Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
Another Bowie cover
Extra bonus: was at a festival with cover bands tonight; last year they had a Nirvana cover band that played this (actually the whole unplugged setlist) :)
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he did a few songs that night that were totally cool and showed us another side. his songs with the meat puppets were really cool, too. plateau, oh me, lake of fire
Definitely. The cover of Lead Belly, Where did you sleep last night is one of my favorite songs!
original, for those who haven't heard it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsfcUZBMSSg
I really liked, and still listen to, the album 'too high to die'.
It's a good album that is solidly written and produced.
But, the original versions of the songs Kurt covered on the unplugged sessions ... suck pretty hard. It always leaves me in awe of how he could hear something more graceful in those songs.
But where did you sleep last night/in the pines is the best version of any cover song ever made. Specifically, the breath and look up to the heavens after the gutteral soul crushing screaming of shiver into the last words he would ever sing....
Fuck.
1993, and i can still remember exactly the moment you mention. wow.
also, it just occurred to me that i've never actually listened to the meat puppets' original versions of the songs he did. wow.
edit - just listened to the meat puppets to lake of fire. um, kurt definitely did it better..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jPglNrZhkA
I was lukewarm about nirvana until the unplugged show. It made me hear them in a new way that clicked for me, where they hadn't previously.
MTV Unplugged did good things for some artists. i also love the alice in chains concert. but then Lauryn Hill happened. that was sad.