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KURT COBAIN: When rock becomes religion, our gods are rendered mortal.
by Charles Aaron (SPIN, December 1994)
If growing up as a Pisces on bended knees in the church of punk rock taught me anything, it was never to trust anything or anyone, even myself, particularly if there was money or love or God involved, never trust a melody because melodies sell people things they don't need, always place blame and always accept it, and remember that, in the words of punk forefather Graham Greene, "We are all of us resigned to death: It's life we aren't resigned to."
In other words, punk rock kept me from wanting to kill myself as a dopey kid, but left me with very little to live for as a dopey adult, except the laughter of survival or some such. The happiest people are the best liars. Stunted punk ideas like that still scurry from the right side of my brain to the left. And I say the "church" of punk rock because Johnny Rotten was a tortured Catholic, and I was a tortured Baptist, and my punk-rock dream come true wasn't some quaint DIY vision of hearing "real" rock'n'roll again. It was about rescuing Jesus from the repressive lying assholes and convincing Him to scream "Fuck off and die" at everything and everyone I hated. Punk rock was
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The History Additional Punk – Start Here
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Better to Burn Out: Neil Young’s 'Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)'
When Kurt Cobain took his life 30 years ago this past April, one line revealed from his suicide note was the unattributed adage, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” Neil Young’s name was not mentioned, but everyone knew the line’s source. As a tragic misinterpretation, it hit hard, especially Young himself. “When he died and left that note, it struck a deep chord inside of me,” Young writes in his memoir, Waging Heavy Peace (2012). He went on to record Sleeps with Angels (1994), released only a handful of months later, as a tribute to Cobain.
Neil Young was ordained the godfather of grunge during the early 1990s, though the origins of this reputation go back to the 1970s when he recorded Rust Never Sleeps (1979) with Crazy Horse. On that raucous and notoriously loud LP, Young asserted his alignment with the emergent punk rock scene through the anthem “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black),” which name-checked Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) of the Sex Pistols. He also declared in passing how it’s better to burn out than to fade away. Interpreted at the time as a critique of his aging musical generation, it was primarily directed at himself. Punk had