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February 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 37: The Youngbloods – “Elephant Mountain”
Reading this book is a reminder of just how much music is out there that you forget about, or forget to check out further. First view of the name The Youngbloods and I’m scratching my head, thinking I’ve never even heard of them. But of course I have… Their 1967 single Get Together isn’t quite […]Archive
May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Virginia Hanlon Grohl: From Cradle To Stage
From Cradle to Stage: Stories From The Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars Virginia Hanlon Grohl Seal Press Nepotism meets meta-prank – or something? – as Dave Grohl’s mother rolls out a book just in time for Mother’s Day…Archive
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. […]Archive
March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Dope Smoker: Marijuana
Dope Smoker Marijauana (Independent/Bandcamp) Just when you thought the album/track Dopesmoker by Sleep was as overt as “Stoner Rock” got, along comes the Welsh band Dope Smoker – that seminal track/album was surely, well, a guiding light – and here’s their fifth album; the title now as blatant as can be, and if you’re somehow […]Archive
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 […]Archive
October 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened
Something different today, before regular Radio Nowhere service finally resumes… People travel for a lot of fairly obvious reasons – to eat, drink, see the sights, visit friends, and so on. Me? I mainly travel so I’ll have a good excuse for repeatedly missing blog deadlines, and also because there’s a part of me that’s […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
December 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 975
Nirvana, MTV Unplugged In New York (1994) The only Nirvana album I had on vinyl (until buying this recently) is Bleach. I love that record – and still play it a bit. I love the other albums but they’re played-out for me. I can’t really imagine wanting to play them through beginning to end ever […]Archive
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 […]Archive
September 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman