Who Killed Kurt Cobain?
Published April 05, 2004
There are many people who are going to be writing stories for the ten-year anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. I figure I will just add my little peep to the cacophony of people praising the musician who, ironically, killed himself as a result of the idolatry-fueled labels that had been thrust upon him. People considered Kurt a spokesman of a generation. They put him up as the guy who saved rock and roll from spandex, hairspray and Warrant's Cherry Pie. Meanwhile, he was probably just someone who wanted to rock and pay tribute to all the songs that had meant so much to him over his lifetime.
It couldn't have been more apparent than when Kurt and his Nirvana band mates performed on MTV Unplugged. They played songs by Bowie, The Meat Puppets, Leadbelly, and The Vaselines. They were paying tribute. They were doing their best to show just how meaningless they could have been if everyone would have paid attention the first time around, instead of eating up the new consolidation of influences that was Nirvana.
I don't want to discount the contribution that Nirvana made, but as many others have pointed out before me, their success probably had as much to do with timing as anything else. It was the end of an era. Guns N Roses were on the way out, and the guys who "taught us how to love" with their monster ballads had worn out their welcome. The underground had been brewing. There were many bands waiting in the wings for the tide to change, and that set of power chords that sprang from Cobain's reverse-stringed guitar at the beginning of "Teen Spirit" was just the first shot that kicked hair bands out of our arenas for good.
There were so many bands that made it after the door was kicked in that you can't help but say that it was a matter of timing for Nirvana. It could have been Pearl Jam, who released Ten that year. It could have been Soundgarden, who released Badmotorfinger. There is an outside chance that it could have bee The Smashing Pumpkins who released Gish. Trent Reznor was also in the mix with releases in 1989 (Pretty Hate Machine,) 1992 (Broken EP,) and 1994 (The Downward Spiral.)
Craig Lyndall writes about all things related to Cleveland sports for WaitingForNextYear.com. 
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I think the Jews did it. ;>)
OK. I guess this was an inside joke? Alright. I don't get it.
IT was the FBI lol
Maybe Geffen was behind it all...
peaceloveguidance
kurt cobain is my idol, ive done my homework and found many aquisitions concerning cobains death. but, you know courtney love had in her position paper where she practised kurt's hand writing, could this have anything to do with kurt's final suicide note?
Kurt Cobain was murdered in 1990, later Courtney Love (whose real mother is actually "Wendy" who falsly claims to be Cobain's mother) was paid-off to pretend to be married and have a child, all so that the Hollywood 3 could share in the reported 6 billion Nirvana has thus far grossed. Geffen was delighted by all of this, helping Courtney with her transgendering (She was once a male). The hundreds (no doubt thousands) that were and are involved in this horrid Sacrafice are paying-with their lives! Oh, how they shall pay for those crimes.
We love you Kurt.
It is just another Cult admission of guilt, a silly one at that (there is no G-d, and no jesus, but those are the cults false idols).
Just a hyme, a crust of bread thrown on the trail of murderers...
Well it's aweful fitting that within the middle of this spin there is an advertisement for a lawyer.
I mean the author uses "probably " to describe what kind of a person he thought Kurt Cobain was when he states the following; "Meanwhile, he was probably just someone who wanted to rock and pay tribute to all the songs that had meant so much to him over his lifetime".
Sir I believe you might want to use a little bit more than "probably " to come to a conclusion about something like the death of a person.
Furthermore, it's a little bit naive to think that someone was willing to take their own life because they weren't comfortable being on that pedastal that they "probably" didn't want to be on.
Don't you think?
Suicide is a myth.
Sorry, I don't buy suicide in 9/10 of the cases that are renderd "death by suicide".
But, it's not too hard to convince most Americans of fariytales such as; Santa Clause, Lee Harvey Oswald, Al Qaeda and Flight 77. Therefore, I wouldn't expect many people to see that this case is no different than the 9/10 of the bogus "death by suicide".
It's pretty simple really.
We'll just go with motive.
Kurts motive for Kurts Death;
I'm hurting because I don't like living in the limelight and I am a Recovering Heroin Addict.
Living in the limelight was "part of his job".
How many of us don't like our jobs and kill ourselves?
Recovering Heorin addict?
Come on will you please. This hobgobble is so bogus it doesn't even warrant a mention.
How many Recovering Heroin Addicts kill themselves?
In addition to those numerous Recovering Heroin Addicts that have allegedly killed themselves, how many of them had succeeded on the first try?
There are others who would benefit much more from Kurts death than Kurt himself.
It would behoove us all to get to the bottom of who and why.
A society that accepts "phoney" suicides accepts its own inevitable destruction.
Why come to a conclusion when I can use words like probably and make the title of the post a question?
:-)
Oh, and those ads are generated based on context around them. I have no control over it.
The following statement is also included in the authors post ; "We don't know what he would have produced, had he not felt the need to end it all".
I would say that's a pretty good "hidden in plain veiw" type of conclusion.
You say this is a "who killed Kurt" posting without a conclusive dialogue but merely one of questioning.
Sir, a duck by any other name is still a duck.
SDSADA
This Little section is just meer info on Kurt Cobain.
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(Or ping: http://blogcritics.org/mt/tb/14416)
The mind is a very complex thing. Don't outthink the question, if that makes sense.
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