I feel that if you really believe ‘Bleach’ is better than Nirvana’s commercially successful material, it’s because you want to be too cool and underground.
Not necessarily… I like Bleach cause it’s ugly and sludgy and you can kind of almost smell the cheap beer and dirt weed in the air. Also because he wasn’t a rock star yet but really wanted to be and you could tell he was working hard for it. By the time In Utero came around he was so sullen and smacked out and tired of the music business, and the whole rockstar persona had gotten to him, not to mention the wife, and the drama… it all seemed to find it’s way into the music. Bleach had an element of fun to it that was missing from some of the later material.
That being said I know what you mean though about pompous assholes that are too “indy” to acknowledge that good music can also be commercially successful and on a major label,
I think Nirvana’s best album was Unplugged.
I remember thinking that whatever Cobain did next was going to be something really special.
Turns out it was, but not for the reason I thought…
I think Nirvana’s best album was Unplugged.
I remember thinking that whatever Cobain did next was going to be something really special.
Turns out it was, but not for the reason I thought…
Totally agree, anyone ever check out Gus Van Sant’s Last Days?
Dastardly Deeds hit the nail on the head pretty well. I think all the people surrounding him calling him a ‘genius’ caught up with im and I guess it sort of gives the figure in question license to take themselves a little more seriously and make the self-referencing less thinly veiled in the music.
Peligro, ya reckon he was a bit of a downer to hang around? I reckon he would’ve been the opposite. I mean, he would’ve probably had his moments and been fucked toward the end, but I sort of got the impression that troubled as he was, there would’ve been a pretty good sense of humour and sort of yearning just to chill the fuck out and enjoy life, because deep down, he knew he never really could.
that’s a good question. for once. but the tall one has a longer face, pointier head, and way less makeup goin’ on. his photos don’t reveal a guy under pressure. just a guy who knows more than you do.(ask paul elledge) big wink.
Considering Clapton is 400 years old I think we gotta give him a little respect for pulling off the Barker look. Heck, we’re lucky he doesn’t just crumble into dust when a car drives by.
have been trying to pull up this early crap. hopng it’s not too bad. we all have our opinions, and eric clapton is way too old to not explain his earlier, drug forced opinions.
haven’t seen it, so i reserve judgement.no racism. paul watched a documentary on the ohio players last night after getting home from el studio. i asked if they were from detroit. (sometimes, i get the third degree) and sometimes we be too tired to connect the states.Oh fucking Ohio.
final comment on racism in the US, and it IS particular to where you grow up and choose to live.
I was born and raised, ( first American born of my clan) in Chicago. Chicago has had a horrible history of “race relations”. all of this to me was personal. i recall Marilyn Boyland walking into my sixh grade classroom. She and her family were the first blacks in the hood. Their house was bricked soon after.Marilyn Boyland was my friend for about two days and then aligned with the Puerto Ricans. THAT for me sums up not racism, but definitivively race relations. Go where there’s comfort.
I keep getting mistaken for a Turk thanks to the 6 week old beard I’m sporting. Fuck.
Dude at the 7-11 around the corner from my house busted up laughing the last time I was in there and spent at least 5 minutes telling my girlfriend that I looked like Ayatollah Khomeini. Wedding I officiated a couple weeks ago, she overheard someone saying I had a “full-on terrorist” beard.
