Used to defend Kurt Cobain as a genius, now I think he was just okay

I was one of those guys in high school who thought Nirvana was the most important band ever. I had posters, bootlegs, the whole thing. Then last year I went back and listened to Nevermind front to back for the first time in maybe 10 years. Half the songs sound like they were recorded in a garage with one take and the lyrics are basically random thoughts strung together. I get the cultural impact, but musically I just don't hear the masterpiece anymore. Has anyone else revisited a dead celeb's work and felt totally let down?

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the_alex4d ago

Dude same, I remember insisting to everyone that "In Utero" was this raw genius album. Listened to it a few months back and half of it just sounds like a headache now. It's weird letting go of that high school pedestal.

samrodriguez4d ago

Track three gave me an actual headache last week and I'm still defending it out of loyalty.

paul_ramirez3d ago

@samrodriguez track three is like that one bolt you overtorqued on a Saturday job and now it's stripped but you still tell people it'll hold fine. I've got a whole playlist of stuff my teenage self swore was groundbreaking that just sounds like noise now. The headache is just part of the experience I guess.