Category: grunge

+ bruce mcculloch, elegy, grunge, kids in the hall, music, nirvana, vigil

Kurt Cobain and Bruce McCulloch’s “Vigil”

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My musical awakening came in 1994. A friend’s brother gave me a cassette tape on Nirvana’s In Utero, and I put the tape in my Walkman and rode my bike around the neighborhood, blaring “Scentless Apprentice” and “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter” as I careened down the road. I started listening to them a few weeks before Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994. As with … Read More Kurt Cobain and Bruce McCulloch’s “Vigil”

+ 1990s, grunge, music, stone temple pilots

The Lasting Legacy of Stone Temple Pilot’s “Purple” in My Life

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What is it about Stone Temple Pilots’ 1994 sophomore album Purple that keeps bringing me back? I didn’t really follow STP after Purple; in fact, I rarely even go back to their debut album Core, a record I listened to extensively when it came out. Yet, over the past year, I’ve been returning to Purple, again and again. Last fall, I drove back to my childhood home, a ten … Read More The Lasting Legacy of Stone Temple Pilot’s “Purple” in My Life

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