Yep, that's right. They are releasing yet another album by the grunge gods (which really means nothing) called Nirvana:Live at Reading, which is a live recording of their Reading performance (hence the name) many millions of years ago. This is just pissing me off. I'm not much of a Nirvana fan, but I'm just saying that the band has been dead for almost two decades now. They have already released like twenty box sets, digged up some shitty demos to release, and have fucked up their compilations of greatest songs about a million times now. I mean, those guys had only one hit, and a couple of other moderately successful songs. I mean cmon! They only had three studio albums! Why do you need a billion box sets! Their album Nevermind, sold roughly 16 million copies worldwide. Okay I understand that is a successful album. But the follow-up, In Utero, sold only about 1/3 of that that. 5 million copies, yeah that's a good number, but not worth to have parades and fireworks go off at every major city in the world just to show that BAM!!! These guys went 5x platinum! Coldplay's first album Parachutes, if I'm not mistaken, sold about that amount, and the band wasn't considered to be amazing until "Viva La Vida" was released, and before had already had many other fairly big hits. I have the balls to call them one-hit wonders! "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the only song people can recognize. Other smaller songs have SOME fame, but not enough to be considered monster hits. "Heart-Shaped Box", almost nobody heard of until Rock Band. Everything else had fairly moderate success. So I don't understand the big hype. Is it because they were the first breakthrough Grunge act? Is it because of Kurt Cobain's and Courtney Love's relationship? I mean, Dave Grohl has separated himself from the whole grunge thing in three albums, and could've been the first if only Foo Fighters were more organized from the start. So all I gotta say is: Cmon People!

I don't see a problem.
I may not like Nirvana, but the fans will surely enjoy the album, so hey, fine for me :)

Wait, so Nirvana are a corporate fad but U2 are what? Serious artists just in it for the love of the music maaaaaaaaaaan?

If Nirvana were a short-lived fad then explain why kids today are still listening to Nirvana, despite not even being born when Nevermind came out. Nirvana were short-lived as a band, but the fact is that they obviously did something right because they still connect with people 15 years on.

I'm a huge Nirvana fan, and personally find the song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' unbearable!

And yes, I'll definitely have a listen to this album - why not?! The thing that annoys me is that the majority of people who hate Nirvana or hate Kurt only hate them because they've ONLY listened to Teen Spirit! I find Kurt Cobain to be a talented musician, capable of something far deeper than fret-wankery or whatever it is that makes these guitar 'Gods' so amazing. Calling Nirvana one short-lived fad is very, very wrong. Yes, it's a shame that there's still things being released that Kurt would disagree with if he were still alive but if there's fans to listen (or more importantly buy it) then labels are always gonna push that one 'last' release.

Yeah, I'm not saying Nirvana are a terrible band. I'm just saying that they've been riding on the success of "Smells lIke Teen Spirit" for too long.

What I'm saying is that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" isn't their "big hit", but just their "hit". Their other songs are barely enough to consider hits. They are more of moderate success. "Heart Shaped Box" was a little successful, only because it was the lead single off the follow-up album. It's just, they only had like 3 studio albums, out of which only two had success. Yet, despite that, they have like a million new box sets released like every year.

Edited by user 06 November 2009 10:25:09(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Nevermind is an awesome pop-rock album really. It's just full of catchy-as-fuck tracks.

Basically what I"m trying to say is that they went a bit overboard with the whole Nirvana thing. One box set is enough, if not too much.

without a doubt yeah. i was just saying.In Utero is my favorite then Bleach then Nevermind but Nevermind is still good.

Contradictory to what others have said, I like the album Nevermind, it's a truly classic album, I just don't like SLTS! In Utero and Incesticide are better, and Bleach is good for what it is.