Word: nirvanas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Offspring is a best-selling punk band, but it isn't a great one: the group lacks the caustic poetry of Nirvana, the righteous snarl of Rancid and the amiable snottiness of Green Day. In its new album the Offspring attempts to make a virtue of its creative limitations: the songs on Americana are basic and direct, and a few of the tracks, including The Kids Aren't Alright, have a brutal appeal. But the band's weakness for cheap laughs soon grows tiresome--there's even a punk-rock parody of the easily mocked standard Feelings. For a group...
...this because he says his job could be done by anyone with the proper knowledge of equipment; he's a professional and not an artist in this capacity. Steve engineered albums for many bands, some of which were quite successful. And then, in 1993, Steve engineered In Utero for Nirvana. (This despite calling Nirvana a "wannabe Led Zeppelin" in 1991.) Steve became very popular and went on to engineer albums by people like Bush and JimmyPage & Robert Plant. He also engineers albums forpopular bands like the Breeders and PJ Harvey andless well-known bands like the Jesus Lizard andMan...
...which an invisible endpoint was sought--heartening but exhausting, like Harvey's songs? And what if we repunctuate: "Is this desire enough? Enough?" Here, Harvey's passion, evidenced in the album's whoops and tremblings, is no longer in question, but is it a reliable means of attaining whatever nirvana she was pursuing...
Lasers: cool. Music and lasers: cooler. Head to the Museum of Science and check out Laser Nirvana, featuring "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Lithium," "Come As You Are," "Plateau" and more. Then stay for the next show, Laser Metallica, and experience such tunes as "Enter Sandman," "One" and "Master of Puppets" as you never have before. Nirvana, 8 p.m.; Metallica, 9:15 p.m., Museum of Science, Science Park, Boston...
...stars, heaven. "I'm a cancer," Love explains. "I recycle." Death is on her mind. A number of songs mourn the failing spirit of alternative rock. She sings, "Oh the boys on the radio/ They crash and burn." Other songs are haunted by the 1994 suicide of her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Love sings on Reasons to Be Beautiful, "When the fire goes out, you better learn to fake...