Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1994.
This book is ideal for any Nirvana fan. It follows the group from the beginning until a year before the tragic death of a Kurt Cobaine. Later, a final chapter was added to include the last year culminating to Cobaine's death. What sets this book apart from typical Nirvana books is the fact that it was written before Cobaine committed suicide. Thus, this eliminates any of the "lets feel sorry about Cobaine" attitude, and focuses on their actual careers as musicians and the music they made. Azerrad analyzes every song on the group's three major albums, and provides insight into everything by sharing exclusive interviews with members of the band Cobaine, Chris Novoselic, and Dave Grohl. In addition, there are interviews with family, friends, relatives, former bandmates and associates of the group. The book not only perfectly tells the story of Nirvana, but also includes a complete discography, and over one hundred rare photographs, posters and original lyric sheets.
Arnold, Gina. Route 666: On the Route to Nirvana. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Gina Arnold's book highlights a fifteen-year period, beginning with the Sex Pistols and ending with Nirvana. She presents the story of punk-rock in the United States that spanned the period that she grew up in. This book is unique in that not too many other writers have written extensively on rock music and were able to cover so much. She talks about rock music through her own experiences and through the testimony of two other people. All of them collected their information through personal experiences and after talking with record store owners, college radio deejays, and fans all over the country. Arnold tends to get more rapped up in her own experience being at a concert or meeting artists, and the emotions she is feeling rather than the actual information.
Annotated Bibliography Dreyer, Regina A. "What You Need to Know About Owning Your Own Business." Career Directions for Dental Hygienists. Newark: Career Directions Press, 1985. The chapter gives the reader background information and recounts personal experiences related to independent practic...
Analysis of "Tears, idle tears" Lord Alfred Tennyson's, "Tears, idle tears", has many references to symbols and images that reflect the mood of the poem. Gloom controls the atmosphere the author is describing to the audience. These images better the understanding of this poem and give the rea...
Annotated Bibliography Lehmann, John. Christopher Isherwood: A Personal Memoir. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1987. John Lehmann is a poet, publisher, and author. He was editor and founder of New Writings and Penguin New Writings. He was also publisher of Christopher Isherwood's The Memor...
Allegoric Naivete The dictionary defines an allegory as a "Story that through events reveals the true nature of people". Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne ultimately exhibits the underlying personalities of a small Puritan town, set in Salem Massachusetts, home of the original ...
Running on Empty "Running on Empty" by Robert Phillips is describing a young person, probably a college freshman, discovering what it is like to be on his own. This theme is carried throughout the poem and reinforced through many traditional structural elements. The poem is using a blank vers...
Referencing and bibliography Adapted from Palgrave and Continuum Publishers' guidelines There are two main systems in use for providing references and other notes to the text: 1. ... (Jones 1993:10), with a corresponding bibliography. ... Usually if this system is used there is not a separate bibliography and full bibliographical details are included in the notes. ... Make sure that each reference in the text has an entry in the Bibliography. ... If using Harvard references it is best to think of a concise 'author' to use in the reference in the text and spell out the ful...
Common Sense Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, could not have come at a better time. The colonists craved independence, but leaned toward reconciliation with the British. Paine stresses this theme throughout the work. The pamphlet was directed toward every colonist, including those stil...
Topic #1 As Socrates once stated "the unexamined life is not worth living." (Apology, internet quote site) If one agrees with Socrates then he or she would believe that living the examined life is something that is of the utmost importance. This being true, one would want to gain the knowledge t...
