Lists
Like many music fans, Cobain often made lists of his favorite bands and albums, several of which are included in Journals. His lists were generally eclectic and included artists of many genres, from indie and alternative rock (the Vaselines, Pixies, the Breeders, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., PJ Harvey, Meat Puppets) to protopunk, punk rock and hardcore (The Stooges, the Velvet Underground, Butthole Surfers, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Slits, The Saints, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Faith, Rites of Spring, Flipper) to hip-hop (Public Enemy, N.W.A) to blues (Leadbelly) and hard rock and metal (Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC,). On his "Top 50" albums list, offerings from such obscure artists as The Shaggs, Tales of Terror, Marine Girls, Swans and The Frogs coexist with albums by The Beatles, David Bowie, Sparks, and Aerosmith. The 1973 Stooges record Raw Power is listed at #1 on all of Cobain's "favorite album" lists. He also noted an interest in grunge and the Seattle Sound (The Melvins, Green River, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, early Soundgarden).
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“Behold the Atom—I preferred—
To all the lists of Clay!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
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—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coloseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)