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...problem, except that the music industry (The Establishment ! Aaaarrrgh!) has discovered the "alternative" market and the edges are starting to blur. Nirvana, an alternative band (we thought), has a number one album on the Billboard charts. Record companies have whole divisions devoted to the "alternative" sound. If there was ever a time of a truly "underground" alternative scene, it's long over...
...begins with a typical slow grind that every listener knows will in seconds explode into Ice-T's raging vocals (you'll be surprised by his easy cross-over from rap into rock) spewing verbal bile about racism and segregation. For the Top-40 jokers who think that a Nirvana mosh is top quality, I fear for their survival in a club crowd energized by "there Goes the Neighborhood...
...into my inner conscience. In the middle of the page was a computer-drawn picture of Buddha, floating in an utterly tranquil, vaguely Eastern-looking landscape. My soul fluttered with excitement as I gazed at the sketchily rendered mountains, caves and lakes swimming around the serenely smiling Buddha. "Enlightenment...nirvana...soul mates ...concentration and meditation," the ad guaranteed. I was sure that here, in these totally "FREE" Boston Meditation Society sessions, was the remedy to my malaise...
After all, why must we always be gloomy cynics and listen only to the ultracool and virtually incomprehensible social commentary of Nirvana...
More than any other group, it is Nirvana that typifies the new Seattle heat. "I feel stupid and contagious/ Here we are now, entertain us," is one of Teen Spirit's more memorable lyric refrains, fully characteristic of the band's spiky style. The core members of Nirvana, lead singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Chris Novoselic, teened together in Aberdeen, Wash., and teamed up to form Nirvana in 1987 (drummer David Grohl signed on later). Both were fans of the brooding postpunk musical musings of Husker Du, as well as of the shameless theatricality of Kiss. Nirvana's first...