Nirvana photo courtesy of Sub Pop
Perhaps no other day marks Seattle music history like April 5. Eighteen years ago today, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain took his life. Eight years later, on April 5, Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley died from a drug overdose. But also on April 5, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready was born. (AIC’s original bassist Mike Starr was born a day earlier.) So what better day to celebrate local music, particularly the era that made Seattle in/famous? On the Morning Show, John Richards is spinning all Seattle music, and you’ll no doubt hear loads more throughout the day. For online listeners, we’ve put together this playlist of local bands, mostly contemporaries and precursors to the legendary early 90′s era of Northwest rock:
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Kurt Cobain About A Son: Trailer
The Sonics - Psycho
The Wipers - Can This Be?
Nirvana - Breed
Green River - Unwind
Melvins - Symptom Of The Universe
The Gits - Here To Your Fuck
Alice In Chains - Bleed The Freak
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Citizen Dick - aka Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Matt Dillon in the ’92 movie Singles
Mudhoney - Touch Me I’m Sick
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You
Tad - Woodgoblins
Nirvana - Dumb (Live at Reading 1992)
L7 - Wargasm - live in Rio (with Kurt & Courtney on stage)
Alice in Chain - Would?
Malfunkshun - Make Sweet Love
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Seaweed - Kid Candy
Skin Yard - Start At The Top
Gruntruck - Melt
Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole
Nirvana - All Apologies
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Damn! That is a stellar playlist. Lots of memories.