Smashing Pumpkins: Part 1 with Rob Harvilla
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The Rise and Fall of Nirvana
MTV can't make you love something technically, but they can lead you pretty close to water. We would all be very different if MTV had seized on somebody else in 1991. It was a marketing move as much as it was everything else. That doesn't invalidate the greatness of any of this music. But it is helpful to remember that we canonized this stuff because we were told to.
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