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theditchlillies · 2 years

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Kurt Cobain // Nirvana // 1992

" Kurt, who probably really is 24, is very cute, with incredibly blue eyes which are set off nicely by his pink streaked hair. He's wearing disintigrating jeans and a cardigan over an ancient Flipper (the band, not the TV show) t-shirt. His black sneakers have holes in them. "He's got the number-one record," says Courtney, in her scratchy voice, "and he only has one pair of shoes."

From Kurt and Courtney Sitting in a Tree // Sassy Magazine // by Christina Kelly

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nitronine · 1 year

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#dude was stoned out of his mind in this interview lol #sorry for nirvana posting... again #nirvana #dave grohl #kurt cobain #krist novoselic

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cobainqueer · 7 days

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List of Posts about Kurt Cobain

(Kurdt Kobane) by @cobainqueer

Last Update 27 April 2024

Topics: Personal Life; Sexuality, Gender & Expression; Journals, Lyrics, & Assorted Writings; Artwork; Music; Concerts; and more.

Sexuality, Gender & Expression:

Anyone else get the vibe that Kurt Cobain was polyamorous? (Thread with text and photos)

“I want a dress.”- K.C. (Video post)

“I personally like to wear dresses around the house sometimes.” - K.C. (Video post)

Journals, Lyrics, & Assorted Writings

From Cobain’s Journal: A List - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

Just Before I Fall Asleep (semihypnotic state of conciousness) - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

I’ve lost my MIND many times, and my wallet many more. - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

Lyrics

Opinion: Home Demo & Journal Lyrics (previously unreleased home demo audio leaked to YT, & Cobain’s original lyrics from their journal)

Sappy (Cobain’s lyrics from their journals, music video, and song analysis video)

Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle - Nirvana (Lyrics & Music Video)

Art

In Utero Mixed Media Art - Kurt Cobain

“the male seahorse carries the children and gives them Birth.” - Kurt Cobain, Journals (image & text post)

REVEALED: Kurt Cobain’s Original Artwork | Source: KidsOfDada (article & photos)

Music

In Bloom - All in Dresses (music video)

You Know You’re Right (official music video)

Concerts

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (1991) at TOtP (video of Kurt fucking around singing Smells Like Teen Spirit and essentially blowing a mic)

Further Reading

Books

Journals — Kurt Cobain (2002, & 2003)

Here We Are Now — Charles R. Cross (2014)

The Pleasures of Death: Kurt Cobain’s Masochistic and Melancholic Persona — Arthur Flannigan Saint-Aubin (2020)

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distantsonata · 1 year

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#nirvana #kurt cobain #Krist Novoselic #1992 #gifs #my gifs #kurt cobain gif #interview #old footage #vhs #flickering

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x--daughters-of-darkness--x · 1 month

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"I was crying, watching in total disbelief. Nirvana were my favourite thing in the world." Evanescence's Amy Lee reveals the moment she found out Kurt Cobain had died

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee was a Nirvana megafan and heartbroken by the news that Cobain had taken his own life

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee has opened up on the moment she found out that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had taken his own life in April of 1994. The singer and lifelong Nirvana fan, who was just 12 years old at the time of Cobain's death, was watching TV at home when the tragic news began to break across various networks.

"I remember it was a school day," she tells The Telegraph. "A normal, sunny day, kids running around the house, when it came on the news. I felt it so hard, I was crying, watching in total disbelief. In Utero was the first album I ever had and Nirvana were my favourite thing in the whole world. So it was like I had just fallen in love - and he was dead. It was so shocking to me, but it made me dive deeper into the music and start listening to the lyrics [as written] from the perspective of somebody who was crying out in pain."

Kurt Cobain's death at the age of 27 shocked the music world. His Nirvana bandmate and eventual Foo Fighters founder and frontman Dave Grohl would later describe the devastating impact Cobain's passing had on him, telling BBC Radio 4: "After Kurt died, I really couldn’t even turn on the radio, and I put the instruments away – even hearing music hurt, And it was that way for a few months."

Amy Lee, meanwhile, was only just beginning her journey into the music industry; a few months following Cobain's death, Lee would meet guitarist Ben Moody, and the two would start Evanescence together. Nirvana, and their 1993 album In Utero in particular, would remain hugely inspirational to Lee and her work. In 2011, she told Metal Hammer that the album's iconic cover, depicting a transparent, anatomical angel manikin, is amongst her favourites. “I really love the In Utero artwork," she explained. "The anatomy of that weird but beautiful angel; dirty, internal and raw. It’s very striking, and I love the record, too – that album was big in my life.”

#amy lee #evanescence #2024 interviews #nirvana #kurt cobain

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forfoxessake · 4 months

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Some quotes from one of Gerard’s last interviews before the tour.

There’s something in them that helps me understand the outfits and how free he felt back on stage.

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#Gerard way #kurt cobain #my chemical romance #mcr #my chem #nirvana #interview #gq magazine #whatever happened to the guitar design

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boricuacherry-blog · 1 year

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I'm very much a California girl. I grew up in Long Beach, then moved to San Pedro, which was very multicultural. And my stepfather was Thai and Hawaiian. I do have a musical family, my [biological] dad was in a barbershop quartet and my mom had a lovely voice, which I of course didn't inherit. I was really athletic - I played handball in school and beat all the boys twice before the bell rang - and I had a lot of anger I needed to get out, so I figured I would play the drums. I wound up playing in bands within three weeks of starting to play. Thankfully my family was encouraging. I always wanted to be an artist. There was this gallery near our house and they use to offer oil painting lessons. And I was really into that. That was really my jam.

When I heard punk rock, it had a really big impact on me. I was like, Woah, you can do that? In high school, these girls invited me to go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pink Flamingos. Then you start meeting other people, you know, the guys from Red Cross, and The Stingers [a Longbeach band], because they were also seeing the movies. There was a definite crossover with, you know, punk rock and John Waters movies.

Some of the bands I really liked going to see in Hollywood were like, The Weirdos, and X. I really loved X so much. I copied Exene's hair, with just the bangs and kind of like the egg running down your head of different colors, as if you just cracked an egg of colors down your hair. I also liked The Alleycats - God there were so many bands at that time - Nervous Gender - The Bags. I also listened to a lot of Neil Young and Nick Cave and the bad seeds.

I played in a punk band that was like an art punk band. One of my first bands was called Sexually Frustrated. The two girls that were in it were little people [midgets] and you know, I'm like six foot tall. So it was like a visual thing on top of what we were doing. I was also in a band called IUD with the same two women. We were playing with The Omelettes at Camarillo State Hospital. You know, it was very arty, and there were like saxophones.

I met Courtney [Love] through a friend and she wanted me to be the drummer in a band she was starting. Courtney really wanted to make good songs. I don't think I'd ever played in bands where the words were really revealing anything of yourself - the emotional part of being a woman. I really responded to her lyrics. It's like Courtney was speaking for me in a way I couldn't for myself. The words really tapped into something. Pretty On the Inside really spoke to me - all the horrible stuff in my childhood, the dynamics in my family and with other people - that song just really, really spoke to me. I think I wrote a lot of my drum parts to accent what she was saying in the songs. I would, like, ride the cymbal, but make it sizzle - like Rat Scabies from The Damned, he would do that alot. I'm a very emotional drummer. I'm not the timekeeper metronome type of drummer.

When Jill [Emery] joined, that was when Lisa Roberts had left. Courtney let her go because she was threatening the owner of a club with a screwdriver when they didn't pay us. It turned out the owner was the wife of Eddie Nash, the infamous gangster, so Courtney was like, "No she has to go." And Courtney had already been in acting, so she knew all the Hollywood rigmarole.

I wasn't as into Pearl Jam - I was more into Mudhoney. I really liked the garage rock and Iggy Pop - kind of that Detroit thing.

Babydoll [from Pretty on the Inside] was about Madonna. Courtney saw her driving a Mercedes and didn't like it. Courtney worshipped Madonna though. I think that was her playbook. She wanted to be the rock version of Madonna.

I guess it could be said that grunge owes a lot of its existence to Reagan. We were deep in Reagan's America at the time, with the hypocritical values at the time.

Around the time Courtney got pregnant, I was also pregnant, but didn't realize it at the time. I'd had the flu for weeks, and Eric [Erlandson] goes, "Maybe you're pregnant." And it turns out I was. And unfortunately, my relationship at the time was breaking apart because I was always gone [on tour with Hole]. I got a voice-mail on my answering machine that I was being let go from the band, and this was after Eric had already given me money for an abortion. Courtney was telling me we were gonna be playing with Sonic Youth in November in Japan, so she didn't think me being pregnant was going to be good with me playing drums. So I thought, OK, as part of my career move, I'm going to have the abortion. And then she just kicked me out anyway.

I was actually kicked out three times, which a lot of people don't know. Courtney chastised me in the middle of a show because she thought I wasn't playing fast enough. I felt she was publicly humiliating me, so I threw a drumstick at her head. She was mad and kicked me out. Then it was like, OK you can come back if you just do Slimfast and cigarettes and then play drums everyday and do drum lessons. She really liked how I played, but she wanted me to play perfectly, like a Dave Grohl. So I would just comply - I lost weight, etc.

There were a lot worse experiences I had with Courtney, like her telling me, 'I made you,' and stuff like that, like saying I needed to do whatever she wanted at any given moment because 'I didn't even belong here.' So it feeds on your insecurities. That's what manipulative people do. It just got more and more tense that way.

And I mean at first she would, like, spend the night and we would pig out on Entenmann's and watch like weird videos, and have fun like that, but you know, now I realize what she was doing - she was trying to learn all my Achilles heels. And then she would just press on those things when she wanted me to do something.

Courtney was really smart. She was a speed reader - I mean she went to Montessori school - so she's a fascinating person.

Kurt's funeral was intense. There were about 50 people, not a lot of people there. It was Kurt's family, the Sub Pop family, and just all the people he knew. I was around Kurt, but I didn't really know him. We had very few private moments and unfortunately we did not get to be friends. I went to his apartment one time and he was in his pajamas and I sat on their bed. And he was excited to tell me he had a dream about me. He goes, 'We were in Aberdeen and we were riding bikes in my neighborhood,' and I was asking questions and he was telling me about it. And Courtney was standing in the hallway, very Bette Davis, smoking a cigarette, and she goes, 'Well he needs some female friends, but not you, your tits are too big.' And I was engaged to be married, so I don't think she thought I was flirting with him. And then he just looked at his feet, really ashamed. And I left shortly after that. But I'm proud of what we created.

-Caroline Rue, original drummer for Hole

#caroline rue #interview #hole #courtney love #pretty on the inside #carolyn rue #kurt cobain

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chaosmenu · 3 months

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why has nardwuar interviewed literally every single person under the sun

#op #about the interview with kurt cobain & when he asked the canadian prime minister about the use of pepper spray against protestors

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mariki33 · 23 days

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#interview #nirvana #kurt cobain #Youtube

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rhapsodynew · 1 month

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interview with Kurt Cobain.

(Journalist) – Did your parents get divorced when you were little?

(Kurt) – Yes, I was 7.

(Journalist) – Do you remember anything from that time?

(Kurt) - I remember, for some reason I was ashamed. I'm ashamed of my parents. I couldn't look my school friends in the eye anymore, I desperately wanted to have a classic, typical family. Mom and Dad. I wanted security, so I despised my parents for a while.

#kurt cobain #interview magazine #music #spotify #my music #musica #my spotify #music love #rock #history music #rock music #grunge #alternative rock

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absolutelybatty · 1 year

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I miss him (about a celebrity that died before I was born)

#watching interviews with kurt cobain and being sooooo normal about it #batty speaks #kurt cobain

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theditchlillies · 2 years

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Kurt Cobain // Nirvana // October 1993

By Mark Seliger // for Rolling Stone

" The image was intended to be surreal – more of a still life than a portrait – but Kurt got it... There was such intensity in his eyes and beauty in his face – even with the wear and tear of the road and the physical pain he had gone through. "

Interviewed by Edward Siddons for The Guardian

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mack-anthology-mp3 · 8 months

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yes so i found a gif of kurt cobain jumping into the drumkit at the end of their reading 1992 set just letting you all know this exists

#he just look this flying leap #crowd cheers #he has his arm in a sling afterwards there's an interview #hehe i love this #this is also the tony the interperative dancer concert i'm pretty sure #nirvana #kurt cobain #gif

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eye-of-the-purricane · 1 year

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Dave Grohl : Kurt said "We want to be the biggest band in the world" Nirvana #shorts

#nirvana #dave grohl #kurt cobain #video #shorts #music #interview #april 5 #Youtube

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tariah23 · 1 year

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Half a months rent for a Beyonce ticket…

#girl bye #my sis is complaining about it rn her ass don’t care #crazy to me #rambling #was thinking about that old interview of Kurt cobain being flabbergasted at hearing how much Madonna sold her tickets for like in a 🫤? way #like do you want your fans to support you at your concerts or what

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sugaredge · 2 years

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“I really reverted into myself and really became obsessed with horror movies and comic books and drawing,” she explains. “I defaced my room, all the walls and doors and ceiling. I defaced it.

“That was kind of me attempting to take back a sense of self, by creating my own environment I could go into every day and feel as though I was like in my own world, because oftentimes for me fantasy has felt more like reality. Escaping into my own head space has been more comforting than having to deal with my reality at times.”

“The most gratifying thing about making that post was getting messages from people not only saying they understood and related to what I was going through, or they themselves were dealing with it,” she says, “but the most powerful thing was people telling me that via that post and via me expressing that and having the capacity to share that with the world, that that had encouraged them to face their own addiction issues.

“That is super. I don’t think there’s anything more powerful than that, somebody saying, ‘you helped me reclaim my life’,” she adds. “It’s an amazing superpower.

“It’s given me a sense of empathy and compassion that I would never have had any other way, and it’s one thing to observe that kind of behaviour but it’s another thing to live a similar kind of behaviour because you have a different kind of understanding of what it is that informed other people’s behaviour.

“It’s given me connectivity to people in my life that I didn’t think I would connect to again. It’s given me a sense of empathy I didn’t know I had.”

That sense of empathy, apparently, is what’s lead her to the somewhat morbid practice of referring back to the words ‘peace, love, empathy’, which appeared in Kurt Cobain’s highly-publicised suicide note. Frances claims she uses the words “often, because I want to reclaim the peace, love, empathy thing as something that’s meant for health and for compassion and for true peace, love, and empathy.

“Yeah, the association comes from a super dark place,” she admits. “Referencing that is kind of screwed up but at the same time taking the power back is my way of dealing with it.”

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#frances bean cobain #frances cobain #frances bean #fbc #alka_seltzer666 #thespacewitch #spacewitch666 #interview #2018 #kurt cobain

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