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April 12, 2007
OKC-NVMD: The Interview Round
Starting in March, MerrySwankster and its readers held a tournament to determine the best album of the 90s. Styled after March Madness, it included 65 teams. Nirvana's Nevermind and Radiohead's OK Computer are the finalists. To vote on which album you think should win, click here or vote in the comments below.
If Album Insanity were a beauty pageant, this would be the interview portion of the competition...
I have to admit, I had to fight back my own '94-era despair while I was sorting through Youtube footage in search of some old interviews with our final two. Not only would Kurt have been nearly the same age that Thom is today, but I don't doubt the passage of time would've found him every bit as principled, eloquent and prolific. (We forget he was a baby, a real 23-year-old retard, when Nevermind swept the world.) And regardless of which pendant you're waving in the finals, I'd like to think I speak for everyone when I say we would've followed Kurt much like we've followed Thom, through all his own artistic reincarnations, solo and otherwise.
At any rate, please forgive the fact that some of these videos are more circa Bends and In Utero. But I post them lest we forget that the 1990s found both our young icons thrust in front of the cameras like real beauty contestants; suddenly they were speaking for "a generation," whether they felt equipped to or not.
So, bring on nostalgia... Here's a brief nod to the bygone days of immediate success, unwonted wealth, bad hair and youthful inarticulateness.
ON BEING MISINTERPRETED (THOM YORKE IN 1996 & KURT COBAIN IN 1993):
As a side note: I'm a little thrown by the way Thom looks like Kurt at the start of this interview.
ON HYPE & 'THAT SONG' (RADIOHEAD IN 1995 & NIRVANA IN 1991):
AND, AS AN ADDED BONUS...
NIRVANA RENOUNCING ROCK STAR CLICHES:
NIRVANA BEHAVING LIKE ROCK STAR CLICHES:
Why did we love Kurt? Ah yes, because he had no qualms about comparing himself to Bette Midler.
Posted by Koren Zailckas at April 12, 2007 06:00 PM
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