My Best Friend

I made a mixtape for my best friend the other day.  Good news:  she loves it!!

1. I Woke Up In A Car - Something Corporate
2. My Best Friend - Weezer
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
4. I Miss You - Blink-182
5. Rock 'n' Roll High School - The Ramones
6. Ode to Sleep - twenty one pilots
7. Skin - BOY
8. Afraid - The Neighbourhood
9. Sex - The 1975
10. Brick By Boring Brick - Paramore
11. Miss Jackson (feat. Lolo) - Panic! at the Disco
12. 21 Guns - Green Day
13. Sugar, We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy
14. Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
15. Money - Pink Floyd
16. Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
17. Time of Your Life - Green Day

October 23rd

On October 23...

1956, Dwight Yoakam, famous country singer, was born.

1962, Stevie Wonder, then 12-years-old, recorded his first single entitled, "Thank You For Loving Me All The Way."

1963, The Beatles headed to Stockholm, Sweden to begin their first foreign tour.

1966, The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single "Hey Joe" at De Lane Lea Studios in London.

1976, Led Zeppelin made their debut on American television on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.

1989, Nirvana performed at Newcastle's Riverside Club in England, their first show in Europe.

1993, Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" was his first song to reach No. 1 on the UK charts and stayed at the spot for seven weeks.

1993, English band Take That's second album Everything Changes was their first to reach No. 1 on the UK charts.

1995, Def Leppard scored a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing three gigs in three continents in only 24 hours; Tangier, London, and Vancouver.

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana.  The American band that started the grunge movement.  Three studio albums, eight years, and many in-and-out members, this band belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Even though Bon Jovi and ELO (or just Jeff Lynne) have yet to be inducted into the legendary HOF, (I am very angry that they have not been inducted) Nirvana is one of the groups that also belongs and will belong as of this year.  The group made grunge a "thing."  Without Kurt Cobain's basic components,singing style, and lyrics, it is hard to tell what the band would have been.

But the band really would not have been what they were if the other members had never been there.  Krist Novoselic and Cobain were the only members present for the full eight years with the rest coming and going as they pleased.

In honor of their nomination for entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Kurt Cobain, here's their 1992 VMA performance: