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| | washingtonpost.com: Come As You Are |
 | | O'Connor's grievous comment is one of the few sharp ones to be gleaned from the myriad quotes shakily strung together in Kurt St. Thomas and Troy Smith's new remembrance of Nirvana, Cobain's band that briefly dominated rock during the early '90s. |
 | | After underground success with its "Bleach" album, Nirvana leapt from SubPop, a respected Seattle indie, to major label superstardom on Geffen Records, releasing the epochal "Nevermind" album in the process. |
 | | Yet neither the writing itself nor the tedious, repetitive "reconstruction," overburdened with minutiae about studio sessions and live dates, gives any real sense of why, a decade on, Nirvana was important to him or why the trio should continue to matter to both veteran fans and future generations. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A42447-2004May20?language=printer (596 words) |
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