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In Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses, R. Gary Patterson compared the song to John Lennon 's "Yer Blues" as "an attempt to explain [Cobain's] introspection". [18] In 2015, Rolling Stone put the song at number 44 on a ranked list of 102 Nirvana songs, calling it "a lurching piece of infectious sludge-pop." [9]
Nirvana was an American grunge band formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987, with drummer Dave Grohl joining the band in 1990. The band recorded three studio albums ; Bleach , Nevermind and In Utero , with other songs available on live albums , compilations , extended plays (EPs ...
The move was widely considered to be one of the worst marketing decisions of all time, and yet come December, Songs of Innocence made it onto several critics’ best of end-of-year rankings, with ...
[33] Marsh, trying to decipher the lyrics, felt after reading the correct lyrics from the song's sheet music that "what I imagined was quite a bit better (at least, more gratifying) than what Nirvana actually sang", and added, "Worst of all, I'm not sure that I know more about [the meaning of] 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' now than before I plunked ...
PLAYBACK: The Seattle grunge band performed on MTV Unplugged in a funereal setting of lit candles and white lilies. Mark Beaumont chronicles the troubled days leading up to the show, during which ...
In its "50 Worst Songs Ever", Blender said that "it's difficult to think of a song more likely to plunge you into suicidal despondency than this" and lambasted its "appalling" lyrics. [94] "Kokomo", the Beach Boys (1988) "Kokomo" appeared on Blender ' s list of the 50 worst songs [98] and Dallas Observer ' s list of the ten worst songs by great ...
A similar phenomenon occurs when a band skillfully covers another artist; ultimately, it comes down to fabricating the illusion that the song was […] Nirvana’s 10 Best Cover Songs Skip to main ...
However, the song's bridge was written several months later, and does contain lyrics that reference the struggles Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love, faced with the media following Nirvana's mainstream success. [2] The song's title and lyrics led to MTV blocking Nirvana from performing it at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, [3] before it had ...