If you were in the right place, and the right age, Smells like Teen Spirit was a life changing song. The album lived up to expectations too. It was banned from the discos where I lived because everyone just went nuts when it came on. I still have a lot of affection for it.

Grunge was an exciting. It’s always fascinating when a specific time and place produces a coherent ‘scene’ and then the outside world picks up on it. Grunge was pretentious, male dominated, reductive and crass … but it was also inventive, aspirational, political, visceral and energetic. Bad and good, as with everything.

We’re lucky to be left with it as a curio. A time capsule. We can put together the very best of the scene in a Spotify playlist and rock the fuck out, without needing to sit through the support bands and the filler.

I love a bit of grunge, me.

It's all about EDM now.

Bob wrote:

I actually own superunknown as some other internet knuckle head recommended it.

It's so dull you lose the will to live somewhere around the five years black hole sun goes on for.

Proving myself the knucklehead here my getting the wrong album - I actually meant Badmotorfinger.

But don't stop being a cunt with questionable taste Bob.

I fucking hate the term EDM, let alone IDM, just fuck off.

Grime is definitely a thing of its environment.

I'm apparantly on the wrong side of history for hating it. Don't really care though, anything with a London accent has an incredibly long way to go to have me not hate it.

Just rewatching Extras at the moment. Samual L jackson ep. Amazing. I hate Jazz too.....

The Boss seems to be slowly turning into Robert DeNiro.

Already been announced Bob, Shepherds Empire not long, can't remember any other details

edit: 14th March, no other uk dates announced

Got that on vinyl. It's immense.

It's decent enough but if you heard the title track you've heard the best track by a considerable margin.

Just listen to Woody Guthrie.

Never been a big Bruce fan, yet I love The Gaslight Anthem.

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Can't tell.

Yup, Springsteen uses a teleprompter for lyrics. 

It's quite clever how he uses it for the Request songs though. Rest of the band have a much tougher gig than the boss does.
A few years ago, E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren wrote about it...

"Last E Street tour, (”Working On A Dream”) we played 192 different songs on that tour alone. Dozens of those songs were from audience-request signs Bruce would collect and dump in front of the drum riser. He would then rifle through them, sailing them around him until he found a song to attempt — much like the college kid rummaging through the pile of dirty laundry in search of one clean shirt.
Many songs were covers we had never performed live. EVER! He would show us the sign and then immediately “frisbee” it down the stairs to the teleprompter crew to surf the net and find the lyrics while we all talked up a quick arrangement at his microphone, knowing he’d be counting it off in 20 seconds.
Many of those audibles were Bruce songs unrehearsed or played in years or decades. With our collective musical memory, hand signals and teleprompter, it allows for those ambitious, ad lib moments and an inspired, musical recklessness I believe is unique to our shows. These points might have brought some additional perspective to your article. In our case, the teleprompter has a much more ambitious use and purpose than your article indicates."