Re: Holden Caulfield/Kurt Cobain
Kidneyboy@aol.com
Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:49:59 -0400 (EDT)
<< For all
the hype, Nirvana's music strikes me as something any number of us could
have churned out of own basements if we took the time to do it. >>
Dear readers,
I think the comment pasted above is part of the reason nirvana had
such an impact on the world as they did. the music they produced could have
been produced by every little isolationist teenager out there. it was the
same thing the ramones did back in the seventies. nirvana stripped music
down to its very honest state. they made it accessible to everyone. they
did it with such raw emotion you couldn't listen to them without feeling.
kurt cobain, like black francisis before him, screamed and it still sounded
like a scream and not like a fashion (to paraphrase the death to the pixies
liner notes). it wasn't about being original, it was about making an honest
connection.
as with the connections to holden caulfield, kurt cobains did have a
lot to do with innocence, or the loss thereof. so in that respect there is a
huge corelation between the two. but then again, kurt cobain's songs had a
lot to do with heroin too.
mathew s.