Paul Weller: Nirvana Were “Rubbish”
The Modfather blasts grunge but gives Britpop the thumbs up.
Paul Weller has told the Irish Examiner that he thought Nirvana were “fucking rubbish”. Speaking about his re-emergence as a solo artist and the grunge era, the Modfather said,
“You’d had all that shoegazing bollocks and then the whole Nirvana thing, which I thought was fucking rubbish – it was just America catching up with punk rock 20 years too fucking late for me, you know”.
The Britpop era which followed prove to be a far happier time for Weller.
“That was the first time ever that I’d felt any kinship with any musicians – even though they were all probably at least ten years younger than me.”
So what do you think? Does the Modfather have a point, or is he just being a negative creep?
Tagged as Nirvana, Paul Weller, Gossip
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