“Bad.” Although the pair did subsequently meet at Jackson's house, Prince ultimately passed on the idea. In a1997 interviewwith Chris Rock, the singer suggested this had more to do with the material than the man.
“Our producer, Flood, and I looked at each other and I told Trent, ‘Well, you had the pop single for the record until you said ‘fuck’ in every line of the chorus.’ Trent started laughing and he said, ‘I know.’ He did it on purpose because he didn’t want, necessarily, t...
When did Nirvana blow up? Nirvana disbanded following Cobain's suicide inApril 1994. Various posthumous releases have been overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobain's widow Courtney Love. The posthumous live album MTV Unplugged in New York (1994) won Best Alternative Music Performance at the 199...
the band drifted a bit from the ion forged on their early EPs. "I regret it, because in terms of material, it should have been one of the best records we ever did," Chris Cornell later said. "It actually slowed down our momentum a...
I think we did it pretty quickly. Of course, we hadn’t [initially] toured as a band. We were born in the studio, really, but we all had some experience of being in bands anyway. Eric Stewart in particular, being in Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders and then the Mindbenders. So we...
By the summer of ‘93, Soundgarden had seen their Seattle contemporaries Nirvana and Pearl Jam rise to superstardom. While being happy for their friends, the Chris Cornell-led group also had a sense of “why not us?” The band hit the studio determined to evolve their sound. To that end...
I’ll do that!’ Even if I never do anything else,” he recalled. “I had a stupid confidence. I thought I was the best drummer in the world. I really did. A lot of people said I was great all the time. And those who didn’t, I thought they were just stupid. That was just...
One of the most popular and reductive theories in rock history is that grunge singlehandedly destroyed glam metal overnight after the release ofNirvana'sNevermind. While Nirvana's seminal major-label debutdidmark a zeitgeist shift when it came out on Sept. 24, 1991, the death blow to glam ...
Nirvana, 'Lithium' Soundgarden Soundgardenweren't discussed as much as some of the others, but some of the songs fans recommended by them include "Fell on Black Days" fromSuperunknown,and "Zero Chance," "Burden in My Hand" and "Boot Camp" fromDown on the Upside. ...
Nirvana: January 11, 1992 NBC Nirvana: January 11, 1992 Nirvana’s pivotal album ‘Nevermind’ was released on Sept. 24, 1991. It debuted at No. 144 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. By January 1992 it was selling more than 300,000 copies a week, the biggest LP in the world. The...