Tag: Kurt Cobain
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Dead Poet’s Society
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Beets This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to…
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RIP Daniel Johnston
Sad to hear about the death of ‘outsider’ musician Daniel Johnston at 58. He came out from the cold and became quite mainstream in later decades, much beloved by Kurt Cobain, Flaming Lips and many others in the indie scene. I only saw him once at an Everett True (Meltdown?) arranged gig all with many…
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RC 271: Pop Is Dead #6 – Dead Pod Stars
This will be my monument This will be a beacon when I’m gone… So that when the moment comes, I can say I did it all with love A bumper self-indulgent 10th anniversary show – 2 shows in one! If you listen at the 1:30 mark you’ll realise why it’s so long 😉 First half…
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RC 259: Pop Is Dead #4 – We Hate The Kids (And Rock and Roll)
Fourth in the Pop is Dead series, and it’s all about hate – hating rock and roll, hating the kids, hating the hangers on, hating the Spice Girls, hating the fakers, hating music even. Oh and a little bit about Britpop False Memory Syndrome / Fake Nostalgia. The cover features as well as the classic…
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How to make me feel very old
Kids React To Things seems designed to make me feel very old. Here they react to Walkmans, but also a previous one was the Rotary/Dial Telephone. After watching the Walkman video I’m like COME ON – they don’t know what headphones are? They don’t have iPods or headphones for their phones? Hmm. That technology hasn’t…