David Bowie on The Man Who Sold The World and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) / includes Lulu's version!
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- David Bowie on writing The Man Who Sold The World and about Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
This is part of an interview broadcast in 1996 on Dutch TV.
Video start with Lulu's version of the song. Then it switches to a small fragment of Kurt Cobain singing the song on MTV Unplugged after which Bowie talks about writing the song and claims he was 19 when he wrote it! In fact he was 23.
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David Bowie was just 19 when he wrote that song. Holy shit
A Geniuos, period.
Is that true? Damn... this music is fantastic
@dezessete Without a doubt. What made him stand out more than most was how articulate and compassionate he was. He was also a damn good actor.
He was 23
talented no doubt and wise for his age
Bowie is the definition of why musicians are called Artists
Musicians are called Artists. Bowie is the definition of 'why'.
@@Brummeo wow bro. Good job on rearranging the words of EXACTLY what I said
@@coryklein84 Exactly bro; rearranging the words I said. What good... Wow :)
@@Brummeo hahaha
You forgot the word "on"
I prefer David's version, but Nirvana did what very few can do successfully: make it their own. One of the best covers ever.
It often comes down to which version you heard first
I'm not into the "You're Faaaaayece to Faaaaayece" contrived pronunciation in the Bowie version. (says the Mancunian 🤣)
Therefore Kurt takes this one for me on that and cutting the fluff out and making it acoustic.
Overall though... Bowie wins for penning a song that's always going to be great whichever version you prefer.
Both version has an impact to music
@CrazyFish yeah Michael Jackson put a lot more stuff than most other people put in their cover with his Beatles cover. It’s really just his voice that changes the man who sold the world
@CrazyFish "Made it their own?" Right,
instead he just played and sung it in his own style. :D
Bowie was a genius. He could write a sci-fi novel in a 4 minute song
I suppose he more-so captures the feeling of it more than the story itself
Metal Gear
@@donk6985 THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE!
@@fresurt13I lowkey forgot about this comment lmao
Is it just me or was Bowie like the coolest guy who ever lived? Even his looks, he's like an alien.
He was one of the coolest for sure.
Speaking of aliens, was that Joe Satriani on guitar ? Sounded like him. Bowie could always spot the great guitarists. Stevie Ray Vaughn played on China Girl and Let's Dance
You're right, he was. Facts!
You are right.
A beautiful alien.
I know Bowie was always cool but he looked incredible around this time
Good dental work and a lot of confidence.
Most people wouldn't look as good as he did if they did the amount of drugs he did
Clean and healthy. I love this period as well.
he appears a young god in these years
Yeah, and he was almost 50 at the time, 48 actually, and looking pretty good even after all the drugs he used
With Nirvana it sounded more Like a Ballad sang by an old man and i think that's beautiful
`Well he was nearing the end of his lifespan, an old soul.
To me it sounds like he just can't be arsed. It's frankly fucking depressing! I could easily see him taking his own life listening to it!
wow dude, you should join him then
I just think that Nirvana version is a masterpiece, musically, mood wise, the arrangement, everything about it. The guitar is just haunting and the bass scaling up and down is just unbelievably captivating
I prefer the character of the original, but it's rare that any song has two legendary versions to choose from.
Nonsense
👍
Conor S: True, it's the definitive version. As good as the original is Nirvana nailed it best.
Yes. Even Kurt messing up the outro, it was perfect
Kurt bled his heart out on unplugged, it’s amazing.
can't stand it. maudlin smackhead pretending to be deep.
@@michelguevara151 "smackheads" can be some of the most tortured souls on the planet. Amazing music doesn't come from a comfortable, happy life where nothing goes wrong. Find me a famous rocker who never did drugs and changed music as much as nirvana did.
@@azdaze227 Frank Zappa.
@@azdaze227 "sir this is a wendy's-"
Im pretty sure during that show he was having withdrawals but he took another drug to keep him level. It’s so sad, how he got to the point of needing it to live
Everyone’s talking about the unplugged version, you’re all sleeping on the live and loud version
@Sergio Balaguera yeah one he’s awing at the end it’s such a trip
Live and loud version is the best by far!
Speaking of that, the fast version Polly is great too
Woah thx 4 the tip all, never herd of L&L, def sleeping, will check it out
@@petestanton1945 glad to wake you
I love it when artists have so much respect for each other.
Nirvana’s cover is and always will be my favorite. Haunting and beautiful. RIP Kurt
I do prefer Kurt Cobain/nirvana cover so well performed 🎭
Nirvana's Unplugged version is played from deep within the soul. You can feel it in your heart and in your gut. It's personal. It is more than song in Kurt's voice; it is a prayer, a confession. It's alive.
Bowie is a genius and his voice and talent are irreplaceable, but Kurt found a connection to something that even Bowie didn't know was there when he wrote it.
Absolutely, very well summoned.
Exactly! Well-said - Kurt sang it so convincingly that it sounds like he wrote it!
Kurt's version makes me feel like he's calling _himself_ the man that sold the world, but I don't get that feeling from Bowie's version.
Very very true
Great inference wow
You're right
Bc his death made it ever so eerie, that's why I love it. It is a haunting reminder..
I actually feel the opposite, I feel like he’s talking to the man who sold the world
@@Banewasright I think he's meeting someone else, then in the chorus he says in his head to him "you're face to face with the man who sold the world" so it sounds like he's the man who sold the world
The performance at the end sounds like Metal Gear Solid music. Cool to hear Bowie's thoughts on the song and Nirvana's version, though. Crazy that he wrote this song at age 19!
Well in MGSV, they used a cover of this song by Midge Ure which is by far my favourite version of this song.
It’s literally in Metal Gear Solid 5.
@@XTorinX Midge Ure’s version > Kurt Cobains version > David Bowie’s version.
@@joshshrum2764 Yeah but I mean this particular rendition sounds a lot like MGS2 bgm that plays when you're sneaking around.
RIP to you both. Two of the greatest. I hope people are still listening and talking about these great men in 200+ years. Never will they be able to understand their impact to those living in the same world.
David's bassist, always forget her name, but what talent ... ❤
Gail Ann Dorsey
@@mediagroove thank you, I had the first two parts right-ish; at least I was right that Gale Anne HURD is a movie producer: the Terminator series, the Punisher films, Aeon Flux, Tremors, Armageddon and the Abyss, among many more
Gail Dorsey
What's fascinating about this is you can see David Bowie get low-key emotional when he talks about Kurt Cobain
I did not know Lulu had covered this tune. God it's shit.
yeah actual dogwater
Haha agreed
I thought it was decent at first then she went, "OhH nO" and I was like, "shit. 🙃"
Thanks for writing this comment so I didn’t have to
Honestly, even the live Bowie one at the end comes off overdone and pretentious. I like his record version though. But yeah, you just can’t beat Unplugged in New York.
A friend of mine saw Bowie at Irving Plaza late 90s early 2000s and Bowie Played "The Man Who Sold The World" and all these kids screamed "OMG he's covering Nirvana!" And they weren't trolling. It always gives me a painful laugh when I think about it. Poor guy.
Nirvanas cover was amazing but that’s pretty funny lol
David 'Poor Guy' Bowie
Kurt even says “that was a David Bowie song” right after playing it in MTV Unplugged ffs!
I think that just shows their age. I thought the same when i heard his version, but i thought he was covering Lulu. I'm 55. Her version came out when i was 9
I was sitting in a theater once when Landslide came on and the girl next to me said "who is this covering Smashing Pumpkins"! lol
The performance at the end is the most 90's seasoned musician thing I've ever seen. Every musician who had soul/feel in the 60s, too much drugs in the 70s and a lingering coke habit that ended in a Betty Ford retreat the 80s ended up with sunglasses, a curly mullet, digital slabs and a Parker Fly playing round theaters in the 90s.
LMAO I'm dead
Haha that solo killed me
@@gilmourvibes9078 god damn Adrian Belew over here with the solo lol
haha
Aye what performance was that
Kurt and Bowie are some of the biggest influences and (kind of) role models for me so hearing this is really something
3 weeks later everyone's getting this in their reccomened
lol m2k
@@sentientidea1780 ayy
Yep
Lol
Yep
I didn't connect with everything he did in the 90's, but always respect Bowie's viewpoints and willingness to embrace change and exploration.
David Bowie was 19 years old when he wrote an incredible song. I’m 22 and still trying to finish my first book!
I love Bowie and Nirvana's version of this song. Bowie sang like he was telling the story of a guy who meet a man who sold the, as a kind of radio storyteller from the beginning of 19th century( whats make sense, since he is the writer of the song) and Kurt sang like he was the guy who had been face to face with the man who sold the world, as someone who impressed him so much that he can't forget. Perhaps, because of his state of mind at the time, Kurt had some sort of sadness in his voice when he sang it.
The song that got me into Nirvana and a sense of happiness now I cry when I hear it... why is that? Who knows... not me...
You looked into his eyes... thats why..
I fell in love with David Bowie
in the 70s when I was around
7 years old. And I still love him.
And miss him!
I sure miss David Bowie. Still shocked that he's no longer with us. The universe is blessed to have him among the stars now.
How fortunate, even though it was so brief, to be in this world for this. Bowie to have written it and Cobain to have re-recorded it and played on Unplugged-such an iconic song and time it became. RIP DAVID AND KURT
As a guitarist my dream is to play that bassline just before the chorus....it's wicked!!! (Nirvana unplugged version)
Saw Bowie twice. Once solo in 1987's Glass Spider tour (with Peter Frampton on guitar) and once in the early 90's with Tin Machine.
I love Bowie for his humility even as basically the biggest star ever.
Bowie's songwriting is underrated af
By whom? 🤔
@@heavymeddle28 he's not an underrated artist as a whole. But his songwriting is, when people talk about Bowie they talk about changes ,exploration and fashion...they never talk about songwriting, bowie himself pointed to this, he found sad because he didnt care about fashion, everything was just caracters serving his vision as a songwriter, he didnt saw himself as a performer, more as writer. For example he was never invited for the songwriter hall of fame, different of many of contemporaries, i dont think he care that much, but It mattered to him more than any rock in roll hall of fame, so much so that he didn't even appear in his, and overall just fans who spend the whole stereotypical surface of (changes, fashion ...) To talk about his writing, few people even do that. That's my opinion, with some of his, and some songwriters anyway. Think what you want.
@@jessica5497 I didn't mean to sound rude with my question. We're not so different. I'm born 71 and my big brother and sister played Bowie since I was a toddler too. He is my nr 1. Alongside led zeppelin and pink floyd. No. Im really curious. And yes... People put aaaaaall emphasis on his characters. Which is fine. But in my opinion it's like his songwriting is so good that nobody touches that subject. That's a given. Anyway... Last night... I have a small bar in Thailand and I put on "rock n roll suicide from the bootleg" a portrait in flesh" LA 74... People didn't even know who sang. One man and his wife said "this is beautiful. Who is it?" I said "elvis" and they believed me 😊❤️from Thailand 🇹🇭
Hunky dory is such a great album.
People sleep on the labyrinth soundtrack. Some real timeless, fun, catchy songs on that.
Kurt took a couple songs and made them his own. Man who sold the world, and I love her, where did you sleep last night . Amazingly talented soul
His Leadbelly cover always gives me chills.
And i lover her❤️
Also Love buzz and Turnaround, and the meat puppet covers he did in the unppluged
The lead belly cover is beautiful
And Love Buzz from Bleach and a few songs on Incesticide.
I love Nirvana's cover. That's actually the FIRST version of the song I ever heard. Then I hear this... David Bowie is just amazing!!
I like both versions. My favorite version of Bowie singing this was on SNL. Really incredible.
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana popularized this song and rightly so. Their version is epic.
I think you mean to say "re-popularized" this song.
Maybe in the US, it was already a big hit in the UK and elsewhere via Bowie and Lulu’s versions
Nirvana was crap, Bowie's the man.
@@philipm06 Bowie would laugh at you as he was a total fan of Nirvana
@@philipm06 simpleton
How dutch tv made so many interviews in 90s with most popular artists and bands at that time...
Because they were all there for the hoes and hashish
@@gunnerglory Am Dutch, can confirm
Yea but like really how and why
with a microphone and a camera
@@fernandooliveira6493 hm, you might be on to something!
Long live them both. Absolute powerhouses
😂
Bowie is drop-dead gorgeous
He was about 48 in that interview.
Nirvanas cover did just exactly what a cover is supposed to do. Completely changes the song makes it feel completely different.
They actually did the song it exactly as David's original version
I have to disagree. I love Nirvana's cover but Kurt only slowed down the rhythm, which might come across as a big change. Check out Seether's careless whisper or Billie Jean by Chris Cornell or the Bates. Well, that's when you tear apart the original song and make it your own.
I disagree. A good cover is unique and belongs to the band who made it, but keeps the spirit of the original song alive. A complete change and a completely different and new version doesn’t make for a very good cover all that often, in my opinion.
And that is exactly what Nirvana did btw, their cover was definitely Nirvana’s version, but they had similar energy to Bowie’s original.
@@fitless I have to disagree with this. The slowed down rhythm and Kurt's voice makes it feel completely different, as well as changes in instruments and general melody.
I never knew this was a Bowie song.
As they say, you learn something new every day.
Some people are so switched on at such a young age it's ridiculous. I'm sure there are many who have the thoughts, but to be able to get it out, on paper, and then perform is a whole other level. A miraculous talent and character. RIP David Bowie.
It's amazing how many of these incredible documentaries about music are from Dutch TV stations. I'm sure it's the same one, because it's the same kind of subtitles. They also did an amazing documentary on John Frusciante. I"m at the point where I'm half tempted to learn Dutch just to appreciate these incredible pieces of work.
Holy crap, this video is one month old? I can see it on my recommended vids 7 years from now.
Kurts has the effortless voice that gives the songs so much meaning
Nirvana's performance of "The Man Who Sold the World" at MTV (Unplugged) in New York was the ultimate version of this song, in my estimation. R.I.P. David Bowie and Kurt Cobain.
OUI !!!!!!!!
@@jeanpaultomolillo2821 C'est si bon, mon ami.
If seeing this David Bowie performance does not ground the idea in your head that David Bowie is an outstanding singer, songwriter and musician, please wake up !
This honestly has to be my favorite version of the song , just for the fact that its so mystical and trance - like , to me it makes the song hit in a way that shapes the story to be so eerie and mysterious I love it ❤
Dude is using a Parker fly guitar. I miss mine like I can’t even describe. Best guitar I’ve ever owned.
Reeves and Vernon Reid were the only ones I ever saw play those, and given how idiosyncratic and weird they both are it makes perfect sense. That's a really unique guitar. No one ever did it like Parker.
Its a amazing guitar, I had the pleasure of trying one out back when Thoroughbred music was still around. must have been 25 years ago now.
@@DavidPiniella Actually you would be surprised how many artists recorded with that guitar. Even Trent Reznor uses it. Best guitar I’ve ever owned and when I picked mine up I walked in with the intention on buying a Gibson Les Paul ebony custom. After playing both side-by-side with a beautiful orange amp I walked out with the Parker fly deluxe and did not regret it at all. And I have a tattoo of a Gibson Les Paul Ebony custom if that says anything.
@@ChrisTopheRaz I would assume that's Adrian belew's influence on trent, that makes sense
Much respect to Bowie. Love his voice and music but Cobain absolutely takes this and owns it. RIP to both incredible musicians.
I disagree. Nirvana adds zilch.
@@22448824 I disagree. Nirvana adds a different vibe and the touches of feedback are rough compared to the cool slickness of The White Duke. Zilch? I disagree
No. Nirvana did a nice version which I enjoy, but I will always think of this as Bowie's song, as I listened to it many times before I ever even heard of the band Nirvana, as I'm sure Kurt Cobain did too.
@@alukuhito not sure I follow but no worries...to each is own. I listen to both and miss their musicianship equally.
Every time Cobain covered a song, it became HIS song
Kurt put blood into that song,.. it was appropriate for Bowie to say "when Kurt wrote it.." i don't think that was a gaff, i think that was Bowie admitting it, and being such a gracious human being he was it was genuine :P
I got chills watching Bowie perform this again!😍
I saw David Bowie perform this song in 1995 in Vegas (NIN was also on bill they did a Duet of HURT). Memories.2 Weeks prior I saw the Cramps first ever show in Vegas. Good times.
Lulu's cover of this at the start was like something I'd expect to see in Hell.
Was a bad audio but listened fully it’s actually not too bad
Where the full version
Yeah, it hurt my being.
Bowie was backing vocals and, IIRC, arranged it for her
You can love or hate nirvana, but one thing they did right: They introduced david bowie to a whole new generation back then
Um... All things considered, Nirvana was a Gen X band, and Gen X was very familiar with David Bowie.
Yeah. Because lots and lots of young teenagers were deep fans of bowie in 1994.
Yeah. Right
Dont get me wrong. I saw bowie live when I was 16 in the 90's... but c'mon.
All of my friends were there to see fucking no doubt!
@@toninhopavan2 Nobody said anything about "deep fans". You didn't have to be a "deep fan" of Bowie to know of him back in the early 90s. Any given rock radio station played his music. He was a massive star in both the 70s and 80s, and he remained an icon until his death a couple of years ago.
So did Vanilla Ice.
I've listened to the Nirvana cover 1000's of times since first hearing it as a kid somehere around 1995. Imo it's the greatest cover of all time. It elevated a relatively average song (charts wise) into a timeless classic.
Kurts unplugged version was my favorite until recently...now its got high competition from Bowie with Klaus Naomi on SNL 1979..thank you youtube..
The SNL version with Klaus Nomi was stellar
I live and die for that video.
This was back when he just died. There was still this mystical vibe about how kurt died and it almost seemed otherworldly because it's like wow that song had a more significant impact
Brixton proud! Mick Ronson created Bowie's birth. All credit due to him. He was an amazing guitarist, producer, and arranger. Died at 46 from liver cancer. How incredibly sad. Bowie also died of complications of the liver - cancer. Together, they built David's career. Bowie admitted before he died that he would never have made it "big" without the work of Mick Ronson, a smalltown lad from Hull, UK. He was a beautiful arranger as well. Made John Cougar Mellencamp a star as well. Everything he touched was gold, except his own solo work. Mick was born to share his gift with anyone who demanded him. A complete guitar pioneer.
He’s a beautiful man
nirvana is to man who sold the world what jimi is to all along the watch tower
they both took great songs by great artists and added their own vibe to them
Nirvana made the song so much more sorrowful.
It's like Kurt WAS the man who sold the world. And died just like the character in the song
That song indeed works great because of the sad ending that followed soon. I'm glad Nirvana didn't totally change it into a hard rock song. Nirvana's cover played in Modena on Feb 21 1994, the day after Kurts birthday and 6 weeks before his death. A very powerful acoustic version and the screams are just so desperate as if he's fighting to live.
Bowie loves the Nirvana cover, was intrigued by Kurt, and wishes he got a chance to ask him what he was channeling, and also wanted to just chat and joke with him. I think he sensed a kindred soul. I'm sure he would have tried to steer him away from self destruction if he could have, as he did with Trent Reznor. But it's all "what if" now.
With all due respect to Bowie, his 90's era stuff sounds like a support band whose set I'd duck out for a smoke for.
Yeah, the Bowie version in this video just... sucks.
@@bigbowlowrong4694 I feel like most artists with careers spanning across multiple decades have typically made their worst work in the 90's.
@@elkklemusic2895 imo it’s because the 90s and early 2000s were such a strange time in music as they didn’t have a specific sound for people to latch onto especially if the artist has been doing it for decades eventually you’ll become confused, I mean think about it nirvana showed up and ended hair metal in a day imagine that culture shock
He recovered his career....ain't no other arti set went out like Blackstar at least
@@AllergicToMyself Aboslutely!
Always the humble genius, David. Love the jazzy version heard here. OOTW !
It doesn't really matter if you like David Bowie's music or not, you can not ever argue that he wrote masterful lyrics that always had story and meaning, and poiniency...
I met david , he was an amazingly kind man he gave me a cigarette and made me a cup of tea. ( in a studio )
I love how in his will he was so generous to people who had worked for him or been supportive. A kind wise soul with a freakish talent.
Judging by some of the comments here, it seems like there's some confusion about what the "Bowie version" is and what the "Nirvana version" is. Nirvana didn't create their own composition based on Bowie's song; They basically played the original Bowie version as is.
It's the singer that's the difference.
When Kurt could get the words right.
Not true at all they even dropped the tuning.
my dad was a model there’s a couple photos of him with the David Bowie that were in for a magazine. i was born 2002 i know david bowie as the goblin king i liked nirvana version because i like slow melancholy sound
Around the time the Nirvana version was popular, some friends of mine and I used to shoot pool at this dingy little bar, with a billiards room in the back with about 8 to 10 tables, and at the far end was a long, wide, 70s jukebox with the 45RPM singles in it, and it was full of Classic rock. Included in the selections was David Bowie's "Space Oddity" as the a-side. Strange as it seems, "The Man Who Sold The World" was the b-side. Needless to say, as grunge fans raised on Classic rock, we regularly put money in the jukebox, and the Bowie version, the original, became a regular staple in our DJing session whenever we attended the place. It caused a lot of heads to crane in the direction of the jukebox, and a few people to wander over to it, and read the number-letter combination, to correlate it to where to find it on the track console. I'd kind of credit Nirvana for creating a renewed interest in a deeper-cut track in Bowie's catalogue.
B side of Life on Mars 1973 - played it over and over again, probably more than the A side - My mum used to say get that bleeding funeral march off haha
In Kurt's suicide note he mentions an imaginary friend named budda, or something similar.
Strange for bowie to mention he wrote this song while studying buddhism and also connected the song so close to Kurts death. Music is truly a connected force.
Kurt was also really in to buddhism explains why he named his imaginary friend budda
Kurt would have probably known that... add his favoured drug of choice and you probably also have the accompanying imaginary friends
@@420_24seven they say heroin makes you love the feeling of death
explain why he called the band nirvana too
The imaginary friend was ‘Boddah’. He imagined this friend when he was a small child, not as an adult.
The version played at the end is really good..some fantastic bass!
Bowie’s version, he’s reflecting. Cobain’s version, time is passing him by.
Bowie was both, artist and singer together!
That guitar solo is so sick. I love what he did at 3:51
I got this album & ziggy stardust at a garage sale when I was very young; let's dance was on the radio at the time. I have been a diehard fan since.
It sounds soo much better "Accousticly" hence Unplugged
Acoustically
Why does Scott Weiland remind me of David Bowie?
David bowie was his idol
because he always copied others, including his idol Layne Staley
Probably because of similar facial structure/hairline.
practice, and I say this with the greatest respect to Weiland
@@okilfeathermusic Weiland was an amazing stage presence
Phantom Pain cemented the Midge Ure version as the best for me
Same here.
Never really paid much attention but now I'm 55 David Bowie is totally a cool dude! ~Brian
2 spectacular versions of a magnificent legendary song
Adrian Belew on spacey guitar in the '95 version.
Satriani or Belew?
@@kaganozdemir4332 Oops. Thank you.
nono, that's Reeves Gabrels, also co-producer of Bowie's records during the 90s like Earthling
@@pibepuga Ah Oak, but his guitar looks very much like the weird ass designs of Belew's guitars
I remember 19 as being much closer to a mystical state as I've ever been to since.
Never afraid to reinterpret his own material - endlessly creative.
Nirvana version is so good that Bowie believes for a brief moment that Cobain wrote it 2:00
Nirvana is crap and always has been.
@@philipm06 Don't be so hard on yourself
Midge Ure's version is just as good. Fit Metal Gear Solid V perfectly.
Me encanta esa versión
The different colored eyes is a trip.
They are not different colored. One pupil is permanently dilated as a result of being punched in the eye
@@tubesteak3991 But they're actually different colours too, so...
@@alukuhito Tube Steak is right --- they are the same color -- they only appear a different shade --- I was surprised to learn that was true too
@@kathleensmith3555 Look at various photos of David Bowie's eyes. They are clearly different colours. It's not just pupil size.
@@alukuhito Nope, it's the pupil size
This combined with the lighting during and various cameras used to take the pictures
Makes it seem like they are two different colors
When they are not, Bowie has stated this on numerous occasions
This isn't a comparison of who's better. How Bowie explained his version is spot on.. Kurt made it so hauntingly personal.
Christ I miss this man soooo fucking much. RIP Mr. Bowie. The greatest artist this world will ever know.
Every damn day.
Yes!! There will never be another artist like him. Miss him so much
3:04 Is that how you're supposed to pronounce 'face'? I've been doing it wrong.
British accent i guess
Nope just Bowie 😅
@@Fiat-gm7yr There are many British accents, Bowies is a London accent.
bri’ish
Fayce to Fayce
Shout out to the Parker Fly at 4:09
When i heard this song on the radio, i always thought nirvana is the original then i watch the mtv unplugged, kurt mentioned that david bowie written it. That's how i know its not nirvana's original song . the performance was so outstanding it sounded like its their own music.
I like Bowie's recorded version, even the washboard. But this live version in this video is a bit ridiculous. It's like a freestyle stoner yoga ballet rendition. Kurt definitely delivered, and it was one of the best tunes of the unplugged, but it depresses the shit out of me now. I was 17 and he was a god. He was the only thing right in the world sometimes.
Not a washboard. It was a clave ( pronounced claw vay).
0:51 if you want to dodge Lulus bile.
Thanks😂
Wish I saw this 51 seconds ago.
Thank you what a terrible cover
From 3:10, 4:22 's delivery of Two Words: The World" perfectly takes a beat n on..is so Masterful ..DB so shows He will always own this song…
David was such a humble man. No inflated ego, but why should he? He's David Bowie.