Transcript: The Best Live Rock Record Ever?

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
11-10-2009
The Best Live Rock Record Ever?

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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MELISSA BLOCK, host:

It was 15 years ago that Kurt Cobain took his own life, but this month his music lives on with two Nirvana releases. There's a reissue of the band's album "Bleach" and a DVD of a performance at England's Reading Festival in 1992. Our critic Will Hermes is especially taken with the DVD.

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WILL HERMES: The first time I saw Nirvana at the club First Avenue in Minneapolis, I didn't really get it - at first. Then they played the song "About a Girl," which sounded like something off "Meet the Beatles," only bent out of shape ...

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