{"id":18245,"date":"2013-04-05T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18245"},"modified":"2013-04-05T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:36:41","slug":"kurt-cobains-19th-mortiversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kurt-cobains-19th-mortiversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Cobain&#8217;s 19th Mortiversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n6P0SitRwy8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Is there an antonym for &#8220;anniversary?&#8221; As you probably know by now, today is the 19th &#8220;mortiversary&#8221; of Kurt Cobain. I didn&#8217;t fully appreciate Nirvana until their last album. I was barely bright enough to be able to tell that Cobain had something going on when <em>Nevermind<\/em> exploded, but I never liked the sound of that album, especially that stringy bass. I still don&#8217;t like the way those songs sound.<\/p>\n<p>I was living in Hungary when <em>In Utero<\/em> came out. There wasn&#8217;t a lot of good music to be &#8220;spotted in the wild,&#8221; as our friend <strong>Rockodile Hunter<\/strong> might say. EuroMTV was playing some BritPop, which I liked, but mostly more Pet Shop Boys videos than I ever wanted to see. I was getting a little homesick for the straight-up rock &#8216;n roll from my homeland. When the video for &#8220;Heart-Shaped Box&#8221; hit, I jumped on it! The bass was heavier. The spooky imagery in the video was cool. The song reminded me of <strong>Pere Ubu<\/strong>. All good things. I ended up buying that album, paying the equivalent of $20 for the CD, which was hard for me to fork over. God bless America! God bless kick-ass stoner rock. Nirvana wasn&#8217;t so bad after all, even with Cobain&#8217;s string of totally annoying (to me, at least) ODs and other attention-grabbing attempts at disappearing. The whole thing came to a sad, crashing end when he shot himself. I don&#8217;t get caught up in the mystique of suicide; in fact, I rage against it. I still don&#8217;t feel anything alluring about Cobain&#8217;s very public agony, but I am glad I had just enough time to get a taste of what the band&#8217;s real fans were missing when he split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there an antonym for &#8220;anniversary?&#8221; As you probably know by now, today is the 19th &#8220;mortiversary&#8221; of Kurt Cobain. I didn&#8217;t fully appreciate Nirvana until their last album. I was barely bright enough to be able to tell that Cobain had something going on when Nevermind exploded, but I never liked the sound of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kurt-cobains-19th-mortiversary\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}