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Posts Tagged Kurt Cobain

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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Tribute

nearly ended up in a Nirvana covers band, dodged a bullet
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Covers Band, dodged a bullet, Kurt Cobain, nearly ended up in a Nirvana covers band, Nirvana, Poem, Poem: Tribute, Tribute ·

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January 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Plugging Back In To Nirvana: Revisiting MTV Unplugged In New York

So I just watched Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York on DVD. This is a classic concert – an important concert to me. I’m not sure how great it is as I have a rather biased view towards Nirvana. I’m not their biggest fan. I think Kurt Cobain was often a bit of a twit. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bleach, Dave Grohl, DVD, In Utero, Incesticide, Kurt, Kurt Cobain, Meat Puppets, MTV, MTV Unplugged, MTV Unplugged In New York, Nevermind, New York, Nirvana, Plugging Back In To Nirvana, Plugging Back In To Nirvana: Revisiting MTV Unplugged In New York, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Songwriter, Unplugged, Vinyl ·

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March 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck – The Home Recordings

Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings Ume The barrel has been scraped. Here, masquerading as “the soundtrack” to a grave-robbing, bones-picking, totally unnecessary documentary of the same name, we have Kurt Cobain’s “home recordings”. We’re meant to process them as if seeing behind the machine, hearing early versions of Nirvana songs, Beatles covers […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, demos, Documentary, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck - The Home Recordings, Montage of Heck, Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, Nirvana, Soundtrack, The Home Recordings ·

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June 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Soaked in Bleach: Film

Soaked in Bleach Benjamin Statler Montani Productions/Daredevil Films It took just shy of a decade for this film to come to fruition. Another new Kurt Cobain documentary, but this is essentially the opposite of/opposite to Montage of Heck. Where that was a tribute – albeit creepy and voyeuristic and lacking in real grit or substance […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Conspiracy Theorist, Courtney Love, Doco, Documentary, Film Review, Kurt & Courtney, Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck, Movie, Nirvana, Soaked in Bleach: Film, Tom Grant ·

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May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 71– Kurt & Courtney, Wellington, 1998

When I started Stubs I hadn’t intended to include film-stubs – and I don’t collect (all) my movie tickets. I might be a freak. But I’m not a fucking freak…or however that song goes… I kept a bunch of Film Festival tickets – and I’m including this one, from the movie Kurt & Courtney this […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1998, Courtney Love, Doco, Documentary, Embassy, Film, Film Festival, Kurt & Courtney, Kurt Cobain, Movie, Movie Ticket, Nick Broomfield, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 71– Kurt & Courtney, Ticket, Wellington ·

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May 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: Film

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Director: Brett Morgen HBO Documentary Films/Public Road Productions The first official, authorised documentary of Kurt Cobain, it’s been assembled lovingly, painstakingly, some eight years in the making…but it doesn’t feature Dave Grohl at all (elephant in the room) and it probably never needed to happen. The idea that this is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Brett Morgan, Courtney Love, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Review, Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Music Documentary, Nirvana ·

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December 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Good On Him!

when Kurt Cobain put his brains to the wall with a shotgun shot, he got a better response than at any concert. It was indeed the final Curtain Call, but before the final curtain did fall, he found some extra fans, people too young to know what Nirvana did. And so I presume that’s what […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Good On Him!, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Poem ·

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August 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Kurt Cobain – In His Own Write

I take pride as the king of literature what else should I be? I’m a healthy student, you’re my vitamins sell the kids for food most babies smell like butter starve without your skeleton key there are countless formulas for pressing flowers never met a wise man, if so it’s a woman                choking on the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Found Poem, In His Own Write, Kurt, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain: In His Own Write, Nirvana, Poem ·

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September 10, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1858

Nirvana, Bleach (1989) I like Bleach, it’s the Nirvana album I listen to the most. People talk about how horrible it sounds but they say that like it’s a bad thing!? The drumming is often horrible too (but there are the tracks with Dale Crover, a major improvement compared with Chad Channing’s work). I had […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Bleach, Chad Channing, Dale Crover, Incesticide, Kurt Cobain, Love Buzz, Nevermind, Nirvana, School, Vinyl ·

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