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Album Review: Nirvana Nevermind - 20th Anniversary Release, Deluxe Edition

  By Peter | November 15, 2011 - 1:47 pm | Music
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When I was growing up there were two types of The Doors fans. Those who knew them [on vinyl] pre the movie and those who jumped on the bandwagon, very much the after party. Similarly, there are those who knew why my mate Stu wore a beano jumper and those who bought the T-shirt when Kurt Cobain [RIP] passed away. For me [and I've said it before] Nirvana coming on the scene were very much What the fook is that sound ? I say that in the ‘make you sit up, take note and get excited‘ kind of a way. Something, that I have not seen since nor in between witnessing The White Stripes play Hotel Yorba with a broken string on Jools Holland for the first time. More than that, Nirvana were a sound that played from your bedroom was guaranteed to p’soff your Folks - in a damn … There’s more →

Nostalgia Week: In Search of Nirvana

  By johnmfinn | October 1, 2010 - 4:57 pm | Music, Nostalgia Week, The Culch
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I’ve been trying to write this post for a couple of days but every time it turns into a depressing chronicle of Kurt Cobain’s drug addiction, mental illness and suicide. I’m not really sure it fits with the tone of Nostalgia Week but it’s impossible to talk about Nirvana without talking about Cobain and it’s impossible to talk about Cobain without talking about his death. Too often his death overshadows his life, we focus on the tragic end rather than what preceded it but to talk about one side without talking about the other would be to only tell half the story. Kurt Cobain and Kris Novoselic first meet in Aberdeen, Washington in the mid 1980s. Their mutual love of punk lead the two to form a band and by the end of 1988 Nirvana, featuring Cobain on guitar and vocals, Novoselic on bass and Chad Channing on drums found … There’s more →