All the albums I ever liked were albums that delivered a great song, one after another: Aerosmith‘s Rocks, the Sex Pistols‘ Never Mind the Bollocks, Led Zeppelin II, Back in Black, by AC/DC. ![]() “If I was smart, I would have saved most of the songs off Nevermind and spread them out over a 15-year period. The rest can be bullshit Bad Company rip-offs, and it doesn’t matter.” What I’ve realized is that you only need a couple of catchy songs on an album. I’m gonna stroke my ego by saying that we’re better than a lot of bands out there. “It just kind of pisses me off to know that we work really hard to make an entire album’s worth of songs that are as good as we can make them. God, I’ve had much better quotes in my head about this.” They’re a pleasant rock band that everyone likes. Rolling Stone released a ‘sneak peek’ excerpt from Danny Goldberg’s book, and we see that Kurt slammed hard at Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar by calling him a ‘mindless heavy metal party. Except I’m pretty sure that they didn’t go out of their way to challenge their audience as much as we did with this record. Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg is about to release his new book, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain. ![]() ![]() But without them realizing they were being pushed into the grunge bandwagon.” Don’t you feel any empathy with them? They’ve been under the same intense follow-up-album pressure as you have. It was my fault I should have been slagging off the record company instead of them. I slagged them off because I didn’t like their band. Kurt Cobain explained feud with Eddie Vedder and why he doesn’t like Pearl Jam: Interviewer: “It’s never been entirely clear what this feud with Vedder was about”.
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