Mentioned the suicide of Kurt Cobain taking place on April 4th a few posts ago. According to the wiki it was the 5th, and he wasn’t found until the 8th. Thought I remembered the day hearing it pretty clearly as the 4th, but I was drugged up pretty good at the time (hospital drugs I’m talking). I’ve had no reason to check the wiki before on this so I must have been remembering reading the Azerrad bio. (Only Cobain book worth reading, imo.) It might say the 4th (time of death is estimated). Or maybe April 4th is just catchier because of that U2 song about MLK.

Call me racist, but I’m pretty sure MLK was more important than Cobain. I like the idea of excluding politics from a music blog, but you can look at King as a spoken word artist, maybe the best ever. Plus you have to admire his ideas as maybe even better. (Preaching equality of races and end to all wars even under treat of death vs. shooting yourself in the head because your stomach hurts… Um, Kurt was an anti-racist feminist of course, but you have to admit that’s barely in his lyrics…holy shit I am not even linking to Nirvana lyrics. What a way to depress yourself even further if you were ever really into them; every reason to like Cobain as a person comes from interviews, he’s the total Anti-Bono, wow.**)

Bonus: When I was doing J-pop vs. Metal I did a MLK Day post, which I just re-upped.

*Btw, did the new Strokes song remind anyone else of Angel of Harlem?
**noobs, get Incesticide

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