grungebook:

Cobain’s widow lays out possible scenarios, from divorce to open marriage, on the 18th anniversary of his death. (Read the story; photo: Michel Linssen/Redferns)

This needs to be read.

Re-posted and expanded from Facebook for your amusement:

It’s funny when these girls who were only six months old when Kurt Cobain died try to act like they know more about grunge than the people who lived through it. FYI:

• Courtney Love did not kill Kurt Cobain.
• Kurt Cobain is not Jesus. He was a heroin addict with a good deal of talent who got lucky. It could have happened to any other random schmuck with a guitar.
• Layne Staley and Chris Cornell are the only frontmen who could actually sing. The rest just either bellowed through songs in a punk/hardcore voice, or they made atonal cool. Or they were Eddie Vedder, who is just god-awfully nasaly (Sorry Jen).
• Pearl Jam were formed to cash in on the trend. They formed at a time when grunge was “hot”, and they wanted to ride the wave of Nirvana’s success. There was never much meat to their songs, anyway.
• Mudhoney and Melvins are better than the rest, including Nirvana. Without Melvins, this shit would have never existed in the first place (same goes for sludge). Mudhoney were raw, their members were ugly, and they didn’t give a shit. That’s what made them great.
• Courtney Love was not the only woman on the scene. Babes in Toyland, L7, other members of the Riot Grrrl movement, and former Melvins bassist Lori Black prove otherwise.
• Wearing all the flannel and ripped jeans in the world does not make you any more grunge. In fact, it makes you look more like the kind of aloof mall rats who rode the trend. Also, Pearl Jam. Boo.
• Go listen to Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, TAD, early Nirvana, and early Soundgarden. Now go listen to later Black Flag and Flipper. Now you have a better handle of what the scene really was about, as well as the influences that brought it to fruition.
• Alice in Chains only worked when Layne and Jerry Cantrell worked together. Everything the band has done since Layne’s death is pure rubbish that may or may not be intended to bring in new revenue off of an established brand.
• Kurt Cobain is still not Jesus. Stifle.

These are not difficult concepts.

bigveinsdogbeg:

YOU DO REALIZE THAT KURT HAD A HUGE FUCKING HEROIN HABIT YES?

Courtney haters have no place in my life.