Dear sir

It has come to my attention, and I must inform you with great displeasure
the following news. While the greatest aspects of Rock and Roll are being
overlooked, this electronic cubbyhole of a time waster has become
over-saturated with complete idiocy. Groups like Rush, Led Zep, and a
myriad of others are taking the place of the true meaning of Rock and
Roll. Somewhere in the world, there is a kid typing up the lyrics to
Stairway to Heaven (I suspect  that the amount of times it's being typed
up is somewhere near the amount of times it's played on the radio). The
raw energy of real rock and roll is being tossed aside for the likes of
Lenny Kravitz (may he rot in hell) Waving his dick in the face of the world.
I can do that on the roof of my apartment building. Big deal. I've only found
a group here and there that actually have what it really takes here and there.
One of which is Nirvana. I fear, though, that, thanks to all damn MTV hype,
that the meaning, emotion, and energy is going to be lost, if it hasn't
happened already.

  I finally am in a position to where I'm no longer bombarded by The
damnedable MTV hype, and actually had a chance to listen to listen to
Nirvana's Nevermind. I'm in a very sad state of depression right now.
The whole album is one fucking downer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying
that the album sucks. Far from it. It's just managed to stir up a lot of
garbage I, and probably everyone else I know have been forced to wallow
through in one form or another. Especially 'Territorial Pissings.' Many
years ago, I was living  in this redneck, shithole of a city in Montana.
I didn't like anything about it. Not the culture, not the people, not the
entertainment. Nothing. Consequently, I got the shit beat out of me. Almost
on a daily basis. Come to think of it, it WAS on a daily basis. For some
strange reason. For the first couple of times I would try to hold my dignity,
and did really stupid things like not try to run, not fight back, etc. Really
stupid. My family life was set up in a way that no one really gave a shit what
happened. The problem wasn't happening, because they didn't want to believe it
was happening. After a few months of this, I finally reached the boiling point.
All traces of sanity dissipated with the wind.  Kurt managed to capture the whole
experience, screaming at the top of his lungs...

GOTTA FIND A WAY
A BETTER WAY
A BETTER WAY

GOTTA FIND A WAY
RUN AWAY
GET AWAY

I've seen seen pre-mtv videos of Nirvana performing this song. Trust me,
the studio version isn't that much different. Kurt slams his head into the
amps, over and over, screaming the above over and over. He's not even
playing his guitar. With all the controls and amps turned up
as high as they can go, he's more venting his frustrations more than
anything. He's punishing it, killing it, only letting up for a brief moment
to smile sarcastically and say "Just because your paranoid don't mean they're
not after you."

  Perhaps Kurt saw all this grunge hyper-mode shit coming, he certainly
came up with one of the greatest lyrics I've ever heard, in the song
'In Bloom'; He's the one that like all our pretty songs/and he likes to
sing along/and he likes to shoot his guns/But he don't know what it means."
This being in a song that, except for that chorus, has no meanings at all.
I shit you not, I've seen trust fund kids, decked out in your typical
macy's bought grunge fashion-wear, sitting in the "in" coffee houses of
Lower Haight conteplating the lyrics to a song with lyrics like (and in
no particular order)...

Sell the kids for food
Nature is a whore
Spring is here again

  But then again,if they're wasting their time on utter garbage, the chorus
just drives the point/joke further home. I could go on and on about each
and every song, but why bother? The meaning is lost. All that emotion and
rawness have been flushed down the toilet. All we can hope for, is that is
comes gurgling back up, when the pipes finally clog. But I ain't holding my
breath over it.