Come As You Are: The Story of NirvanaThe definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination” “Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard “Just tell the truth. That’ll be better than anything else that’s been written about me.”—Kurt Cobain Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging Generation X. Come As You Are is the close-up, intimate story of Nirvana—the only book with exclusive in-depth interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic, and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives, former bandmembers, and associates—now updated to include a final chapter detailing the last year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide in April 1994. Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, Come As You Are is an essential document not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the 1990s. |
Contents
We Were Just Concerned with Fucking Around | 29 |
Thats My Brother Chris He Listens to Punk Rock | 49 |
These Guys Were from Aberdeen | 57 |
Everythings Gettin All Radical | 89 |
6 | 94 |
2 | 108 |
3 | 128 |
CONT ENTS 1 + These Guys Are Going to Be Bigger Than the Beatles | 137 |
9 | 204 |
It Is Now Time to Make It Unclear | 209 |
10 A Crossformat Phenomenon | 223 |
Slamdancing with Mr Brownstone | 235 |
12 All We Did Was | 265 |
13 Three Nice Decent Cleancut Young | 285 |
Its Anger Its Death and Absolute Total Bliss | 299 |
14 Things That Piss Me | 311 |
Are You Hungry? Yes | 147 |
Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Solo Bad Solo | 168 |
8 5 It Felt as if We Couldnt Be Stopped | 186 |
15 The Grownups Dont Like | 331 |
Final Chapter Nirvana U S Discography 29 49 57 89 123 147 168 186 209 223 235 265 285 299 311 331 343 | 343 |
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