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Date Posted: 18:16:11 05/26/02 Sun
I'll get things started with this: What's you favorite Nirvana song and album? (they don't have to be the same)
My favorite Nirvana song is Lithium, which completely sums up Kurt's writing and ability to create infectious hooks.
All music guide writes the following about Lithium: "For all the sound and fury of Nirvana's epochal album, Nevermind, it's significant that the album's best and most affecting song is also among the quietest. "Lithium" is an emotionally devastating tale of a blissfully blank member of some nameless religious cult, where "Sunday morning is everyday," and he's allowed an unquestioning faith to whitewash his fears, anxieties, and brutally negative self-image, without ever really clearing them away. Kurt Cobain is the very picture of measured calm in the song's verses, where his low, open guitar lines sketch in the outlines of the song's melody. But when the song comes to its chorus, Cobain hits the distortion pedal on his Marshall, and the rage and denial he's been bottling up inside himself pours out, as his many agonies — "I love you," "I miss you," "I killed you" — are punctuated with the determined wail that "I'm not gonna cry." The liberating force of Nirvana's inspired anger was rarely more powerful than in the service of this song, about someone who refused to liberate themselves and paid a terrible emotional price."
Love Buzz is my favorite cover song. It's a shame that song hasn't gotten more attention. I know it was in a Drew Barrymore soundtrack a few years ago but otherwise it is mostly unknown to the average music fan.
My favorite album is kind of different. I love Nevermind In Utero and Insecticide but Bleach is my favorite because of School, Love Buzz, About a Girl, Floyd the Barber, and the rough sound they were just starting to work out.
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