#90's Rock

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Kurt Cobain, 1993

(São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

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30 years ago today, the video for CLOSER by Nine Inch Nails and directed by Mark Romanek, is released to an unsuspecting public.

We were not ready, and we were never the same.

via Nine Inch Nails

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trent reznor

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"it matters where you are"

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Maynard James Keenan of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer performing with Zach De La Rocha and Rage Against The Machine @ Lollapalooza 1993

Tom Morello watching his high school friend Adam Jones of Tool playing a show in 1991.

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Alex Kapranos fotografiado el 19/02/1999 como bajista de The Yummy Fur. Créditos a Blackmagicplastic en Instagram

Y Alex sólo comenta acerca de su cabello XD

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★ “Where Did You Sleep Last Night,” also known as “In The Pines'' dates back to the 1800’s. However, it was first recorded in 1926 by banjo player Dock Walsh. Then by Bill Monroe in 1941, and Lead Belly in 1944.

★ The blues tune recounts a story of domestic deceit and perhaps murder. Betrayed by his wife possesses this man, and in a rage he stumbles into the cold night to seek revenge. The man is then killed, accidently or by murder; it’s still up to debate.

★ Kurt Cobain was introduced to this song by colleague and friend Mark Lanegan, the vocalist for the Seattle band The Screaming Trees. They spent a lot of time together due to Kurt staying with Lanegan for days on end. They would bond over blues records they both adored. One day in 1989, while listening to Lead Belly at Kurt’s place, they came up with the idea to do a record of all Lead Belly covers.

★ However, with the mutual respect they shared, it was difficult for either one of them to take control. However, one surviving take of the lost project would make in on Mark Lanegan’s solo album, The Winding Sheet (1990) in Mark’s words,  "[We] ended up using a recording of one of the heavier songs from our aborted Lead Belly record, 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night?,'" Lanegan wrote in his memoir, "an acoustic tune Kurt had electrified, which had compelled me to take my performance into the familiar rock territory of the Trees, doubling my voice to harmonize with myself and singing the last couple verses in the very utmost registers of my limited vocal range."

★ Kurt sings backup and plays guitar as well as Krist Novaselic on bass and the drummer of The Screaming Trees.

★ Dave Grohl has been vocal about the influence Lanegan had on the 1993 Nirvana MTV Unplugged Concert; even referring The Winding Sheet as “one of the best albums of all time” 

★Nirvana performed the song in the 1990s a few times. Their version is based on Lead Belly’s 1944 Musicraft 78 RPM version. Lanegan commented on the Unplugged performance of the song,“His version of that song is the definitive version — it blows mine away…One of the coolest things that ever came from hanging with Kurt was just sitting in his shed and hearing him play acoustic guitar and singing. It was so soulful and real, it gave me the chills."

★A single of Pennyroyal Tea, set to be released in 1994 included, on the b-side of the record, a Lead Belly track, however it was canceled following Kurt's death later that year. 

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Nirvana, 1993

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via Behind The Gallery

Nine Inch Nails photographed by Jonathan Rach | Instagram

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

"Pretty Boy"

(Robert Smith Remix)

Noel Gallagher has been writing catchy tunes for 30 years. Lovely remix here by Robert Smith of The Cure. Two of Britain's Best to ever do it on one track. Nothing went wrong. It's a proper, polished track and catchy tune with ambience well paced with escalating energy.

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Don't Let's Start // Musicless Music Video

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 Alice in Chains was the supporting act for the tri-headlined Clash of the Titans Tour featuring Slayer, Megadeath, and Anthrax. This was the second leg, the first being a European tour supported by Testament and Suicidal Tendencies.

Alice in Chains was not originally met with cheering fans and friendly greetings, unfortunately. According to Sean Kinney, “Slayer fans were impatient, to say the least, with Alice’s deliberate, Complex arrangements, hurling verbal abuse and-in one instance-jugs of Kool-Aid at the group…That was one of our finest shows.” says Kinney, in an interview with Request’s Daina Darzin

Originally, Alice in Chains was not on the bill for the North American tour. According to Get Thrashed, the 2006 Thrash Metal Documentary, Death Angel was to be the supporting act instead. However, after a near-death bus crash, they were forced to pass on the gig; opening up the space for Alice to promote their first studio album, Facelift.