Word: nirvana
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...aren't taken with Modi because he is promising them lower taxes or better schools or more hospitals. Instead, Modi is appealing to a deeper core, calling on his supporters to ignite a fanatical faith in themselves and in the man they believe can lead them to national nirvana. As he surveys the hundreds jostling for one glimpse of him, one brush of his neat beard, even Modi is impressed. "Look at these people," he remarks to a reporter. "They all want to touch me, hold me. It's more than anything I could have dreamed...
Dave Grohl is on a roll: not only has he been drumming with the Queens of the Stone Age and finally released the final Nirvana album, he is fronting one of the most reliable and melodic rock bands known to man. Though album opener and lead single “All My Life” is clearly informed by grunge’s grimy sense of grievance, Grohl’s voice is distinctly smoother than Cobain’s, at least until he looses his trademark, teeth-baring howl. One By One is a rock album far more than...
...song is the main attraction of the new album, Nirvana. Other than “You Know You’re Right,” Nirvana’s last entry into the music shelves is little more than a greatest hits compilation. But it is a greatest hits compliation that the people who made Nirvana fought hard over. Determing how to represent the band’s closing chapter was no easy task for former band members and the ever-inflammatory Courtney Love, Cobain’s widow. These songs were chosen with deliberate thought for Nirvana?...
...people still listen to Nirvana on the regular basis they once did back in grunge’s apogee. With this new release, Nirvana enters the playlist on radios and CD players, reminding us of the seductive power of the gloomy, angry, angsty Seattle heyday. There’s a reason grunge and Nirvana became huge—they were a highly talented rock band and this album makes sure we don’t forget the band’s contribution to music...
...release is bittersweet. This is the selling of Nirvana. There’s nothing left—this is all the band has to offer. Cobain, the self-hating rock star, is trading on his tortured image to cash in on his one last hit, even if it is after his death...