![]() Sleeps With Angels has a lot of overtones to it, from different situations Sleeps With Angels seems deeply haunted by the spectre of Kurt CobainĪ. Yet Young has strenuously avoided any such labeling, preferring to be called "Don Grungio" instead.įrom a Neil Young interview in MOJO Magazine with Nick Kent: It has been debated as to whether Kurt Cobain or Neil Young is the Godfather of Grunge? Cobain's demise has only added to Nirvana's musical legacy and influence. It's just distasteful to me.' "ĭuring Neil Young's induction speech into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on January 13, 1995, Young choked up and concluded by thanking Cobain for "all of the inspiration". I certainly don't wanna take advantage of talking about something like that for the interest of somebody else I've never met and selling myself in paper in the process. ' He falters and recomposes himself behind alarming blue shades. 'I really don't because I respect the fact that he's a guy who did what he did and, y'know, he did what he had to do and I don't wanna get any. 'I don't wanna talk about it," says Young. It's rumoured that Young was trying to contact Cobain at the time of his suicide, that he somehow foresaw the tragedy coming. Obviously his interpretation should not be taken to mean there's only two ways to go and one of them is death.' It's over.'Īs for Cobain, he mutters: 'I don't wanna talk about that. ![]() Once a song is out there on the radio, he reasons, it's not anyone's responsibility anymore. "Perversely, it is testament to Young's emotive power that Cobain should choose his words as an epitaph, but it is something Young still visibly shudders from. Always an advocate of allowing the listener his or her own individual path through a record, he was so devastated by Cobain's personal reaction to a song that was basically written as a celebration of Punk that he was impelled to record the 'Sleeps With Angels' album in lament." On "Mirror Ball", though, the natural incompatibility of these forces has been raised into shocking relief by one disciple choosing an unfeasibly extreme interpretation of Young's message when Kurt Cobain quoted, "It's Better to burn out, than to fade away." In his suicide note, citing Young's lyric as artistic justification for ending his inconsolable anguish, Young was shaken to the bone. In Kurt Cobain's suicide note he quoted Neil Young's song "My My, Hey Hey" lyrics "It's Better to burn out, than to fade away."Ĭobain's use of the lyrics had a profound impact on Young, who recorded portions of the 1994 'Sleeps With Angels' (listen to a sample clip here) album in Cobain's memory.Īpparently, Neil Young had been trying to reach Cobain by telephone in the days before his suicide to no avail.įrom New Musical Express article "Reflective Glory" (07/15/95) by Steve Sutherland & Kevin Cummins on recording "Mirror Ball" (Neil Young and Pearl Jam collaboration) in the aftermath of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain's suicide and the contradictory forces of life and death:
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