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...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...
...Kurt Cobain is gone, but nobody is forgetting him. Cobain posthumously won his only Grammy last week, when Nirvana's last album, MTV Unplugged in New York, won for Best Alternative Music. Covers of Cobain's songs by other artists are also beginning to surface. The latest: a recording of All Apologies by jazz great Herbie Hancock...
...music scene of Chicago, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was everywhere. "Over Me," "Breathe" and "Clear World" all possess obsessive, driving guitarwork by Lane which is reminiscent of Nevermind. Hearing the drawn out and angst-ridden vocals, particularly those of "Clear World," one cannot help but think of Kurt Cobain. Overtones of Soundgarden also linger over a number of the tracks...
According to Esquire magazine, Courtney Love has been crisscrossing the country seeking a resting place for husband Kurt Cobain's ashes. This summer she left two handfuls at a Buddhist monastery in Ithaca, New York, where monks performed consecration rituals on them. However, she seems to have forgotten to pick them up. The monks have delivered them to an undisclosed location. Says a monastery official: "We're not a cemetery. We're no Graceland." Well, actually, neither is Graceland. Here is where other famous rockers have permanent residence...
...angst-drenched songs of Nirvana and Pearl Jam are generational anthems for the under-30 set. But how true is it, considering that more 25-year-olds can probably recite the lyrics to the theme songs from Green Acres or Gilligan's Island than they can to, say, Kurt Cobain's Rape Me? Upbeat TV tunes are the hymns of the young in part because of good memory, in part because of Nick at Night, and very occasionally because of a sound-track album. From Henry Mancini's jazzy music for Peter Gunn through LPs for such '60s hits...