Word: cobain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragic ironies of our celebrity age that our puffing-up of the famous in their lifetime is surpassed only by media frenzy that follows their death. While those celebrities who die young--Diana, JFK, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain--remain forever young and full of promise in the public imagination, tragically, they have already left the stage when the applause for them is loudest and the spotlight brightest...
...Grunge-rock singer Kurt Cobain commits suicide...
Black Grape fills the album with a premeditated bounciness. Backed by a sharp electric guitar scale, Shawn Ryder enunciates "Dinnuh's in the cellar, I can smell 'er" with an almost Kurt Cobain-ish seriousness, then shifts into the light-hearted teenage chorus "I wanna get cheeky with ya, I wanna get squeakly inside ya--lying through your teeth for a week!" on "Squeaky." If you come to Stupid, Stupid, Stupid with certain antigravity expectations, these lyrics will make you jealous. Distancing themselves from their subject matter through sarcasm, Black Grape come over to the audience, throwing a post-rock...
Sundance, Slamdance, Slamdunk (FBR) -- A documentary about Kurt Cobain got pulled from Sundance over questions about music rights. But an alternative film festival, called Slamdunk, put itself on the movie map by showing the flick anyway at a wild late-night screening...
...that nostalgia for the music of desperation that eased their hormone-riddled inductions into adulthood. Dinosaur Jr., for their part, have matured as well, diversifying their musical efforts while keeping their guitar-emphasis rock just far enough out of the mainstream to remain interesting. Although their audience's "Kurt Cobain is alive" T-shirts now read "Save BU football" instead, the bodies themselves are the same--and their enthusiasm for the music of their tortured adolescence probably won't allow grunge to take its last dying breath just...