Word: cobain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jakob and a host of might-have-beens. The group's final album, titled simply and aptly Sublime (MCA), was released last week and might have been the band's ticket to becoming the hottest new act in the music industry. Nowell might have been to ska what Kurt Cobain was to grunge--a big, blazing talent who introduces the mainstream to a new musical world. Nowell, however, played the Cobain role a bit too well, and Sublime, like Nirvana, will be best remembered as a band with history-making potential that perished before reaching its full potential...
...transform messy lots into restaurants and theaters, creating endless opportunities for just about any kind of business as the population of the city keeps growing and growing. As a result, Seattle sports rough edges, and the Emerald City has become a fascinating study in contrast--a place where Kurt Cobain and the Seattle Symphony share an audience and recent college graduates always find a job, despite the fact that Washington is one of the nation's poorer states...
Other literary celebrities, like WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (Naked Lunch), are devoted to rock. He masterminded The "Priest" They Called Him, a spoken-word album with music by KURT COBAIN...
...Dolores O'Riordan howls and the guitars rage. Yet O'Riordan remains a terrific crafter of melodies, and a prettiness sparkles beneath the surface of her most raucous songs. The one problem is that the lyrics are sometimes a bit daft: I'm Still Remembering pays tribute to Kurt Cobain in one couplet and, in a loopy segue, lauds John F. Kennedy in the next. Perhaps O'Riordan should watch more C-SPAN...
...something fresh and different, in large part because it didn't try to come across as anything fresh or different. Modern rock needed some new life, figuratively and literally--Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder's misunderstood-misanthrope act got tired about five seconds after Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's suicidally depressive lyrics turned out to be all too genuine. Hootie was embraced as an alternative to alternative, a straight-ahead zig to the posturing zag of the rest of contemporary rock, and Cracked Rear View, with its brawny, melodic, heartfelt songs, went on to become the second best...