Nirvana's 'Nevermind' Licensed To 'Rock Band'

Nirvana's landmark 1991 album "Nevermind" has been licensed in its entirety for use in the upcoming Electronic Arts video game Rock Band, according to Tech Digest. Gamers will be able to download the complete album and play along to it as they're playing the game. Rock Band will be available on November 20 for the Xbox platform. In addition, the song "Heart Shaped Box", from Nirvana's 1993 record "In Utero", will appear in Guitar Legend, a game in the mode of the popular Guitar Hero that's being designed for mobile phones.

The licensing of Nirvana's music has accelerated in the past year since Courtney Love, the widow of late frontman Kurt Cobain, sold a 25% stake in her husband's song catalog for $50 million.

Cobain's image has also begun showing up on lunchboxes, an action figure and even a key chain that doubles as a small liquor flask.

Love's manager, Peter Asher, told Variety that none of Nirvana's songs would be used for anything that Cobain would have opposed. It is not known whether Cobain played or liked video games.

A documentary about the singer-songwriter, called "Kurt Cobain: About A Son", opens in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle in early October.

Thanks for the info to Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[01chardw]

i think he did like videogames. Don't kill me if i'm wrong, but wasn't he found dead with one of his favourite videogames, along with the other stuff?

[Decembero]

A Kurt Cobain action figure?! WTF!

does it come with a little shotgun?

[OneEyedMan]

LOL "key chain that doubles as a small liquor flask."
That in itself is awesome.

Other than that, globalisation and a corporate world stink.

[Powerhouse]

Nirvana© flavored Milk Shakes coming soon to your local Dairy Queen!

[RickGardiner]

Powerhouse wrote:

Nirvana© flavored Milk Shakes coming soon to your local Dairy Queen!

Lol I wouldn't even want to know what that would taste like.

Well hopefully they'll actually use more than 1 song. I know they'll probably all be eventually released from the song download system. And who doesn't like video games?!

[pigmaggots]

Everyone likes video games!

I don't believe that Nirvana are still being abused to this extent though.

[Perforator]

Let the man rest in peace for Christ's sake. I'd wish somebody shot Courtney in the head with a shotgun.

[Thefallofman]

^That sounds hypocritical as all hell.

[FoolOnThePlanet]

Decembero wrote:

A Kurt Cobain action figure?! WTF!

does it come with a little shotgun?

Nope, its so cool, there's one of him sitting on a stool with acoustic from UNPLUGGED, and one of him standing with his mustang from the SLTS vid.

I've got the standing one.

But yeah, this is awesome news, considering I'll be getting rockband indeffinately, and the whole Nevermind album is amazingly awesome.

[Jack Flint]

RickGardiner wrote:

Powerhouse wrote:

Nirvana© flavored Milk Shakes coming soon to your local Dairy Queen!
Lol I wouldn't even want to know what that would taste like.

Very grungy.

Anyways, I don't think Kurt would mind his music being in video games (which are about music), but to have him on lunchboxes, his own action figure, key chain? I bet he's turning in his grave right now. It's disgusting. What a dumb bitch Courtney can be, selling off a quarter of his catalog, for 50 million. Ugh.

[xxZeroxx]

I can not stand it when people say "turning in his grave..." He was cremated in 2002. They spread it out a little too. 1/3 in the Wishkah River, 1/3 in New York, and 1/3 is with Courtney.

[everlong93]

Sorry xbox lovers, but the writer forgot to mention that Rock Band's on PS3 too.

[steveclark1212]

xxZeroxx wrote:

I can not stand it when people say "turning in his grave..." He was cremated in 2002. They spread it out a little too. 1/3 in the Wishkah River, 1/3 in New York, and 1/3 is with Courtney.

ummm. yea. right he was cremated forever ago. and his ashes just sat in a container at courtneys house. then in late 90s i think they spread them out. . . idiot.. u think they would randomly cremate him 8 years later? the body would be rotted as hell u idiot

[steveclark1212]

like where would they keep the body for 8 years?

[deibanez]

what the hell does it matter she sold 25% of his work? It's bloody 25%. Where else is the music going to go to? And the people who live in this without realizing Kurt Cobain even lived is it not good then more people would sing their songs while playing games? Now I don't know about the lunch box thing, that would get on my nerves If I we're him.

and

steveclark1212 wrote:

xxZeroxx wrote:

I can not stand it when people say "turning in his grave..." He was cremated in 2002. They spread it out a little too. 1/3 in the Wishkah River, 1/3 in New York, and 1/3 is with Courtney.


ummm. yea. right he was cremated forever ago. and his ashes just sat in a container at courtneys house. then in late 90s i think they spread them out. . . idiot.. u think they would randomly cremate him 8 years later? the body would be rotted as hell u idiot

[lol]

[TooFast]

I'm excited for this game, it looks pretty sweet

[recliner33]

It would have been cooler if rock band licensed the incesticide or bleach album instead of nevermind. Nevermind is a good album, but to me it is nirvana's worst album.

[Uber-rocker]

OneEyedMan wrote:

Other than that, globalisation and a corporate world stink.

Aye, aye, Cap'n.

[vermilion444]

RickGardiner wrote:

Powerhouse wrote:

Nirvana© flavored Milk Shakes coming soon to your local Dairy Queen!
Lol I wouldn't even want to know what that would taste like.

I don't know what it'd taste like, but I think we all know what it smells like. God that's a bad joke heh

[Eruption_Rocker]

Kurt would never have allowed any of this had he not died. He would slam all of those companies as "corporate garbage" or something along those lines. Even though Kurt Cobain is a childhood hero of mine, I HAD to buy the action figure! And NO, I DON'T PLAY WITH IT! It makes a great room decoration, next to my Slash, Jimmy Page, and Ozzy figures.

[Baltic Ave.]

I agree w/ Eruption_Rocker!

[Dead_End]

i dont think kurt played videogames =/ he claimed he hated tv with a noticeable passion, i think most videogames require a tv haha

[Burn Out]

Dead_End wrote:

i dont think kurt played videogames =/ he claimed he hated tv with a noticeable passion, i think most videogames require a tv haha

um i don't think he hated tvs in general... perhaps he hated CABLE tv... wow

[drugless_stoner]

eh, "things he would not be opposed to"? i think he was pretty much oposed to him becoming an icon and an image used for people financial gain wasnt he? that was part of the whole suicide thing wasnt it? i dont tink he would approve naything except the albums and the odd dvd here and there, lunch boxes and action figures are a bit different, he wasnt a teletubbie for christs sake!

[TheIceCreamMan]

Dead_End wrote:

i dont think kurt played videogames =/ he claimed he hated tv with a noticeable passion, i think most videogames require a tv haha

I'm pretty sure he meant he hated Television programming, not the actual physical product.

[Anti Vicarious]

Lunch boxes and action figures? Damn Kurt would be pissed.

[tetsuma]

Thefallofman wrote:

^That sounds hypocritical as all hell.

yeah lol...what a moron.

[leeaddison]

who cares...

[Rock? Anyone]

Yeah I think he'd be pissed like think was Kurt the Oh im so gonna sell my name to a big corporation but still wright awsome songs about how big corporations suc and are contriling are minds. no

[Set-Abominae]

Decembero wrote:

A Kurt Cobain action figure?! WTF!

does it come with a little shotgun?

I lol'd. That was funny.

[grunger549]

None of us knows what Kurt would want.
and it could go both ways:
he might like it because it would spread nirvanas music,
but he might hate it cus it's kind of selling out.

but yes lunchboxes are way too far

[jakesmellspoo]

you make a great point grunger
when it comes to these guitar videogames, i don't like them all that much, i only play guitar hero 2 cause my brother has it, i might consider this rockband game only because you cand download whole albums, but then again i'd rather Incesticide over Nevermind

[pintsize12433]

Lounge act anyone

[Tevin March]

I Think All Of Kurts Music Was Good.. But It Wasnt Just His Lyrics And All That Made It Good.. I Think Ppl See Kurt As Nirvan .. Forgettin Chris And Dave

[cloudy_skies]

RickGardiner wrote:

Powerhouse wrote:

Nirvana© flavored Milk Shakes coming soon to your local Dairy Queen!
Lol I wouldn't even want to know what that would taste like.

Territorial Pissings. *rimshot*

I think the marketing of a dead person is really unfair. Since Kurt obviously can't object to his face being on lunchboxes and whatnot, the manufacturers can do whatever they want with him. Besides, Kurt has become far too deified already; like John Lennon and Jim Morrison before him he went from a musician to some sort of rock god after he died.

[BennyStruggle]

what do u expect? Courtneys career went into the dirt after Cobain died; he wrote or inspired pretty much every song. She needs more heroin leave the junky alone. Nothing will bring Kurt back. RIP kdc.