kellykferguson 's review for:

Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad

4.0

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This book doesn't get five stars because it's Nabokov or anything, but as a solid profile on a band that defined a generation, Azerrad nails it. I read this book when it came out, and then recently again because I'm a ex-grunge drummer writing an essay on the subject. What I took away way back then was a fair view of Cobain as a person, versus the media maelstrom. Azerrad also projects a thesis that while band might be good or even great, it only becomes a phenomena if it has a scene—and hits the zeitgeist nerve of the times. Now I'm no longer in the thrall of rock stardom. But it was fun to go back in time, back when this band mattered to a bunch of us.