Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
4) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
It was one of those really interesting political times: In 87, there’s the “Stock Market Crash” and then in 1990 there’s “Operation Desert Storm”. There is this ___________ of real anxiety, especially for young people.
In places like Seattle, this was a really sort of characteristic of the new music scene.
Everybody was working really _____________ day jobs, and driving _____________ cars and renting group houses. Really no future in sight.
They had to play music. It wasn’t to get a record deal. It wasn’t to on go tour. It was what they did. What they were ________________ to do.
The first time I met Nirvana, I thought they hadn’t take a bath for 3 days. And they were pretty fried out, kind of _______________. But that time we had to expectations. We were just making a punk record and ‘having the time of our lives’.
So when near “Nevermind” comes out on September, 24th 1991 it was sort of dividing line between the old era and the new.
“Nevermind” was such an amazing record and such a seen defining record.
It was incredibly exciting that “Nevermind” ___________ Michael Jackson out for number one.
It was seen extremely symbolic. Michael Jackson was the king of pop. He was the old guard. And here comes Nirvana.
I was on tour bus with Soundgarden when we got the news and I think the wall ____________ on the bus. That was a moment in history.
I would turn to get the audience and the band in the pictures. Because the audience was kind of notorious for going crazy.
It was sort of “Beatlemaniac”. It was like a ______________. I’d never really seen anything like that before.
Cobain slip into a coma last night after taking a large dose of painkiller with Champaign.
Drug addiction ________________ the ability to go forward. I see that as the greatest undoing.
Cobain’s body was found in a house in Seattle on Friday morning. His was dead of apparently self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head.
Everyone who was alive then pretty much remembers that day.
I can never hear Kurt’s voice without thinking about his suicide and what a tragedy it was.
I think a lot of kids had known about Kurt Cobain, just from the message and his music. He knows a lot of kids that got that infatuation with death. “Damn! This ___________ is brave. He is not afraid to die”. So it was like going on alone. On this “on edge artist” like this and just like their beliefs, and grunginess and nostalgia e just the vibe. I think kids lived, they wanted lived that way, they wanted to see how he felt like.
We don’t need the lovers from the 60’s, we don’t need punk from the 70’s or this androgynous player from the 80’s. We need something simple, something destructive, something ________.
4) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
It was one of those really interesting political times: In 87, there’s the “Stock Market Crash” and then in 1990 there’s “Operation Desert Storm”. There is this ___________ of real anxiety, especially for young people.
In places like Seattle, this was a really sort of characteristic of the new music scene.
Everybody was working really _____________ day jobs, and driving _____________ cars and renting group houses. Really no future in sight.
They had to play music. It wasn’t to get a record deal. It wasn’t to on go tour. It was what they did. What they were ________________ to do.
The first time I met Nirvana, I thought they hadn’t take a bath for 3 days. And they were pretty fried out, kind of _______________. But that time we had to expectations. We were just making a punk record and ‘having the time of our lives’.
So when near “Nevermind” comes out on September, 24th 1991 it was sort of dividing line between the old era and the new.
“Nevermind” was such an amazing record and such a seen defining record.
It was incredibly exciting that “Nevermind” ___________ Michael Jackson out for number one.
It was seen extremely symbolic. Michael Jackson was the king of pop. He was the old guard. And here comes Nirvana.
I was on tour bus with Soundgarden when we got the news and I think the wall ____________ on the bus. That was a moment in history.
I would turn to get the audience and the band in the pictures. Because the audience was kind of notorious for going crazy.
It was sort of “Beatlemaniac”. It was like a ______________. I’d never really seen anything like that before.
Cobain slip into a coma last night after taking a large dose of painkiller with Champaign.
Drug addiction ________________ the ability to go forward. I see that as the greatest undoing.
Cobain’s body was found in a house in Seattle on Friday morning. His was dead of apparently self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head.
Everyone who was alive then pretty much remembers that day.
I can never hear Kurt’s voice without thinking about his suicide and what a tragedy it was.
I think a lot of kids had known about Kurt Cobain, just from the message and his music. He knows a lot of kids that got that infatuation with death. “Damn! This ___________ is brave. He is not afraid to die”. So it was like going on alone. On this “on edge artist” like this and just like their beliefs, and grunginess and nostalgia e just the vibe. I think kids lived, they wanted lived that way, they wanted to see how he felt like.
We don’t need the lovers from the 60’s, we don’t need punk from the 70’s or this androgynous player from the 80’s. We need something simple, something destructive, something ________.
