After years of hair-flailing sludge that achieved occasional songform on singles no normal person ever heard, Seattle finally produces some proper postpunk, aptly described by resident genius Kurt Cobain: “Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo.” This is hard rock as the term was understood before metal moved in–the kind of loud, slovenly, tuneful music you think no one will ever work a change on again until the next time it happens, whereupon you wonder why there isn’t loads more. It seems so simple.
~Robert Christgau (robertchristgau.com)
Nevermind was never meant to change the world, but you can never predict when the Zeitgeist will hit, and Nirvana’s second album turned out to be the place where alternative rock crashed into the mainstream.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)
Smells Like A Teen Spirit:
Nirvana – Nevermind – Classic Album – documentary (youtube playlist):
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
~Bruce Springsteen
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
~Bruce Springsteen
They call him the Boss. Well that’s a bunch of crap. He’s not the boss. He works FOR us. More than a boss, he’s the owner, because more than anyone else, Bruce Springsteen owns America’s heart.
~Bono (induction speech for at the 1999 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
September 23: Isaac Hayes released Hot Buttered Soul in 1969
This is one of my favorite soul albums ( I should do a post with a top 20 list…). It defines a new kind of soul at the end of the 60s into the 70s. It showed the way soul music would be heading in the next decade. This is intense soul, very skilled both vocally and musically.
Hot Buttered Soul is Isaac Hayes’ second studio album. Released September 23, 1969, it is a landmark in soul music.
Like a Bird on a Wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free
~Leonard Cohen, Bird On A Wire
“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”
― Leonard Cohen
“I don’t remember lighting this cigarette and I don’t remember if I’m here alone or waiting for someone.”
~Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
From Wikipedia:
Birth name
Leonard Norman Cohen
Born
21 September 1934 (age 80)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres
Folk, folk rock, rock, pop rock,spoken word, synthpop
Occupations
Musician, singer-songwriter,poet, novelist
Instruments
Vocals, guitar, piano,keyboards, synthesizer
Years active
1956-present
Labels
Columbia
Associated acts
Sharon Robinson, Jennifer Warnes
Leonard Norman Cohen (born 21 September 1934)
His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships.Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation’s highest civilian honour.
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
~Nick Cave
People think I’m a miserable sod but it’s only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
~Nick Cave
Everything’s dissolving, babe, according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
I went to bed last night and my
moral code got jammed
I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand
~Nick Cave (Abattoir Blues)
