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As someone who has equally significant blind spots, I am not surprised that Alex didn't know of Kurt Cobain. I couldn't, without a doubt, name a Nirvana song without getting it confused with the other grunge bands that sound mostly the same to me.
I was at P&P and listening to a song that "stole" (ie "sampled) from the Tom Tom Club. I mentioned that this was a TomTom Club song and I got blank stares. When I was told this was "so and so" doing this song I said "never heard of her". They tried further clarifying by saying that the woman was in "BellBivDevo" (or whoever it is correctly spelled). When I said I had never heard of that group I got more looks of disbelief. My response was that, if they didn't know the TomTom Club, Tina Weymouth, Chris Franz and the Talking Heads connection I should be the one with the look of disbelief on my face.
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