Kurt Cobainia…
I see Kurt Cobain’s name pop up a lot. He’s named as anything from one of the top 10 most influential artists to the Second Coming of Christ and everything beneath, between, and behind. I always wondered why. Aside from speaking to a generation of “those crazy kids”, what specifically about his style made him so damned Messianic? I mean, I liked Nirvana enough, good band, catchy tunes, etc…but joining the ranks of Elvis, Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and the Eddie Van Halen Band, Zeppellin, or the Beatles? No sir, I just don’t get it.
Then I ran across this from a CNN article:
Time magazine chimed in and praised [Smells Like Teen Spirit's] “four-chord power sequence that never, ever changes” which, although unique, mixes the rhythm from Boston’s “More Than a Feeling.”
“If you’d asked one hundred Sex Pistols/Ramones wannabes how F-B-flat-A-flat resolves, one hundred of them would’ve told you it goes to C, duh. Kurt [Cobain] knocked the world on its ass by choosing D-flat instead,” wrote Time’s Claire Suddath.
So the answer, my friends, is not blowing in the wind. It’s D-flat al a Tom Scholz. Ebay prices for chord charts and Rockmans should skyrocket with the release of this article.
–Ant.
Ammendment: A friend of mine quickly pointed out that Ms. Suddath was wrong about how a punk-rocker would answer her theoretical question of the musical variety.
Says he, “If you’d asked one hundred Sex Pistols/Ramones wannabes how F-B-flat-A-flat resolves, one hundred of them would’ve told you ‘If you are not going to blow me, shut your c@#t mouth you fucking cow’…..”
Indeed.
