Strollerderby : Nirvana

Most Adorable Rockin' Babies

Jen Chaney — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:02:00 GMT

When Paste Magazine composed a list of the ten cutest babies on album covers, a bold decision was made. Blogger Rachael Maddux purposely omitted Nirvana's Nevermind, the most memorable record ever with an an infant on its cover. Her logic?

"Nirvana's Nevermind was disqualified for sheer over-exposure -- of the album cover, not the baby's you-know-what -- and also because, eh, only moderately adorable." Okay, I can roll with that, although I do offer my apologies to Spencer Elden, the young man formerly known as the Nirvana baby (and who, for the record, was certainly a cute enough kid).

With that said, here are the two Paste honorees that kinda give me the creeps and the one that strikes me as the cutest of the bunch:

Creepy Baby Album Cover No. 1 on Paste's List: Shakira's Oral Fixation, Vol. 2

Why is that child in a tree? Where are his/her legs? And shouldn't Shakira at least let the kid look at the apple, even if the babe doesn't have the teeth to take a bite?

Creepy Baby Album Cover No. 2 on Paste's List: Radiohead's Pablo Honey

I like Radiohead and all. But this cover reminds me a lot of Anne Geddes. And Anne Geddes gives me a grade-A, hardcore case of the willies.

Cutest Baby Album Cover on Paste's List: Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III

I'm not necessarily an advocate for infant tattoos and pinky rings. But you can't deny that Lil Wayne -- yes, that's really him as a tyke -- was a super-cute baby.

Craving more rockin' kiddies? See Paste's full list, and an even longer list of baby album covers.

Images: Pastemagazine.com

Baby Penis Album only five bucks

Brett Singer — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Thanks to Mike's brilliant post linking to the NPR interview with the kid who is nekkid on the cover of Nirvana's breakthrough CD, I will forever think of 'Nevermind' as The Baby Penis Album. (Kids, "albums" were these shiny black things with a hole in the middle… oh well, whatever, never mind.)

If Mike's post made you nostalgic for the nineties (that was a really tough sentence to write), you can do it fairly cheaply: Amazon has the MP3 version of Nevermind on sale for only five dollars. (I'd say something about Amazon being the man who sold the world, but that's a different album.)

I myself did not smell the teen spirit when Kurt Cobain's magnum opus took the world by storm in 1991, but at these prices, maybe I'll check it out. Who says I'm not hip?

image: Amazon.com

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The Baby Penis Known Around the World

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:31:00 GMT

"Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis, so that's kinda cool. I'm just a normal kid living it up and doing the best I can while I'm here."

This is from an NPR interview with Spencer Elden, 17. If you shopped in a record store in the 1990s or saw even the remotest glimpse of popular rock bands, you, too, have probably seen his penis.

That's because 17 years ago, Spencer Elden was photographed for the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind -- the album that changed the course of rock music and also had the photo of a cute little baby, naked, swimming after a $1 bill. Turns out the baby grew up, attended military boarding school for six months, plans on traveling and is just your average-sounding high school student -- whose penis is known throughout the world. That's got to help break the ice when chatting with girls, no?

It's worth a read to discover exactly how the poor kid earned his dad $200 by getting tossed "into the drink" and, simultaneously, into rock and roll history.

Kurt Cobain Would Have Been 40 Today: Daughter Frances Bean is 14

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:33:00 GMT

Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994. He would have been 40 today. While Nevermind changed the musical landscape for our generation (and inspired poor wardrobe choices on the West Coast that still haunt us), he left many questions in our minds. What would have become of him had he not succumbed to drugs and depression? Would he have been a good father to Frances Bean? Would he have continued to create great music?

I've always felt terribly sorry for his daughter Frances, who not only lost her father to suicide, but has a mother whose drug abuse and outbursts and other antics are constantly written up. My thoughts go out to Frances today, who is only 14. Like all children everywhere, she is an innocent in her parent's world. Hopefully, she'll fare better than her folks did.