A lot of people think Nirvana stole the riff from Eighties for Come As You Are. There was even a lawsuit about it. The riff is damn similar, but I don't know if there was any intentional plagiarism going on on Nirvana's part. I also don't really care, because the songs are very different and both good. I bet the controversy turned a lot of people on to Killing Joke who would have never heard of them otherwise, too. It definitely did that for me. They're pretty cool.
I don't have much to say about the video for Eighties except that I feel pretty bad for their lead singer trying to make it look like the lyrics are a serious speech through the whole song. They aren't really conducive to that. And Come As You Are actually has my favorite video of all Nirvana's singles. It's very layered and shadowy and the colors are nice.
Now, to other things. It's July now, and I'll be attempting to write 60,000 words in Camp NaNoWriMo. I also have various other things going on this month. So I'm going to be scaling back this blog's schedule quite a bit. I'll post whatever I feel like once or twice a week and tag its category. My posts are probably going to be mostly music, though, because that's one thing I can talk about forever. Things should go back to normal in August.
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