NMT 82
It's not like Jamba Juice at...you know what, it is, it's just like Jamba Juice.
Our pick this week comes from my realization that it's been 15 years since Kurt Cobain's suicide. I didn't even realize it had been that long until I saw an article about it online. That was sort of a weird time for me. I was 18, working at the store and obviously a big fan. I remember I was off that day, but I had to go to work for an employee meeting at 5pm. I took the afternoon and went to a store in town that sold "imports" (read: bootlegs). On the way there, I heard on the radio that a body had been found at Cobain's house and they weren't sure who it was. The DJ made a quip about how "that guy can't seem to stay out of trouble". Dude, he found a way. I bought a couple of Nirvana bootlegs at the store, one of which I still have. On the way from that store to my work, they broke in on the radio and announced that it was in fact Cobain and he had shot himself.
It was a weird feeling. I mean, didn't effect me personally, I didn't know him, but it was still shocking. I think it was just the time in my life; had I been younger or older, I don't think it would have been as upsetting (like 2 days, I'm not talking a deep funk that took years to get out of). At that age, you're sort of developing yourself, finding your personality and I think it shook that a little. I enjoyed their music and I used to listen to In Utero while cleaning my room in the duplex (and other times besides that once a month activity). So, it seemed weird to me that the guy from one of the core bands of my life, whom I listened to and helped get out that teen angst, killed himself. Again, it was upsetting, but I got over it.
Anyways, it sucks to wonder what would have happened, but there it is. It's been 15 years, which doesn't make him any more dead, but makes us old.
You'll notice at the beginning of this clip he starts to play a different song. He wanted to play the song "Rape me" which was to be on the next record. MTV, of course, said oh no, you have to do the hit song. So, he played the first four bars of "Rape me", which I'm sure made the producers shit themselves. Good times.
From Seattle, WA:
Nirvana - "Lithium":
Bonus Tracks:
Country music needs to learn how to write a better stalker song:
I Miss the 90's:
"I'm not like them, but I can pretend" Speaks to you, doesn't it?
Our pick this week comes from my realization that it's been 15 years since Kurt Cobain's suicide. I didn't even realize it had been that long until I saw an article about it online. That was sort of a weird time for me. I was 18, working at the store and obviously a big fan. I remember I was off that day, but I had to go to work for an employee meeting at 5pm. I took the afternoon and went to a store in town that sold "imports" (read: bootlegs). On the way there, I heard on the radio that a body had been found at Cobain's house and they weren't sure who it was. The DJ made a quip about how "that guy can't seem to stay out of trouble". Dude, he found a way. I bought a couple of Nirvana bootlegs at the store, one of which I still have. On the way from that store to my work, they broke in on the radio and announced that it was in fact Cobain and he had shot himself.
It was a weird feeling. I mean, didn't effect me personally, I didn't know him, but it was still shocking. I think it was just the time in my life; had I been younger or older, I don't think it would have been as upsetting (like 2 days, I'm not talking a deep funk that took years to get out of). At that age, you're sort of developing yourself, finding your personality and I think it shook that a little. I enjoyed their music and I used to listen to In Utero while cleaning my room in the duplex (and other times besides that once a month activity). So, it seemed weird to me that the guy from one of the core bands of my life, whom I listened to and helped get out that teen angst, killed himself. Again, it was upsetting, but I got over it.
Anyways, it sucks to wonder what would have happened, but there it is. It's been 15 years, which doesn't make him any more dead, but makes us old.
You'll notice at the beginning of this clip he starts to play a different song. He wanted to play the song "Rape me" which was to be on the next record. MTV, of course, said oh no, you have to do the hit song. So, he played the first four bars of "Rape me", which I'm sure made the producers shit themselves. Good times.
From Seattle, WA:
Nirvana - "Lithium":
Bonus Tracks:
Country music needs to learn how to write a better stalker song:
I Miss the 90's:
"I'm not like them, but I can pretend" Speaks to you, doesn't it?
posted by Richard at 10:32 AM
3 Comments:
Stalker song? Really??
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5. Huston, Vicki L / Ley, Richard J
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a. don't let him fool you, ladies. he never cleaned his room at the duplex. the one and only time (i'm sure) it did get cleaned is when i did it because i couldn't bear to walk on his floors with bare feet. there was scary stuff in that room.
b. you.... came out of the angst? i do not think this means what you think it means.
c. and, not to belittle the sobriety of your reminiscences, but do you remember when eddie vedder got married? it was announced on the radio, you and i were driving in different cars down s.o.b.t. going somewhere, your place probably. we were passing the tupperware factory, i think we were racing. you in that robin's egg blue truck that i adored and me in my craptastic buick... it came across the radio that eddie vedder had gotten married. i was heartbroken (like that is what ruined my shot, right?) you were in the lane next to me and i looked at you. you were laughing and pointing at me. i swore vengeance at your piss poor sense of humor (eddie was meant to be mine). good times.
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