OK, where are these kids?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Gentlemen.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/SmashingPumpkins-SiameseDream.jpghttp://getsomenoise.com/albumimages/52_Alice%20In%20Chains_Jar%20of%20Flies.jpg
― jaymc, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahah, the Pumpkins actually put out a bulletin asking people if they knew where they were/who they were!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Here's a few more (including the Violent Femmes girl):
http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1567095&pid=2561378
― jaymc, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.gittermangallery.com/publish/worksimages/1465web_LG.jpg Priscilla, 1969 by Joseph Szabo
The girl in the photo is a mystery and will ever remain so. One day as I was photographing at Jones Beach I saw "Priscilla" in front of me and my immediate reaction was to make a photo(s) before the moment changed. I took a few photos, looked down to rewind the film, and put in another roll. When I looked up she was gone! ...but I had the photo and it is my most sought after image.
― jaymc, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
That Violent Femmes girl looks pretty young for being, what, at least 32 now?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Boston is awesome music for rides at the state fair. Nirvana is awesome music to smoke cigarettes outside the mall to.
This depends on what year it was the first time you smoked a cigarette outside the mall, and what music was playing at the state fair when your parents used to take you there.
― J0hn D., Friday, 25 July 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
xp I forgot to link the actual news story accompanying the photos. She's 28 now.
― jaymc, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Bee Girl's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/35345566
― jaymc, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought this was the Nirvana thread not the google people on album covers thread
― Mr. Que, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
You thought wrong, jerkface.
― jaymc, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
xxxp: I don't think the Boston thing is subjective. I've heard that shit time and time again. The Nirvana/mall/cigarettes thing is wholly tainted by nostalgia.
What does Nirvana make you wanna do J0hn?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― Mr. Que, Friday, 25 July 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
It's hard for me to talk or even think straight about Nirvana at this point. There's too much garbage in the way. The music is too fully digested -- for want of an even half-decent word -- both in me and in the world around me. By which I mean not only that it's been too thoroughly disassembled in search of meaning, but also too piled up with secondary crap, weird expectations and judgements and counter-judgements. I can't just hear it, anymore. This became true within months of Nevermind's release. Everything after that only intensified the alienation. Whenever I listen to Nirvana or even let them enter my mind, I get to feeling like I'm in a particularly horrible shopping mall. And all I want to do is leave.
But the other day, I was riding around in with a friend of mine, and he was playing that Australian "Hard to Believe" Kiss covers comp. Only thing I remembered from it was God of Thunder, by the Melvins (which rules, of course). I knew Nirvana had something on it, too, but couldn't remember what. Turns out it's "Do You Love Me", and while it's half a pisstake, it's at least half phenomenal. The shitty recording gives the guitar & rhythm section this high-school cover band quality, half muscle-shirt 70s Camaro rock, half snot-nose punk. And that's what Nirvana were always about, but it suddenly made sense to me. I could hear the music as music, without all the bullshit baggage. When Curt's tossed-off vocals rose to a ragged shriek on the chorus (like they always do), I got chills. For a minute there, I remembered what it was like to hear Bleach for the first time, and I half understood what every high-school kid in America must have heard in Smells Like Teen Spirit. I'm not saying that the Kiss cover is particularly great, cuz it isn't, but somehow it hit me the right way at the right time.
Fucking classic.
― contenderizer, Friday, 25 July 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
contenderizer so OTM. I'm not sure why I even own any Nirvana anymore. I guess Bleach might be fun to listen to now and again.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 July 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
half muscle-shirt 70s Camaro rock,
I was too young for a Camaro, but Nirvana was a permanent fixture in my garage for wrenchin' on the BMX.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 July 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
best interview i've seen, now or then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nrZLCrYkdI&feature=related
"peddle the ass God gave you"
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Turns out it's "Do You Love Me", and while it's half a pisstake, it's at least half phenomenal. The shitty recording gives the guitar & rhythm section this high-school cover band quality, half muscle-shirt 70s Camaro rock, half snot-nose punk. And that's what Nirvana were always about, but it suddenly made sense to me. I could hear the music as music, without all the bullshit baggage. When Curt's tossed-off vocals rose to a ragged shriek on the chorus (like they always do), I got chills.
This is basically what happened to me the first time I heard "Spank Thru" from Sliver. Also I lmao every time I listen to the "Heartbreaker" cover and Kurt's off-mic at the beginning going "I don't know how to play this song!!"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
in that interview we witness the exact moment Krist got into politics.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 16 June 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/kurt-cobain-versatile-front-man/1669/
Giant Bomb User of the Minute skrutop posted this video of Guitar Hero 5 on the boards this morning. It's a bunch of footage of Virtual Kurt Cobain doing a bunch of stuff that Real Kurt Cobain would have probably needed two shotguns to cope with.
On one level, this is kind of hilarious, and it's definitely a testament to the graphical quality of Guitar Hero 5 that seeing V-Cobain sing a Bon Jovi song, or seeing him make rap poses while mouthing Flavor Flav's words seems so absolutely wrong on so many different levels.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuAoEW5MbI&feature=player_embedded
― Cunga, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I think kurt cobain would find this funny
― iatee, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
You're right. The band's sense of humor isn't normally recalled. All people remember is the angst.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Live! Tonight! Sold Out! is like jokes n jokes n jokes..
― billstevejim, Friday, 4 September 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
kurt's little known comedy record
http://i29.tinypic.com/20hobnp.jpg
― surfin on my face (electricsound), Friday, 4 September 2009 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Might as well post this press release I got here:
NIRVANA’S LEGENDARY NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED 1992 READING CONCERT SET TO DEBUT IN NOVEMBERNirvana Live At Reading Features Performances of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Lithium,” “Aneurysm” And More“Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn’t see it then it was something you pretended you saw.” -- Kerrang (October 2003)“The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up...Cobain’s ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise.” -- Rolling Stone (October 29, 1992) For the first time, fans will be able to experience on video one of the most acclaimed concerts in rock history--Nirvana’s 1992 headlining performance at the Reading Festival--with the November release of Nirvana Live At Reading (DGC/Geffen/UMe). Ranked #1 in Kerrang’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” list and voted as the band’s #1 greatest moment by fans in a 2008 NME poll, the August 30, 1992 U.K. concert is the most bootlegged in the band’s history. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition CD+DVD Deluxe Edition on November 3, 2009, followed by DVD only, CD only and 2LP versions on November 24, 2009. Unlike these past bootlegs, this is the only version that is under the band’s supervision, The DVD has been sourced from the original, multi-track masters and is mixed in 5.1 surround sound.At the time, three unrecorded songs, “Tourette’s, “All Apologies,” and “Dumb” were performed at Reading and appeared on the band’s final studio album In Utero. Of the 25 songs, all but two have ever been previously released. Reading also marked the first public performance of “Tourette’s.”To fans, the Reading performance is legendary for being the concert where Kurt Cobain was rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair and played the entire show wearing a white hospital gown and has since become one of Nirvana’s most sought-after, unreleased concerts. The career-spanning concert reached back to the band’s SubPop debut album, 1989’s Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and their first single, Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-‘80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs would appear on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl also laid down a cover of “The Money Will Roll Right In,” a song by the punk band Fang. Yet the centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist: the anthemic “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “In Bloom,” “Come As You Are,” “Breed,” “Lithium,” “Polly,” “Territorial Pissings,” “Drain You,” “Lounge Act,” “Stay Away” and “On A Plain” (only “Something In The Way” was not reprised).With Nirvana Live At Reading, the world finally sees and hears the concert that shook the world. Nirvana Live At Reading DVD: 1. Breed2. Drain You3. Aneurysm4. School5. Sliver6. In Bloom7. Come As You Are8. Lithium9. About A Girl10. Tourette's11. Polly12. Lounge Act13. Smells Like Teen Spirit14. On A Plain15. Negative Creep16. Been A Son17. All Apologies18. Blew19. Dumb20. Stay Away21. Spank Thru22. Love Buzz23. The Money Will Roll Right In24. D-725. Territorial PissingNirvana Live At Reading CD: 1. Breed 2. Drain You3. Aneurysm4. School5. Sliver6. In Bloom7. Come As You Are8. Lithium9. About A Girl10. Tourette's11. Polly12. Lounge Act13. Smells Like Teen Spirit14. On A Plain15. Negative Creep16. Been A Son17. All Apologies18. Blew19. Dumb20. Stay Away21. Spank Thru22. The Money Will Roll Right In23. D-724. Territorial Pissing
Nirvana Live At Reading Features Performances of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Lithium,” “Aneurysm” And More
“Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn’t see it then it was something you pretended you saw.” -- Kerrang (October 2003)
“The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up...Cobain’s ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise.” -- Rolling Stone (October 29, 1992) For the first time, fans will be able to experience on video one of the most acclaimed concerts in rock history--Nirvana’s 1992 headlining performance at the Reading Festival--with the November release of Nirvana Live At Reading (DGC/Geffen/UMe). Ranked #1 in Kerrang’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” list and voted as the band’s #1 greatest moment by fans in a 2008 NME poll, the August 30, 1992 U.K. concert is the most bootlegged in the band’s history. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition CD+DVD Deluxe Edition on November 3, 2009, followed by DVD only, CD only and 2LP versions on November 24, 2009. Unlike these past bootlegs, this is the only version that is under the band’s supervision, The DVD has been sourced from the original, multi-track masters and is mixed in 5.1 surround sound.
At the time, three unrecorded songs, “Tourette’s, “All Apologies,” and “Dumb” were performed at Reading and appeared on the band’s final studio album In Utero. Of the 25 songs, all but two have ever been previously released. Reading also marked the first public performance of “Tourette’s.”
To fans, the Reading performance is legendary for being the concert where Kurt Cobain was rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair and played the entire show wearing a white hospital gown and has since become one of Nirvana’s most sought-after, unreleased concerts. The career-spanning concert reached back to the band’s SubPop debut album, 1989’s Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and their first single, Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-‘80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs would appear on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl also laid down a cover of “The Money Will Roll Right In,” a song by the punk band Fang.
Yet the centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist: the anthemic “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “In Bloom,” “Come As You Are,” “Breed,” “Lithium,” “Polly,” “Territorial Pissings,” “Drain You,” “Lounge Act,” “Stay Away” and “On A Plain” (only “Something In The Way” was not reprised).
With Nirvana Live At Reading, the world finally sees and hears the concert that shook the world. Nirvana Live At Reading DVD: 1. Breed2. Drain You3. Aneurysm4. School5. Sliver6. In Bloom7. Come As You Are8. Lithium9. About A Girl10. Tourette's11. Polly12. Lounge Act13. Smells Like Teen Spirit14. On A Plain15. Negative Creep16. Been A Son17. All Apologies18. Blew19. Dumb20. Stay Away21. Spank Thru22. Love Buzz23. The Money Will Roll Right In24. D-725. Territorial Pissing
Nirvana Live At Reading CD: 1. Breed 2. Drain You3. Aneurysm4. School5. Sliver6. In Bloom7. Come As You Are8. Lithium9. About A Girl10. Tourette's11. Polly12. Lounge Act13. Smells Like Teen Spirit14. On A Plain15. Negative Creep16. Been A Son17. All Apologies18. Blew19. Dumb20. Stay Away21. Spank Thru22. The Money Will Roll Right In23. D-724. Territorial Pissing
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 September 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to see the Fang cover.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 4 September 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd like to believe they put on a good show in '92 because the 3rd and final time I saw them was in '91 and I was convinced they'd lost the fire.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 4 September 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess I'll call this a good choice for the annual Nirvana product that's normally released every November.. It's definitely better than Muddy Banks. Kids will buy it because it contains 11 of the 12 songs on Nevermind.. and it's not a complete bore because it contains 3 of their best covers, and because some random dude jumps around on stage for the entire thing. I wish more modern bands would invite random dudes to jump around.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 5 September 2009 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder why Love Buzz was left off the DVD?
― OLIGARHY (Z S), Saturday, 5 September 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
good call.. it's left off the CD version probably so it can be under 80 mins.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 5 September 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait.. i figured out why that song was cut... half the song he's tuned incorrectly.. hahaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADvgIO78zTY
― billstevejim, Saturday, 5 September 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ome random dude jumps around on stage for the entire thing
that's tony, the drummer from bivouac...
cd/DVD is fantastic. particularly the DVD, its easy to forget how affecting they were visually as performers. also remarkable, given the kind of overload live videos or broadcasts of festivals enjoy today, how unadorned and unflashy the DVD is - minimal light show, no video screens, and yet still an entirely riveting performance.
― like moses, the townfolk like the red sea (stevie), Sunday, 8 November 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Just saw someone post this. Kind of neat to think about someone having that bill and thinking "should I go or not go? I won't go. I'm going to play a round of mini-golf that day instead...but I guess I'll hold on to the announcement" and then, three months later, feeling really shitty about that decision.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leyzlpKdRD1qaqjy1o1_500.jpg
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4KYaOvul8
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynqft1hDTyA
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Monday, 31 January 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Classic but I know that they are a polarizing figure in these here parts.
― NYCNative, Monday, 31 January 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
good band.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I <3 Nirvana still
― lol at the witch trials (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
thread made me put on in utero actually. i almost never listen to this band but they always make me happy.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/4693497/Sir-Paul-McCartney-replacing-Kurt-Cobain-in-Nirvana.html
um. i don't *think it's april 1st...
― That symptom is fucking my wife (stevie), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
whatthefuck
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
and they wrote a new song together!
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
i can tell, this is going to be really, really good
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
paul should try to use the singing style that he used on "get back"
*vomits*
crossing my fingers for "Freedom 2"
― some dude, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
The Sun? That's the British version of The Onion, right?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
I just saw this on the Guardian page:
Ned Raggett recommended Paul McCartney to replace Kurt Cobain in Nirvana reunion. · 56 minutes ago
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/music/2012/dec/12/paul-mccartney-kurt-cobain-nirvana
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Heart of the Courtney.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XLGaK6p3GY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qQMyKm96I&playnext=1&list=PL52603F176EC44864
― brio, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link