Word: cobain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potent, political rap number called Famine: "I see the Irish/ As a race like a child/ that got bashed in the face." In addition to these harsh tracks, however, Universal Mother does have many gentle moments, including a delicate acoustic version of the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain's composition All Apologies...
...most haunting track is Let Me In, which harks back to Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the grunge trio Nirvana who committed suicide in April. Over a bare, raging, echoing guitar Stipe sings, "I had a mind to try and stop you/ Let me in/ Let me in." The members of R.E.M., who are all in their 30s, were friends and mentors to the 27-year-old Cobain. "I spoke to ((Cobain)) on the telephone a lot the week and a half before he disappeared," says Stipe. "We wanted to collaborate. I thought it was something that could have...
...pundits and alternative-music ideologues were predicting Woodstock '94 would be a corporatized simulacrum of the original festival. A '60s myth would be used to sucker the 16- to 30-year-old demographic. Woodstock '94 was seen as the ultimate musical sellout, the sort of thing that made Kurt Cobain leave this world riding on a shotgun blast. MTV, which televised some of the festival and launched a home-shopping show during it, ran an ad for its coverage with the slogan, "All you have to do to change the world is change the channel...
...creating some of the most interesting music around. Frente!'s debut, Marvin the Album, offers up incongruously ear-caressing melodies on harsh subjects ranging from El Salvador to manic depression. Hole's Live Through This features primal guitar riffs and high-IQ lyrics by Courtney Love (rocker Kurt Cobain's widow). Arrested Development's brand-new CD, Zingalamaduni, is smart, political hip-hop (one song deals with abortion). Says lead rapper Speech: "It's important to get men and women expressing themselves about issues together." Steve Yegelwel of Atlantic/Seed Records, a label with several coed bands, says the phenomenon...
...message of The Downward Spiral is ultimately uplifting. "I think the very act of wanting to discover and uncover unpleasantries is itself positive," he says. "The act of trying to rid yourself of these demons, to prepare yourself for the worst, is a positive thing." If only Kurt Cobain, who purveyed a similarly despairing view of the world, had looked at things that...