I was NOT prepared. Finally watching Nirvana perform "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" LIVE
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- I see now why so many of you insisted that I watch this performance. Kurt Cobain's vocals were on another level entirely. Here's my reaction to Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night."
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Kurt’s voice is perfectly imperfect.
perfectly imperfect, no better description of his voice.
or imperfectly perfect... 🙂
kinda like janice.... it is as if they sound terrible yet convince the world that it is amazing... I am just saying that because I find it literally incredible. They are just that good....
As it is his guitar play. He was such amazing musician. Miss him
That exhale and those eyes tell the entire story.
Yup. 100%
Couldn’t have said it better
Breaks me every time
sadly....yes they do.
So so very true. Gets me every time
That last bit always gives me chills
All of us..
Last breath cry for help. Been there. Not a good place to be. 😊
É o momento que a alma dele deixa o corpo. 😢
Ease up with the pausing, way to much that it gets annoying for the viewer
Yeah, I was really really hoping that final section would be allowed just one playthrough with the continuity it deserved.
MTV Unplugged was arguably their best programming. So many great performances. Great video!
so true, that era was insane with great musical performances
Agreed! Nirvana, Alice In Chains, 10,000 Maniacs, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Queensryche! All AMAZING shows!! So glad I was around to watch the premiere of these!!
I actually appreciated rap music after seeing LL Cool J unplugged.
@@blatherama Digable Planets have some really great live performances on RUclips.
It's one of my favorite albums of all time.
Those eyes, man. Every time.
a window into his soul
Every.single.time 🥺
He wasn't from here. Dude was a straight up alien.
its the nirvana contrast. keep em closed then open them once. its the silent loud thing
I wasn't a fan of Nirvana before I heard their unplugged set, it changed my mind & opened my eyes to their talent
Thank-you for the channel.
I was a nirvana fan prior to this and when he passed I was so happy that the world got to hear him with this performance. I believe this Unplugged session cemented their legacy being the grunge era and allowed the artist to show through.
its very special for sure
We got to see some amazing performances which maybe be better than studio recordings from these MTV unplugged shows. Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, all amazing showcasing the talent and raw emotion. Instruments spot on. Love listening to them. Clearly.
In the immediate aftermath of Kurt's death I thought Nirvana was great but maybe a little overrated.. but then a few months later I hear this and nope: underrated.
And now the decades have passed and I believe they are correctly rated--that is, widely acknowledged as the most significant rock group of the era.
After thirty years,that intensity at the end still gives me chills.
me too. the nostlagia is reeeeeal
"Oh my gosh, I have so many goosebumps"
We were all thinking "just wait, girl, just wait." :P
I literally said that out loud 😂
“I died alone… A long long time ago”
The man who sold the world
My favorite song on the unplugged album. The emotion is just off the charts.
That lead in to THE BREAK, THEEE LOOK, THEEEEEEE BREATH..........May just be one of the TOP moments in music history. So effing powerful. To. This. Day.
I get chills to this day at the end of this song. Watching it when it first aired on MTV, it gave me chills. And just weeks later... It shook an entire generation.
He didn't kill himself
That whole performance/record is a masterpiece.
The set looked like a funeral......he knew....we didn't
Except Come As You Are... 😬
Doesnt matter how many times ive listened to it, i cut onions every time he transitions.
You were killing us stopping before his big finish. We were all clearly dying to see your face when he blew it out at the end.
🤦
@@Beowulfacademy?
She was in the moment expressing how she felt and describing the texture of the song. Give her a break, she's a vocal coach, this type of analysis is what she does
@@gnarlyrayjepsen5085 She is too far up her own ,,,,, listen to the whole song, what's wrong with giving thoughts and analysis at the end.
@@jameswiglesworth5004 you're an idiot. if you want to listen to the song go find the video instead of whining on a reaction video lmfao
Kurt's voice: Tearing into new hearts everyday for decades...
I remember very vividly this "MTV Unplugged" performance. Nirvana was so much in the zone on this amazing performance. I'm of that Generation X Kurt was a part of. He was the voice for us. They were other great voices as well in the late 80's & early 90's. At the crescendo of "Where did you sleep last night," he pauses, looks up with those blue eyes like a silent plea, then lets out that exhausting gasp of air. It hit me hard where I was winded. I unfortunately knew deep in my already wounded heart that he would leave this mortal coil. I miss Kurt Cobain a lot then, today & far into tomorrow. I terribly miss you, old friend. Rest well.
MTV was what was the internet 10 years later. Just endless amazing music every evening. What a great time to be a teenager😄
It's gutteral, visceral and even today, all these years later it remains an absolutely heartbreaking performance. Bless you Kurt, you were one of the good guys.
To me it's "the look" Kurt gives at the end when he exhales/inhales....It just looks like for a very brief moment he pulls back the curtain and you can see in there. And it's so, so intense.
So much of his pain was on display there. 😔
So was his remarkable talent and his soul
❤
I remember when this was broadcast. It blows me away completely and reduces me to tears today, just as it did then.
I was there with you!
Same here. Every time.
Crazy watching it on MTV😬
I heard Nirvana at first time in 1992, I was 13 yo, it blow my mind, I enjoy so much but it last so little. Now I 45, I still hear Nirvana a lot, but I feel so sad thinking about this young man with so much talent and so many devils in his head. I can't stop to thinking that "the man who sold the world" was a scream to help, and "Where did you sleep last night" was his way to say goodbye. Gracias por los momentos Kurt, a mis 13 eras mi idolo, a mis 45 me parece un joven tierno que merecia más. Cuantas canciones nos quedamos sin escuchar.
Super interesting about Kurt’s guitar sound for this performance. The jangle comes from his Bartolini 3AV soundhole pickup played through a Fender Twin Reverb amp. Peter Buck (R.E.M.) was using a Bartolini and Kurt liked it. The guitar itself is a 1959 Martin D18E - an early acoustic electric. It’s a right hand model, and Kurt has it strung left handed and plays it upside down. The original onboard electronics were not used for the performance. Crazy, this guitar was at sold at auction for 6MM in 2020.
It's a beautiful guitar.
@@steveg8102 You can hear it in your mind, right? I can.
The sound actually came of the mixer board, via the direct box. The Twin was used as a monitor.
I’ve heard this song more times than I could possibly dream of counting, and I still get full body goosebumps every time he launches into the scream out of the soft part
The version of this song Nirvana is covering is an old Leadbelly song "In the Pines" from the late 1800s to the early to mid 1900s. The song's orgins seem to be an old Appalachian folk song that went by many names and had many versions handed down through the generations. 😊
Omg, thank you! I was waiting for someone to point out that it's an ooolllllllddddd bluegrass cover! 🥰
Kurt's performance was mesmerizing. What an incredible human being
Fortuitous that I was able to catch this video going up! it was just last night that I stumbled across your channel and watched a couple of reactions to my favorite songs! Usually, I don't comment, but I was kinda moved!
At the end you can see the pain in his eyes, you can truly see into his soul; for a split ( * 16:26* )-second! That man was in A LOT of pain!
you're absolutely right. That exhale, combined with the pause and that brief, piercing stare, revealed so much pure pain and agony. To me, it seemed like he was just exhausted not just physically, but emotionally, as if life itself had worn him down. It was almost as if he was on the verge of giving up.
@@HolySensei842 Another song (Penny Royal Tea) from this set list describes his stomach pain.
@Burasutaa thanks, I'll check it out 🙏
Omg same!
The funeral feeling of tree stage, from the candles to the white lilies adds to the foreboding feeling. It feels like he had already decided that he had to go, and wanted to attend his own funeral. The multiple attempts before completing his deletion seemed foreshadowed by this performance.
It's the blues. It's all about building that tension, and then breaking it. Kurt just found another way to do it.
It's an oxymoron in itself, it's both beautiful and gut-wrenching at the same time.
Not an oxymoron at all. Good art is often both beautiful and gut-wrenching simultaneously; they’re not mutually exclusive emotions.
I love seeing your facial expressions when parts of the song hit you. Strangly enjoyable to see someone else expression those emotions while feeling your own emotions while listening to a song like this.
music is all about telling a story. and it still amazes me that some of the best story tellers in music did not have what would be considered a pleasing voice, but those unpleasing voices were the best voice to tell the story. and this is no exception.
Thanks for the video, This song always leaves me with a tear
That tone you mention is both soft and 'harsh' and yet so appropriate. It gives the soulful folksiness a serious depth. Brilliant delivery. Very deliberate, true, with a light heaviness! "cool to see" and hear. The fry and scream is so fine. Plowing through the Mud. yes, Goosebumps.
I watched this live with my grandfather sitting next to me (November 18th 1993 as it was broadcast on MTV). I was stunned when he said he enjoyed the show....just stunned...he was a big bluegrass fan.
My birthday ❤
I think Kurt’s rendition of this song is great in terms of setting the mood especially with the cello, as the Leadbelly’s original (although I think the song has roots going back even further) has a slightly faster tempo.
Leadbelly’s life was quite extraordinary and definitely worth reading about.
This song does have roots that go back further than Leadbelly. To the 1830s, at least, and maybe even earlier.
@caseyhart9916 Yes, I've read it was something like a nursery rhyme.
One of those strange nursery rhymes that have darker undertones, yet children sing with joy... Jack and Jill
When someone ask me what is my hobby or something I like to do my answer is always the same: I like watching vocal coaches reacting to Kurt singing where did you sleep last night
He would have either hated it or just had a general apathy about it.
I've seen the original video 50 times and never have I not gotten a chill. One of the best performances, ever.
I love how you stopped it right before the big opening at the end talking about the way it was going, and I was just thinking to myself that you were about to be blown away, and you were! That build up and release is just insane, one of Kurt's most shining moments.
OMG, that sigh before the last two notes. He'd had enough....
literally...he killed himself 4 months after that
Can’t even begin to explain how music during this time helped me. All of the grunge bands, and even their bands after the grunge era…it was a time when music was meant to reach our souls…such a great time….
I love so much that they had a cello on stage for this set. It's my favorite unplugged session followed by pearl jam and alice in chains 🥹 that last bit with kurt when his eyes open up so wide and are so beautifully haunted always gets me 💜
cello is clearly my spirit instrument and I agree 100%
If you haven't heard it, check out Chris Cornell's acoustic cover of Nothing Compares 2 U. It's a beautiful cover, and a friend of his plays cello in it. Such a melancholy instrument, a perfect addition to an acoustic Cornell performance.
One of my all-time favorites. I've never been a huge Nirvana fan, but this performance is just something else. Very special.
That whole record is pure gold.
No, platinum 😂
That last part, God it's so unnerving, even all these years later lol
Interesting tidbit: Kurt Cobain and Mark Lanegan were planing to record a whole Leadbelly album at some point, but it never happened. However, they did record this song for Lanegans first solo album "The Winding Sheet", which was released in 1990. Lanegans version (and music in general) is well worth checking out. He had one of the most unique voices of all time.
Checked this out on your suggestion. Wow. Many thanks 🙏
Cobain also apparently asked Lanegan to join him for this set (much like he invited the gents from the Meat Puppets) but Lanegan declined.
'Bubblegum' is an incredible album.
I love Lanegan, early and later, from his recent material, "Harborview Hospital" is a song that transports me every time
I came here to comment the very same. Lanegan was up there with some of the best vocalists of the time but much more underrated. That deep, soulful rumble.... unforgettable
it's almost comedic to me how Dave is gently stroking the drums and cymbals when he usually hits so hard
The story I heard long ago was that Kurt didn’t want Dave to be a part of the show because he thought Dave’s drumming would be too powerful for the more chilled out show he had in mind. Dave offered to use a brush style stick instead, but ended up just using a regular one with a light touch. I always thought Kurt looking just before the beginning of the second verse was him looking at Dave, saying “easier”
I have no words for this song. I've been listening to this for almost 30 years and it continues to tear my soul apart.
His soul was in his voice in the end of that beautiful song
It’s sincerity. And he’s savoring it till the end in this song. Goosebumps.
Been waiting for ages for you to react to this. Watched it a million times but it still gets to me at the end. Simply astonishing. For me the greatest voice along with Harry Nilsson I’ve ever heard. Great reaction, thank you.
omg I can't wait til you get to that amazing finish.
I was 12 when this cassette changed me forever. Thanks Kurdt, RIP.
Finally its here.. I was eagerly waiting for your reaction to this song.. ❤
"It might be nice to start playing acoustic guitar and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter, rather than a 'grunge rocker', because then I might be able to take advantage of that when I'm older. I could sit down on a chair and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash or something, and it won't be a big joke." You did Kurt and we loved it. Didn't sound like a man planning to leave to me. He saw a future beyond Nirvana...
That’s just Kurt being Kurt. What an amazing soul. Amazing voice he could just kick it up a notch when he needed to. I think that where has most comfortable. RIP Kurt and thank you.
Still get chills to this day watching this performance
Your response to his vocals and performance was amazing 😍🤩😍 and the information you gave us made so much sense to me also.
Love this performance and I really enjoyed your reaction and analysis. 🫶
The yodels are definitely deliberate. You can find them all over Nirvana's work. Kurt had a lot more vocal tricks up his sleeve than people give him credit for.
He could’ve released a killer country album. No joke
In Dave Grohl`s book "The storyteller" he acctually mentioned that Kurt`s jaw movement was a way for him to keep in rhythm with his guitar strumming
No, it was drugs, that's how junkies move their jaws when they're high, i do that.
@@Blisteryn Wow you're bad ass for taking drugs!!!!
@@Blisteryn good for you but watch the all show he was not on drugs.
@@Blisteryn no, every artist keep in rythym differently, dave grohl for example would click his teeth together
I made the same reply. Glad you're taking the brunt of the responses (no offense) :)
For the record, clacking your jaw is a speed side effect. Not a heroin one. I think its SOMEWHAT well documented what Kurt likedd.
But ALSO, the clacking reverberates through your head. So if you love playing music, you learn things like whistling and such, that help you hear it in your own head. Clack your teeth together. Now do it to a song and try to keep rhythm with it. OHP! There it is...
Whats ironic is that the guitar kurt is playing was sold for 6 million dollars making it the most valueable guitar ever sold
Tragically ironic
Kurt said once that he got his loud-soft style of music (for songs he wrote and maybe even for his playing style) from the Pixies. They were grunge (well, more than that/not quite that) before grunge was a thing, in the late 80s. You should hear them some time. Try something from Doolittle such as Debaser, Gouge Away, or Here Comes Your Man or Where is My Mind from Surfer Rosa. Black Francis (as well as Kim Deal) would be an interesting vocal for you to analyze as well.
I know you will find Pixies very interesting in many ways, but the lead singer's vocals are super intriguing and you'll notice the influence they had on Kurt as well as on other 90s artists. Kim's vocals are mostly background with the Pixies, but she and her sister also had a band called The Breeders where you can hear he and her sister's vocals well.
Pixies and Neil Young were both early versions of Grunge.
@@ener11454 For sure!
jewel eyed judy by fleetwood mac might be the original grunge song
Thanks. One of my favorite performances. Makes me so sad that he left us.
The sharpest vocal knife ever cut into someone's soul is that deep breath at the end. It's not often that you can see someone pour out their entire heart and soul with one deep breath
Nirvana unplugged is one of the top performances of all time
First, also this is one of my favorite performances by Nirvana ever
The fact of the matter is that grunge was kind of the epitome of live music and interactive performance at the time. Most of the flaws and idiosyncrasies of grunge music was the appeal because it wasn't highly refined pop music that lost its humanity. Where in an age where so much music has lost its humanity a grunge like music where the value of imperfection will be highlighted soon again.
Yes, this is one of the most memorable MTV Unplugged session ever. Back in the day when MTV was worth watching, the whole concert was played several times a year :)
i love this nirvana cover of lead belly’s song it’s hits so hard for the 90s lead belly is from the 40’s. one of my favourite blues folk singer and kurt’s favourite too as you can see haha. if you never heard of lead belly you should check him out, amazing artist.
It’s actually an older traditional song called "In the Pines" that dates back to the 1870’s. Leadbelly covered it himself.
Kurt did that jaw movement keeping the beat to the music. I think it was Dave Grohl who said it once in an interview.
Yes, Dave Grohl also mentioned that in his book "The storyteller"
Also, Kurt was chewing gum as well.
I have read that he was suffering from the effects of withdrawal, which could have something to do with it.
When he looks up at the end it's so haunting and beautiful. I'll never forget that moment.
Heh this is one I always hoped you'd do. That screech haunted us of a certain age for years.
thank you. this is one of my favorite songs to play on guitar and sing at home. its so diffetrent form the grunge sound and that tinny unique sound is cuz its a very very old blues song by ledbelly. this was neat to watch. i appreciate your perspective.
Your expressions are so unique and so many. Great analysis
Thanks for doing this song. A legendary performance
By far the most important post-punk band. I don't mean post-punk as a genre, but just any rock band after the punk era of the late 70's. They were like Operation Ivy made exponential. Just a full-on musical revolution over 3-4 years and then gone forever.
Best part of this song is the breath pause at the end of the song. It tells me that at this point in his career he's still giving it his all. Awesome performance!
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. That final scream feels like an exorcism Chills forever.
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
He’d already played on mark Lanegan’s version in 1990 on his sub pop album “the winding sheet” and had been playing this song for years.
Fun fact: Kurts favourite movie was Grease and his favourite song was summer nights. His sigh at the end is a tribute to John Travoltas ending when he sings "ooooh".
i love watching your reactions, oh you have a pretty smile
nirvana is a way of life i swear
When he died it hit me hard as teenager,But as someone who has lost many in the same way since...Its even more haunting to listen to and has such a different feeling to me 30+ years later.RIP Kurt
I really love your facial expressions. They tell even more than your words
Whenever I hear Kurt, I thank God for shining through that man ❤
I know this song as "In The Pines" as others have mentioned, and it's my favorite Lead Belly tune. So hard to believe this is the same guy who popularized "Good Night, Irene" which shows the folk side of his catalog, as opposed to this, which is old style blues. Lead Belly is heavily covered because he was simply one of the greatest ever. This is the third time I've heard this song in 4 days. On Sunday my niece's Harry Smith Anthology folk band covered it, with guitar, fiddle, and washboard. Last night my friend's country band covered it with guitar, bass, and drums. Today this. It's common to see comments that "[artist name here] will never be forgotten," but Lead Belly died in 1949 and his music is still going strong.
The lyrics are also part of what makes this song eerie. Sleeping in the pines, little girl don't lie, where did you sleep last night? Is this woman under suspicion? Of having killed her husband? Of having cheated on him? Or does it lament her dire circumstances now that her husband is dead? Widowed women had few bright options in the 19th century.
Always click on a reaction to this song just to get to that moment and get to see and hear it through new eyes and ears again.
I SHIVVERRRRRRRED!!!!!!!!!!!....the whole....song throuuuuuuuuuugh
Missing out on one of the most powerful vocal that I have seen and still can’t stop in my tacks. ❤❤this was taken place in a tribute concert that gives it more power love to have you take a tune
Nice reaction! Oh yeah, I recommend checking out Stars and Rabbit - Man Upon The Hill live at Societet Militair. It’s really weird, but that’s what makes it interesting. Hope you enjoy it!
A lot people can sound like Kurt when he’s singing in a clean tone. When he gets that distorted sound in his voice - there’s no one like him at all.
There was a daily fifteen-minute news broadcast on Polish television, and during one of the segments, they briefly reported that Kurt had taken his own life. Right after, they played a fragment of his song. I remember breaking down in tears.
Kurt moves his jaw as a way to stay in time with the tempo. He normally does it during solos when performing live, but he did it a lot throughout this whole performance.
Yes!
Ironically Kurts Guitar he played for this sold for $6m, who knew at the time things would change so much
It was Mark Lanegan who introduced Kurt to Leadbelly and that song in particular. Mark later complained that Kurt sang it better than he did but Kurt's crying and wailing electric guitar on Mark Lanegans version gives me chills.
You know, I grew up in Washington, mainly Olympia area, in the '90s. Bands like Soundgarden, Nirvana, etc. it was everywhere. My whole life it was Jimi and Heart and Alice in Chains, Modest Mouse, DC4C and even Kenny Logins -- the list goes on. My point is, we were blessed with some of the best musicians and groups of all time, and nobody really paid the area any attention. Nobody said, "we have to get to Washington and check out this music scene"-- until Nirvana. All of a sudden it was the place to be and most of us didn't like it. You have to understand, we enjoyed being different, neglected, that was a large source of the angst that groups capitalized on. The artists even resented it, and we were all for that. Anyway, people can say what they want about "grunge", but it was one of the most important periods of musical history ever for so many reasons, I think rivaled only by the first wave. JMO.
Truly the music of its time and a entire generation. Especially coming of age during it. I was a pre-teen - teenager when grunge really hit and it said and expressed every single thing I felt inside.
This is a traditional song that was recorded by American Folk and Blues singer Lead Belly. That is why it sounds different than other Nirvana songs. Kurt is covering it and it sounds just like Lead Belly's version, which you can hear here... ruclips.net/video/PsfcUZBMSSg/видео.htmlsi=6yKsrK8npJho8Y5O
Ya. It is a cover song. He apparently just makes one note flat or something and it totally changes the feel.
The sound of the guitar that you speak of, I think is a combination of two things. One the song is tuned to half step down from standard guitar tuning and also the low sound from the cello underneath the guitar. Definitely makes it sound haunting. Great video keep it up.
Their use of cello on In Utero, and the subsequent tour added such a poignant somber feel to the songs. Such a brilliant choice.
I was born in the same year and month as Kurt. When I was 22, I was pulling into a parking lot to get some staples from a box store. Smells Like Teen Spirit came on the radio, and I was just like WTF. I parked my truck and put the radio on blast, then went out and bought the disc. It was very mind opening for someone who grew up on 'classic rock' which I still love to this day.
His yodel is classic country. Beautiful.
Long time fan, first time commenting just to say I've been waiting for this one for so long! 👽💚
Yes, goosebumps! Still gives them to me.
15:37 is to me the most haunting moment in live performance history. He knew right there that he was on his way out. Just finishing the section "I'm going where the cold wind blows" and ending the singing part with this stare into the void. Most honest artistic moment ever and his last performance for the ride.
Well it wasn't their final performance. They played a few more electric shows but for many of us it was the last time we would see Kurt.
Nonchalant instead of lazy? I'm not a native speaker so I might be off, but that's what I would call it. When I saw this thumbnail I jumped up from joy. This song brings up a lot of high school nostalgia. Thank you for enjoying it as much