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...salvation but marinate them with eroticism. In one of his songs, rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg imagines confronting a supernatural being in a near-death experience -- but he doesn't make clear whether it's God or the devil. In an MTV Unplugged appearance, Kurt Cobain of the alternative band Nirvana performs a song called Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam. Is he being serious or ironic? His secular cool masks any religious intent...
...much fun to read that I don't much mind: thick heaps of raw information about (largely) noisy records from all over the globe, with bizarre slogans Jenny Holzer would kill to have coined liberally "mixed in" (in the ice-cream sense of the phrase "mixed in"). Nirvana and Sonic Youth were in here early on; the latest issue has the most articulate, most convincing (pro-) "Riot Grrrl" think-piece/manifesto I've seen, plus interviews with Moonshake, Sugar, Tsunami, Nation of Ulysses, Huggy Bear, several unheard-of British bands, and that guy who used to sing for the Pixies...
...turns out that the savants had a lot to learn about retrograde, reprobate rock 'n' roll. Bat II slipped through a crack in the pop zeitgeist to occupy the No. 1 slot on Billboard's album chart, above Nirvana and the other pricey rockers half Meat Loaf's age (46). Somebody in the U.S. must like this stuff, someone who remembers what rock once did -- and still could -- sound and feel like. Three, maybe four chords; an amoral homily twisted into a catchphrase; adolescent yearning and ecstasy so confused that they become harmony...
...turns out that the savants had a lot to learn about retrograde, reprobate ^ rock 'n' roll. Bat II slipped through a crack in the pop Zeitgeist to occupy the No. 1 slot on Billboard's album chart, above Nirvana and the other pricey rockers half Meat Loaf's age (46). Somebody must like this stuff, someone who remembers what rock once did -- and still could -- sound and feel like. Three, maybe four chords; an amoral homily twisted into a catch phrase; adolescent yearning and ecstasy so confused that they become harmony...
This was 1989--before "Twin Peaks," "Northern Exposure" and Nirvana made Seattle hip. In 1989 fellow Harvardians were still asking me if I'd ever seen a polar bear. My friends saw Seattle as either incredibly provinicial or incredibly exotic--about the only thing anyone knew about the city was that it rained all the time...