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"Credit in the Straight World" & Kurt; his idea to cover it in 1992
Topic Started: Nov 3 2009, 10:22 AM (395 Views)
desperateK
Pretty on the Inside

i just stumbled upon this:

Rebellious Jukebox
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana talks about the records that changed his life.
excerpted from Melody Maker
August 29, 1992

5. Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth

"Lying in an iron lung filled with lukewarm water and Epsom salts"
"This music relaxes you, it’s total atmospherics. It’s just nice, pleasant music. I love it. The drum machine has to have the cheesiest sound ever. We’re going to be on a Young Marble Giants compilation, doing ‘Credit In The Straight World’. I had a crush on the singer for a while—didn’t everyone?

"I didn’t know much about them — the Moxham brothers, right? I heard they might be getting back together again recently. (NB: Stuart Moxham just produced one side of the new Beat Happening album, another of Kurt’s favourite bands). Isn’t it weird how, when you hear something like that, you still get excited, even though you know you shouldn’t?

"I first heard Colossal Youth on the radio, after I started getting into K music when I lived in Olympia. It was a year before I put out the ‘Bleach’ album. At the time, I was just painting and doing art stuff. I still do, but now I use oils because I can afford them. I like Goya a lot – I use animated dolls a fair amount. I don’t mean to make them look evil, but they always end up that way."


i'm not one of those who thinks that cobain wrote the whole "Live through this" album and blah blah blah, but i do think that courtney has always been a vampire madonna-style, in her own way, and to read that Nirvana were going to appear on a deleted Young Marble Giants tribute album covering that one song is, well, curious. just like Hole's covers of Beat Happening and Leadbelly at the end of 1991 and The Raincoats in 1993, which were influences that kurt always mentioned in interviews and were his favourite records, so no doubt that courtney was fascinated by all that and incorporated it quickly into her discourse...
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sugarvioletstar
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thanks for posting it!
Courtney and Kurt were influenced by similar genres, such as new wave and early alternative rock, then some coincidences are "justified", but I also agree with what you say...
However, we should remember that they were a couple!
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desperateK
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sugarvioletstar,Nov 3 2009
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thanks for posting it!
Courtney and Kurt were influenced by similar genres, such as new wave and early alternative rock, then some coincidences are "justified", but I also agree with what you say...
However, we should remember that they were a couple!


sure, i agree, in fact i don't want to be unfair cause she fed him with a lot of her knowledge and aesthetics as well, which is what obviously happens when you are a couple
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foamingunicorn
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Maybe she did out of admiration for her husband or to flatter him or something? Maybe it isn't vampire style at all? Anyways, Nirvana should have covered some Courtney's favorite bands like echo and the bunnyman lol that would have been interesting! too cheesy for his taste i guess haha
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BuzzQueen
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I think the reason it seems more vampirey or whatever is because it doesn't seem like Kurt or Nirvana ever talked about or covered her favourite songs and bands, but Hole covered a lot of Kurt's favourite songs and bands and even covered Nirvana songs. It is much easier to say she only did those things to look good or knowledgeable or etc than it is to say she got into those songs because Kurt liked them and maybe he didn't like her favourite bands as much and it's just a coincidence. The problem might be that they were kind of a bi-polar couple--in that they had very high ups and very low downs--and some people want to say, "O, they were never happy. She never loved him" and others want to say they were the perfect couple rather than seeing them as people with complications. And things about her stealing ideas from him make the case against her stronger.
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Ladyluck
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One of the best things about two people interested in music being in a relationship is sharing a record collection. Me and my boyfriend do it all the time.

If it weren't for him I wouldn't like Social Distortion as much as I do. Also, if I was a musician and I knew he was coming to a gig I'd maybe play a cover of a song we both like or something?
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