{"id":795,"date":"2015-10-25T00:19:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T04:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=795"},"modified":"2016-07-06T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T22:51:58","slug":"nirvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/nirvana\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirvana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BIUL_Nirvana.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"796\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/nirvana\/biul_nirvana\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BIUL_Nirvana.jpg?fit=1000%2C819&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,819\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"BIUL_Nirvana\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BIUL_Nirvana.jpg?fit=500%2C410&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-796 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BIUL_Nirvana.jpg?resize=500%2C410\" alt=\"BIUL_Nirvana\" width=\"500\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BIUL_Nirvana.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BIUL_Nirvana.jpg?resize=300%2C246&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m in a generous mood, so I&#8217;ll save you a search. Here is, in my opinion, the most awesome thing Cobain &amp; Co. ever did.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DG8yO8qMRc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve probably listened to that a thousand times. That&#8217;s their best album too, easily*. If you&#8217;re gonna go out, go out on top.<\/p>\n<p>(*This was originally a hidden song on the European release of <em>In Utero<\/em>. Annoyingly, it wasn&#8217;t on its own track, and you had to fast forward or sit through several minutes of silence following &#8220;All Apologies&#8221;. It&#8217;s worth it, plus it was improvised.)<\/p>\n<p>I was working at the mall music store when the news came in that Cobain was dead. I was checking the shipment in from the truck and the driver said &#8220;Hey, you ever heard a&#8217; Kurt Copayne? He done kilt hisself.&#8221; I remember thinking, how the fuck could anyone not know who Kurt Cobain is in 1994?<\/p>\n<p>Then\u00a0<em>Unplugged In New York<\/em> came out, and I\u00a0<em>wished<\/em> I&#8217;d never heard of Kurt Cobain. I had to hear that dour shit all day at the record store, then I&#8217;d pay a therapist to work out why I wanted to wander in front of a train. Do you have any idea what it&#8217;s like to trudge through an eight-hour shift while this asshole wheezes &#8220;Something In The Way&#8221;? It gives you the zest for living usually found in Sylvia Plath poems. And for crying out loud, it&#8217;s an MTV album. The <em>Unplugged<\/em> era was not a pretty one.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a Nirvana song on the <em>No Alternative<\/em> compilation I have, but it&#8217;s hidden, so I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s called. I really only care about the Barbara Manning song on that album anyway. It&#8217;s sad, but as far as I know no one involved killed themselves. I prefer my music to be only <em>so <\/em>depressing.<\/p>\n<p>Since I know you care, here&#8217;s my favorite Foo Fighters song.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aregmo_axaQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a generous mood, so I&#8217;ll save you a search. Here is, in my opinion, the most awesome thing Cobain &amp; Co. ever did.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,8,10],"tags":[38,305,280,47,558,16,56,552,29,28,557,89,554,559,326,14,551,556,20,24,555],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-influences","category-classic-comix","category-idiots-delight","category-nostalgic-obsessions","tag-1990s","tag-305","tag-alternative-music","tag-bands-i-useta-like","tag-barbara-manning","tag-comic","tag-corporate-crap","tag-dave-grohl","tag-depression","tag-despair","tag-foo-fighters","tag-grunge","tag-in-utero","tag-krist-novoselic","tag-kurt-cobain","tag-music","tag-nirvana","tag-no-alternative","tag-strips","tag-suicide","tag-unplugged-in-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s53HmY-nirvana","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6651,"url":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/i-feel-stupid-and-contagious\/","url_meta":{"origin":795,"position":0},"title":"I Feel Stupid And Contagious","author":"MattyBoy","date":"07\/02\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"It might be the weed, but this morning I was struck by the revelation that not only do I know every single word of a song I've utterly despised for over thirty years, but I think I don't utterly despise it anymore. 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