Live vs. Nirvana, Radio contest Options

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92.3 K-rock in NYC is having a music version of the NCAA tournament. Live has the unlucky draw of facing Nirvana in the first round. The contest takes place this Friday March 14th at 1 pm. You have to call in and vote for Live.

Here is the link!

http://www.923krock.com/pages/1744599.php

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Live is done for! Nirvana is the worst of the grunge bands but people are blind and stupid! Alice In Chains was 10x grungier than Nirvana!

Bravo.

Cool Idea. I've got STP over NIN tomorrow at 4.

The thing about Nirvana is they weren't that big at first. They had a decent following of burn outs when they were out but they really blew up after Kurt Cobain's suicide. That's really what escalated their fame more than anything. If it weren't for that they would just be a has been 90's band.

BS

Kurt himself said he wanted to make money after Bleach really sucked in the charts. HE was the one to throw outta SubPop, easily betraying them.

Go study.

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Bravo.
BS

Kurt himself said he wanted to make money after Bleach really sucked in the charts. HE was the one to throw outta SubPop, easily betraying them.

Go study.

Other than Nevermind they really made no attempt at mainstream success. In Utero was not commerically friendly and the original versions of the songs were less so. They were actually told to rewrite some of the songs to make them more commercially friendly. They made enough $ from Nevermind and I believe they probably would have only made one more album after In Utero anyway. In a way their success and legacy was supported by their short run. No chance to drag out a career and turn out questionable music, fading away. Alot of the bands from the past played on the radio today had very short recording spans. Who knows, it was more of just a case of right place, right time I guess.

I see Live and Nirvana very similar in terms of their US success in that they're main radio stability is from one solid album each. The rest of the Nirvana songs under different circumstances might not have even been played this far in the future. When you look at each band's big album the songs are very simple songs both in terms of lyrics and music. I've heard the phrase "sticks in your head like a nursery rhyme" to describe both Nervmind and TC.

Enough of that bullshit, time to drink some beers and head to the 9:30 club...............