Kurt Cobain

Nirvana Most-played Chart Revealed On Kurt Cobain’s 50th Birthday

... PPL has revealed a Top 20 chart of the most-played Nirvana tracks on UK radio and TV in the 21 st century. The chart includes both original tracks as well as the Seattle band’s cover versions of other artists’ songs such as David Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ (No. 6), ‘Love Buzz’ originally by Dutch group Shocking Blue (No. 14) and The Vaselines’ ‘Molly’s Lips’ (No. 18). Tracks from the band’s 1991 multi-platinum certified album ‘Nevermind’ feature prominently with ten entries in the Top 20 and ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (a Top 10 single from September 1991) taking the top spot. The subsequent ‘Nevermind’ singles ‘Come as You Are’ and ‘Lithium’ then take the No. 2 and No. 3 positions, respectively. ‘In Bloom’, a single released in the UK but not the US also makes an appearance at No. 5 in the chart. ‘Heart-Shaped Box’, the lead single from the 1993 platinum album ‘In Utero’ completes the Top Five (No. 4) and elsewhere there are surprising entries in the chart from cult fan favourite ‘Aneurysm’ (No. 9) and also the graphic ...

Frances Bean Reveals What Would Have Made Kurt Cobain Cry If He Were Alive Today

... The irony of the runways’ love affair with grunge—a look her parents helped to popularize and one that Jacobs showed in the luxury space with his now famous Spring 1993 Perry Ellis collection—isn’t lost on her either. “I find it interesting where grunge originated from, and then where it was taken, which was high fashion,” says Cobain. “My dad was so poor that they kept going to Goodwill to get donated ripped jeans. It wasn’t a fashion decision; it was an ‘I don’t have any money, I have no other choice’ type of decision.”. She said despite this Marc Jacobs campaign, she does not want to do modeling as a career. “I could never do [modeling] professionally, but I’m glad I did it with Marc, because I trust him,” says Cobain, a visual artist. Though she remains coy about her next move, she is certain it involves something more stimulating than posing in front of the camera. “Thankfully I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.”. Guns N’ Roses Reportedly Had Doubts About Steven Adler, Axl Rose Made Surprising Offer. Andrei Toth. What about that guitar that he loved that you gave away to some low-life ...

Black Book Guitars To Auction Off Kurt Cobain's Guitar, 10 Percent Of Proceeds Go To Charity

... 1960 s Italian-made sparkle finish guitars in local shops, and he requested that I buy every one that I could find … After delivering the guitars to his hotel room, he stated that he was keeping the Hagstrom as a Christmas gift to himself, and giving the remaining guitars away to his friends. It’s a charming story, and shows Cobain’s kindness toward his friends, and a rare moment of indulgence for himself. Cobain’s well-known struggles with addiction and depression led Black Book Guitars owner Nate Fasold to decide on Transition Projects as the recipient of the auction’s partial proceeds. A former trauma nurse, Fasold said he can see the connection between addiction and homelessness. What I like about Transitions is that it helps people in need transition from homelessness to housing. A lot of their population struggles with addiction, and adequate shelter is something that helps the people I work with at the trauma department at Oregon Health & Science University. Fasold goes on ...

12 Great Quotes From The Nirvana Frontman

... instead." –Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. "I think rap music is the only vital form of music that has been introduced to music in a long time since punk rock. I would never do rap music. No. There’s just no sense in it. The people who do rap music do it just fine. I’m usually offended by people like Vanilla Ice and stuff like that. The white man ripped off the black man long enough. They should leave rap music to the African-Americans because they do it so well and it is so vital to them." – Billboard , 1991. "I don't think Courtney and I are that fucked up. We have lacked love all our lives, and we need it so much that if there's any goal that we have, it's to give Frances as much love as we can, as much support as we can. That's the one thing that I know is not going to turn out bad." – Rolling Stone , 1994. "I don't even care about the band as much ...

Frances Bean Cobain Fights Husband Over Kurt Cobain Guitar, Named Face Of Marc Jacobs Clothing Line

... The instrument was once insured for $1 million and experts now believe that its worth several million dollars. A judge has yet to rule on the request. In other Frances Bean Cobain news, she’s been selected as the face of the Marc Jacobs spring/summer clothing line campaign. Jacobs revealed the news by posting a David Sims photograph and offering a bit of reflection on his long association with the famous offspring of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. “I first met Frances Bean when she was 2 years old at a dinner with her mom (Courtney) and Anna Sui in 1994 at Bar Six in NYC. I have always wanted to work with Frances. Her beauty, uniqueness, and strength is something I have long admired and respected. Few things remain as constant as my continued inspiration from those whose honesty, integrity, courage, and curiosity lead them to explore and venture beyond preconceived boundaries. Photographed by @davidsimsofficial, I am pleased to share the first image of Frances Bean Cobain for our Spring/Summer 2017 campaign,” stated Jacobs in the post, which can be seen below. A photo posted by Marc ...

15 Of Kurt Cobain's Most Inspiring Quotes, From Standing Up To Bigotry To Embracing Feminism Photos

... in Aberdeen is amazing! But I had some really good friends that way. I got beat up a lot, of course, because of my association with them. People just thought I was weird at first, just some f-ked-up kid. But once I got the gay tag, it gave me the freedom to be able to be a freak and let people know that they should just stay away from me.". "I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.". ON GOVERMNENT. "The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.". ON MASCULINITY. "I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.". "In a community that stresses macho-male sexual stories as a highlight of all conversation, I was an underdeveloped, immature, little dude that never got laid and was constantly razzed. 'Oh, poor little kid.' It bothered me.". ON ACTIVISM. "My generation's apathy, I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture ...

Imagining A 50-year-old Kurt Cobain

... said Charles R. Cross, who has written three books on the artist including Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain. To Cross, Cobain's key contribution is opening the way for songwriters to tackle a wider emotional range. Nirvana's songs included "Lithium," a frank exploration of Cobain's manic depression, and the searing "Rape Me.". "His impact on songwriting was that he made it okay for songs to be about painful emotions, angst, depression - even something as awful as rape," Cross said. Nirvana was at the forefront of a boom in alternative rock, as mainstream audiences increasingly listened to Seattle grunge bands who also included Pearl Jam and Soundgarden - as well as hard-edged groups from elsewhere in the United States such as Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins. Nirvana's influence can be heard in more recent bands such as ...

What Really Happened To Kurt Cobain? Top Doc Drops A Bombshell About The Late Star

... heroin. What exactly led grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain to suicide nearly 23 years ago. Radar __link__ has learned that is exactly what the new Reelz series, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Kurt Cobain, hopes to answer. As Radar reported, Cobain was just 27 when he was found dead from a gunshot blast in his Seattle home. But as the Reelz special reports, Cobain lived a troubled life, and battled years of addiction. “Kurt initially got into heroin because it seemed to him to be a pain killer,” said Cobain biographer Christopher Sandford. “His whole teenage years, he was looking for various pills and prescriptions  to help get over his bad back, his bad stomach.”. Psychologist Dr. Linda Papadopoulos has heard the “turning to drugs to escape pain” excuse before. “While that is I guess kind of understandable in the short term, it doesn’t negate the fact that it’s still a choice,” she said. “And the excuse of, ‘well I had no choice because I was in pain’ is one that again you hear a lot of addicts using.”. Near the end, Cobain was spending about $700 a day feeding his drug addiction. Autopsy results revealed that ...

Here Are The Five Best Nirvana Rarities

... COMES. A moody song with layered round-style vocals about attempting to make a shithole slightly more bearable in an attempt to impress a visiting girl. A tale as old as time. I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE. This was originally the title of In Utero until a record company suit vetoed it, perhaps realising there’s a limit to how widely an album with that name will be stocked. This surprisingly sunny pop song ended up as a hidden track on the Beavis and Butthead Experience soundtrack, and was slated to appear as the ‘Pennyroyal Tea’ B-side, before this was shelved following Cobain’s suicide. MOIST VAGINA. Another song with a less-than-ideal title for the suits at Geffen. This was the B-side for ‘All Apologies’ and features a chorus where Kurt wails the word ‘marijuana’ over and over. What’s not to love. It’s hard to see why this classic, hooky pop song was left off Nevermind, unless it was simply too catchy to fit comfortably on an album already teeming with pop hits. One of Cobain’s very best songs. A screaming, squawking song that is the polar opposite to its A-side ‘Lithium’. One of Cobain’s more raw ...