miss you

So…skullfreak…who’s YOUR favorite band? We are all dying to know what your lame ass listens to that is so much better than Nirvana?

Ohh little Satan…poor baby!! Someone’s making fun of your little Kurt! Wah!! Wah!!

The guy was a loser…a drugged out, classless LOSER…..and appently, loved by losers. So Kurt was cremated? Well then, Courtney probably smoked him.. the disgusting warpig junky that she is.

Get…maybe it’s time for you come out of the closet…..you still have Vedder and Young to dry-hump to……

Wow….you guys are tough. It’s like all the sheep, rising up against the sheppard. Like a family of minks, just following one another…..

4/5/94 was a great day..

Too bad Kurt chose to be a puss-bag then to raise his daughter….

Skullfreak…have fun rotting in hell next to Courtney Love, because she is the one that killed Kurt, not Kurt.

Why rip on Nirvana/kurt? Yeah, they were totally overrated, but still pretty good..

Kingery…this is great…..so Kurt shouldn’t take any responsibility for his daughter growing up fatherless? Of course, Corgan was bangin’ Courney, so maybe he could be a father figure?

Idiot.

Courtney didn’t kill Kurt. Kurt killed Kurt. Still a great band though. Stop dissin’ Kurt.

Skullfreak….keep your comments to yourself.

We’re still waiting for you answer to your musical preferance, skullfreak. Cute name, by the way. Did mommy come up with that one for you?

Yeah Skull…….what gives?

Michael……go fist yourself.

My favorite bands are Abba, Ace of Base, Chumbawumba and The Mama’s and the Papa’s. by the way, I wish I my face was inbetween kurts thighs, then I would give him something to stick around for. I’m so good that my father calls me his little Buffer. I love to Buff things, especially for boys.

Hey, I loved Kurdt like he was my brother, lets not give in to this kid because that’s all he is. He feeds off attention. There is no need to fuel his fire. Let’s all just remember the good times because a man will always let you down, look to the future and remember the past. Just ignore skullface, that is the best advise I can give, he will be infuriated when no one responds to his unoriginal quipps and off the wall statements about someone who was better than he could ever dream of being. Have a good day.
Peace Love Nirvana / Krist

Wow Satan….that’s so clever! Pretend to be someone else!

You like to play pretend…like when you put on the blond wig and high heels, and pretend to be a girl. Scumbag Tranny

Hey Krist….’Kurdt’??? Yeah….you’re legit. Just another loser. Fellas….it’s been 13 years since this little man committed the ultimate act of selfishness and proceeded to blow his brains out…..must have made one hell of a mess on the carpet……just chunks of skull, flesh, blood, and brain matter…

Oh well….one less draw on social security!

I think it’s funny how everyone thinks I’m serious, I just wanted to stir things up, notice how I have no life because I’ve been on here all day and all night because now I feel like a celebrity. It’s great being the center of attention, I don’t get enough at home, my sister cheats on me with my father, I have a horrible home life. I’m really just pathetic, I check on here every couple of minutes in hopes that someone will answer after I say something completely off the wall. I’m actually just a nerd who never had it easy, my dad tells me it has to be rough and hard, so hard in fact that I can barely pull my pants up without popping a hemmoroid, maybe it’s anal herpes, it keeps coming back, I’m gonna go cry now, then call a doctor.

Skull, get a life.

i love u skullfreak

Skullfreak, thanks for the entertainment. It’s sickening that this suicide has been glorified by some. Abandon your loved ones with the ultimate act of cowardice and then be posthumously knighted for it. Nirvana had one good album but are grossly overrated generally.

who know but the foo fighters are way better

micc is really me, I’m so clever, hahaha, and gay, I’m so gay I’m so gay halleluya I’m so gay, I just have to sing

and by the way andy, the foo fighters suck, they are nothing, in your honor was the worst album I’ve ever heard

hey skullbutt, kurdt was an alias that kurt used you dumbass, but I guess you wouldn’t know that because you are a dink know nothing twit that gets a kick out of people dying, go to hell you dick

Hey Joe – eat me. Why would I want to know more about the most overrated band in history? Smells like teen spirit? I’m sure the maid said “Smells like Cobain’s corpse” when she found him 4 days later…

Skullass, stop celebrating Cobain’s death. Make fun of the band all you want – some is a little justified. But stop mocking his death, his corpse, etc., etc. He was a person, first and foremost..

hey by the way, that was a great comeback, satan has far surpassed your dumbass remarks and made you look rediculous hahahaha. He made you look so stupid and gay, I was actually laughing, and then you ignore it and hope no one read it, that’s priceless. I think it’s so funny how he pointed out that you don’t have a life, so you dissapeard for an hour or so because you realized he was right, then you came back because you had the itch, but it wasn’t even a good comeback, you are a child, a twit, a little shit drain on society who will probably end up homeless reminissing of the days when people knew you on RS for being an asshole, and that is your glory as you lay next to a glowing trashcan begging for warmth you piss ant.

damn it, just copyt it and add the ay on the end to check us out

skull man OUT!!!

Michael, I’m gonna say that the original Guns N’Roses was the last great rock band. GNR ended glam metal, not Nirvana. Also, I know some of you guys think this, but don’t even try to say that Nirvana had anything to do with the downfall of Guns. GNR and Nirvana co-existed at the top of the music world for several years until 1994 when Cobain left the planet and GNR broke up. GNR even outsold Nirvana in the early 90s. Not saying that total sales = greatness…….I’m just saying.

hey Chris, GnR is hair metal you fucking idiot, if you want to hear how much of a poseur axl is, then listen to him when he was pissed that nirvana would not play shows with him, hahaha. Kurt didn’t care about making people happy or doing what everyone wants him to do, he just did what ever he wanted to, and he didn’t care about record sales

I guess there’s really no debate about G&R vs. Nirvana, because while Axl’s band is a shell of it’s former self, Cobain is reduced to blood-curdling screams while he burns in hell for all of eternity…

Axl’s band is a shell of their former-selves? What are you a fucking idiot? See them last year? GN’R is better than ever.

Axl is back motherfuckers, watch out.

Nirvana today is the same as tomorrow. Any body can die evidently. Hop the clinic fence and you’re home on the range.

Hey everyone just play your guitars cause everyone is a star.You don’t need some corporation to exploit you like some greasy fastfood commodity.Hero worship is B.S.Kurt was just a guy that knew this as well.

I think that Cobain would have gone into seclusion. He loved music and writing and it was always his plan to grow famous and be respected by his fellow musicians, but he wasn’t prepared for what came with fame. And Dave would have still gone one to make some great albums with the FOO.

Nirvana sucked then, and suck now even more..

it was a really bad month when Kurt Cobain passed away.
Like general McCarthur smoking his corn cob pipe, it was, like 111a.
Loud of the Rings all combined. They used to show his stuff on TV here all the time, overnight.

If Kurt hadn’t killed himself he could’ve become like Lennon was to his generation post-Beatles. He could’ve been a socio-political voice for our generation…and then get shot by some random crazy asshole just trying to walk in the front door to his own building.

We don’t let people like Cobain or Lennon hang around for very long. Either we drive them into a wall of despair or we kill them ourselves. We can’t stand people that remind THAT much of what the reality of our situation is.

say all the shit you want about kurt and nirvana, but tell me this, all you haters:

would you still rather be hearing them on the radio, or Panic! at the Disco and Nickelback?

Theyd be thought of the same way alice in chains and soundgarden are today.

Chris, you are dead on about the Guns N Roses comment….Guns N Roses were still a bigger band even after Kurt killed himself…then they broke up….and Axl is still selling out arenas with a new band….If it werent for Guns N Roses bringing the grittiness and passion back to hard rock music a band like Nirvana would have never been signed by Geffen to begin with…GNR, Metallica, Megadeth and even Skid Row(in a way) helped put an end to glam metal…Nirvana was a good band, but they were NO GUNS N ROSES.or Metallica…Nirvana is usually associated with 1 song…maybe 2 or 3…meanwhile GNR has countless american rock anthems that are still on the radio every day all these years later….

my biggest problem is the fact that we all assume that the guys from a band that we saw yesterday, will be the people we see today. look at it this way. when you were 16, your biggest problem was if u were gonna make it through the socially tramatic days of highschool. worried about pimples and weather ud ever get the have sex. rock and roll (or what ever music u listend to) was your outlet to how u handled life to the point you had made it to. now, say ur 24, graduateing college. u look at life in a whole differnt way. so many new experiences, so many different influances. its impossible to try and expect kurt to be the person he was. how do u write about how horribal ur life is, if suddenly its not really that bad. its not a matter of weather or not he would have made the same music, with the same edge, its would he have taken his place in rock legend, and turned his music into pop’y bullshit, or would he have led the way into the new century with new influances, and new understandings. i personally would like to think that he would have helped stay away from the emo pop shit we listen to know, and kept rock going in a very hard, very real place.

I shot myself because my wife was a dirty whore.

Kurt Cobain was today’s Lennon, really. Axel Rose, talented yes but will never be the same without the slash etc (like Billy Corgan). I think you would have seen Kurt do a solo record and expand his medium and do a diverse set of records. Honestly, who cares about the new Gun’s And Roses Album?

I agree with the majority here. They would have done a couple more albums and packed it in. Just like Alice in Chains, just like Soundgarden.

This talk of him being another John Lennon is absurd.

oh, and John, Rolling Stones sell out arenas and they suck now. People see them just to say they have seen them. Madonna sells out, she sucks too. When you have lots of people that are force fed shit music, they will go see them and arenas will get sold out. Does not mean they are good. Janes Addiction was a much better band then Guns and Roses. Fuck Axel and his self important album. Nirvana was and still is GREAT. Wilco now rules the music world!

I can not believe that any moron would think G-N-R was more influential than Nirvana. Was he born under a rock? Sure, both bands were top of the heap, both bands had a legion of wannabes and copy bands but Nirvana actually defined a movement, a generation, an idea. G-N-R wre great at what they did but lets call them what they were…a ggod r&r band that called LA thier home. They stood for Jack Daniels, guitar solos, bibos and smack.

Nirvana lives on in the heart and sound of Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters. Viva la Rock and Roll.

If you want to look at where Nirvana would be today i think we can look to the other seattle super group of the early nineties: Pearl Jam. Where are they? Still rocking I guess but still trying to deal with defining a generation that doesn’t exist anymore. Speaking as someone who actually was an impressionable teen in 1994 I can attest that there was a time when Eddie Vedder was the deepest frontman than ever lived, not to mention Vs. was one of the fastest selling albums in history. In a time when dark shitty music was everywhere Nirvana seemed the poster band but I think if Eddie Vedder had killed himself in ‘94 then wherever Nirvana was in 2007 we probably wouldn’t care.

Nirvana. blah. Yeah real revolutionary. Why is it that people tend to forget everything that happened between them and The Sex Pistols?

Generally, I am not one to ever respond to such posts as these, however, as I sat and read all of these postings, some absolutely ridiculous and juvenile and others thought provocing and intellegent, I thought I too would give my 2 cents. Kurt Cobain was an incredibly brilliant,talented, creative and misunderstood individual, with issues that none of us can or will ever understand. You know the old saying… ” until you walk a mile in a mans shoes” which none of us will ever do. In my opinion he spent most of his life desperately trying to get out of his own head due to issues beyond most of our comprehension. The funny thing is that everyone wants to second guess what Kurt would have done, what would have happened to Nirvana, what was Kurt thinking?? The truth of the matter is, if anyone really knew what Kurt Cobain was thinking, he would be alive today, because then someone may have been able to help him. Still to this day, 13 years later, nobody seems to get it. Keep in mind, I am not some die hard Nirvana fan, but lets face it, Kurt Cobain and Nirvana left a huge impact on many, what they stood for should be an example for all of society as far as their acceptance of every human regardless of personal preference, race or direction. Not to mention, if they themselves and their music had not impacted us all, would we still be responding to posts 13 years after ones death?? In the end, Do we really need to know, what they would be doing now? If Nirvana left an impact on your life and created memories for you, cherish those and hang on to them and if they didn’t then move on, but for his daughters sake, let the guy rest in peace regardless of how he got there.

I am old enough to be Kurt’s Mother. My daughter told me about Kurt and his music. He simply is and was the best. His music sold many more CD’s than Elvis Presley’s. I will probably try to get a CD of his music, if that is possible and play when I am alone in my car…

The one comment about nirvana only being associated with one song is totally not true at all. I think i have heard every single nirvana song ever on the radio at least once, and most likely more than once. They had numerous hits and people wanted to hear more than just the hits. GNR to me only had lik 2 or 3 songs to remember them by. But Kurt is dead and that is that. There are no “what if”s about it.

There’s nothin’ to say about it………………………. ……….. it’s all the same you know!! although Nirvana is not here on earth anymore, they’re on our mind 4ever!!and of course they would have been a GREAT-BIG BAND!! is obvious they could have made some bad songs, as every band in the universe!! but this doesn’t mean that i would change the brilliant of the band!!

I don’t believe a beautiful talented young father would die in the way he is generally believed to , why take his life? I’m sorry but being attracted to dangerous drugs is not a usual precurser to shooting oneself in the head. As to the talent , the band could never have gone much further. Kurt could only remain creative but how he would have used it or been used by this or that….. Certain athemns would have been that, whatever else had happened. Nirvana songs would still be selling. Nobody stays moved by music because a man died.If you believe that you give a lot of people no respect for their senses.I am sorry Kurt didn”t have more time for every part of his life. I don’t think getting old in rock is so great. It is a young and striving, innocent burst of energy and need, appealing to peers of the performers, Nirvana did that. Dragging it out like the’stones because they can. Who wants that? Nobody who saw them when they were 10 years younger than them.Younger people need to expess that rush of power and energy. Nirvana did that. Who wants to know what they’d be now?

Cobain died at the end of my senior year of hisgh school. Tragic genius? Eh. Over-hyped, over-exposed, and they all knew it. They weren’t doing anything interesting or new, nothing a motivated kid couldn’t have found in the local record store’s punk or college section if he could have pulled himself away from MTV long enough. Had Nirvana survived, we may have no Foo Fighters, and now that would be a terrible shame.

Foo Fighters would eventually have been born out Grohl’s creative ability to write and Kurt Cobains side projects. He would have created a supergroup at one point with the personel of temple of the dog / pixies. it would have stirred the kool aid with an interesting but familar sound with a return to 80’s style experimentation i.e. Sonic Youth. I bet Jack White would be on vocals!

I would have liked to see two more records from nirvana but thats it I feel that any more and their sound would have diminished into medioraty I think that the sound of daves other band goes to prove that point. I Love Nirvana but I think that in a very real way that they never fully realized their sound but that being said they where just that close to churning out shit

The best song Nirvana ever did was a cover of Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World.” Note that it was a cover and not an original. While Nirvana and Kurt were original placing him on the same level as Lennon is absurd and could never happen. As for being the voice of a generation, I think he was the voice of a small region. The real voice was Lane Staley and Alice In Chains. I genuinely liked Nirvana but enough with the hype and deity refrences. It is times like these you learn to live again!

in my opinion, what makes Nirvana and good band is that they came at a time of spandex and hairspray and went the other way. yeah there were other bands from seattle and alice in chains is one of my all time favorites, but none of them had “smells like teen spirit” which was pretty powerful ammunition. the only bad thing is kurt was anti-corporation, and how the hell are you going to be anything without the corporation?

If nirvana was still around today, they would probably be highly dissapointed at the state in which modern music lays. Rolling stone giving 4 stars to a 50 cent album, and 3 1/2 to the shins….

Today’s music is crap, we can only wish Kurt was still around to give us the light that we need to realize this

Also maybe rollingstone should write an article surrounding Cobain’s death…there is outstanding evidence to say that he was murdered….just a thought

If Kurt was alive today and saw the crap that is the new music scene,(Emo???) he’d shoot himself again!

if nirvana was still going they would still be kicking ass…period!

What makes Nirvana so good is that they never made bad songs, and they moved in a completely new direction. I vote that we stop wondering what could have been, and just be grateful we have what we do…

they’d be kickin niclkbacks ass. but really, Kurt would have divorced that hag and moved to the country to open a nice bed and breakfast called “Lithium”.David would be where he is now,HUGE.Oh ya there that third guy novacane or something he be waiting tables talkin about the good old days. But really i think they would have stood the test of time,done what the police did and lived well. Kurt was to kind for music sensitive to all around him easily taken for granted.

My God, there are an awful lot of imbeciles answering on this thread!! There is absolutely no doubt that he changed the face of rock (for the good) FOREVER, and very few can even light the candle that he holds, much less possess it. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, both genius. What so many young and naive listeners fail to comprehend are the importance of HIS (as w/PJ and SG) LYRICS. If you associate him (and Nirvana) with only one or two songs, you have absolutely no business even commenting on this thread, because you know nothing. I have no doubt that Nirvana would have disbanded – probably earlier than Soundgarden – and Kurt would have done what he wanted to do: continue to play or just stop…maybe pick up later. It doesn’t matter, his legacy is brilliant and irrefutable. Comparing Kurt and Nirvana to the likes of Layne Staley (AIC) and esp. GNR (what drugs are you on??) is far beyond ridiculous and not even worth commenting on. Makes me wonder how old (more like too young to understand) some of you are. I take that back – there are plenty of 17, 18, 19, 20-year-olds who can appreciate what I’m saying. It’s actually a matter of maturity and musical sensibilities; when you stop going to concerts drunk or high, maybe then you’re ready to understand the music.

Cobain may not have quit Nirvana but would have wanted to stop playing big shows to people who didnt get what he was saying. I think thats a huge reason he shot himself. Knowing he wouldnt be able to relive his earlier days before the scene exploded commercially back before they gave the resurgence of Punk a new name called Grunge. A new album wouldnt sound like an old album which was awesome about Nirvana, itd still be a REAL album speaking the truth but it wouldnt sound like Nevermind. They attempted to lose the people riding the bandwagon with records like in utero but it backfired.And I think if theyd tried doing that a few more times it would have worked. Theyd have the real fans they wanted from the beginning.

I miss Nirvana so much. I wish they were still around today. but i also agree with “audrey.” People might start to get sick of them… but i know i wouldnt!

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Long live the Legacy of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.

Kurt would no doubt be more involved in politics.

His influence helped defeat the first Bush and I wonder if the 2000 election may have been different had Kurt and his music still been there…..

Imagine the material the current Iraq war would have provided for a killer album…..

If Nirvana were still around today they would without a doubt rule the music world. Anyone who doubts this plese refer to “You know youre right”. I can’t help but laugh at the idiots who claim that Kurt would lose his creative musical genius. When you are as creative as Cobain was in his feild, its almost impossible for you to not create great things. Just imagine the material at Kurt’s disposal these days. Part of the reason Nirvana was so great was that their material reflected the angst of a generation who saw no future in the world created by Bush. And although I was only 4yrs old in 92 im almost certian that it wasn’t nearly as bad then as it is now. Just imagine what Cobain could have produced with what is going on today. Just on the subject of intolerance (which was an importnt subject for Kurt) he could have produced tons of songs considering what Bush has done to our country. Also take into consideration that the music landscape of today is very similar to the music landscape of the early 90’s. Today much like the early 90’s the music has absolutely no substance not to mention the fact that much of it just plain sucks. Case in point soulja boy which was for a long time on top of the charts eventhough its a pointless song about pointless things with a pointless beat. So when people suggest that Nirvana wouldn’t be revelant today, I laugh and scream to the music world of today, “Here we are now, entertain us”.

The real question is, “whether he would have kicked his heroin habit?” Lane Staley spent almost a decade out of site, shooting up. All that smack didn’t produce a single rock album, much less a great rock album. Kurt was very much on that same road.

Lets say Kurt kicks heroin and divorces Courtney. As a result he recovers from his depression. or avoids being murdered depending on what theory you subscribe to. The band would have finished their 4th studio album. It would have had a lot more softer rock like MTV Unplugged. After this Kurt puts the band on hiatus while he deals with his personal problems. Dave starts the Foo Fighters meanwhile and Krist joins. As a result the Foo Fighters become a more punk influenced band as well. Kurt makes a few solo albums meanwhile. These follow a similar path to what Pearl Jam has done in heading more to his roots. Kurt also makes a collaboration album with Michael Stipe. He stays on good terms with Krist and Dave. He even appears at a few Foo Fighters concerts. At some point in 2009 or 2010 we would see a Nirvana reunion.

The music industry in general wouldn’t really be different except that grunge would have hung on for a few more years and we would have a few awesome solo albums by Kurt and possibly later more Nirvana.

Kurt killing himself was probably going to happen at some stage in his life anyway…..even though i think Courtmey was involved.

If Kurt and Courtney parted ways everything would be all right,but Nirvana would have broken up
anyway.

This was the path nirvana and Kurt were meant to take.

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The only thing that I have to say about this is that this is all speculative and in the end rather meaningless. Cobain is what he is because of who he was, the music he wrote, his tragic death as well as the trends which were happening during the ‘grunge era’. Just to demonstrate this, lets say that Bob Dylan had died in the early 1970s; who here, would have predicted that he would be featured in a Vicotria’s Secret ad? With all due respect to Kurt Cobain, for all we know, he would have become the lead singer of the Backstreet Boys. I know that’s extreme and a ridiculous notion (although perhaps humorous), but the point is – we don’t know, we never will, so lets move on.

They would’ve soon broken up. Kurt would’ve done some musical work here and there – collaborations with Stipe, his wife, Pixies maybe, etc. and then trail off into other ventures. Perhaps he’d develop his painting and writing and choose the small-town folk life. He expressed interest in opening up a perfumerie. He’d live an understated life in the Washington area. Courtney would probably divorce him and he’d go back to dating small town girls a la Tracy Marander…

I think my answer is the closest to the truth.

Nirvana would have released an album in 1994. tour for 1-2 years. Then they would break up for a little bit. Kurt Would Do Some Solo stuff and spend some time with Francis. Dave would have released the Foo Fighters first album, Then release The Colour and The Shape. Krist would have joined flipper or go into polotics. The Foo Fighters would release There is Nothing Left To Lose. after the Foos go on tour for There us Nothing Left To Lose and finish touring in 2001, Nirvana would reunite. Record some new songs, release a album in 2002 and tour. The Foo Fighters would have released One By One in 2002 anyways, and The Foo Fighters and Nirvana would tour togeather. end the tour in 2004. take a break. the Foo Fighters would release Echos Silence Paitence and Grace and tour for 1-2 years. Nirvana would reunite again and release another album. and so on. Nirvana would become the 2 best bands in the world. Kurt, Dave and Krist would be the most hard working guys in the music industry.

P.S Kurt would have divorced Courtney in 1994 or 1995

****Nirvana and the Foo Fighters would be the 2 greatest bands ever****

Many people are saying there would still probably be Foo Fighters, but I am not so sure about that. Dave Grohl thought greatly of Kurt. He had many songs he had created himself while in Nirvana (which whould end up being in the Foo Fighters’ 1st album), but he was in a way afraid of sharing them to the greatness of Kurt. And plus, Dave LOVES drumming. Reason why he drummed for the Queens of the Stone Age for a their 1st album and still drums on occasion. Dave would of stayed in Nirvana, and if Kurt kept on the right course they would still be one of the best bands today. Maybe Dave would of shared and collaborated more with Kurt and some of Foo Fighters’ songs would of been Nirvana’s instead.

So ummmm maybeee Nirvana would to been what we know of them today plus more of that greatness, plus the greatness of Foo Fighters. That’s a lottt of great songs.

Nirvana were ok, but the last album sounded tired and even without Cobain’s death the band looked down for the count.
From a British perspective, I felt that Nirvana were a symptom of pop history being rewritten. Punk and leftfield rock music had been chart music here more or less from the start. Public Image’s death disco and bands like Siouxie and the Banshee had been top twenty 10 years previously. Even groups like the Dead Kennedys and Pere Ubu had had a sizable audience here. So I always saw the way Nirvana were sold in Britain as a little dishonest. But the first album was a good solid blast and the band was a lot better than the indie-pop stuff coming from Britain.

kurt has been dead for such a long time and dave hade done so much since the 90’s.its so hard to think that thay would still be making music.but if it where possible that the events didint take place i think nirvana would bee notting more but a great band at that time.kurt cobain would divorce cortney love and be doing art and we would still have the foo fighters and just maybe a reunion but i think kurt was done with music and beaing a public icon.

Lets be honest, Nirvana was great, a legacy to say the least, but realistically, people never get the recognition they deserve until after they’ve died. It was a merely a trend, and like all trends it would have died out. Look at John Lennon or even now Michael Jackson, if they hadn’t died, would you not go on condemning them for their human wrongs?
I’m just sayin.

I do think the band would have broken up,but they would have become something like sonic youth is today, low key underground. As far as cobain, he would have done what released a record colaborating with other people, and would have become a painter. Then nirvana would have reunited by 2010, and would have started grunge nostalgia. And he would have divorced courtney of course. As far nirvana being over-hyped, i agree, but that is not necesarily their fault. That was the media and all the shitheads that say nirvana sucks cuz they think is cool to say that a band like nirvana sucks. They didnt care about making commercial records, and if their records were mediocre, then my musical taste would be just as mediocre, cuz i love nirvana, no matter how much people think they suck.

I love how this turned into a huge argument. I’m sure I’m not the only one who found that funny, tons of people arguing about predictions of where Nirvana, the band who made an album with the intent of losing fans, would be today. where would they be? wherever they would want to be I guess, there’s no doubt that there was some serious tension between the different parties, that came out alot even recently in the big Love vs. Krist&Dave lawsuits, etc. so a break up would have probably happened, but what would that have meant… well Kurt talked a little bit about side projects that never got going so maybe one of those, Dave and Krist might have stuck together for Foo, they did talk about it, but decided against it due to Kurt’s death, so maybe the Foo fighters would have been that much better, I’ve always liked Krist’s Bass playing and stage presence, quite a character. and then there’s kurt, he would’ve done whatever he wanted i guess, probably some form of collaboration with someone, would have had a decent following for a while, and if he kept putting out music like he was writting it could have been awesome, but we’ll never know. Mike’s guess will be: better Foo fighters, because krist is a great bassist and would’ve likely stuck with dave, and some other great source of music from Kurt and company