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Mark Yarm
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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
  4.13 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Don't be discouraged by how this is the second oral history of grunge. While Greg Prato's book is good, Yarm's book goes much, much deeper and personal. Well worth your time.
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Simply amazing. Not a quick read but a worthy item to add to the rock and roll bookshelf. If all you know about Seattle is Nirvana you probably can't appreciate how impenetrable the scene there was/is (even now) and how hard it is to find the righ...
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“Jeff Ament: The minute we started rehearsing and Ed started singing -- which was within an hour of him landing in Seattle -- was the first time I was like, "Wow, this is a band that I'd play at home on my stereo." What he was writing about was the space Stone and I were in. We'd just lost one of our friends to a dark and evil addiction, and he was putting that feeling to words. I saw him as a brother. That's what pulled me back in [to making music]. It's like when you read a book and there's something describing something you've felt all your life.”
― Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
― Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
“Jeff Gilbert: With Nirvana's success, all of the sudden, heavy-metal chicks who'd been dressing in spandex and fishnets and stiletto boots, now they started showing up to shows and they had washed all the Aqua Net out of their hair and they started to look as ratty as some of the guys. I thought, Oh, no, the beginning of the end.”
― Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
― Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
“Anton Brookes: I think I was within my right to accuse him of selling out a little bit, if you think about what Nirvana was supposed to be about and what they stood for; they did antirape benefits for Bosnia and stuff like that. Nirvana were supposedly right-on, weren't they? They were the voice of a generation, the conscience of a generation. And for all intents and purposes, Kurt mutated into everything he was against. He became your attitudinal rock star, with the tantrums and the plush hotels and everything. And then, for all intents and purposes, Kurt was sucking corporation cock.”
― Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
― Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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