Music Jan 28, 2010 at 4:00 am

Never Fade Away

Alice in Chains Have a New Singer—Why Not Nirvana?

Eric Grandy
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I wonder why... Are you kidding me? Eric Grandy, you are retarded...
fag on February 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM Report this
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David Grohl and Chris N. played as "The Stinky Puffs" at the YoYo a GoGo music festival in Olympia not too long after Kurts death. I don't think they played any Nirvana songs, but they had Elementary school aged kid singing. Maybe the remaining 2 members of Nirvana are content where they are and simply don't to have to shit on the past to make a few bucks.
Scratched Glasses on February 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM Report this
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Couldn't agree more with Scratched Glasses. Anyway a Nirvana reunion sounds like a nostalgia tour for aging 30 & 40-somethings and it just wouldn't be the same. It would be depressing. Seriously, Kurt's songs were so personal that I can't imagine anybody else singing most of them.
Michaelaranda on February 3, 2010 at 3:22 PM Report this
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excellent work, you guys should invest in more charts like this.
Josh Bomb on February 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM Report this
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This chart reminds me of something that would run in the Seattle Weekly.
Chester Copperpot on February 3, 2010 at 4:06 PM Report this
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@1-3: Drat, you guys totally foiled my sincere campaign to get Nirvana to reunite with a new singer. Curses!

@5: Actually, the Weekly ran a reverent, po-faced story about how Alice in Chains feel "left out" of the Seattle music scene/"grunge" canon. I don't think there was a chart.
Eric Grandy on February 3, 2010 at 4:22 PM Report this
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It sucked, then was mildly funny, and then sucked at the end again. I don't know what that anologizes to - maybe The Veal World.
on February 3, 2010 at 4:57 PM Report this
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This was fairly amusing but if you think that new guy sounds anything like Layne Staley your ears is broked, my friend.
Dave M on February 3, 2010 at 5:55 PM Report this
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@8, if there ever is a Nirvana II, do they have your permission to name their first post-Kurdt album "Your Ears Is Broked, My Friend"?
aiff on February 3, 2010 at 8:27 PM Report this
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Why can't Seattle quit trying to relive grung?

I guess part of the answer is that pop music has become so lame that even a second-hand glimpse of something real can fuel a timewarp hope.

You voted for this wasteland with your lame dollars and piracy. You deserve formula rap and Lady Gaga.
on February 4, 2010 at 8:23 AM Report this
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@2 The Stinky Puffs were an actual band fronted by a kid. They probably just functioned as his backup band, not as "Nirvana without Cobain but with a kid in his place and calling ourselves the Stinky Puffs".
Casual_Observer on February 4, 2010 at 12:15 PM Report this
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This is beautiful. I'm so stoked on this chart. My money's on Lil Wayne. -Sarah
Guest Author on February 4, 2010 at 12:39 PM Stranger Staff
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I'm rooting for Sarah Brightman or that little Austrian boy who used to always be on PBS, murdering the classics at Nazi rallies in Salzburg or wherever.

Have you seen the old Alice In Chains bassist on Celebrity Rehab? He's fantastic, the funniest thing on TV. His brain is flatlined, and all he can do is wander around aimlessly in his fly grungewear with a bag of AiC guitar picks trying to give them away.
Fnarf on February 4, 2010 at 1:43 PM Report this
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they never replaced him because when kurt died they all promised each other that none of them would desicrate his memory by replacing him. nirvana was done they moved on.
Evildc on February 4, 2010 at 3:15 PM Report this
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@14: REALLY? That would make great subtext for a joke about how Alice in Chains replaced their lead singer.
Eric Grandy on February 4, 2010 at 3:47 PM Report this
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Hey, can I hire yr illustrator? That's the most flattering portrait of me I've seen in 20 years. Great article, by the way, Eric.
Jerry Thackray on February 4, 2010 at 4:10 PM Report this
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I liked Seattle Weekly's article.
on February 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM Report this
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How about the boys from Hansen?
J.T. Oldfield on February 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM Report this
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Oh look, another hipster disrespecting Layne while slagging on the Alice reincarnation. How original. You should hope Sean Kinney isn't a vindictive man, because, as a co-owner of the reborn Crocodile, it would be within his rights to permanently ban you from the club.
WhinerX49er on February 4, 2010 at 11:10 PM Report this
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How about Shaquille O'Neal?
mrmatz on February 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM Report this
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I rather enjoyed being banned from the Crocodile in my time
Jerry Thackray on February 6, 2010 at 2:47 PM Report this
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I think Courtney might have a problem with it...she owns his share of everything Nirvanna. I think it'd need her approval, which I don't think is likely.

scratchmaster joe on February 6, 2010 at 5:06 PM Report this
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The main creative force of Alice in Chains is still alive; the main creative force of Nirvana is not still alive. How could anyone possibly think that the two situations are even remotely linked. I am disappointed that anyone decided to actually spend time thinking about this.
CameraEye77 on February 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM Report this
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you ask this about nirvana, but what if blake died? who would chris and adam play with? or maybe we could get blake schwarzenbach to front nirvana?
on February 8, 2010 at 4:16 PM Report this
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Because the new singer is not actually the lead vocalist, he's off to the side, hardly audible in the new songs, like a crutch for Jerry Can'ttell.
StrangerThanYou on February 8, 2010 at 5:22 PM Report this
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Nevermind
westseattle on February 9, 2010 at 12:44 PM Report this
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Well, alice in chains were never given a fair shot in seattle media... (if you can call this rag that) and its nice to see some things never change.
on February 9, 2010 at 8:08 PM Report this
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nirvana reunion=marketing shtick= summarily destroys what was left of the uncontrived feeling that kurt raged and died for
on February 10, 2010 at 4:18 PM Report this
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nirvana reunion=marketing shtick= summarily destroys whatever was left of the uncontrived feeling the band brought that cobain raged and died for
on February 10, 2010 at 10:06 PM Report this
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Jesus fucking christ, people! Haven't you ever heard of satire?
on February 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM Report this
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Pretty funny....but I hope it never happens. So it likely will, given $$$ driven bizz.
pboss on February 12, 2010 at 6:46 AM Report this

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