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Nevermind Named Top Northwest Record Of All-Time |
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From The Rocket Magazine, March 1995 Great albums are born, they are not made. Music that lasts over time requires not only skilled musicianship and song writing, but also vision and passion, elements that even the most talented producer can't create with a mixing board. And the Northwest is the land that birthed a thousand records that changed the face of rock 'n' roll. You don't see much acknowledgment for this fact in the national press (except when they are talking about Nirvana) but from the Sonics in the '60s to the first Love Battery single on Sub Pop or the last indie Dead Moon vinyl release, Northwest music has found a chapter in rock 'n' roll history, and the chapter keeps getting thicker and more important each year. |
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The poet of allienation |
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From Newsweek, April 1994 He'd come to install an alarm system. The irony is that longbefore electrician Gary Smith found Kurt Cobain's body, it wasclear that what Nirvana's singer really needed protection from was himself. Cobain wasn't identified for hours, but his mother,Wendy O'Connor, didn't need anyone to tell her that it was herson who was found with a shotgun and a suicide note that reportedlyended, "I love you, I love you." The singer had been missing, andhis mother has feared that the most troubled and talented rock star of his generation would go the way of Jim Morrison and JimiHendrix. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she told the Associated Press. "I told him not to join that stupid club."
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A Heart Shaped Box |
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From The Rocket Magazine, April 27, 1994 When Kurt Cobain committed suicide recently, I found myself, like everyone else remotely involved in the Seattle music scene, at ground zero for one of the most frenetic media feeding frenzies of this decade. The resulting TV coverage, the many newspaper stories and the hours of radio talk that followed this tragedy left me ashamed of my own profession, scared of my own absorption with it (reading every story for the first three days until I got disgusted), and finally sick to my stomach as much from the media coverage itself, as from the actual tragedy of Cobain's untimely death.
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Artist of the Year: Nirvana, |
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From Spin, December 1992 "Lost amid a flood of rumors and the glare of the public spotlight lies the very real fact that in 1992 Nirvana changed the course of popular music." From Spin, December 1992 "Lost amid a flood of rumors and the glare of the public spotlight lies the very real fact that in 1992 Nirvana changed the course of popular music." |
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It may be the Devil and it may be the Lord ... But it sure as hell ain't Human! |
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from Backlash Magazine, August-September 1988 Ah, Aberdeen, a town where there's nothing to do but drink fish-beer and worship Satan. The Melvins were from Aberdeen. Remember? Now the Melvins' fan club is cranking out some pretty heavy riffs on their own. They call themselves Nirvana, a name that signifies both everything and nothing. If you don't understand this you can either take a course in world religion or you can witness Nirvana incarnate next time they perform in the big city. |
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