Let’s celebrate Nirvana!
By:Li Erjiou 121105123 Class4
As its second album，a band tentatively named the new work ‘Sheep’ in early 1990s. Then，someone suggested Butch Vig as a potential producer，whose work this band particularly liked, and told him “We want to sound as heavy as previous records.” As recording sessions for the album were completed, the leader of the band，Cobain grew tired of the title and suggested that the new album be named ‘Nevermind’，which Cobain thought was a metaphor for his attitude on life and was grammatically incorrect as to be catchy．After that, a legendary record came into being， and this band was none other than Nirvana．
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. Despite releasing only three full-length studio albums in their seven-year career, Nirvana has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important rock bands of the modern era.
There has been a story widely spread since the beginning. As the story unfolds, Nirvana’s last recorded song which had languished undiscovered among unfinished works by the band captures the Seattle trio in a ‘grungier’ and ‘screamier’ mood than their previous final singles, according to the song’s producer. Producer Adam Kasper, who worked on the recording with the pioneer grunge-rock band, said the song with the working title Know Your Rights is ‘a little bit grungier and a little screamier over the chorus’ than Heart-Shaped Box, from In Utero, the final studio release from the band considered one of the most influential groups of the past decade. The cut was completed several months before singer Kurt Cobain’s April 1994 suicide. It’s likely the only finished, unreleased studio track from the band, Kasper said. ‘Know Your Rights is a pretty cool tune almost a Heart-Shaped Box kind of approach,’ Kasper said Friday. ‘It’s not Smells Like Teen Spirit or anything,’ he added, referring to the Nirvana song that became the anthem for the grunge generation, ‘but it’s a nice one to hear.’ Kasper said that Know Your Rights got that working title because that was the phrase Cobain sang in the chorus. Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl said that the final song Nirvana recorded would be included in an upcoming box set. Though Grohl did not name the song, Kasper said it was likely that he was referring to Know Your Rights. Kasper produced the Foo Fighters’ upcoming third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
After nearly 2 decades from the peak to a relative trough these days, suitors of Nirvana now has a chance to recall the good old days. On the 20th anniversary of the song set’s airing, it’s worth considering the performance as a work of music, not mythology. As music, it’s incredible. The band run through a tense and brilliant 14-song set in one scintillating take, something unusual at the time for the popular MTV series, and the result is one of the greatest live albums ever—an unforgettable document of raw tension and artistic genius.
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