Posts tagged as nirvana
A Conversation With Chris Perkel, Editor of 'Pearl Jam Twenty'
It was never easy being a Pearl Jam fan. The explosion of hype and overexposure that came with Ten and Vs. fueled an instant mainstream backlash by the "cool indie kids." If you were going to listen to grunge, Nirvana was the band you were supposed to like. The experimental, less radio-friendly Vitalogy and No Code—as well as the annoying rise of Eddie Vedder sound-alikes—slashed the fan base even further. In terms of popularity then, they occupy a strange, contradictory place in music: They’ve been one of the biggest bands in the world for two decades but comparatively little is known about them. Which is why the Cameron Crowe-directed love letter Pearl Jam Twenty (out today on DVD and Blu-ray) is such an important document. A fan himself, Crowe was given access to the band’s entire video vault, footage that documentary film editor Chris Perkel had to comb through, culling a two-hour retrospective from over a thousand hours of raw material. READ MORE
It Is For A Variety Of Reasons That October Is So Totally Awesome
Hooray! It’s October, which really is a terrific month. It seems to get better and better every year, October. (Or maybe it’s just that all the others get worse and worse, and maybe October does, too. But a bit less dramatically so.) A smarter, more contemplative person might note that as we get older we’re more inclined to appreciate stuff like falling leaves, and the slowing of nature’s life cycles. One might make a date to go walk in the woods somewhere, to take full advantage of this fleeting blip of pleasant weather we get before the gloom and bitter cold of too-short winter days afflict us all with seasonal affective disorder. Again. READ MORE
Old Person Looks Back
"At the time, it didn't sound like anything else around and, to my youthful ears, it wiped away all that had come before it. If this sounds a little dramatic, you have to understand that at the time Guns'N'Roses were the biggest rock band in the world. If you didn't have a hotline to the underground, and were looking for a soundtrack for your teenage rebellion, they, along with their hard-rocking peers Anthrax, Mötley Crüe and Metallica, were pretty much all that was on offer. These bands might have had the volume, but they were singing about things to which the average tortured teen could never relate. They were, for the most part, cartoon bands pedalling clichéd fantasies of sex, drugs 'n' rock'n'roll. Nevermind, in contrast, was teenage agony distilled." READ MORE
Nirvana's 'Nevermind' Turns 20
Huh. Somehow there are apparently STILL some unreleased Nirvana tracks. Also: FEEL OLD.
Reggae Nirvana
Would you like to hear reggae versions of Nirvana's "Sliver" and "Dive"? Of course you would. I mean, it's not like you've got anything better to do. Wait, you do? What is it? Can I come? Pleeeeease? Oh, fine, be that way.
Songs About Wind And Storms
Man, what a storm! The howling wind woke me up at 5 o'clock this morning, and then I couldn't go back to sleep. So, maybe because I still had Merry Clayton's gale of a voice in mind, I made a list of songs that fit the scene. Nothing else to do today but watch the videos. Certainly, no one should go outside. READ MORE
Dancing for Nirvana was "Punk As F@*$"
"It was so powerful and I was so into it at the time. It was like a dream come true, really, dancing for my mate's band. It was punk as fuck, really.... It got to the point after the show where I had to wear a collar on my neck because I got whiplash." READ MORE
Aquatarians Repent! Kurt Cobain Proved Wrong!
Whelp, there goes a nice moral rationalization for eating eating seafood. Turns out goldfish recognize and remember pain and dead salmon recognize human facial expressions. (WHAT.) You kinda always suspected, right? I mean, the way lobsters scream when you stab them.
