" Black Francis of the Pixies cited Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid as one of the albums he listened to regularly when first writing songs for the band, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana acknowledged Van Vliet's influence, mentioning him among his notoriously eclectic range.

The album was cited by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana as his sixteenth favourite album ever in his posthumously-published Journals.

Cobain cited Beat Happening's Jamboree as one of his favorite records, and even got the K Records logo ( a small " K " in a shield ) tattooed on his arm to " try and remind to stay a child.

Many alternative rock artists, including Billy Corgan and PJ Harvey, have cited the album as inspirational ; Nirvana's Kurt Cobain frequently acknowledged that Surfer Rosa was a strong influence on Nevermind, and in 1993 hired the album's producer Steve Albini to produce his band's album In Utero.

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Tropicalismo been cited as an influence by rock musicians such as David Byrne, Beck, The Bird and the Bee, Kurt Cobain, Arto Lindsay, Devendra Banhart, El Guincho, Of Montreal and Nelly Furtado.

" Cobain and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic cited Flipper as one of the punk bands in the early to mid 1980s that was influential on their band.

In 2001 Q magazine named Red as one of the " 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time ," and Kurt Cobain has cited the album as a major influence.

His interviews with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love for Rolling Stone, prior to Cobain's death, were widely cited.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

At one point, Cobain gave Novoselic a demo tape of his former band Fecal Matter, and asked him to form a band together.

The album also was famously quoted by Kurt Cobain as one of his favorite records ever: " The main reason I like Breeders is for their songs, for the way they structure them, which is totally unique, very atmospheric.

Pod, and especially Deal's contribution, was praised by contemporaries ; Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain later named the album one of his favourites and remarked: " I wish Kim was allowed to write more songs for the Pixies ".

* Nirvana's performance on Unplugged was one of the last televised performances by Kurt Cobain, recorded on November 18, 1993, about five months before Cobain's death.

Cobain said that the song structures were " one – dimensional ", and said that he sought to present a more " polished and urbane side of happy ".

This was one of the first major televised performances given by Love following the death of her husband Kurt Cobain and the death of her band's bassist Kristen Pfaff in 1994.

Although often labelled as ambient, Cobain and Dougans usually resist being typecast into any one particular genre.

Cobain has said that around this time that journalists would come to talk to them and one of the first things they would ask would be if they liked Brian Eno ( whom they cite as an influence ), to which they would laugh and say that they were about looking forward, not to the past.

The band's singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain often described the novel as one of his favourite books.

Amanda Palmer from Evelyn Evelyn clarified that Cobain was one of some 20 artists who sang the same line and whose voices were mixed together in the recording.

From November 24 to December 11, Shonen Knife toured with American grunge band Nirvana and Eugenious all over the UK for a total of nine shows and during the tour Naoko taught Cobain how to play “ Twist Barbie ” which Nirvana covered live at one of their secret shows.

" You Know You're Right " was written in 1993, making it one of the last known Kurt Cobain compositions.

McKagan was one of the last people confirmed to see Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain before he died on April 5, 1994.

He is referred to by some as the Godfather of Grunge, having inspired grunge pioneers like Nirvana ’ s Kurt Cobain and Pearl Jam ’ s Eddie Vedder ; and he remains one of the most influential Canadian musicians of all time.

Cobain suggested his idea for an instrument to Fender, resulting in two left-handed prototypes built by former Custom Shop Master Builder Larry L. Brooks, only one of which was played by Cobain himself.

This myth, propagated by Cobain, was refuted in the 2001 with the publication of the biography of Cobain Heavier than Heaven, written by Charles Cross, whom that affirmed it had been taken by the tide of the Wishkah river if this one had spent one night there.

" Punk is musical freedom ", wrote singer Kurt Cobain.

Cobain eventually befriended the elder Novoselic, as the pair ended up sharing similar musical tastes, including a fondness for local band The Melvins.

Love's lawsuit asserted that " the parties have fundamentally different concepts of how to manage the musical and artistic legacy of Kurt Cobain ", which resulted " in a stalemate of decision making.

We Die ", while Burroughs and Kurt Cobain recorded a musical version of one of the stories as The " Priest " They Called Him.

" Lake of Fire " became a cult favorite for its particularly wrenching vocal performance from Cobain.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album three and a half out of five stars, noting that " Kurt Cobain illustrated signs of his considerable songcraft, particularly on the minor-key ballad ' About a Girl ' and the dense churn of ' Blew '".

* There appear to be some similarities between the plotline and certain theories involving the death of Kurt Cobain, particularly the conspiracy theory that Courtney Love murdered Kurt Cobain and all the songs on her " Live Through This " album were written by Cobain.

It was widely reported in the music press that the band wanted to offer fans a higher-quality alternative, but in the book Cobain Unseen, Charles R. Cross writes that Kurt Cobain agreed to the release of this compilation because he was allowed complete control over the album's artwork.

The rubber duck seen on the album's back cover also belonged to Cobain.

The album's title refers to the Wishkah River in Aberdeen, Washington, where Cobain claimed to have spent nights sleeping under the Young Street Bridge as a teenager ( as referenced in the song " Something in the Way ," from the band's 1991 release, Nevermind ).

It was remixed, along with " Heart-Shaped Box " and later " Pennyroyal Tea ," by Scott Litt prior to the album's release, with Cobain asserting that the vocals and bass sounded " mushy " in the unmastered Albini recording.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana said in an interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette on CITR-FM, discussing drum sounds ," I, I have to admit ...

The influence of Pixies on Nirvana was noted by Kurt Cobain, who commented in a Rolling Stone interview, " I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band — or at least a Pixies cover band.

The album, titled Live Through This, was released on April 12, 1994, and in tragic timing — four days after finding that Love's husband, Cobain, committed suicide in their Seattle home.

Referencing Staley's guest-singing appearance with Tool on the song " Opiate ", the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported, " At KISW-FM's ' Rockstock ' concert at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds in Bremerton in May 1994 — just a month after the death of Kurt Cobain — Staley made a surprise appearance.

* Kurt Cobain — lead singer of Nirvana.

Defenestration is credited in the book Road to Nirvana as one of the bands that influenced Kurt Cobain ’ s music and Billy Corgan often credited Chainsaw Kittens as one of his favorite bands — Corgan even once wrote Meade when he was working the first Smashing Pumpkins album lauding the brilliance of Chainsaw Kittens first album, Violent Religion.