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Jukebox Kurt Cobain of Nirvana talks about the records that changed his life. excerpted from Melody
Maker 5. Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth "Lying in an iron lung filled with lukewarm water and Epsom salts""This music relaxes you, it’s total atmospherics. It’s just nice, pleasant music. I love it. The drum machine has to have the cheesiest sound ever. We’re going to be on a Young Marble Giants compilation, doing ‘Credit In The Straight World’. I had a crush on the singer for a while—didn’t everyone? "I didn’t know much about them — the Moxham brothers, right? I heard they might be getting back together again recently. (NB: Stuart Moxham just produced one side of the new Beat Happening album, another of Kurt’s favourite bands). Isn’t it weird how, when you hear something like that, you still get excited, even though you know you shouldn’t? "I first heard Colossal Youth on the radio, after I started getting into K music when I lived in Olympia. It was a year before I put out the ‘Bleach’ album. At the time, I was just painting and doing art stuff. I still do, but now I use oils because I can afford them. I like Goya a lot – I use animated dolls a fair amount. I don’t mean to make them look evil, but they always end up that way." Kurt's complete Top 10 list: 1. The Breeders: Pod 2. The Pixies: Surfer Rosa 3. Leadbelly: Last Sessions 4. The Vaselines: "Dying For It" 5. Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth 6. The Wipers: Is This Real? 7. Shonen Knife: Burning Farm 8. The Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols 9. Jad Fair: Great Expectations 10. The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World |