willhines.net

Three unrelated things for you:

1) The baby from the cover of Nevermind is a 17-year-old fan of techno who hates authority and thinks teens his age don’t get it. Uh, that’s awesome. (via allmusic.com)

2) Here’s the home demo Michael Jackson made of “Workin’ Day and Night” that he brought to Quincy Jones when they made Off the Wall. It’s he, Randy and Janet in 1978 pounding on bottles, playing keyboard and bass. It is awesome.

3) Don’t Cry For Me, I’m Already Dead is a weird but [...]

5 Comments | Tags: comics, michael jackson, nirvana, ptolemy

I don’t care if this makes me sound like a frat boy from 1994, but In Utero is an amazing album, especially considering it followed up the megahit from nowhere Nevermind. After Document, REM did the low-key Green; U2 followed up The Joshua Tree with the throwaway Rattle and Hum; Bruce Springsteen followed up the mammoth Born in the USA with the almost-one-person-job Tunnel of Love.

But Kurt Cobain, the man who shirked almost every responsibility he ever accrued, when faced with the pressure of following up one of the biggest commercial and critical hits in rock history: busted out In Utero — which started off with “Teenage angst [...]

6 Comments | Tags: music, nirvana