Page 138 - Nirvana News Today

♪ i kill you, im not gonna crack ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees. and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. >> i would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood 80s. and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the bi...

>> in that era there was always the speculation kurts not doing well, kurt has drug problems. and nirvana "unplugged" was this kind of thing like, the clouds parted. you know? and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ the whole night through ♪ >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at his home in seattle, washington, today. >> it didnt come as a major surprise, but it was devastating because of the way it happened...

And full of freedom. new red, white & blue pancakes. this months spotlight stack. see you at dennys. ♪ welcome to the week in rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in utero," the much-anticipated third album by nirvana. ♪ rape me ♪ >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvanas new release which includes a song called "rape me." the chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. >> to get into walmart they had to change the title from "rape me" to "wa...

Here, and its got to be real-sounding, more garage, less produced. ♪ ♪ i need an easy friend ♪ >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. ♪ i can see you every night ♪ >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. college rock like r.e.m. was some...

>> the starmaking machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, thats because kurts on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- its been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. its really affected my personal life a lot. >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didnt play the hits. those songs were chosen for...

>> i was 16 when that happened. and if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band fell apart after only making a couple records. you know? what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, the verve, blur, the britpop thing, it was like the hangover of grunge. oh my god, my heads pounding. this has been insane. lets turn on oasis. ♪ and after all ♪ ♪ youre my wonder...

This deal as nirvana, the greatest deal thats ever been struck essentially for the american people and then in a sort of very short period of time say im not going to sign it unless it arrives on my desk with this other separate bill for social spending. initially the white house, their position was nothing changed, you didnt hear what you think you heard kind of thing and then he put out a statement, obviously that wasnt good enough. he basically walked it back completely with this statement th...

Chào các bạn, Cuộc đời của chúng ta luôn làm cho chúng ta cảm thấy lung lay, chao đảo, bất an mỗi ngày. Được 5 phút bình an thì có lẽ có 5 giờ bất an. Cho nên thường là người ta nói đường đời khó khăn, chẳng bao giờ nghe ai nói đường đời…

Something new needs to happen here, and its got to be real-sounding, more garage, less produced. ♪ ♪ i need an easy friend ♪ >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. ♪ i can see you every night ♪ >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. col...

Wow!