best Musician ever!
No offense but I think it's quite a stretch to proclaim that about
Kurt Cobain. I'll be honest and admit that I wasn't a grunge fan (
although I did like Alice In Chains and Soundgarden since they sounded like metal) and I certainly wasn't a
Nirvana fan. I cheered the day that
Meat Loaf knocked them out of the top spot on
MTV's U.S. Top Ten back in 1993.
Having said that, I
do believe that Kurt Cobain was the voice of his generation--tormented and pained though that voice was--and he and his band were a reflection or an embodiment of their followers' appearances and ideals. They didn't dress in an overly theatrical manner similar to
KISS. They weren't as technical as
Mr. Big. They didn't live the high life like
Motley Crue. They dressed simply (
their clothes were little different from what the majority of their fans wore), they played with a rawness and raucousness akin to punk rock, and they didn't ride around in Ferraris or stretch limousines. As the title of one of their songs said,
"Come As You Are" and that's what Nirvana's message was to the people who loved them:
you don't have to be anyone other than yourself. It didn't matter if you still hadn't figured out who you were exactly; what mattered was that you were trying to be you and not trying to be anyone else.
What mattered was that you were living your life and doing what you loved as honestly and as passionately as you could.I remember MTV preempting their entire programming worldwide on the day Kurt Cobain died.
Kurt Loder was manning the news desk and reporting on the tragedy in somber tones that echoed
John F. Kennedy and
John Lennon's own deaths -- both generational icons with whom Kurt Cobain has his rightful place.