It was in one of the opening sections of the mag, where they just dumped every bit of industry gossip into a two page spread. They talked about the "Live Through This" rumor, I guess there was a claim that a tape had been unearthed of Kurt playing a demo/guide track for one of the songs, and Guitar was running with it like this was the truth, and hypothesizing that a longer recording of him demoing the entire rest of the album might exist as well.
Of course said 'demo' tape never really existed but Guitar was, as I said, a shitty magazine, so....
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:08 (five years ago) link
it smacked of 'aww how cute, this pretty young woman thinks she wrote da whole widdle album all by herself" patronizing bullshit
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:09 (five years ago) link
Christ. I mean, there is a recording of Kurt singing a backing vocal on a demo of 'Asking For It' alongside Courtney (I've heard it) but that's not the same thing as "Kurt wrote the song and demoed it" ... I would say Kurt's input on the writing of that song was zero - it sounds nothing like a Kurt song.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
yeah, they were framing it like it was a solo demo, which even then wouldn't have proven anything other than "he thought it was a good song and played it"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:26 (five years ago) link
xpost I don't understand all this music jargon but this guy loves deconstructing songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMUkMGNX0Uk
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link
yeah the Live Through This bs doesn't even withstand the timeline, Courtney wrote Doll Parts & some others before they ever hooked up... agree that her melodic sensibility & her and Eric's guitar playing are pretty distinct from Kurt's. the riff & beginning of verse melody in "She Walks On Me" = "Tourettes"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 06:20 (five years ago) link
It sounded more like Kurt singing along to a track in his kitchen
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 07:38 (five years ago) link
I've got mega-cable where I'm living now, so I usually wrap up my Sunday nights with 120 Minutes on MTV Classic. They played an edit of the '92 VMA "Lithium" last night, and just...damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9cxMsGFgQ8
The whole thing is something that feels like a lot of rules were quickly created so it won't happen again.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
LOL @ how nervous Dana Carvey looks when he reads that Nirvana is the winner
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
Who's playing "Michael Jackson"? I don't remember any of this...
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
IIRC, it was a professional MJ impersonator they hired.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link
tab soren, true professional, doesn't even flinch or get weird about it when 1993's Dumbest Man in Rock acts upon his impulse to immediately 'dip' the lady interviewer interviewing him
this is a guy who - on national television! - tossed his electric bass guitar 20 feet in the air only to have it draw blood when connecting with his face on the way back down
and she just laughs and it off and smiles cause she knows her hair was more perfect than his career will ever be, and she was right
good stuff, and fuck you dad for trying to tell me over dinner last week that 1963-1973 was the objectively "greatest" decade in popular music
― del griffith, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
remember joseph goebbels
― del griffith, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
that performance of Lithium is the peak of the band imo - at least the rock side
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:50 (five years ago) link
What does he sing after "I'm so r---"? "I can't take the salads out"??
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 06:21 (five years ago) link
Casting a vote for this live clip (never got to see them myself, sadly):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zagAeZ5eH94
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 06:26 (five years ago) link
xpost Sund4r: "I can't take a sedative"
― alpine static, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 07:54 (five years ago) link
Boyz II Men and Wilson Phillips.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link
Ah
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
god krist is so annoying
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
he was the worst in that infamous nardwuar interview too