I’m convinced Nevermind’s success had much to do with a perfect culmination of: -Great production via Butch Vig using super clean tones with Rock music, and his use of Kurts voice as an instrument to capture energy at the build of their songs (see 2nd verse of Lounge Act). -The first super clean to heavy distortion tones many people had heard -First time people were hearing music on CD for crisper sound than tape Had Nevermind come out any other time I don’t know how well Nirvana would have done. If they were a new band right now I would bet they’d sound more like an indie band like The Growlers. Kurt was influenced musically mostly by the Beatles which he talked about all the time. So they could have modulated to any era and sounded accordingly. But they just so happened to go in the studio to record Nirvana when the Boss DS-1 distortion peddle was the new thing in rock music which influenced the entire sound of 90’s alt rock (clean to distortion) and the invention of the CD which really benefited Neverminds production. The album cover is iconic and I agree with Kurt that if you think that’s p*rn you are a sick Fck. Why isn’t this guy suing his parents also? Aren’t they the ones “exploiting” him under this context?
All that and the perfect single and video to capture the whole Seattle grunge sound/ scene in one song.
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/we...8UTfi8Guwvw8uFj5sAAhKlQHMVBIQHokzGsAwukBuZ4ko Weird Transparent Angel Lady from “In Utero” Cover Also Announces Lawsuit Facebook Twitter Reddit By Contributor | August 26, 2021 LOS ANGELES — A Weird Transparent Angel Lady, best known for her work as the cover model on Nirvana’s final studio album “In Utero,” is also suing members of the band and the Nirvana estate for damages following similar claims by the subject of the band’s ‘Nevermind’ album cover, court records confirm. “It’s frustrating to think about how many people have seen my womb and mammary glands, those are intimate details I don’t want to share with the world. I had initially taken plenty of photos fully clothed, but they only used the nude photo and I never signed a release,” said Weird Transparent Angel Lady from her home nestled beneath a waterfall. “Anytime I’m out in public people stare at me, they want me to strip naked and recreate the photo for them. Most of them have children, and that’s just weird. The only time people didn’t bother me is when I would visit the Bodies exhibit and stand perfectly still.” Weird Transparent Angel Lady’s attorney Jillia Ramirez filed a motion with the U.S. Central Court of California earlier today to seek compensation. “This album cover is one of the most sexually explicit photos to ever be published, and my client has been forced to hide it from her multiple weird transparent cherub children. Nirvana produced this provocative photo for the sole purpose of selling more records, for which she was compensated a mere couple hundred dollars, and it is no coincidence that the album contains the song ‘Rape Me’ while the cover shows a woman-like creature who is beyond nude,” said Ramirez. “My client continues to suffer personal injury and emotional distress knowing that any Tom, Dick, or Sally could do a quick Google search and see a graphic photo of her intestines and circulatory system.” Critics were quick to point out that Weird Transparent Angel Lady has used the notoriety gained from the cover to her advantage. “This feels like another cash grab to me. On the 25th anniversary of the ‘In Utero’ release, the Weird Transparent Angel Lady recreated the album art for NPR and there weren’t any issues. I don’t know why she’s suddenly so upset,” said music journalist Misty Garrison. “I know there have been multiple instances where she tried to reach out to Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic on a friendly level and never got a reply. I hate to be a cynic, but I bet this could be solved with a couple of backstage passes to a Foo Fighters concert and a few autographed photos.” Citing stress caused by Nirvana cover art lawsuits, the skeleton/zombie and devil cat thing from the “Incesticide” cover announced they would be separating.
Is he going to sue his parent/doctor/hospital wrt his circumcision? He did not have a choice there as well.
Probably ran out of opportunities to cash out on his fame/name due to COVID so now he's trying to make one last effort to secure the bag.
He's been taking pictures reenacting the cover throughout his life. He even has Nirvana tattooed on his chest. This is a joke
The idea that Nirvana was somehow more the beneficiary of luck and circumstance than other successful artists is puzzling to me. Time and place has always been a big factor, and tons of successful bands benefited from visionary producers and engineers (Beatles and George Martin, Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Kramer, Queen and Roy Baker Thomas, Joy Division and Martin Hannett, Boston and Tom Scholz). But there are tons of amazingly produced/engineered albums that don't sell much at all. So I don't think that was a major factor The Boss DS-1 was introduced in 1978 and we all heard it on a million hair metal albums (and it's practically the 5th member of Jane's Addition on Nothing's Shocking). CDs had been around since the mid 80s. So I don't think these were much of a factor either. Ultimately, pop music is about catchy songs and charismatic performers. Nirvana had the songs and a super-charismatic frontman (with the added benefit of an equally charismatic drummer). Add to that the brilliance and popularity of their first video (on which Kurt had the last word over the final cut) and you have an artist that was as much in control of his/their own destiny as any other. Of course they'd be a different band today, whether they had survived to the present or if in an alternate universe, they were all born 30 years later. But that goes for every artist.
I'm not sure if you thought I was trying to take anything away from them, but I wasn't. As you mentioned, the Beatles had George Martin for crying out loud. On the Boss DS-1, I have to push back on this a bit. Yes hair metal and other rock bands used the pedal, but the style of music being played prior with it had it lent towards rifts and solos. Nirvana really was the band that introduced the world to chords that went from clean surf rock type of chords then punched to washed out distortion chords to provide a music that was incredibility polarized musically. Yes Nirvana wasn't the first to do this. The Breeders Last Splash was released a year before Nevermind, and many other smaller up and coming bands like Mudhoney/subpop and the early 90's Brit Rock scene with Stone Roses did this with heavy distortion. However I think Nirvana and specifically Smells like Teen Spirit was an introduction to the mainstream of this sound, and style of music that would be great for a moment and then make what became one of the worst times in popular music. And on CD's, yes CD's were around in the 80's but ask anyone what their first CD's were. More importantly, ask people when they first were able to afford one of these: When young people first were able to hear CD quality music, and get one of these in their bedrooms all came right around the same time when Nirvana was introducing this type of Super Clean to Washed out Distortion rock. I think Nirvana is one of the most important bands of all time mind you, but circumstance played a huge part in the success of Nevermind.
he waited til the lead singer was dead for along time just like those 2 greedy white dudes did to Michael Jackson
A funny thing, I even remember being in the Navy when the album came out and went supernova. A friend of mine told me with a smile that he made a common acquaintance of ours buy the album for him because he didn't want to be seen, basically, purchasing a baby's dick. Well, to Baby Dick: Good luck with that lawsuit. Maybe go find where Kurt Cobain's ashes were scattered and take a giant symbolic dump, too.
