Kurt Cobain Research Paper

Kurt Donald Cobain was born February 20th, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington. Son of Wendy Elizabeth and Donald Leland Cobain, Cobain was born in Grays Harbor Hospital. Ever since Kurt was a young boy, he has always had an interest in music as he started singing at 2 years old. At age four, he was writing songs, singing, and playing the piano. He was also listening to rock and roll at this age such as “The Beatles” or “The Ramones”. Cobain’s parents divorced at the age of nine and both of the adults remarried shortly after. Kurt has said in interviews that this had a very dramatic effect on him, even going as far as changing his personality. He had always dreamed of that perfect family, and since his parents decision stopped that from happening - he held a grudge.

Beginning with the late 1960’s counterculture in San Francisco, music and drugs will forever be inter-linked. Hippie bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and Phish are associated with marijuana, mushrooms, and LSD. Modern electronic “rave” , or club music is associated with MDMA or Ecstasy. When one thinks of rock and roll, sex and drugs immediately come to mind. While the use of drugs is not essential for the creation or performance of all new music, it was certainly in important factor for the counterculture music of the late 1960’s. While some of the most important and influential music was made with the help of psychoactive drugs, it was often to the detriment of the artist. Janis

Kurt had a very connecting relationship with his fans, through his music, a task that not many artists do today with their music. Even though Kurt was a “heroin user who suffered from depression, Cobain’s suicide note mourned his emotional distance from his fans, even as he connected with them in a way few stars had before” (Frizell 49). After his death he is still emotionally connecting with his fans through his work, and many people still talk about how great he was. Many people to this day debate on if he actually committed suicide, or if he was murdered by his wife. Lots of the articles over his death say that “Kurt Cobain committed suicide at the age of 27, he was found dead in his Seattle home” (Frizell 49).

Kurt Cobain became a rock legend in the 1990s with his band Nirvana. He committed suicide at his Seattle home in 1994.

This album by my favorite band of all time nirvana with band members consisting of Kurt Cobain,Dave Grohl,Krist Novoselic,and Pat Smear.The band went from 1987 to 1994.The band ended when Kurt Cobain was found dead in his apartment in his home in Seattle washington on April 5th,1994.But enough about the band's history we are here to talk about their album titled Nevermind.The album cover is a picture of a baby in a swimming pool with a dollar.

The ten people involved included musician friends, record company executives, and one of Cobain's closest friends, Dylan Carlson. The intervention was unsuccessful, which resulted in Kurt gets angry and eventually locking himself in the upstairs bedroom. However, by the end of the day, he had agreed to undergo a detox program. He arrived at the Exodus Recovery Center in Los Angeles, California on March 30, 1994. The staff at the facility were unaware of his history of depression and prior attempts at suicide. When visited by friends, there was no indication to them that he was in any negative or suicidal state of mind. He spent the day talking to counselors about his drug abuse and personal problems, happily playing with his daughter Frances. These interactions were the last time Cobain saw his daughter. Kurt went outside to smoke a cigarette the following night, he climbed over a 6 foot fence and escaped the facility. He caught a cab back to Los Angeles and flew back to Seattle. On the flight, he sat next to Duff Mckagan of Guns N' Roses. Despite Kurt's own personal animosity towards Guns N' Roses, Kurt "seemed happy'' according to Duff Mckagan. Most of his close family and friends didn't know Kurt's whereabouts. On April 2 and 3, Kurt was spotted in numerous locations around Seattle. On April 3, Courtney contacted the private investigator Tom Grant, and hired him to find Kurt. He

“We all knew that he was going through stuff and that the fame and attention bothered him. I just don’t know why, (McKay). These problems probably began with the divorce of his parents at the age of nine. After the divorce he was moved from home to home and became distant with his father (bio.com). Then, just like any other young child, Kurt began to feel downcast and alone. Not knowing how to deal with his feelings, Cobain started to act out and experiment in ways to make him feel better. As a result to his troubled youth with his family, he found solace

Band mates of Nirvana enjoyed the limelight they were in. Money and endorsements rolled in, but Kurt Cobain essentially did not think much of fame. In fact, Kurt Cobain resented his fame. Most band mates, like Dave Grohl, would push for Cobain to seek bigger opportunities. The band would push for Cobain to sign to bigger labels, release albums frequently, and engage in what Cobain viewed as “selling out.” However, Cobain would have none of that. Cobain simply did not care about their fame. Cobain would rail against record labels, artists, and even TV stations just for corrupting the industry. Kurt once sent a letter to MTV, but addressed them as “Empty TV.” The letter continued on about how they are the reason the, “Old school is going down

This album review will be on Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album that was released in 1991. This was Nirvana's second album released and it sold over 30 million copies. I was interested in Nirvana once I saw it was an option in the book and also because almost everyday you can see someone in the streets wearing a Nirvana t-shirt even people my age and I was curious to listen to their music. As I said before people my age are still wearing Nirvana shirts which truly demonstrates how impactful their music was to society.

The death of Kurt Cobain. Cobain walked away from treatment without informing his family or friends. Then convinced his friend into buying him a gun, claiming it was for protection. April 5, he returned home, wrote a suicide note quoting Neil Young’s lyric “better to burn out than to fade out.” April 8, not long before 9am The body of Kurt was found in the greenhouse above the garage of his home in Seattle. Across his chest laid a 20-gauge shotgun. An electrician installing a security system in his house discovered him. He had been missing for six days. (RollingStone) His identity was only found by his fingerprint. According to his wife, Courtney Love, the last thing

roles. He allowed his own sexuality to be called into question by often wearing dresses and/or makeup on stage in film clips, and on photo shoots, and wrote explicitly feminist songs, such as ‘Sappy’ or ‘Been a Son’” (403). Cobain often spoke of feminism ideologies, anti-sexism and anti-rape, expressing his opinion when these issues weren’t being addressed. He stood for what he believed in; however, he could have been a role model for generations, but it was too much for him.

Sitting in Mr.Mishler’s room during 5th hour having spare time to watch videos off of Youtube. Through the search engine I typed in “Wildest Musicians” and through my results came up a name of a man called Kurt Cobain. I wouldn’t necessarily call him wild… more like unique… For this man at the end of most of his songs I’ve experience just watching him, as he riffs on his solo, waving his blonde yellow hair, becoming in depth with the guitar as if it was bonding with him with every note that he played. Finally with a wave of his arms and down he brought his arms like a hammer coming down. Cobain would destroy a perfectly working condition electric guitar. With every swing it was as if blood lust ran through his eye’s as a wild man hallucinating in the wilderness. Reason explaining why such action take place, are answers unknown.

Despite being almost twenty years in between the time of their fame Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison are more often than not compared to each other. They had fame, fortune and depression. Both were considered to be poets instead of just musicians. Cobain and Morrison has a lot going for them musically. Kurt was not only the lead of a phenomenal band but a guitarist, song writer and an icon to the masses. Morrison was a writer, film maker and icon as well.

It is mostly factual and does put emphasis on the small town boy who is drug addicted and depressed. The story begins right from when Kurt was born and there are obvious times that Cross has created parts for reading enjoyment, such as the final hours of Kurt’s life, as no one would know these intimate details, but Cross’ intentions were for the world to see all sides of Kurt Cobain, and this has been well depicted in this book. After reading this book, you feel as if you have known Kurt. The book does make one want to listen to the Nirvana’s music again, or for the first time, to see how Kurt’s depressed, drug twisted mind and his world were all combined into his music. His music, his art, as well as his actions, lead us to believe he was a depressed, drug addicted boy. Contrary to the outer shell he created, as well as pretending to harbour an aversion to fame, he really did care what others thought, “It seemed like a blur now that he was holding his very own record in his hands. Here was the final, tangible proof he was a real musician” (Cross, 2001) and sadly this was all too true and was proven by the way he ended his life with a suicide note that ended “It’s better to burn out then fade

On the surface, the song “Come As You Are” by Nirvana seems like a song about the struggle of being original, and being different from the way society wants you to be. But, when we take a closer look into the lyrical and visual aspects of the song, we can infer that, along with originality, the song is about struggle with drug use, and the challenges Cobain had as a child or in adulthood with fake friends. Cobain stresses originality in