Personally, I think he is one of the best-he had a real talent with words, witness his superb lyrics.

Yeah I rank him in my top ten personally.

His songwriting is imo what made Nirvana great(Besides Dave's awesome drumming)

Kurt was not a very good guitar player.. in fact he was messy. And his vocals where a lot to...

But his writing was amazing & made the vocals seem even more tortured & profound

I don't think Kurt was a bad singer-his voice really fit Nirvana's songs and he was good at covering the works of others-the unplugged cd is proof of that

scriptgirl said:

I don't think Kurt was a bad singer-his voice really fit Nirvana's songs and he was good at covering the works of others-the unplugged cd is proof of that

Oh no they did! , i was more reffering to Rolling Stone & other magazine putting him in the top 100 singers of all time.

And top 100 guitarist to

That was to much

One of my top 5 favorite songwriters of all time. Genius.

10/10

My opinion doesn't count but I liked him!

Militant said:

I've never like Nirvana musically or vocally, but there's no denying Kurt was an awesome songwriter.

wrote good pop songs(pop to me atleast is a good things)

NDRU said:

All these years later when I think he did not have enough time to establish himself as one of the all time greats, I hear Rape Me on the radio and its a perfect song. So I don't know if he has the complete body of work to compare to other greats, but what he has is about as good as it could possibly be.

I was watching an interview with Courtney Love and she was asked what Kurt's involvement was in Hole's Live Through This, and Courtney said basically nothing. Kurt sang backup on "Asking For It", but it was watching him e.g. write "Rape Me" in twenty minutes, that pissed her off and challenged/inspired her as a songwriter for that album.

He is positively a better songwriter than Neeyo or Drake could ever be.

I use them as examples of posers who have horrid songwriting skills yet sell millions of records.

There are many others just as guilty.

Kids these days are being duped and they don't even realize it.

Rock N Roll is dead,now let's all commence to shake our booty's.

It really does smell like teen spirit.

I took Kurt Cobain's death pretty hard.

I remember at the time of his death and the local news was trying to get a story out of it but it backfired. They cruised local "hot spots" and hangouts where X'ers frequented and asked them what they thought and they pretty much got shrugs and "I could never understand him anyways" type responses.

He didn't want to be a spokesman for his generation and it turned out he wasn't.

Then the worst thing happened; After the media-cool surrounding Generation X burned off and the generation moved from disaffected to complacent, Generation X became just like everybody else.

Cinny said:

NDRU said:

All these years later when I think he did not have enough time to establish himself as one of the all time greats, I hear Rape Me on the radio and its a perfect song. So I don't know if he has the complete body of work to compare to other greats, but what he has is about as good as it could possibly be.

I was watching an interview with Courtney Love and she was asked what Kurt's involvement was in Hole's Live Through This, and Courtney said basically nothing. Kurt sang backup on "Asking For It", but it was watching him e.g. write "Rape Me" in twenty minutes, that pissed her off and challenged/inspired her as a songwriter for that album.

I imagine that's true, and it's a really good album. His influence is all through it, too. So much so that people think he really did write some of those songs. And even if that rumor is not true, it shows how stylish and influential he was all the same.

"That boy good!"

Superb.

NDRU said:

Cinny said:

I was watching an interview with Courtney Love and she was asked what Kurt's involvement was in Hole's Live Through This, and Courtney said basically nothing. Kurt sang backup on "Asking For It", but it was watching him e.g. write "Rape Me" in twenty minutes, that pissed her off and challenged/inspired her as a songwriter for that album.

I imagine that's true, and it's a really good album. His influence is all through it, too. So much so that people think he really did write some of those songs. And even if that rumor is not true, it shows how stylish and influential he was all the same.

Can you think of a better songwriter since?? Me neither. Love his music.

aardvark15 said:

I've never like Nirvana musically or vocally, but there's no denying Kurt was an awesome songwriter.

He's one of the best of his era, I think. They're not overly crafty but they're memorable and leave a strong impression. There were other bands from the underground scene that I liked better at the time, because they were more extreme, but it's the classic rock simplicity in his best tunes that makes them a lot more fun than Big Black or the Jesus Lizard today. Those bands were fun to see live, they were extremely powerful, but the records don't hold up as well. The underground scene was still very wary of things getting too "pop" even though we all grew up on our moms' Beatles and Stones records.

And he was simply miles ahead of most of the bands that became famous in the grunge era. Some of the others were maybe craftier but that's not what I really want in loud-ass rock and roll writing.

I thought he was brilliant.

Interesting list also...

Top 50 albums handwritten by Kurt Cobain...