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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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6 Reddit comments about Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge:

u/SpermJackalope · 10 pointsr/MakeupAddiction

Is trashing performance venues because you're in a bad mood not douchey? That was something he started doing long before Nirvana made it big, it wasn't any kind of protest against the music industry or whatever. He was whiney and self-indulgent, treated his band mates like crap, trash-talked other bands all the time, and was honestly just kind of a man-child who needed to grow the hell up. I'm a big fan of Nirvana, and I think Cobain was a good person, but he was no kind of perfect martyr.

Everybody Loves Our Town gives a more complete picture of Cobain than you usually get, IMO (and it's just a freakin sweet book). The way Dave Grohl talks about Cobain, especially. Grohl likes and respects Cobain a lot, but in other interviews he talks about how he never wants to make his bandmates feel the way Cobain made him feel all the time.

u/AdmiralLobstero · 6 pointsr/punk

Please Kill Me is good. Then if you are into the 90's Seattle scene, check out Everybody Loves Our Town as well.

u/JXH · 6 pointsr/grunge

Cornell's death has come 25 years after the end of Grunge.

By late 93/early 94 with the release of In Utero, Vs., Jar of Flies, the bands involved in the scene of 90, 91,92, had all moved on musically.

Pick up a copy of this book, a great book about grunge from the people who were there at the time

u/PotentChill91 · 3 pointsr/grunge

If you're specifically looking for grunge, and you havent explored the big 4, they are the place to start.

Soundgarden is my favourite, mainly because, in my opinion, they were the most experimental and rhythmically interesting out of the bunch (and effective odd time signature usage gets me excited). Also Cornell was a stone cold genius.

After the big 4, expand out into the others people have mentioned (plus Silverchair's first two albums, Frogstomp and Freak Show).

ALSO, if you're interested in the history and backstories, I hiiiiiighly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Loves-Our-Town-History/dp/030746444X


Blurb:
>"Drawn from more than 250 new interviews—with members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, Hole, Melvins, Mudhoney, Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, L7, Babes in Toyland, 7 Year Bitch, TAD, the U-Men, Candlebox and many more—and featuring previously untold stories and never-before-published photographs, Everybody Loves Our Town is at once a moving, funny, lurid, and hugely insightful portrait of an extraordinary musical era."

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/Seattle

Mark Yarm's "Everybody Loves Our Town" is a great read that presents the oral history of Seattle's punk/grunge scene from the 80s and beyond.

http://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Loves-Our-Town-History/dp/030746444X