@@chainsmoke3328 For me, Steel Panther is the most underrated band ever!!! Guys are such a great musicians. They are funny, lovable and their lyrics are hilarious. When it comes to Nirvana I agree that they were not musically the best, but their songs are still very powerful.
They are a bit overrated but that by no means mean they aren’t great! It’s just that I think there are way better bands than them. But I still love Nirvana and have kept listening to them for the past 25 years or so. RIP Kurt.
Kurt wasn't a great singer technically. But he made you feel what he felt. You got chills when he hit that raspy almost scream "My girl, My Girl" because you felt that pain.
Well Celine Dion is technically a great singer but... I would argue that the point of music is to convey emotion. If that is the case then Kurt's technique is flawless.
This is the best performance during that entire Unplugged concert. I think this is probably Kurts best live performance all together. I realized how much talent he really had when I first saw it back when it aired on MTv🤘🏼
Was Kurt Cobain technically skilled on the guitar? Not by a long shot, but the man was incredibly gifted at writing songs and sounding very unique as an artist. He was truly a genius at what he did. Nirvana was such a great band with song after song so catchy and sticks in your head. Even cover songs, they played them like they could have written them. And what a voice he had. I miss him so much and will always wonder what would have came after In Utero, which is my favourite album by them.
We don't have to shit on Kurt's guitar skills for no reason, he underplayed for his whole catalogue. Songs like Mr. Moustache and All Apologies show his ability to move across the fretboard. There's live footage of him shredding the solo of In Bloom instead of doing the regular one. He definitely had the chops, it just didn't fit his style.
Nirvana is rated right where they should be. Love them or hate them, they were a cultural phenomenon thats influence has lasted long after their careers. To me people get too caught up in "Ya well their not as good as this band I like" and dont realize thats never going to be the point when you talk about the effect of a band's music and the reach it had.
I’ve seen that sweater and guitar at the EMP (Experience Music Project) museum in Seattle. That was several years ago, though, so they might not be there any longer.
I heard in an interview that Kurt wanted the stage covered in flowers and candles like a funeral.. and then what happened, happened. But I'm on the side of the conspiracy theory where it was murder. The man suffered depression, no doubt but, I have my doubts about the official ruling concerning his death
I have a theory that during the end of the song when he sings the whole night thru after he sings whole he opens his eyes wide I believe that was a moment of clarity for Kurt and in that moment he decided to end it all
Kurts real first name was Kurt. The song goes back maybe a hundred years if not more. Was originally a folk song, but it was Lead belly, a blues guitarist in the 40s who popularized it. The song has been recorded under various names by too many people to even count. Most people think that Nirvana's best album was Nevermind, realistically i think it was their unplugged album. You have to realize how popular they in 1993 when they recorded this. Yeah they could have done acoustic versions of their hits, but they chose not to do so. They went with more deeper cuts and a handful of covers. Who knows what songs Kurt could have wrote or what impact on current music he could have made, had he not passed at such a young age. Yeah theres plenty of bands inspired by Nirvana, but what i mean as far as Kurt as a songwriter overall, and same could be said for Layne, Cornell and Chester. If you strip away their songs to little to no instrumentation, you can see how deep those songs really are.
The unplugged session is easily Nirvana's best album - although it is mostly covers. I really feel that all these MTV unplugged concerts need to be remastered and published on Bluray disc with DTS 5.1 MA,
Baranger, i like Jug of Jelly too 😂 (sorry if mispelt ya name) Leadbelly played the 12-string guitar before anyone else, and made some amazing folk based Blues songs!
The way he opens his eyes and lets out that heavy sigh at the end, after the rawness of the line "I'll shiveeeeeeer... The whole... (sigh) Niiiiiiight throughhhhh" still haunts me almost 30 years later. The weekend we all found out about his end, MTV played this Unplugged several times, and I will never forget the feeling.
One of the few things that I enjoy about being in my mid-late forties is that I had the chance to see Nirvana a few times when I was an out of control high school student.
Nirvana was/is no way overrated. I will never waiver on that. They weren’t my “favorite” grunge band, but my love runs deep for them. Rest easy Kurt. Crist is freaking amazing and I will forever be a Dave 4lyfer 🖤
Leadbelly was a pretty interesting character. He was recorded extensively during the early days of music recording. It's a bit of a tragedy that we'll never be able to hear him recorded on modern equipment. But he talked about people that were in the news at the time, and his song about Hitler is one of my favorites. His recordings helped to preserve and popularize so many folk songs that would have probably been forgotten. I bet he would laugh to hear that his guitar was valued at $500k. He would probably have gifted it to Kurt for free, or traded it for one of Kurt's. Lead Belly also played other instruments and performed songs of many genres, so definitely a versatile guy. So very fitting that Kurt helped keep Lead Belly's legacy alive with this cover.
Thank you for reacting to this. It means a lot to me. I was born in 1987 and growing up I never listened to music. Seriously All I did was read books. Wasnt until like 1999 when we moved and my friend showed me 2 albums. one was Korn Issues, and Nirvana Nevermind. I fell in love with Nirvana so much that I read the books, got all the albums, Got the Nirvana Collection of all their old stuff. They remain my favorite band of all time because without Kurt..... I wouldnt be listening to music. Fun fact this unplugged is one of the last filmed things of Kurt. They did a few shows after this and then he was dead.
Nirvana's performance of Aneurysm live at Reading 1992 is life changing. The energy coursing through just 3 instruments played by 3 guys to the seemingly infinite sea of muddy and most definitely high festival warrior class, brimming with the collective expectation of the hardest of the hardcore only tribal Brits can muster, demanding nothing less than a spiritually profound experience from the biggest band in the world who just happen to call themselves Nirvana! BOOM! They got it and then some. Oh yeah nearly forgot dancing boy who rolls with the guys on stage and just dances. The entire time.
This wasn't just a song on this cold November night, but a direct question to his wife. Whom he knew was cheating on him at the time. He wanted to buy Leadbelly's guitar for $500,000, the one he played his song on sold for 6 MILLION. Kurt, I think you surpassed your favorite performer. Chills forever. Every time. P.S. Some people think this is a dialogue but it doesn't feel like it to me. It sounds like he's speaking about himself leaving her, and wondering what she's going to do without him. But I'm no gatekeeper
Morning guys! So good! I was lucky enough to see Nirvana live and they were one hell of a live band. Never technically perfect, but so raw and real. Amazing. One thing to remember about Kurt at this time is that he was also in chronic pain: I always wonder if he was tapping into some of that physical pain in this song? We know now that towards the end of his life he had untreated stomach ulcers that were apparently agonizing. The song "Pennyroyal Tea" references this ("I'm on warm milk and laxatives/cherry flavored antacids"). Plus pennyroyal is from the peppermint family and can also be used to try and soothe ulcers. There's speculation that his heroin addiction may have been in part him self-medicating for pain. 😢
That look on his face at 8:50 to 8:51. Just a flash when his eyes open. Dayum. The man was deep inside his performance. Only an artist expressing their pain flashes a look like that. IMO.
i’m so damn thankful that i was a teenager when Nirvana was around. this has been my favorite live performance of theirs since the day this aired on mtv. it’s in my top 5 performances by anyone, tbh. and nirvana is 100% properly rated 💜
This is my favourite Nirvana performance EVER! I was so pleased when 'Nirvana Unplugged' was released as an album. This is IMO the best song on there, even though it was a cover - Kurt's voice & charisma took it to a whole new level - the way he gasped & looked up in the last line - haunting, brings me to tears every time. Kurt was a gentle but troubled soul who hated fame; I was deeply affected by his tragic death, but what a wonderful legacy he left us........I wish he'd got to see his daughter grow up. R.I.P. Kurt Cobain 💔 PS the song is over 100 years old - recorded under different titles including 'In The Pines' and 'Black Girl' - Leadbelly recorded it in the 1940's. I think it will always be Kurt's song now due to this performance🖤
Wonderful reaction as always!!! Hollywood you're right on what the songs about,and the songs is not really credited to anyone,Leadbelly also covered it.I highly recommend if you guys would check out next from Nirvana 'You know you're right" video,pretty emotional as well as it was their last song.. Keep up the great work!!!
This is the only version of this song done by Nirvana. No studio version, live version, etc. Not sure what other one you've heard before besides this version.
Morning fellas! Wow! That takes me back! I miss the unplugged performances and Kurt and Nirvana! Such a good performance,so sad to have lost him😥( I was 13 or 14 when he died..). Good choice today guys!❤️💯🤓
Kurt and Courtney were in the midst of a separation and headed towards divorce when Nirvana began performing this song. Kurt famously did not invite Courtney to the unplugged performance. It was believed the lyrics that were slightly changed from Lead Belly’s rendition were directed at her.
This performance never ever fails to give me goosebumps. Whether you love or hate Nirvana, Kurt had a presence that was mesmerising and captivating. You could see every bit of anguish and pain being let out by Kurt in this performance and the deep breath and that tormented stare into the microphone brings me to tears every time. The only other live performance that did that to me was Layne’s performance in Nutshell by Alice in Chains MTV live Unplugged which still also breaks my heart 27 years later every time I see it. Two very talented young men with a lot of inner demons they couldn’t fight gone way too soon. 😢
They're one of those bands where if ur at a rock concert and they start playing one of their songs ad soon as the song starts off tje entire crowd goes fucking mental EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. thats how you know a band is truly awesome!! They've been my favourite band since i was 9 years old. i'm now 39 and i still love them just as much as the first time i heard them. R.I.P. Kurt
Lead Belly was the first to record this old field workers standard from around the turn of the 20th century and Kurt misspoke, the guitar was for sale for 50,000 not 500,000.
The guitar he used on stage was one of Kurts, modified to have a pick up above the sound hole. The one he used on stage was worth between 2500 and 3000 dollars.
Lead Belly did not do the original of this song. The song, from two earlier folk songs, IN THE PINES and THE LONGEST TRAIN is like an old-blues standard from the Southern Appalachian Mountain area around Kentucky, were then put together circa the 1890s as a folk tune by various names including MY GIRL, HEY GIRL, and BLACK GIRL. Bill Monroe and also Lead Belly would cover the song by the 1940s and 1950s, according to Wikipedia: Like numerous other folk songs, "In the Pines" was passed on from one generation and locale to the next by word of mouth. In 1925, a version of the song was recorded onto phonograph cylinder by a folk collector. This was the first documentation of "The Longest Train" variant of the song, which includes a verse about "The longest train I ever saw". This verse probably began as a separate song that later merged into "In the Pines". Lyrics in some versions about "Joe Brown's coal mine" and "the Georgia line" may refer to Joseph E. Brown, a former Governor of Georgia, who famously leased convicts to operate coal mines in the 1870s. While early renditions which mention the head in the "driver's wheel" make clear that the decapitation was caused by the train, some later versions would omit the reference to the train and reattribute the cause. As music historian Norm Cohen pointed out in his 1981 book, Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong, the song came to consist of three frequent elements: a chorus about "in the pines", a verse about "the longest train" and a verse about a decapitation, but not all elements are present in all versions.[
Other Blues covers to check out Monster Magnet -Evil(Howlin Wolf) Marilyn Manson -I put a spell on you (Screaming J Hawkins) Soundgarden -Smokestack Lightning (Howlin Wolf)
I'm so glad I saw Nirvana when they were in Denmark - I'm a big fan. The story behind MTV Unplugged is that this show was so good that they were contacted shortly after and asked if they wanted to do it again. Cobane answered No. He said he had given everything he had that night - and soon after ... "RIP". As far as I know it was Nirvana's last concert... Symbolically there were so many flowers and lights that some say it looked like a funeral
Just a note to say the band did perform again after this show - they did a European tour in the early part of 1994. I have a great sounding bootleg from that tour - audio is out there
If people dig Lead Belly I also recommend checking out his version of another folk classic "Goodnight Irene." Lots of performances of that song are out there, but I'd argue his is the best. Like "In the Pines," it's a pretty song whose lyrics get real dark, real fast.
What's funny is Kurt wanting to buy Lead Belly's guitar, but what ended up happening is the guitar Kurt is using in this MTV Unplugged was the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction at $6 million. Nirvana was my jam growing up. Granted, I was young. I was 9 in 1994 when he passed, and I will NEVER forget watching MTV when they announced his death. I was at my grandparents house, sitting in the floor in front of the tv, and they had an announcer talk about Kurt was found dead, and they pretty much talked about him and Nirvana and everything all day. I remember watching this MTV Unplugged too, and Kurt was just absolutely amazing. His voice and who he was as a person, beautiful. He was passionate about so much and so inclusive and just an all around beautiful human being. I wish he hadn't been in so much physical and emotional and mental pain. So many things were working against him, but I will NEVER believe he actually killed himself. I will forever believe Courtney Love had him killed. It's funny, because for the longest time I thought this was Nirvana's last performance as well, but funny enough, March 1, 1994 (my birthday) they played in Germany for an intimate show in Terminal Einz, an airplane hanger. That was their actual last show. Kurt will forever mean the world to me. He was the voice for an entire generation. He meant so much to so many people. It's always so hard for me to listen to him sing, even now because there's always so many emotions that goes along with hearing him. If only. If only.
Weird side note. Right after he died I found a envelope with a bunch of personal photos of him at home and with friends. It was such a sad time I put them away to deal with later. I kept thinking of his baby girl. There they stay ☮️
Being a good artist isn't about being the best artist. It's about doing something different, unique. Nirvana definitely captured this. Nobody was making music like Nirvana at the time. No they aren't the most mechanically sound band. Nirvana did this. They created a sound that fueled a generation of musicians. I'm lucky to have grown up with them, even though I have out grown them.
Great one guys nirvana is still one of my fav bands this unplugged concert is one of the best in history of MTV and they did half of their song and and half covers ( David Bowie, leadbelly ,the vaseline ) and if im not mistaken they wheir the first band to do so on the show ✌️
I've come to look at this song as Kurt's suicide note. This show was recorded on November 18, 1993. Kurt left us on April 5, 1994. That's five months after this show. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is the last song on this album. The last song on the last Nirvana album with Kurt Cobain alive wasn't even a Nirvana original song. I feel like this song was chosen for a specific reason. And if you watch how Kurt ends, it's so haunting now. He opens his eyes, takes a big deep breath and belts out the finish. This performance tells a story, I think.
“It might be nice to start playing acoustic guitars and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter, rather than a grunge rocker you know? Because then I might be able to take advantage of that when I'm older, and sit down on a chair and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash and it won't be a big joke.” Didn't sound like a man that wanted to die to me -Kurt Cobain Well, you did, and we loved it.
Been a fan of Nirvana for the past 32 years. I'm 43 now. The wife and I got to see that guitar he is playing in Sydney Australia back in April. Was surreal man 🤘🏿
So good ❤❤❤ Besides Nutshell unplugged Pearl Jam “Black “ in my opinion is one of the best from unplugged. I was bummed that it ended it was such a great show.
Kurt will forever be one of my favorite singers. Not because he was technical with anything. But he felt every single lyric ever. And when they tried to tell him he couldn't sing, He would ruin their day. Kurt is amazing. I always thing about why Dave is so great is because he had the best view of Kurt the whole time.
You should check out Lake of Fire from the same MTV unplugged (cover of a Meat Puppets song) and Man Who Sold the World from the same MTV Unplugged (cover of a David Bowie song.) I would have l loved to see Nirvana or Alice in Chains live. I watched both unplugged the night that they each premiered on MTV. Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Eddie Vedder and Scott Wieland were the great voices this genre/ sub genre. RIP to Kurt, Layne and Scott. Thank you for reacting to this song! I loved every song from this concert and owned the double CD set as well.
@@MegsD79 yes, I just checked again to make sure I wasn’t misremembering lol. I would link it for you but RUclips tends to delete my comments when I put links in them 😩 You’re welcome 😊❤️
Good band, 46% others music. This is actually two songs: The Pines, and Where Did You Sleep. Ranking Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Screaming Trees.
sleeping in the pines feels like it has a similar meaning "dem försvann på en vintersnatt" which translated would mean "they disappeared on a winters night" the meaning of the phrase is that the winter cold killed them. thats my interpretation as someone from sweden anyway the song probably has a different meaning where it came from.
Some opinions are just incorrect. The opinion that Nirvana was overrated is patently incorrect. It's not subjective; it's objective. Nirvana changed music.
You should check out the original and maybe a couple other covers of it. A bunch of people have done versions of this song, a lot of them being more country or blues-based. At least before the Nirvana version came along.
I wish all "rappers" were like you guys... You seem to be such nice people and I think the kids of today need more role models in their genre of choice like you so the world can change for the better. //C~🇸🇪
I always took the narrative of the song to mean the narrator KNOWS his partner cheated on him, because he FOUND the guy she cheated with and he KILLED HIM...now he's sitting, as I personally envision...sitting in a dimly lit room, lit cigarette in hand, literally bloody hands, staring daggers at her asking "where did you sleep last night?" knowing FULL well where she did...having KILLED the man and just wanting her to CONFESS.
Hi everyone loved the video, my two favorite bands from this era is Nirvana and Sublime. I loved Nirvana’s cover of The Man Who Sold The World from this unplugged performance. The original is by David Bowie but in my opinion Kurt did it better,
Nirvana was a great band. They are not overrated. People loved them. I still love listening to them.
Fully agree
They kinda are overrated to me musically but not lyrically
right! i don’t necessarily think they’re either, however, they’re much closer to being underrated than they are to being overrated
@@chainsmoke3328 For me, Steel Panther is the most underrated band ever!!! Guys are such a great musicians. They are funny, lovable and their lyrics are hilarious. When it comes to Nirvana I agree that they were not musically the best, but their songs are still very powerful.
They are a bit overrated but that by no means mean they aren’t great! It’s just that I think there are way better bands than them. But I still love Nirvana and have kept listening to them for the past 25 years or so. RIP Kurt.
In this video Kurt mentioned being offered Ledbelly’s guitar for $500,000, but the acoustic Kurt played at this show recently sold for $6,000,000!
Kurt wasn't a great singer technically. But he made you feel what he felt. You got chills when he hit that raspy almost scream "My girl, My Girl" because you felt that pain.
Not technically beautiful at all but his voice could portray emotion and he was an engaging frontman
And that is natural talent. I value that so much more❤
Well Celine Dion is technically a great singer but... I would argue that the point of music is to convey emotion. If that is the case then Kurt's technique is flawless.
Vc é loco falar q Kurt não sabe cantar kkk principalmente q era autobiográfico
This is the best performance during that entire Unplugged concert. I think this is probably Kurts best live performance all together. I realized how much talent he really had when I first saw it back when it aired on MTv🤘🏼
U Can feel the pain, this is awesome 🙏
It's the best live performance I have heard from them.
The look in Kurt's eyes at the end. He lived this song.
If I could go back to any live performance %100 this is the one, RIP Kurt ❤️
Was Kurt Cobain technically skilled on the guitar? Not by a long shot, but the man was incredibly gifted at writing songs and sounding very unique as an artist. He was truly a genius at what he did. Nirvana was such a great band with song after song so catchy and sticks in your head. Even cover songs, they played them like they could have written them. And what a voice he had. I miss him so much and will always wonder what would have came after In Utero, which is my favourite album by them.
We don't have to shit on Kurt's guitar skills for no reason, he underplayed for his whole catalogue. Songs like Mr. Moustache and All Apologies show his ability to move across the fretboard. There's live footage of him shredding the solo of In Bloom instead of doing the regular one. He definitely had the chops, it just didn't fit his style.
The more i watch reactions the more i realise that if you were not a part of it you will never understand.
Some say Kurt left his soul on stage after that epic performance.
He himself said he couldn’t do better. They wanted him to do an encore, but he couldn’t top it, so he declined.
I agree....that gasp at the end was literally haunting💔His talent was so raw......R.I.P. Kurt Cobain
Nirvana is rated right where they should be. Love them or hate them, they were a cultural phenomenon thats influence has lasted long after their careers. To me people get too caught up in "Ya well their not as good as this band I like" and dont realize thats never going to be the point when you talk about the effect of a band's music and the reach it had.
To be honest, I loved and still love all the big grunge bands of that time and their Unplugged apperances but Nirvana´s was something else.
Fun facts: Kurt's sweater sold for 300, 000 and the guitar sold for over 6 million! Sad story, he passed 5 or 6 months after this performance💜💔💜
Not disputing your comment but I thought his daughter had his sweater ?!
I’ve seen that sweater and guitar at the EMP (Experience Music Project) museum in Seattle. That was several years ago, though, so they might not be there any longer.
@@DylanSterling I know that Frances gave the guitar as a wedding gift to her ex husband and he auctioned it off for 6 million..
I love this song so much thank you for giving this track a listen to. Much love to you two and the community here too!
I heard in an interview that Kurt wanted the stage covered in flowers and candles like a funeral.. and then what happened, happened. But I'm on the side of the conspiracy theory where it was murder. The man suffered depression, no doubt but, I have my doubts about the official ruling concerning his death
Yep
I have a theory that during the end of the song when he sings the whole night thru after he sings whole he opens his eyes wide I believe that was a moment of clarity for Kurt and in that moment he decided to end it all
This nirvana MTV unplugged was so CLASSIC at the time and still is
Kurts real first name was Kurt. The song goes back maybe a hundred years if not more. Was originally a folk song, but it was Lead belly, a blues guitarist in the 40s who popularized it. The song has been recorded under various names by too many people to even count. Most people think that Nirvana's best album was Nevermind, realistically i think it was their unplugged album. You have to realize how popular they in 1993 when they recorded this. Yeah they could have done acoustic versions of their hits, but they chose not to do so. They went with more deeper cuts and a handful of covers. Who knows what songs Kurt could have wrote or what impact on current music he could have made, had he not passed at such a young age. Yeah theres plenty of bands inspired by Nirvana, but what i mean as far as Kurt as a songwriter overall, and same could be said for Layne, Cornell and Chester. If you strip away their songs to little to no instrumentation, you can see how deep those songs really are.
The unplugged session is easily Nirvana's best album - although it is mostly covers. I really feel that all these MTV unplugged concerts need to be remastered and published on Bluray disc with DTS 5.1 MA,
Baranger, i like Jug of Jelly too 😂 (sorry if mispelt ya name)
Leadbelly played the 12-string guitar before anyone else, and made some amazing folk based Blues songs!
The way he opens his eyes and lets out that heavy sigh at the end, after the rawness of the line "I'll shiveeeeeeer... The whole... (sigh) Niiiiiiight throughhhhh" still haunts me almost 30 years later. The weekend we all found out about his end, MTV played this Unplugged several times, and I will never forget the feeling.
One of the few things that I enjoy about being in my mid-late forties is that I had the chance to see Nirvana a few times when I was an out of control high school student.
What a performance ❤
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn this brings me back.... On my way to see the whole Nirvana Unplugged right now...
Keep up the good work.
Duces!!!
Nirvana was/is no way overrated. I will never waiver on that. They weren’t my “favorite” grunge band, but my love runs deep for them. Rest easy Kurt. Crist is freaking amazing and I will forever be a Dave 4lyfer 🖤
The greatest voice I’ve ever heard.
Emotion and authenticity in a song is better than technicality.
Leadbelly was a pretty interesting character. He was recorded extensively during the early days of music recording. It's a bit of a tragedy that we'll never be able to hear him recorded on modern equipment. But he talked about people that were in the news at the time, and his song about Hitler is one of my favorites. His recordings helped to preserve and popularize so many folk songs that would have probably been forgotten. I bet he would laugh to hear that his guitar was valued at $500k. He would probably have gifted it to Kurt for free, or traded it for one of Kurt's. Lead Belly also played other instruments and performed songs of many genres, so definitely a versatile guy. So very fitting that Kurt helped keep Lead Belly's legacy alive with this cover.
Thank you for reacting to this.
It means a lot to me.
I was born in 1987 and growing up I never listened to music. Seriously All I did was read books. Wasnt until like 1999 when we moved and my friend showed me 2 albums. one was Korn Issues, and Nirvana Nevermind. I fell in love with Nirvana so much that I read the books, got all the albums, Got the Nirvana Collection of all their old stuff.
They remain my favorite band of all time because without Kurt..... I wouldnt be listening to music.
Fun fact this unplugged is one of the last filmed things of Kurt. They did a few shows after this and then he was dead.
One of the best Unplugged performances of all time! Thanks for doing this one ❤
Alice In Chains one is superb too
This is what put MTV Unplugged on the map imho.
Nirvana's performance of Aneurysm live at Reading 1992 is life changing. The energy coursing through just 3 instruments played by 3 guys to the seemingly infinite sea of muddy and most definitely high festival warrior class, brimming with the collective expectation of the hardest of the hardcore only tribal Brits can muster, demanding nothing less than a spiritually profound experience from the biggest band in the world who just happen to call themselves Nirvana! BOOM! They got it and then some. Oh yeah nearly forgot dancing boy who rolls with the guys on stage and just dances. The entire time.
💯 percent correct. That performance of Aneurysm is one of my favorite Nirvana performances of all time
This wasn't just a song on this cold November night, but a direct question to his wife. Whom he knew was cheating on him at the time. He wanted to buy Leadbelly's guitar for $500,000, the one he played his song on sold for 6 MILLION. Kurt, I think you surpassed your favorite performer. Chills forever. Every time.
P.S.
Some people think this is a dialogue but it doesn't feel like it to me. It sounds like he's speaking about himself leaving her, and wondering what she's going to do without him. But I'm no gatekeeper
Their MTV unplugged session was amazing.
Morning guys! So good! I was lucky enough to see Nirvana live and they were one hell of a live band. Never technically perfect, but so raw and real. Amazing.
One thing to remember about Kurt at this time is that he was also in chronic pain: I always wonder if he was tapping into some of that physical pain in this song?
We know now that towards the end of his life he had untreated stomach ulcers that were apparently agonizing. The song "Pennyroyal Tea" references this ("I'm on warm milk and laxatives/cherry flavored antacids"). Plus pennyroyal is from the peppermint family and can also be used to try and soothe ulcers. There's speculation that his heroin addiction may have been in part him self-medicating for pain. 😢
That look on his face at 8:50 to 8:51. Just a flash when his eyes open. Dayum. The man was deep inside his performance. Only an artist expressing their pain flashes a look like that. IMO.
Yes!! This is legendary!!
i’m so damn thankful that i was a teenager when Nirvana was around. this has been my favorite live performance of theirs since the day this aired on mtv. it’s in my top 5 performances by anyone, tbh. and nirvana is 100% properly rated 💜
This is my favourite Nirvana performance EVER! I was so pleased when 'Nirvana Unplugged' was released as an album. This is IMO the best song on there, even though it was a cover - Kurt's voice & charisma took it to a whole new level - the way he gasped & looked up in the last line - haunting, brings me to tears every time. Kurt was a gentle but troubled soul who hated fame; I was deeply affected by his tragic death, but what a wonderful legacy he left us........I wish he'd got to see his daughter grow up. R.I.P. Kurt Cobain 💔
PS the song is over 100 years old - recorded under different titles including 'In The Pines' and 'Black Girl' - Leadbelly recorded it in the 1940's. I think it will always be Kurt's song now due to this performance🖤
Love Dave grol in the back he has such precision
Supposedly Kurt had the stage set up like this as he wanted this to be his funeral. Idk how much truth there was to that.
I love this song, and Nirvana. They changed the face of music.
You can feel his pain
Wonderful reaction as always!!! Hollywood you're right on what the songs about,and the songs is not really credited to anyone,Leadbelly also covered it.I highly recommend if you guys would check out next from Nirvana 'You know you're right" video,pretty emotional as well as it was their last song.. Keep up the great work!!!
This is the only version of this song done by Nirvana. No studio version, live version, etc. Not sure what other one you've heard before besides this version.
Mark Lanegan did this song in 1990 with Kurt Cobain, they were in a Leadbelly cover band the Jury. They unfortunately never put a album out.
Morning fellas! Wow! That takes me back! I miss the unplugged performances and Kurt and Nirvana! Such a good performance,so sad to have lost him😥( I was 13 or 14 when he died..). Good choice today guys!❤️💯🤓
Kurt and Courtney were in the midst of a separation and headed towards divorce when Nirvana began performing this song. Kurt famously did not invite Courtney to the unplugged performance. It was believed the lyrics that were slightly changed from Lead Belly’s rendition were directed at her.
The emotion in this performance is incredible. Another RIP, Kurt was another legend gone to soon 💔
This is a great show, they did all songs that they never played and wanted to mix it up.
This performance never ever fails to give me goosebumps. Whether you love or hate Nirvana, Kurt had a presence that was mesmerising and captivating. You could see every bit of anguish and pain being let out by Kurt in this performance and the deep breath and that tormented stare into the microphone brings me to tears every time. The only other live performance that did that to me was Layne’s performance in Nutshell by Alice in Chains MTV live Unplugged which still also breaks my heart 27 years later every time I see it.
Two very talented young men with a lot of inner demons they couldn’t fight gone way too soon. 😢
They're one of those bands where if ur at a rock concert and they start playing one of their songs ad soon as the song starts off tje entire crowd goes fucking mental EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. thats how you know a band is truly awesome!! They've been my favourite band since i was 9 years old. i'm now 39 and i still love them just as much as the first time i heard them. R.I.P. Kurt
The irony about the guitar talk at the beginning is that the guitar he's playing in this video sold for $6 million. Most expensive guitar in history.
Lead Belly was the first to record this old field workers standard from around the turn of the 20th century
and Kurt misspoke, the guitar was for sale for 50,000 not 500,000.
The guitar he used on stage was one of Kurts, modified to have a pick up above the sound hole. The one he used on stage was worth between 2500 and 3000 dollars.
Lead Belly did not do the original of this song. The song, from two earlier folk songs, IN THE PINES and THE LONGEST TRAIN is like an old-blues standard from the Southern Appalachian Mountain area around Kentucky, were then put together circa the 1890s as a folk tune by various names including MY GIRL, HEY GIRL, and BLACK GIRL. Bill Monroe and also Lead Belly would cover the song by the 1940s and 1950s, according to Wikipedia:
Like numerous other folk songs, "In the Pines" was passed on from one generation and locale to the next by word of mouth. In 1925, a version of the song was recorded onto phonograph cylinder by a folk collector. This was the first documentation of "The Longest Train" variant of the song, which includes a verse about "The longest train I ever saw". This verse probably began as a separate song that later merged into "In the Pines". Lyrics in some versions about "Joe Brown's coal mine" and "the Georgia line" may refer to Joseph E. Brown, a former Governor of Georgia, who famously leased convicts to operate coal mines in the 1870s. While early renditions which mention the head in the "driver's wheel" make clear that the decapitation was caused by the train, some later versions would omit the reference to the train and reattribute the cause. As music historian Norm Cohen pointed out in his 1981 book, Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong, the song came to consist of three frequent elements: a chorus about "in the pines", a verse about "the longest train" and a verse about a decapitation, but not all elements are present in all versions.[
You have to watch the unplugged! It is still one of my favorite albums!💖😇
Other Blues covers to check out
Monster Magnet -Evil(Howlin Wolf)
Marilyn Manson -I put a spell on you (Screaming J Hawkins)
Soundgarden -Smokestack Lightning (Howlin Wolf)
I'm so glad I saw Nirvana when they were in Denmark - I'm a big fan.
The story behind MTV Unplugged is that this show was so good that they were contacted shortly after and asked if they wanted to do it again. Cobane answered No. He said he had given everything he had that night - and soon after ... "RIP". As far as I know it was Nirvana's last concert... Symbolically there were so many flowers and lights that some say it looked like a funeral
Just a note to say the band did perform again after this show - they did a European tour in the early part of 1994. I have a great sounding bootleg from that tour - audio is out there
This is the only Nirvana version ever released on an album. MTV Unplugged.
This live is so iconic 😊
If people dig Lead Belly I also recommend checking out his version of another folk classic "Goodnight Irene." Lots of performances of that song are out there, but I'd argue his is the best. Like "In the Pines," it's a pretty song whose lyrics get real dark, real fast.
Even through the teeth grinding gurn.... such a voice
This is an awesome cover of Leadbelly. Leadbelly was one of Kurt's favorite artists.
Nirvana was the first MTV unplugged if i remember correctly.
Yall need to check out KoRn's MTV unplugged.
Don’t think they were the first… Unplugged started in 1989. Nirvana’s Unplugged was in 1993 😊
THIS is why I subscribed! Excellent video and so respectful!!
Y’all need to watch this performance from beginning to end in one setting 🔥
What's funny is Kurt wanting to buy Lead Belly's guitar, but what ended up happening is the guitar Kurt is using in this MTV Unplugged was the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction at $6 million.
Nirvana was my jam growing up. Granted, I was young. I was 9 in 1994 when he passed, and I will NEVER forget watching MTV when they announced his death. I was at my grandparents house, sitting in the floor in front of the tv, and they had an announcer talk about Kurt was found dead, and they pretty much talked about him and Nirvana and everything all day.
I remember watching this MTV Unplugged too, and Kurt was just absolutely amazing. His voice and who he was as a person, beautiful. He was passionate about so much and so inclusive and just an all around beautiful human being. I wish he hadn't been in so much physical and emotional and mental pain. So many things were working against him, but I will NEVER believe he actually killed himself. I will forever believe Courtney Love had him killed.
It's funny, because for the longest time I thought this was Nirvana's last performance as well, but funny enough, March 1, 1994 (my birthday) they played in Germany for an intimate show in Terminal Einz, an airplane hanger. That was their actual last show.
Kurt will forever mean the world to me. He was the voice for an entire generation. He meant so much to so many people. It's always so hard for me to listen to him sing, even now because there's always so many emotions that goes along with hearing him. If only. If only.
Weird side note. Right after he died I found a envelope with a bunch of personal photos of him at home and with friends. It was such a sad time I put them away to deal with later. I kept thinking of his baby girl. There they stay ☮️
Being a good artist isn't about being the best artist. It's about doing something different, unique. Nirvana definitely captured this. Nobody was making music like Nirvana at the time. No they aren't the most mechanically sound band. Nirvana did this. They created a sound that fueled a generation of musicians. I'm lucky to have grown up with them, even though I have out grown them.
Great one guys nirvana is still one of my fav bands this unplugged concert is one of the best in history of MTV and they did half of their song and and half covers ( David Bowie, leadbelly ,the vaseline ) and if im not mistaken they wheir the first band to do so on the show ✌️
Give me a Grunge Lead Singer any day over a polished one.. That voice is true and real and tugs at your soul.
I've come to look at this song as Kurt's suicide note. This show was recorded on November 18, 1993. Kurt left us on April 5, 1994. That's five months after this show. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is the last song on this album. The last song on the last Nirvana album with Kurt Cobain alive wasn't even a Nirvana original song. I feel like this song was chosen for a specific reason. And if you watch how Kurt ends, it's so haunting now. He opens his eyes, takes a big deep breath and belts out the finish. This performance tells a story, I think.
There's absolutely nothing overrated about that band and that performance
Gives me goosebumps every time I hear this song
“It might be nice to start playing acoustic guitars and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter, rather than a grunge rocker you know? Because then I might be able to take advantage of that when I'm older, and sit down on a chair and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash and it won't be a big joke.” Didn't sound like a man that wanted to die to me
-Kurt Cobain
Well, you did, and we loved it.
Been a fan of Nirvana for the past 32 years. I'm 43 now. The wife and I got to see that guitar he is playing in Sydney Australia back in April. Was surreal man 🤘🏿
Magic.
Great song .
Wow 🤯 that was 🔥🔥🔥
Love this song, this whole concert was amazing you should check the whole thing out.
If you watch the original he goes into the audience and signed autographs! His estate got $600 million for that 🎸!🤨
Definitely goosebumps
One thing I will say about Nirvana is their deep cuts are excellent, as much as the singles if not better.
So good ❤❤❤
Besides Nutshell unplugged Pearl Jam “Black “ in my opinion is one of the best from unplugged. I was bummed that it ended it was such a great show.
Trash Talkers the end of Unplugged wasn't the end of the show. Nirvana kept playing. It's called the Riot Earth Show
Kurt will forever be one of my favorite singers. Not because he was technical with anything. But he felt every single lyric ever. And when they tried to tell him he couldn't sing, He would ruin their day. Kurt is amazing. I always thing about why Dave is so great is because he had the best view of Kurt the whole time.
You should check out Lake of Fire from the same MTV unplugged (cover of a Meat Puppets song) and Man Who Sold the World from the same MTV Unplugged (cover of a David Bowie song.)
I would have l loved to see Nirvana or Alice in Chains live. I watched both unplugged the night that they each premiered on MTV. Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Eddie Vedder and Scott Wieland were the great voices this genre/ sub genre. RIP to Kurt, Layne and Scott.
Thank you for reacting to this song! I loved every song from this concert and owned the double CD set as well.
They did a video for The Man Who Sold the World 😊
@ShanLH5 they already reacted to it? I must've missed! I'll go find it! Thank you!❤️
@@MegsD79 yes, I just checked again to make sure I wasn’t misremembering lol. I would link it for you but RUclips tends to delete my comments when I put links in them 😩
You’re welcome 😊❤️
@@ShanLH5 appreciate u!
Those intimate shows have to be awesome small crowd I wish I was able to be there
Good band, 46% others music. This is actually two songs: The Pines, and Where Did You Sleep. Ranking Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Screaming Trees.
sleeping in the pines feels like it has a similar meaning "dem försvann på en vintersnatt" which translated would mean "they disappeared on a winters night"
the meaning of the phrase is that the winter cold killed them.
thats my interpretation as someone from sweden anyway the song probably has a different meaning where it came from.
This song always gives me Twin Peaks vibes. ❤❤❤❤❤❤.
Some opinions are just incorrect. The opinion that Nirvana was overrated is patently incorrect. It's not subjective; it's objective. Nirvana changed music.
You should check out the original and maybe a couple other covers of it. A bunch of people have done versions of this song, a lot of them being more country or blues-based. At least before the Nirvana version came along.
I wish all "rappers" were like you guys...
You seem to be such nice people and I think the kids of today need more role models in their genre of choice like you so the world can change for the better.
//C~🇸🇪
I always took the narrative of the song to mean the narrator KNOWS his partner cheated on him, because he FOUND the guy she cheated with and he KILLED HIM...now he's sitting, as I personally envision...sitting in a dimly lit room, lit cigarette in hand, literally bloody hands, staring daggers at her asking "where did you sleep last night?" knowing FULL well where she did...having KILLED the man and just wanting her to CONFESS.
RIP Kurt ♥
You guys should watch what actually kill grunge video from the punk rock
A great Lead Belly cover - if you listen carefully to Leadbelly's 20s/30s stuff you can hear rock and rock being invented
The irony that the guitar Kurt is playing in this just sold for $6mil at auction…
Hi everyone loved the video, my two favorite bands from this era is Nirvana and Sublime. I loved Nirvana’s cover of The Man Who Sold The World from this unplugged performance. The original is by David Bowie but in my opinion Kurt did it better,
i loved there unplugged performance but 10'000 Maniacs unplugged performance was perfect! Natalie Merchant is such a dream!
The irony is that the guitar Kurt plays in this performance sold for like $2 million
His sweater sold for 2 million
Love this, would like you guys to do lake of fire too