Showing posts with label grunge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grunge. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Song of the Day: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana


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My song of the day, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, song is a symphony of rage and angst by a band with an innate sense of dynamics and a pile-driver beat. Hooray, posthumously, for Kurt Cobain, an anti-hero who screamed so that we should not have to scream. (Although most of us still scream along.)


With David Grohl's head-banging, hair-tossing, full-body drumming and Kurt's tragicd good looks and "I was over it 20 years ago" delivery, it's easy to lose track of bassist Krist Novoselic, whom I just learned co-founded the band,

He's integral too, supporting the song with four-chord equations so simple and catchy that the only possible answer is a mosh pit.

--Sarah Torribio


Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Song of the Day: "Even Flow' by Pearl Jam


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This is a crazy thing to say in 2021, but I'm starting to think I've underappreciated Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder's earnestness kind of cuts through the bullshit. My song of the day is "Even Flow," off the band's 1993 album Vitalogy.

--Sarah Torribio