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PUBLISHING NIRVANA: Daily Variety reports that Riverhead, a division of Penguin Putnam, has bought the rights to publish the notebooks of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain for close to $4 million. Publishers got a sneak peak at the journals last week, and insiders who have read excerpts from Cobain?s 23 notebooks (about 800 pages written over several years), tell TIME the early buzz is warranted...
Publishers got a sneak peak last week at the journals of former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, placed up for auction by his widow, Courtney Love, and widely expected to become a best-seller. Publishing insiders who have read excerpts from Cobain's 23 notebooks, about 800 pages written over several years, tell TIME the early buzz is warranted. The diaries include a handwritten draft of lyrics to Cobain's generation-defining single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," with verses crossed out and circled. Cobain obsessively lists his 50 favorite CDs during various periods, often naming albums by fellow Seattleites the Melvins...
...Frontman Robert Nanna has a strong and plaintive, if somewhat unremarkable voice. The lyrics are mostly indistinct—which is not a huge loss to humanity—and wander mostly over onto the wrong side of the personal self-revelatory/Dadaist random incoherency divide. Nothing resembles a narrative, and characters underpin most of the songs. A fairly random sampling, from “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday” yields: “Out of the darkness / Sings a signal to our sleep / APB for every dream / Dead within the week / Hooray...
It’s been a decade since Rob Halford left 80s metal icons Judas Priest amidst controversy over his sexual orientation—his bandmates were not comfortable with the idea of a homosexual frontman. So, they picked up Jack “Ripper” Owens, lead vocalist for Priest’s most prominent cover band and tried to recreate the magic—they have yet to fully succeed...
...than any previous New Order creation. The first three tracks, “Crystal,” “60 Miles an Hour” (the second single) and “Turn My Way” with guest vocals by New Order admirer (and former Smashing Pumpkins frontman) Billy Corgan are forthright rock songs with snarling basslines from Hook, quixotic and affected lyrics from Sumner and even a guitar solo thrown in. Of course the synthesizers and synthetic drum beats haven’t been abandoned, but they aren’t the album’s showpiece...