Kurt Cobain: About a Son [Soundtrack]

Kurt Cobain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Barsuk
• ASIN: B000UE64S8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,803 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This film is an intimate and moving portrait of Kurt Cobain, told entirely in his own voice. Based on more than 25 hours of never before heard interviews conducted by noted journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana". The soundtrack does not contain Kurt or Nirvana's music. Says Azerrad, "It's like a mixtape you'd give to a friend or lover to share ideas, not just about music but about your whole point of view. It's to try to show them what you're all about. So if watching 'About A Son' is like seeing the world through Kurt's eyes, then listening to this music is like hearing it through his ears." Artists include Arlo Guthrie, Melvins, Bad Brains, CCR, Half Japanese, The Vaselines, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Mudhoney, Iggy Pop, Lead Belly, REM, David Bowie, Mark Lanegan, and Benjamin Gibbard.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Saint Cobain, March 28, 2009

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Luis (Harlingen,TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Audio CD)

I have to say I went into this purchase with much skepticism given the amount of things out there trying to cash in on the Cobain Legacy. I was quite pleased however, with this soundtrack, from Coban's influences to his fellow Seattle scence contemporiaries and even fellow travelers, this is a real gem. I believe that at its core its an attempt to show us where Kurt was coming from and where he might have taken us.....

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing CD that gives you an even better glimpse into Kurt., March 9, 2008

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Andrew Horton (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Audio CD)

There is no music on this CD by Kurt or Nirvana and no bad covers or tribute songs. In fact all of the songs on this album were written before the world ever knew of Nirvana. This soundtrack, a companion to a documentary made from snippets of taped interviews, has music that inspired and was loved by Kurt Cobain. While listening to this CD of music spanning decades and genres I felt that I came closer to understanding Nirvana and at the same time it's interesting to listen to rehear some of these songs as the inspiration behind Nirvana. Hearing Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Up Around the Bend" right after Bad Brains takes the song to a new place and makes you look at it differently, and makes you think about Nirvana differently as well.

I think this CD is a terrific way to learn more about Nirvana and maybe learn to see them in a new light as well as get a glimpse into the mind and music taste of a man who knew music and ultimately changed it.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars about the man, January 6, 2008

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Aster Lenox Tilden (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Audio CD)

This is the review of the film that I intend to buy when it comes out. Music was good, too, I have not heard actual CD because I purchased it as a gift.
The film was beautifully done; if you have crash on Kurt it will break your heart.
The director was at the screening I went and there was Q & A session. I had to ask who gave him OK to make this film since Kurt is, well, gone.
He said all the tapes with Kurt's voice in it is HIS. He did not need any permission from anyone, I do not know if that is really so, I mean then why, now? After all these years hording hours and hours of Kurt's raw voice. He said it was just by chance that happened now.
Courtney was supportive about it and it does shows in the film the director never intended to exploit anybody, so that was nice, naturally there is no Nirvana song in the sound track but all the songs that Kurt mentions and influenced him in the said stages of his life. There is very few still image of him in the very very end of the film only.
The mill was actually where Kurt's dad worked, the school he went, the room he lived in. It is pure homage about the man and where he came from.