McCartney Will Front Nirvana Tonight? (It’s Always About a Girl) – Chris Cocca Skip to content Chris Cocca Menu about blog Selected Work McCartney Will Front Nirvana Tonight? (It’s Always About a Girl) 12 Dec 2012 13 Dec 2012 ~ Chris Cocca Maybe so. If this happens, I guarantee “About A Girl.” From your friends at Wikipedia: According to the 1994 Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad, “About a Girl” was written after Kurt Cobainspent an entire afternoon listening to Meet The Beatles! repeatedly. At the time, Cobain was trying to conceal his pop songwriting instincts, and he was reluctant to include the song on Bleach for fear of alienating the band’s then-exclusively grunge fan base. In a 1993 Rolling Stone interview with David Fricke, he explained: “Even to put “About a Girl” on Bleach was a risk. I was heavily into pop, I really liked R.E.M., and I was into all kinds of old ‘60s stuff. But there was a lot of pressure within that social scene, the underground — like the kind of thing you get in high school. And to put a jangly R.E.M. type of pop song on a grunge record, in that scene, was risky.” [1] However, Bleach producer Jack Endino was excited about the song, and even saw it as a potential single. Years later, Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana’s 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind, would cite “About a Girl” as the first hint that there was more to Nirvana than grunge. “Everyone talks about Kurt’s love affair with… the whole punk scene, but he was also a huge Beatles fan, and the more time we spent together the more obvious their influence on his songwriting became,” Vig told the NME in 2004. +++ Recorded in 1988. 25 years ago. 25 years before that, the Beatles released Please Please Me and With The Beatles. That means if Dave Grohl were George Harrison, he’d already be past the “Set On You” era. Time is crazy. I hope this happens. I really do. DVR set to awesome. Perhaps this is the space-time disturbance the Mayans foresaw. ⁣⁣⁣⁣share: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) More Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Like this: Like Loading... Posted in writing 12/12/12About A GirlBleachDave GrohlKurt CobainNirvanaPaul McCartney Post navigation ‹ PreviousI Think Neal Adams Draws The Best Batman Next ›A Bill of Rights for Mental Health Care 2 thoughts on “McCartney Will Front Nirvana Tonight? (It’s Always About a Girl)” Chad Hogg says: 12 Dec 2012 at 9:25 pm Thanks for clueing me in to the existence of this. It has been great so far. Reply Christopher Cocca says: 13 Dec 2012 at 12:14 am like! Reply Join the discussion! Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (Address never made public) Name Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Follow Blog via Email Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address: Follow Join 3,216 other followers Recent Posts Pilgrims, Paxil, Progress Phil Christman’s Random Defense of Criticism MatPat Calls Out the Sesame Street Grownups Over Ongoing Elmo/Rocko Feud A Deeper Dive into Stephen Crane, with All My Adjacent Obsessions Stephen Crane On Boyhood Dreams: Most Men Blush. I Don’t. Old Tom Petty Songs I’ve Only Come to Know as a Full-Grown Man Good Advice is the Hardest to Take The Gospel According to John and Eugene 25 Years Ago, The Biggest Rock Band Dropped A Perfect Album That Nobody Was Ready For Mommy and the Dada Wilderness How to Read More (by Leveraging Compulsions) Ray Bradbury Could Work Anywhere “Brick and Mortar” at Flash Fiction Magazine On Being Daunted in Public Writing and Publishing Year in Review My Tweets Website Powered by WordPress.com. Follow Following Chris Cocca Join 3,216 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. Chris Cocca Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar %d bloggers like this: