Johnny rotten y kurt cobain biography
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The History Of Punk – Start Here
Music can be beautiful, music can be throw away.. the stuff we sing in showers. It can be dancey and be so positive. I like all that but, like a lot of others, I’m drawn to the negative possibilities of rock’n’roll. I’m drawn to the nihilism and iconoclasm of music. Big words but what do they mean? Iconoclasm is the desire to smash all that’s gone before and kill your idols and nihilism is the rejection of current moral and established beliefs without offering or seeking solutions to change them.
It’s the domain of the young who hope to die before they get old. In short, it’s saying ‘f**k you!’ which we have all done at some time. As we look down the last 50 years all the good bands have embraced nihilism and still do. It links the Who to the Sex Pistols to Nirvana. From My Generation to Pretty Vacant to Smells Like Teen Spirit to ‘the current punky band’ the leap ain’t that great. And why should they offer solutions? The world will never change from a song. As Johnny Rotten once sang …”Anger is an energy”… All these great songs by these bands have been simple, direct and infused with for want of a better phrase ‘teen spirit
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Better to Burn Out: Neil Young’s 'Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)'
When Kurt Cobain took his life 30 years ago this past April, one line revealed from his suicide note was the unattributed adage, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” Neil Young’s name was not mentioned, but everyone knew the line’s source. As a tragic misinterpretation, it hit hard, especially Young himself. “When he died and left that note, it struck a deep chord inside of me,” Young writes in his memoir, Waging Heavy Peace (2012). He went on to record Sleeps with Angels (1994), released only a handful of months later, as a tribute to Cobain.
Neil Young was ordained the godfather of grunge during the early 1990s, though the origins of this reputation go back to the 1970s when he recorded Rust Never Sleeps (1979) with Crazy Horse. On that raucous and notoriously loud LP, Young asserted his alignment with the emergent punk rock scene through the anthem “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black),” which name-checked Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) of the Sex Pistols. He also declared in passing how it’s better to burn out than to fade away. Interpreted at the time as a critique of his aging musical generation, it was primarily directed at himself. Punk had
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KURT COBAIN: When rock becomes religion, speciality gods barren rendered mortal.
by River Aaron (SPIN, December 1994)
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