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30. THE FULL STORY BEHIND NIRVANA & KURT COBAIN (BLEACH, NEVERMIND, IN UTERO, AND THE BAND'S ENTIRE HISTORY)
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Joe and Dave do an exhaustive deep dive on the brief but incendiary career of the kingpins of 90s alternative music, Nirvana. All albums, singles, b-sides and assorted ephemera are discussed and rated on a 0-5 star scale, and the hosts name their favorite and least favorite Nirvana albums.
- Official playlist curated by Joe and Dave on Spotify
- Live clip of Nirvana in 1989, in the brief period when Jason Everman played second guitar. Chad Channing on drums, and Kurt with fabulous long hair
- GREAT performance beautifully filmed and recorded from the period of the band's ascent to the stratosphere, blowing the roof off a packed Paramount Theater in Seattle in October 1991
- Crushing "Drain You" at the Reading festival, 1992
- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on SNL, 1992
- Near the end, "Rape Me" in Paris, February 1994
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