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Michael Azerrad
American
Author
Bands
Music
People
Success
Think
You
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For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.
Michael Azerrad
Success
Car
First
Nirvana
Out
Runaway
Record
Putting
New
Like
New Car
Accelerator
Glued
Discovering
Ferrari
Getting
Suddenly
Pedal
I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.
Michael Azerrad
Music
You
Power
Believe
Think
Musical
Way
Literally
Mean
Really
Rearrange
Tones
Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
Michael Azerrad
Work
Music
Time
Musicians
People
Own
Other
Rarely
About
More
No-One
Talk
Knows
Than
Get
Naturally
The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.
Michael Azerrad
Wisdom
Music
People
Wonderful
Face
Become
Universe
Musical
Focusing
Minute
Diverse
Online
More
Reaching
Well
Advertising
Demographics
Very
Sites
Tastes
Any
Common
Which
Flies
Many
Works
Description
Niches
Away
Specific
Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.
Michael Azerrad
Rebellion
Trick
Absolutely
Safe
Rock
Sound
Still
Commercialism
Roll
Disguised
Much
Use
Used
Chords
Now
As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.
Michael Azerrad
Game
Journalist
Fair
Supposed
Fair Game
Another
Soup
Subject
Author
Ingredient
Media
There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.
Michael Azerrad
Nirvana
Fact
Glamour
In Fact
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