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NIRVANA gives fans the last song recorded by Kurt Cobain!
After years of bickering in courts over one song, fans all of the world can now enjoy Kurt's last words, You Know You're Right. This historical and educational album delivers a decade of change in the music industry by showcasing the birth of a genre in less than an hour.
The first song on this album is worth its weight in gold and marks the end of a genre, era and history. Without "You Know You're Right" the album might be considered the most prolific alternative rock selections that are actually original. Coming from a punk rock bankground, Nirvana's lead singer surfed right into the mainstream on a rock and roll wave later coined alternative rock. Every one of his songs hits the lows of our emotions that grew up with classic rock and roll ballads, only to be lifted into the highs that are just a notestep below a white angry punk rock drunken screams from the streets of Seattle.
The birth of alternative rock also closed the door on so many other trends and signified the end of an era of 70's disco and 80's new-wave, pop and big hair bands that wanted to be rock and roll. Nirvana starts the era with punk rock licks and shouting that sound like nothing more than noise, but by the time Nirvana is released in November of 2002, Kurt distintive voice tells us that the door has closed. Alternative rock is history.
Many think that Nirvana was just another grunge band, or maybe a rock and roll band that sounded noisy. Diehards like myself see the noise as beauty, and worship the mystical lyrics while riding the roller coaster of Cobain's range. It can be argued that Nirvana was more or less talented than other bands during the "alternative rock" decade of the 90's, but there's no doubt that Kurt Cobain's suicide with a shot gun to the head forever wrote Nirvana in the history book.
Since my grandfather decided to leave the world in the same way that Kurt did, and I understand why... I can safely say that Nirvana was the most memorable sound of music in the rock and roll world, and this new, old and final release of Nirvana's new material will go down as one of the best rock and roll albums of all time helped by Kurt's last words permanently etched into the shiny round form of media we still call a CD.
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