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The journey that Kurt Cobain<\/a> took within the span of a few months in the early 1990s is absolutely insane. <\/p>\n No one could have imagined a kid from Seattle was suddenly going to turn into one of the biggest names in rock and roll, and while Cobain had the success that most people only dream of, it wasn\u2019t clear whether he actually liked the position that he was in. He didn\u2019t want to be the voice of the people, but while he had everyone\u2019s attention, he was going to at least throw a few curveballs their way when they asked him about some of his favourite music during interviews.<\/p>\n If nothing else, the fact that some indie band that had just signed to a major label could become the biggest band in the world was a step in the right direction. Cobain figured that they had time to knock down everyone\u2019s perceptions of what a hit was supposed to be, and even if he didn\u2019t like all the cameras being in his face all the time, you could tell that he was leaning into his own celebrity a little bit when he began making some of those first appearances.<\/p>\n His appearance on Headbangers Ball was clearly intentional, with him showing up in a yellow dress, and a lot of his other projects for MTV were more about spitting in the face of what rock and roll had become. There was no way in hell he was going to be another Axl Rose<\/a>, and he felt that some of the best moments of his career came when he was giving his favourite artists a platform to be themselves.<\/p>\n Looking through Cobain\u2019s record collection, there was a lot more to it than your traditional classic rock bands. He still loved the riffs of Aerosmith<\/a> and idolised John Lennon when he was younger, but a band like Flipper was what he was striving to make more popular when he got everyone\u2019s attention. They weren\u2019t the most tuneful band in the world, but if Cobain thought they deserved a shot, it was well worth everyone taking a chance on them if they wanted to.<\/p>\n The business mindset is always about following the money, and Cobain felt that getting bands like Flipper in the limelight would at least bring something new to the charts, saying<\/a>, \u201cI would love to see [my fans] appreciate the noisier side of our music and then hopefully they will look into some of the other punk rock bands like Flipper and stuff like that. Hopefully, there will be other bands [like that].\u201d But even by the standards of MTV, Flipper was never going to be the next Nirvana.<\/p>\n Every single band Cobain namedropped was practically a license for labels to print money, but Flipper was always an acquired taste. A lot of the punk rock approach to vocals was meant to be a little bit tuneless, but even by the standards of punk, a lot of the smarmy sounds of Flipper do end up coming off as a little bit grating if you\u2019re forced to listen to it over the course of an entire album.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n They weren\u2019t the best case for what underground punk had to offer, but it\u2019s strange to think that they weren\u2019t one of the bands that ended up taking off. I mean, we live in a timeline where a band like Butthole Surfers<\/a> were able to get on the charts and actually have a song that became a hit, so the idea of Flipper getting at least a fluke indie hit would have at least been a small step forward.<\/p>\n But what the audience tended to go for was out of Cobain\u2019s hands, and when he passed away, it didn\u2019t take long for most people to start moving on to something that was a bit more chipper than what everyone else was going for back in the early 1990s. Life had become too morose after Cobain passed away, but that didn\u2019t mean that everyone needed to forget where the biggest names in the underground came from.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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