[karkus30]

Im facinated with everything Nirvana, so after reading Heavier than Heaven (biography by Charles Cross), just had to be totally voyeuristic and read the journals.

Its been beautifully printed, every mark and scribble is legible.

Its a very strange read (as you would probably expect)., a truly tortured soul and misfit poet, living in a world of pain and self dillusion, with flashes of inspiration. You can see the songs get beaten into shape in stages and realise that the lyrics were never meant to make sense, they are only art and create an emotion in the music.

At one point he sudenly gets interested in building his own guitars and re engineering the studio, with bits of plywood and carpet. He was obsessed with lists (he would probably have been very happy in this forum, making lists of his favourite bands, over and over again.

You cant help feeling sorry for him,but his continual fight with authority and paranoia over the corporate giants ruling society was at odds with his new found fame and fortune in the bosom of the same corporate bodies.

Kurt Cobain, madman and genius.

Originally posted by karkus30
He was obsessed with lists (he would probably have been very happy in this forum, making lists of his favourite bands, over and over again.

So who were his favourite bands then?

[karkus30]

I feel a list coming on.................heeeelllppp meeeeeeee

[karkus30]

you asked for it

stooges raw power
beatles-something new
leadbelly-last sessions
scratch acid-ist ep
butthole sufers-ist ep
vaselines-1st ep
fang-land shark
smithereens-especially for you
tales of terror-self titled
pixies-surfa rosa im in agreement there
mudhoney-superfuzz big muff
flipper-generic flipper
black flag-my war
sabbath-masters of reality
credence cleawater-bayou
blue cheer-vincelons eruptum
the knack-get the knack
saccharin trust-ist ep
roy orbison-greatest hits
gang of four-entertainment
wipers-is this real
shocking blue-shocking blue
bad brains-rock for light
beat happenings-jamboree
aerosmith-rocks
shonen knife-burning farm?
young marble giants-ym
velvet underground-white light white heat oh yes
sex pistols-nevernind the ********--definitely


later on he changes a few and adds the melvins

He had crap taste

[karkus30]

and bad hair

and he wore cardies

[karkus30]

and sneakers (whatever they are ). A choclate bar for your feet