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"The video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' kind of scared me," says Panic! at the Disco's Ryan Ross. ...
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"I was 10 and thought that Nirvana was, like, devil music." ...
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Kurt Cobain: A Life
In Photos
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CHINO MORENO
DEFTONES
"Nirvana had obviously been around before [Nevermind], but it's such an amazing record and it deserved all the attention it got. It's perfect, and people don't really make records like that anymore, because they're so concerned with singles. That record had one of the greatest singles ever to lead it off ['Teen Spirit'], but you can't forget about other songs like 'Something in the Way,' or 'Territorial Pissings' that make it a cohesive piece of art. And there are some bands out there today that are as talented as Nirvana, but we may never know if they'll be allowed to flourish. Because the people at record companies who are trying to make creative decisions for those bands are gonna slow that process down. Maybe ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead could be that band, because I think they're great, and I think they haven't even made their best record yet."
M. SHADOWS AND SYNYSTER GATES
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
Shadows: "I remember my dad giving me the tape, and I remember looking at the cover and thinking how weird it was, just this naked baby underwater. And then I put it on and everything sort of clicked with me."
Gates: "Who knows if there will be another band to come out of nowhere like Nirvana did. Everything comes full circle. You have a decade of crap, and then a decade of great stuff. I'd like to think that there haven't been any great bands since Nirvana, but I'd like to think that we're doing our part and doing something different. It remains to be seen what will come next."
Shadows: "There's always going to be overproduced crap, and there's always going to be something that comes around and evens it out. It's an equilibrium thing, for sure. So something will come around and flatten things, because not everyone likes listening to real overproduced, bubblegum-pop music. So there will be someone out there that will stomp it all."
SARAH LEWITINN a.k.a. ULTRAGRRRL
CO-FOUNDER: STOLEN TRANSMISSION
"I was 10 years old and pure. I listened to the Pet Shop Boys and thought that Nirvana was, like, devil music. When I was 13, I sat in the back of my history class with this girl Lorraine. She was a huge Nirvana fan and she made me a mixtape, and that's how I got into them. For me, it was always about their melodies, not their lyrics, and I think there are a lot of bands today that are really aggressive but in a melodic kind of way, and that's why kids relate to them — bands like My Chemical Romance, who I took a lot of heat for when I said they were this generation's Nirvana on my blog. Because Nirvana meant a lot to kids in my generation; they meant the world to me in high school. I think today there's no band that does that like My Chemical Romance: They've got an army of fans, and they did it in a very uncalculated way. Plus, they came from absolutely nowhere."
PETE WENTZ
FALL OUT BOY
"Bands that 'come out of nowhere' are sort of based on your perception of where they're coming from. Because Nirvana didn't really come out of nowhere — they came from [the late-'80s indie-rock] scene that was integral to them coming out. The same can be said with Fall Out Boy or Panic! at the Disco. So I think that, if anything, it's even more possible that another band will rise like Nirvana did, especially with the creation of these online communities and the globalization of music."
DAMIAN KULASH
OK GO
"It seems pretty unlikely that a band could change the entire industry the way Nirvana did. The industry is much more flexible now, and there's not just one giant tower to fell. I think what big labels learned from Nirvana is that they should always look for the thing that seems least likely to succeed, because it's probably going to be the next big thing. And that's why every six months now, you hear of a band that is 'completely changing the music industry,' because it's just part of the promotion. But in saying that, I've seen a lot of bands lately that are really spectacular. A band from Boston called Apollo Sunshine, they're really great. Their live shows are so electric that I get that tingling feeling that I'm watching something special."
BRÄNN DAILOR AND BRENT HINDS
MASTODON
Dailor: "I remember hearing the Bleach album, these little skater kids played it, but Nirvana was just this tiny band. And then I remember going into Tower Records here in New York City and there were Nevermind cardboard cut-outs all over the place — naked babies all over the place. So I finally bought it, and I was doing dishes in my dad's apartment, and I was just letting the record play, and the hidden track came on and it scared the hell out of me. That was the first time I ever experienced a hidden track, so I made sure we put a hidden track on our new album."
Hinds: "I don't think you're ever going to see another band like Nirvana, because I don't think any record label or executive is gonna let that happen again. Also, I don't think enough time has passed. Things need to get really opulent or decadent, to the point where people get sick, and then maybe some band will come swooping in."
DAVID DRAIMAN
DISTURBED
"The first time I listened to the Nirvana record, I was in a seminary in Israel. I was the first kid who had the album, so I got to be the kid who told all the other kids about Nirvana. I was blown away by it: The angst and the anger and the emotions that were inherent throughout the record, and the energy that it evoked was fantastic. It's always possible that it could happen again. It has to be something real and deep, something that transcends everything. It's very rare that you get a band like that ... it was like a Beatles moment. I'd put the Sex Pistols in that category, Metallica during 'The Black Album.' It's very rare when one band can make the entire world stand up and notice and change the way that they think about music. But who knows?"
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