The Cobain 50

By KEXP

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Kurt Cobain’s influence went beyond just the music he created with Nirvana. He also put the masses on to some of his own favorite artists. One particular document from his journals has been instructive to many fans – his top 50 albums. Each week, The Cobain 50 podcast digs into albums from this famous list and how they may have influenced Cobain and Nirvana. While learning the individual histories of the different albums on the list, we gain new insights into artists on the fringes as well as some of the biggest groups of all time. The podcast takes us through the legacies of acts like Sonic Youth, Pixies, The Breeders, Public Enemy, PJ Harvey, Black Flag, Mazzy Star, The Shaggs, Shonen Knife, and more. Episodes drop weekly starting January 10, 2024.


Episode Date
Nirvana's MTV Unplugged Turns 30
Oct 30, 2024
Bonus: A Deeper Listen with Pedro the Lion
Oct 23, 2024
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (1988)
Oct 16, 2024
Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly (1990)
Oct 09, 2024
Black Flag – Damaged (1981)
Oct 02, 2024
Revisiting Nevermind and In Utero
Sep 25, 2024
Gang of Four – Entertainment! (1979)
Sep 18, 2024
The Breeders – Pod (1990)
Sep 11, 2024
Roundtable: Respect the Classics
Sep 04, 2024
Lead Belly – Last Sessions, Volume One (1953)
Aug 28, 2024
Aerosmith – Rocks (1976)
Aug 21, 2024
Remembering Charles R. Cross, a Legend in Northwest Music Journalism
Aug 16, 2024
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
Aug 14, 2024
The Beatles – Meet the Beatles! (1964)
Aug 07, 2024
Roundtable: Kurt <3s Melody
Jul 31, 2024
Marine Girls – Beach Party (1981)
Jul 24, 2024
R.E.M. – Green (1988)
Jul 17, 2024
The Knack – Get the Knack (1979)
Jul 10, 2024
Michael Azerrad, the Man Who (Literally) Wrote the Book on Nirvana
Jul 03, 2024
Jack Endino on the Northwest Sound and the 35th Anniversary of 'Bleach'
Jun 26, 2024
Beat Happening – Jamboree (1988)
Jun 19, 2024
Wipers – Is This Real? (1980), Youth of America (1981), and Over the Edge (1983)
Jun 12, 2024
Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff (1988)
Jun 05, 2024
Bonus: Hiro Yamamoto on Soundgarden, Forging New Paths, and the Circles of Power
May 31, 2024
Roundtable: Breaking Punk
May 29, 2024
Black Flag – My War (1984)
May 22, 2024
The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World (1969)
May 15, 2024
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
May 08, 2024
Shonen Knife – Burning Farm (1985 via K Records)
May 01, 2024
Bonus: Introducing KEXP's In Our Headphones
Apr 24, 2024
Bonus: Introducing KEXP's A Deeper Listen
Apr 17, 2024
Roundtable: Women in Punk
Apr 10, 2024
30 Years After Kurt's Death
Apr 05, 2024
Anything by Kleenex (1978-1983)
Apr 03, 2024
The Raincoats – The Raincoats (1979)
Mar 27, 2024
The Slits – Cut (1979)
Mar 20, 2024
PJ Harvey – Dry (1992)
Mar 13, 2024
Roundtable: The "Radical" Politics of Kurt Cobain
Mar 06, 2024
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
Feb 28, 2024
MDC – Millions of Dead Cops (1981)
Feb 21, 2024
Bad Brains – Rock for Light (1983)
Feb 14, 2024
The Clash – Combat Rock (1982)
Feb 07, 2024
Roundtable: What Do The Stooges, Pixies, and The Vaselines Have in Common?
Jan 31, 2024
The Vaselines – Dying for It (1988)
Jan 24, 2024
The Pixies – Surfer Rosa (1988)
Jan 17, 2024
The Stooges – Raw Power (1973)
Jan 10, 2024
The Cobain 50: Coming January 10
Jan 03, 2024
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May 24, 2023
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May 10, 2023
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Apr 26, 2023
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Apr 19, 2023
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Apr 12, 2023
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Apr 05, 2023
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Mar 08, 2023
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50 Years of Hip-Hop - 1977: Grand Wizzard Theodore and the Invention of Scratching
Feb 15, 2023
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Feb 01, 2023
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