Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad stated that " Rape Me " seemed to deal with Cobain's distaste of the media's coverage on his personal life.

Nirvana biographer Everett True wrote a favorable review for Melody Maker —" Sure, the vocals are lazily throat splitting, the guitars belligerently grungy, the bass up and out of place.

Mould ultimately wrote that memoir with Michael Azerrad, the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life and Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana.

In late 2007 Mel presented and produced the 2nd Producer Series for Triple J, which featured: Steve Albini ( Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom ), Michael Beinhorn ( Hole, Marlilyn Manson, The Bronx ), Trina Shoemaker ( Queens Of The Stoneage, Something For Kate ), Jim Abbiss ( Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian ), Tony Cohen ( Nick Cave, Beasts of Bourbon ), Squeak E Clean ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ben Lee ), Ewan Pearson ( The Rapture ), Dave Catching ( Rancho De La Luna-The Desert Sessions ) Tim Whitten ( Architecture In Helsinki, The Panics ) and John Agnello ( Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The Living End ).

* Ep 364 ( 2001-10-07 ) The Impact Of The Music Video-featuring: Trans-X & Oskar Fischinger & Cab Calloway & Nancy Sinatra & The Monkees & The Beatles & Captain Beefheart & Queen & David Bowie & Michael Nesmith & The Buggles & Duran Duran & Dire Straits & Peter Gabriel & Nirvana & Pearl Jam

This incarnation rehearsed for a brief time only ; Michael Azerrad's Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana records Cobain's frustration with Osborne for not taking the band seriously enough and refusing to buy a bass guitar amplifier.

However, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain loathed Guns N ' Roses ( as documented in Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad, among other sources ) and declined the invitation.

The strip was first published in Michael Azerrad's 1993 Nirvana biography, Come as You Are.

Lyric sheets which originally appeared in Michael Azerrad's book Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana were airbrushed in portions upon their reprinting in Journals.

According to Azerrad after exploring the punk era " it skipped and went straight from Talking Heads to Nirvana.

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.

Gallagher noted in 2006 that the 1994 Oasis single " Live Forever " " was written in the middle of grunge and all that, and I remember Nirvana had a tune called ' I Hate Myself and I Want to Die ,' and I was like.

Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins noted the band's importance in the early 2010s, saying " If you look at the popular bands of our generation, like Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Nine Inch Nails, Hole, Nirvana and others, you see now clearly that the bands were very influential, very important not only for music but for culture, fashion …"

Other critics have noted that this song's main riff is referenced in the Nirvana single " Smells Like Teen Spirit ".

* A CD, The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience, was released featuring many hard rock and heavy metal bands, such as Megadeth, Primus, Nirvana and White Zombie.

Along with Nirvana, many of the leading alternative rock artists of the early 1990s acknowledged the influence of earlier punk rock acts.

" As a reaction, many grunge bands diversified their sound, with Nirvana and Tad in particular creating more melodic songs.

The terms alternative rock and indie rock were used interchangeably in the 1980s, but after many alternative bands followed Nirvana into the mainstream in the early 1990s it began to be used to distinguish those bands, working in a variety of styles, that did not pursue or achieve commercial success.

Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene.

After the mainstream success of Nirvana, many successful grunge bands had left Sub Pop for major record labels.

His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians ( many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era ), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees.

Although power trios fell out of fashion in mainstream rock during the early 1980s, the rise of post-punk and indie rock in the later 1980s and throughout the 1990s featured many trios, such as grunge band Nirvana and pop-punk bands such as Green Day and Blink-182.

" Sub Pop 200 " featured recordings from many soon to be notable bands, Nirvana, Green River, Mudhoney, Soundgarden and others from Seattle's Grunge music explosion that followed.

Zander's vocal style has influenced many other rock singers from 1980s hard rockers such as Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe, Axl Rose of Guns N ' Roses, Bret Michaels of Poison, and Sebastian Bach of Skid Row, 1990's punk revivalists, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, to alternative icons Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots.

To accentuate their use of volume, the band employed and popularised the quiet-loud change of dynamic in many of its songs, a technique that would be later popularised by Pixies, Nirvana and alternative rock in general during the 1990s.

By the time Nirvana made their next attempt at recording, they had recruited Dave Grohl as their new drummer, who kept many of the same drum parts to the songs Chad had been playing.

During the 1980s and early 1990s the magazine placed many thrash and glam metal acts on the cover ( like Mötley Crüe, Slayer, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Poison, and Venom ) but later discarded them when grunge acts such as Nirvana rose to fame.

The festival has featured many prominent artists ( mainly rock ), such as Nirvana, Guns N ' Roses, U2, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath and Green Day, and there has also been an emphasis on world music, alternative genres and Danish music at the festival.

With the breakthrough of bands such as Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became commercially successful during the 1990s.

The book has essays on Britpop, grunge, emo, and many other types of music, as well as pieces on musical acts including Marilyn Manson, Nirvana, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit, and The Smashing Pumpkins.

They played many concerts, sometimes opening the bill for more well-known acts such as U2 ( on their landmark Zoo TV Tour ), Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana and Arrested Development.

WFNX has a long history of breaking new bands, and being the first in the country to play artists such as Nirvana, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Florence and the Machine, Foster the People, Mumford and Sons, and many more.

Although the account of Ajatasatru's death differs in these traditions, both believe that after passing through many births Ajatasatru will be born as a wise prince, and later become a monk and attain Nirvana.

Bands that receive consistent airplay include Metallica, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Disturbed, Korn, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Mudvayne, Godsmack, Pantera, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Five Finger Death Punch and Jimi Hendrix, among many others.

wrote many a song but most known for Green Day cover Holiday and Nirvana remix In Bloom

The festival has featured many prominent artists ( mainly rock ), such as Nirvana, Guns N ' Roses, U2, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath and Green Day, and there has also been an emphasis on world music, alternative genres and Danish music at the festival.

" in 1973 ; it also provided an unlikely hit for Scottish pop singer Lulu ( produced by Bowie and Ronson ) and would be covered by many artists over the years, including Richard Barone in 1987, and Nirvana in 1993, who performed a cover of " The Man Who Sold the World " in their famous Unplugged in New York.

It was reportedly a favorite on the Nirvana tour bus, among many other bands.

After another 3 weeks of recording, R. E. M ./ Nirvana producer Scott Litt took an interest in their songs and started taking part in the recording sessions, mainly focusing on songs like " Drive " and " Stellar ".

" 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.

Smith felt his solo songs were not representative of the music Heatmiser was making: " The idea of playing music for people didn't occur to me ... because at the time it was the Northwest — Mudhoney and Nirvana — and going out to play an acoustic show was like crawling out on a limb and begging for it to be sawed off.

After a hiatus in 1992 caused by the organiser's realisations that Nirvana and Joy Division would top the poll yet again, the poll returned in 1993, but was limited to songs released in that year.

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 ".

* On February 14, 1995, Hole performed on Unplugged with memorable performances of " Miss World ," and " Doll Parts ," and covers of the Nirvana songs " You Know You're Right " ( as " You've Got No Right ") and " Old Age ", and also the Duran Duran song " Hungry Like the Wolf.

Their first gig was at 14 Below, where they performed songs DeMars and Marsters wrote individually, as well as a few Nirvana covers.

Jackie Cane retains the dreamy elements of Hooverphonic's previous works, most notably on songs " Nirvana Blue " and " Human Interest " ( which contains references to " Echoes " by Pink Floyd ), but tracks like " The World Is Mine " ( the first single ) and " Day After Day " have a clear Broadway influence and quality to them.

At the same time, some classic rock stations have started focusing on classic alternative and modern rock hits as well as traditional classic rock songs ( such as KLOS in Los Angeles ), adding bands and songs typically avoided on classic rock stations such as Nirvana, Sublime, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

1992: In the 1992 show, MTV requested Nirvana perform " Smells Like Teen Spirit ", while the band itself had indicated it preferred to play new songs " Rape Me " and " tourette's ".

In April 1990 Nirvana recorded eight songs at Smart Studios with producer Butch Vig that ended when Cobain blew his voice out.

The 2004 With the Lights Out box set featured a DVD of a December 1988 Nirvana rehearsal, as well as seven songs scattered across the first two discs of the set, all with Channing on drums.

The remaining two songs are Nirvana originals which previously appeared as b-sides to singles for Nevermind.

The only official recordings they made — which provided the songs for the last Easybeats single — was the rocking " St Louis " ( presaging their later work with AC / DC ), and the B-side " Can't Find Love ", recorded in April at Olympic Studios with Ray Singer, a former member of UK band Nirvana, who had made a name for himself as a producer with Peter Sarstedt's " Where Do You Go To ( My Lovely )".

The Spankers have covered songs by a wide range of artists including Prince, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Beastie Boys, The B-52's, Black Flag, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Harry Nilsson, The Jazz Butcher, The Violent Femmes, George Jones, Nirvana, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Otis Redding, Screamin ' Jay Hawkins and Johnny Cash.

However, Uncle Tupelo didn't want to follow in the footsteps of groups such as Nirvana, and decided to play country and folk songs " as a big ' fuck you ' to the rock scene ".

The record featured most of the studio album, a few songs from the demo and covers of Ministry, Nirvana and Fear.

Either of 2 songs by American rock band Nirvana:

Lanegan has also collaborated with various artists and bands throughout his career, including with Kurt Cobain of Nirvana prior to the group's breakout success with their album, Nevermind, recording an unreleased album of songs by the blues singer, Leadbelly.