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“Smells Like Teen Spirit”—Nirvana with Courtney Love

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Daniel Johnson's Disappointment

Daniel Johnson was diagnosis schizophrenia as well as bipolar disorder he spent time in mental institutions he saw demons he fought demons. In 1988 during a manic episode he thought the devil had gotten into a 68 year old woman a stranger and he chased her around her apartment until she jumped out a window to get away from him  in 1990 flying home from the Austin music awards in a small plane with his pilot father they're the only two people in this tiny plane Daniel becomes convinced that he was captain America He's got famous fans like sonic youth and the butthole surfers and Yola Tengo and somebody else someone important it'll come to me Daniels died of a heart attack in 2019 he was

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