Grunge Giveaway

January 26, 2010 • By Candis

I know a ton of you kids out there dig Nirvana, so we’re bringing you this book that Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth)—who introduced Kurt Cobain to David Geffen (Geffen Records), a meeting that resulted in Nirvana’s first major debut, Nevermind, in September 1991, which by December was selling 400,000 copies a week—writes about the discovery of Seattle punk youth, the seminal bands that defined the movement, the exploitation of the subculture, and the backlash of grunge, as well as the death of his longtime collaborator and intimate Cobain.

We can have two winners. So here’s what you gotta do for me.

E-mail contests@buddyhead.com with a story about Kurt Cobain. I don’t care if it’s real or not, just make it funny. Get to it.

If you wanna buy this book, cos you didn’t win it, you can look HERE.

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13 Responses to “ Grunge Giveaway ”


  • Bob Vila -- Jan 26th, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/25515

  • Tall Pat -- Jan 26th, 2010 at 11:03 pm

    fancy!

  • Coalition to debunk the Grunge conspiracy and phenomena -- Jan 27th, 2010 at 6:48 am

    It’s cold outside and my hands are dry
    Skin is cracked and I realize
    That I hate the sound of guitars
    A thousand grudging young millionaires
    Forcing silence sucking sound
    Forced into this conversation
    So i say shine let their planets collide
    This is the darkening down of my mind
    We could be making it oiling like crime
    We could be making it staking last dimes
    If you want to sieze the sound you don’t need a reservation
    The torch is pased it’s yours to return
    Lay at their feet now use it to burn
    For marketing the use of the word generation
    A false alliance of money persuading
    Forcing silence sound sucking
    Forced into this conversation
    Now if you want to sieze the sound you don’t need a reservation
    So open so young so target I can smell your heart you’re a target
    Fugazi

  • sickssickssicks -- Jan 27th, 2010 at 11:00 am

    Thanks Coalition, I almost forgot how self righteous and pretentious Fugazi was. Also: they suck.

  • Bob Vila -- Jan 27th, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    @sick Fugazi did things on their own terms. By working hard and releasing everything themselves, they earned the right to say what they wanted to say, and do things they way they wanted to. I find them to be passionate as opposed to pretentious. Also: They rock!

  • Funnt -- Jan 27th, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    nirvanas overratedd

  • Mike -- Jan 27th, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    You forgot to mention that not only did Thurston introduce Kurt to David Geffen, but he also introduced him to heroin when they toured together.

    I think that was in “Our Band Could Be Your Life,” but I’ll fact-check that just to make sure Thurston doesn’t come on here and tell me that my “scene” is wrecking his.

  • sickssickssicks -- Jan 27th, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    @Bob Vila
    I can’t deny that yes, Fugazi was an independent band in the truest sense of the word. I just can’t stand the puritanical attitude as espoused by some of their fans, such as Coalition up there. I can understand there’s a controversy over whether “grunge” was a genre self identified by the bands or a label created by the industry but I don’t think that invalidates every band that was labelled with that moniker, that every band except Fugazi are composed of “grudging young millionaires, Forcing silence sucking sound”. Come on, you don’t find those lyrics pretentious just a little?

  • warchild formerly the coalition -- Jan 28th, 2010 at 6:09 am

    sicks
    i dont know anything about you but when people get upset at so called “pretentious” things they are either not the sharpest tool in the shed or it’s something else entirely. but i dont think that is the case here with you, i’m sure you are a good dude but fugazi were fucking awesome and they said a lot more and spoke more for that whole generation than most if not all grunge bands. bob dylan was pretentious wasn’t he? are you saying that because guy put a little emotion and creativity into his lyrics and it wasn’t your basic cat/hat/rat a tat tat, that it’s pretentious? i would say i am the pretentious one for posting it. but i’m not, im dark and exotic and like doggy style as well as missionary. i hate the puritans as well.

  • warchild formerly the coalition -- Jan 28th, 2010 at 8:33 am

    fuck i dont know it might be a bit preachy but so what, james brown preached all the time and he was soul brother number one and the kids listened. i dont think fugazi were pretentious but preachy is more what i’ve heard.

  • sickssickssicks -- Jan 28th, 2010 at 11:23 am

    Well, warchild, you make some good and well stated points. Emotional and creative lyrics/songs are not pretentious, I’m not trying to say that. Preachy is definitely a better description, I’d still say a little self riotous, but really that should be leveled more at Ian MacKaye. I guess really I just hate straight edge and everything associated with it, in my opinion it’s a really fascist philosophy, and maybe lumping Fugazi in with that is irrational but it’s just the way I feel. Or maybe I just enjoy being a dick on the internet a little too much.

  • Danny Glover -- Jan 28th, 2010 at 11:43 am

    i hope there are some local h references in the book, that’d be fuckin sweet.

  • Brian -- Jan 28th, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    And Puddle of Mudd references.

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