This is one of the best articles about Nirvana that I have ever read. I used to want to write an article about this band, their complex messages and what they meant to me. I always put off doing it, now I don't think I ever will. Forksplit has said it all for me and more. She is simply a kick ass writer with a voice stronger than most bloggers I have ever read. If you haven't checked her out on my links section yet, then do. If, by any chance you are a Nirvana fan then please read this. You will not regret it. I loved this article because it was written by someone who was genuinely touched by Kurt and whose life he shaped in a similarly deep (yet not always healthy) way to mine. I have not listened to Nirvana in a couple of years, like Forksplit I have majorly overplayed them and they now seem to belong to a bygone era. But reading this reminded me of how much they were a part of the landscape of my life for a long long time. It's beyond nostalgia, reading this made me feel like for a split second I was connecting with all those spine tingling sensations I felt when I first heard the opening chord to Serve the Servants or saw for the first time the famous picture of Kurt wearing too much eyeliner in the markets in southern Spain on a summer holiday and not being able to tear my eyes away. It brought back the memories in a way that some corporate music journalist would struggle to do. For that I am grateful and I might even go and listen to 'All Apologies' in a quiet corner just out of respect for the great man and the way he shaped a generation of misfits. Saturday, 7 July 2007
Respect
This is one of the best articles about Nirvana that I have ever read. I used to want to write an article about this band, their complex messages and what they meant to me. I always put off doing it, now I don't think I ever will. Forksplit has said it all for me and more. She is simply a kick ass writer with a voice stronger than most bloggers I have ever read. If you haven't checked her out on my links section yet, then do. If, by any chance you are a Nirvana fan then please read this. You will not regret it. I loved this article because it was written by someone who was genuinely touched by Kurt and whose life he shaped in a similarly deep (yet not always healthy) way to mine. I have not listened to Nirvana in a couple of years, like Forksplit I have majorly overplayed them and they now seem to belong to a bygone era. But reading this reminded me of how much they were a part of the landscape of my life for a long long time. It's beyond nostalgia, reading this made me feel like for a split second I was connecting with all those spine tingling sensations I felt when I first heard the opening chord to Serve the Servants or saw for the first time the famous picture of Kurt wearing too much eyeliner in the markets in southern Spain on a summer holiday and not being able to tear my eyes away. It brought back the memories in a way that some corporate music journalist would struggle to do. For that I am grateful and I might even go and listen to 'All Apologies' in a quiet corner just out of respect for the great man and the way he shaped a generation of misfits. 
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Yeah I read folksplits blog n'all, it took me through memory lane when reading it.
It does annoy me though how people always dismiss nevermind though, it is the most pop album that they did, and dismissal of pop always seems a bit... I dunno, wrong, I guess.
That said In Utero is also excellent and I'm not saying everyones preferences should be my own.
She never mentioned Unplugged either.
Forkplit is great. I don't always agree with her, but she is always entertaining and interesting to read. I'm really grateful for you turning me on to her.
x
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Yeah she’s great. One of my all time favourite bloggers. I like her not because I always agree with her (although I often do) but because she has this really distinctive voice, from a writing point of view. You read a Forksplit entry, especially when she’s on form and it’s like she’s there in the room with you, her voice is so vivid. More than most of the bloggers I read, I have a really distinctive mental picture of what she looks like, the computer desk she writes from, the layout of her apartment etc. I don’t give a damn, like some people seem to, whether she is real or fictitious, whether she is a man or woman (although I have noticed that most people who seem to think she is a man tend to be the kind of morons who think women can’t have a brain or opinions about music, politics, or the world. Oh and we don’t swear, of course, that’s a dead giveaway she’s a bloke!) The point to me is that Forksplit as a literary character is brilliant and that tends to be how I approach blogs, especially those belonging to anonymous strangers rather than getting tangled in whether their stories are ‘real’ or not.
Her thoughts about Nirvana were not identical to mine (although they were of a similar ilk) and there would be things I would add to obviously make room for my experiences. But I don’t think I could do better than that effort and so I don’t think I’m going to try.
My thoughts, though, for the record on the eternal nevermind v’s in utero debate is that there is no point in trying to choose between them as they are so different. They are like whiskey and wine, both excellent drinks, they both contain the same magical intoxicating ingredient that makes them special but they are also distinctive and suitable for different occasions. I love them equally, in different ways; nevermind was the gateway drug that brought me to nirvana and in a lot of ways was the one with the most ‘wow’ and influence on me; you never forget the first time you get drunk. But when I accepted the more mature challenge of in utero it’s raw edge and expansive palate expanded my musical horizons and opened up a lot of raw emotional worlds for me that Nevermind could not touch because it was too carefully crafted in pop sensibilities. Unplugged is fantastic, and is the only album I still listen to from time to time, as I never overplayed it and I like its mellow undercurrent. If we’re talking drinks, that one’s definitely a brandy ;-)
Jx
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