Kurt Cobain's falsetto

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024

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  • @rarestnirvana
    @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +30

    thanks to to www.youtube.com/@nirvanadump4700 for the isolation of Kurt's backing vocals on Something in the Way, I wouldn't know how to do that myself

    • @Scout56b7
      @Scout56b7 Месяц назад +3

      Late to reply, but he just took a file from the multi-tracks and removed the cello.

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +3

      @@Scout56b7 ah makes sense I thought he isolated the backing vocals from the studio version

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Месяц назад +331

    "It might be nice to eventually start playing acoustic guitars, and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter. Rather than a 'Grunge Rocker you know?' Then one day I may be able to take advantage of that when I'm older, and sit down in a chair, and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash or something you know? And it won't be thought of as a big joke"
    -Kurt Cobain 1993, you did and we loved it. He had plans for the future beyond Nirvana...

    • @celebratelife8436
      @celebratelife8436 Месяц назад +14

      Exactly thanks a lot for sharing this he was a real Visionary artist Singer and songwriter with Long time goals It's so hard to believe that he would end his Life with a long barrel shotgun after taking lethal dose of heroin

    • @populousmass
      @populousmass Месяц назад +4

      A lot of drug addicts had plans for the future

    • @celebratelife8436
      @celebratelife8436 Месяц назад +7

      @@populousmass and they don't get murdered

    • @populousmass
      @populousmass Месяц назад +13

      @@celebratelife8436 Yeah it’s so nuts to believe that a chronically depressed heroin addict who’d recently had a near fatal overdose and suicide attempt would kill himself. Then again, the earth is flat, so who knows?

    • @celebratelife8436
      @celebratelife8436 Месяц назад +4

      @@populousmass actually the Earth is not flat but if that's what you want to believe then you will die a happy flat man

  • @arsindmp9202
    @arsindmp9202 Месяц назад +266

    Do re mis chorus is so eerie and beautiful

    • @JuhaJones1965
      @JuhaJones1965 Месяц назад +10

      I agree! It almost brings hair on my hands to stand up. 🥰

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 Месяц назад +5

      I think knowing (to us) that is the last song endlessness and importance. Even more than You Know You're right. But I don't think he meant it to be.

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +13

      @@krisfrederick5001 definitely. the fact that it might be the last thing he recorded gives it such weight, it's hard not to read into the trembles in his voice, but to him it may have just been another song

    • @tomhanson4008
      @tomhanson4008 Месяц назад +3

      @@rarestnirvana It’s also a great song but incomplete, so we are just left wondering what could have been.

    • @Agripapost
      @Agripapost Месяц назад +4

      I wish he lived and that song was never recorded. it’s his intention to end himself put into song. devastates me to listen to every time.

  • @connorkeefe2483
    @connorkeefe2483 Месяц назад +68

    Hearing this stuff makes a songwriter feel like they can do what Kurt did. In a very good way

  • @morrisalanisette9067
    @morrisalanisette9067 Месяц назад +154

    who found my voice memos

  • @robbiepeterh
    @robbiepeterh Месяц назад +36

    We just have nowhere near enough songs from this man as we should have.

  • @doodlehead_goober
    @doodlehead_goober Месяц назад +134

    6:24 Me when its 12AM and I want to sing Nirvana:

  • @DredgenX
    @DredgenX Месяц назад +107

    I would bet he wrote lots of songs in falsetto. Kurts style of singing would blow his voice out if he sang that way all the time.

    • @jamesvalid248
      @jamesvalid248 Месяц назад +1

      I don’t understand

    • @blueveinriver3253
      @blueveinriver3253 Месяц назад +25

      @@jamesvalid248basically his singing and singing technique wasn’t something anyone could do a lot without losing their voice. He probably used a soft falsetto when singing by himself and writing songs

    • @twt2718
      @twt2718 Месяц назад +2

      I saw a video where his managers or agents tried to get him off Coke…the drink. They said it was bad for his vocal cords.

    • @DredgenX
      @DredgenX Месяц назад +1

      @@twt2718 if thats true id rly love the video name or link. ive always found cola to help, but maybe the citric acid or something is bad idk

    • @twt2718
      @twt2718 Месяц назад +1

      @@DredgenX I looked through my history and came up with nothing😕… I thought it was in a brief clip of Kurt saying he shot coke with Alice In Chains all night (jokingly). If I can find it I’ll send the link.

  • @peterhopqk
    @peterhopqk Месяц назад +22

    The legendary performance of About A Girl live in Rotterdam, Holland 1991.
    During the second verse, Kurts guitar sound cuts off, the whole band breaks down and suddenly Kurt sings the verse part in falsetto :D Also worth to mention: a few moments later when Kurts guitar sound returns, they just explode!

    • @LuSouza_QA
      @LuSouza_QA Месяц назад +2

      Eu fui ver porque você falou. O show todo foi demais!!!

  • @rarestnirvana
    @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +90

    I almost put Beans in this video, but after relistening I think it’s more of a high pitched squeal than a real falsetto technique. Let me know if there are any other instances of Kurt singing in falsetto.

    • @imcokecandle
      @imcokecandle Месяц назад +6

      he was either on helium or using a voice modifier in beans

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +7

      @@imcokecandle the recording might be slightly pitched up, but i think he's just doing that with his voice. his 4 track skits show he has a knack for weird voices

    • @BrodyLuv2
      @BrodyLuv2 21 день назад

      Beans is Kurt's real voice ..I think he just played with speeds

  • @chiiaaiihc
    @chiiaaiihc Месяц назад +81

    that falsetto negative creep has me snorting

  • @MaggieMyth242
    @MaggieMyth242 Месяц назад +43

    finally someone doesn't forget bright smile

    • @ScottDerkez
      @ScottDerkez 23 дня назад +2

      Hearing that right after Aberdeen was a powerful experience the first time I listened to montage of heck

  • @ysguys
    @ysguys Месяц назад +11

    My fav performance of About a Girl in De Doelen, right in the middle of it. Kurt’s guitar cuts out and the band goes all quiet and his vocals go falsetto to match

  • @Jakubjakee
    @Jakubjakee Месяц назад +15

    Your one of my favorite channels because you upload stuff like this. Keep up the good work, and please never stop uploading this stuff. This channel is awesome!

  • @maleksarray6685
    @maleksarray6685 Месяц назад +13

    You can feel that music was the truest cure for his soul, the heroin was just to make him forget abut his body…

  • @kyleshockley1573
    @kyleshockley1573 Месяц назад +4

    In the second chorus for _Dive,_ you can hear him go falsetto on the backing track on "MEEEEEEE."

  • @BrattScorsa
    @BrattScorsa Месяц назад +8

    nice compilation, dude!!!!!

  • @Shortlongshoelace
    @Shortlongshoelace Месяц назад +2

    some or most of my favorites of Kurt Cobain’s works include a falsetto somewhere in the runtime i love is so much sounds so good man so nice so eerie

  • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
    @LaurieValdez-zk3dy Месяц назад +8

    So awesome thanks

  • @snowmountainlion
    @snowmountainlion Месяц назад +3

    what an album my god

  • @tbobbyelectric
    @tbobbyelectric Месяц назад +4

    I would like to offer my thank you, and other gratitudinals, for you use whenever & however you might see fit.
    A rainy day, perhaps? Hmmm…..
    Also, am I dreaming this, or is there ever a moment in any of the do re mi solo acoustic performances that Kurt actually mudders the me and my IV lyric…?
    I swear it happened, but my brain is not what it used to be anymore…
    Just for the record, you guys, I spent the first 20 years of my life with even as even in his youth, curmudgeon and finally gallons of rubbing alcohol as the three rarest that I could find until the Internet started giving them away for free…
    I don’t even know if I would be able to handle the amount of material that you guys have to listen to these days always always sometimes.
    Keep up the great work
    thank you again!

  • @DredgenX
    @DredgenX Месяц назад +13

    @7:00 is that Thurston Moore drinking a beer off the floor? Nirvana made him thursty

  • @tinaboyd5240
    @tinaboyd5240 Месяц назад +1

    Beautiful voice❤❤❤

  • @thedoom_guy66
    @thedoom_guy66 Месяц назад +26

    Was this based on that reddit post asking what songs Kurt sang falsetto on?

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +31

      that was my post haha. i was doing research

  • @Austinblyth
    @Austinblyth 27 дней назад

    What more can I say sounds so epic. Wish I could hear a full song of that. I could hear Dave's drums beefing it up.

  • @dapowar4311
    @dapowar4311 Месяц назад +4

    Its a bit of a crime to not put the Mr. Moustache scream in here lol, probably one of his best falsetto stuff

    • @CoyoteCrush
      @CoyoteCrush Месяц назад +2

      Especially the demo version where he gets all frisky for tractors haha

  • @eliteteamkiller319
    @eliteteamkiller319 Месяц назад +1

    He had such a knack for finding dissonance and extensions.

  • @JasonMeeh-ph3oh
    @JasonMeeh-ph3oh Месяц назад +2

    Great range

  • @colinsouter1878
    @colinsouter1878 Месяц назад +1

    Kurt always used like the clipping bit to do little vocal flips that requires the falsetto. So he definitely didn't rarely use it. he used his vocal cords error voice box as he saw fit. And with amazing control. Super nuanced. I have no clue how to sing technically really but I can mimic somewhat decent. and I can tell u that much at least. His falsetto was like a flicker of a lighter thing he would incorporate. I don't really know how to explain it cause I'm self taught when it comes to that I guess. So I don't know the right terms. But even something in the way might also be falsetto. George Michael's and Ian Curtis have falsetto at lower pitches for reference? I'm pretty sure falsetto is just like light vibrating I fuckin forget the science shit. The words don't do me any good cuz nobody knows them lol. I just sing by ear. Copycat . It's fun not knowing how

  • @joeblackwolf17
    @joeblackwolf17 Месяц назад +1

    Amazing ❤

  • @Luckyy227
    @Luckyy227 Месяц назад +3

    I wish he sang more falsetto

  • @australianemergencyvehicles505
    @australianemergencyvehicles505 Месяц назад +9

    Kurt sings a bit in falsetto during the performance of Blew at The Moon, New Haven 1991 in about 2 minutes in
    ruclips.net/video/s9DaOPDWHmM/видео.html
    I THINK thats falsetto but idk might be wrong 🙏

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +4

      that is for sure falsetto, thanks for the add I hadn't heard this

  • @Scout56b7
    @Scout56b7 Месяц назад +10

    07:42 Are these really kurt's vocals? It sounds alot like dave and it would make sense if it was; just wondering.

    • @Arachniss5
      @Arachniss5 Месяц назад

      It would make sense because Dave did do vocals for In Bloom.

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +6

      I just looked into it, cause I was under the false assumption that Kurt did all the backing vocals for Nevermind, but Livenirvana has a quote from Butch Vig where he says about Something in the Way, "Later on we overdubbed drums and Kurt added some harmonies". I do hear it sounding like Dave though

    • @Scout56b7
      @Scout56b7 Месяц назад

      @@rarestnirvana Alright, thanks!

    • @Arachniss5
      @Arachniss5 Месяц назад

      @@rarestnirvana Thanks for the clarification

  • @monkeyman123321
    @monkeyman123321 Месяц назад +2

    we all can't do everything all the time.

  • @benlawer7564
    @benlawer7564 Месяц назад +1

    Something in the way sounds like Dave

  • @twt2718
    @twt2718 Месяц назад

    How did I not think of Plateau?!?

  • @CoyoteCrush
    @CoyoteCrush Месяц назад +2

    Is Kurt using his natural voice in "What more can i say" i always assumed it was effects on the high parts, shifting the pitch. Also theres nothing really proving this story true, and ive heard people talk about some other Montage demo somg as being more likely a candidate, but for some reason i always associate it as being the song Kurt sent to Ren and Stimpy lol ot just gives off a kids cartoon type vibe imo even though its extremely unlikely the same song.

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +1

      i doubt kurt had any equipment at home that could pitch shift without effecting the speed as well. it's just kurt doing a raspy falsetto because he just wants to get the idea down.
      i've always wondered what he sent in for Ren & Stimpy, probably not a public song

  • @bullock4211
    @bullock4211 Месяц назад +1

    6:31 Kurt looks a bit like Axl here. Hi Axl, Hi Axl, where's Axl!?

  • @amybahner6511
    @amybahner6511 28 дней назад

    Loved it but is there one for Dive?!❤

  • @JohnAbellanosa12
    @JohnAbellanosa12 Месяц назад +2

    7:50 I think this is Dave Grohl, not Kurt

  • @androgynylunacy
    @androgynylunacy Месяц назад

    I'm getting Jeremy Enigk and Jeff Mangum with a few of these songs.

  • @justis00
    @justis00 Месяц назад +2

    I see why he didn't do this

  • @demoliaband
    @demoliaband Месяц назад

    think the something in the way harmonies are actually daves vocals

  • @chilo8187
    @chilo8187 Месяц назад +1

    One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard 😂

  • @williepoe9026
    @williepoe9026 Месяц назад

    Kurt sings "he doesn't have a gun"
    Dave does . Cover of the first foo fighters album . Dave illumanati sacrificed Kurt ..

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +2

      ah yes. dave grohl shot kurt with his Buck Rogers raygun. brilliant

    • @williepoe9026
      @williepoe9026 Месяц назад

      @@rarestnirvana sounds like something they would say

  • @nirvanaaa1989
    @nirvanaaa1989 Месяц назад

    ❤❤❤

  • @JuhaJones1965
    @JuhaJones1965 Месяц назад +3

    Awesone to listen to thos amongst AIC:s Dirt Album while high on hash, speed, few benzos and 600mg of gabapentin. 😁 I just finished doing laundry, while listening to Dirt. ✌️😁👌

    • @mayjailerxx
      @mayjailerxx Месяц назад +1

      That’s a little concerning. U don’t wanna end up like Layne

    • @Black-lq2pb
      @Black-lq2pb Месяц назад

      speed and gabapentin is a good enough combo, and addictive

  • @AI-go622
    @AI-go622 Месяц назад +1

    How did you isolate the backing vocal track of Something in the Way (assuming it was you)? I know softwares that isolate the vocals from the instrumental but none that isolates one track of vocals from another.

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад

      @nirvanadump4700 isolated it. according to a different person, he took a file from the multi-tracks and removed the cello

  • @GustavoHenrique-fi5vi
    @GustavoHenrique-fi5vi Месяц назад +2

    Onde eu acho essa versão da música dó ré mi ? mais tem que ser essa porque já pesquisei e não achei alguém sabe?

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +2

      es la versión larga del álbum de 2015 Montage of Heck. Puedes encontrarlo buscando Do Re Mi (Medley)

    • @GustavoHenrique-fi5vi
      @GustavoHenrique-fi5vi Месяц назад +2

      @@rarestnirvana vou pesquisar melhor muito obrigado :D

  • @danielallan8310
    @danielallan8310 Месяц назад

    You missed Kurt singing Aerosmith Song, dream on, doing his best falsetto ever

  • @elffidelfi
    @elffidelfi Месяц назад

    He used falsetto in lake of fire once

  • @MrTechnodude4life
    @MrTechnodude4life Месяц назад

    Isn’t it Dave on Something in the Way?

  • @KentuckyBullrat32
    @KentuckyBullrat32 Месяц назад

    He sang in John Frusciante

  • @mymasteriwanttoserveyouand9903
    @mymasteriwanttoserveyouand9903 Месяц назад

    7:07 thurston moore?

  • @fireblossom146
    @fireblossom146 Месяц назад +1

    whats the song that plays during the subtitles?

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +2

      Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip

    • @fireblossom146
      @fireblossom146 Месяц назад +2

      @@rarestnirvana i thought i recognized it! ty!

  • @dave-jk6en
    @dave-jk6en Месяц назад

    So Kurt used the Mickey Mouse voice before Axl Rose

  • @CullenRotten
    @CullenRotten 29 дней назад

    head voice and falsetto is not the same technique

  • @tonyliang8099
    @tonyliang8099 24 дня назад

    🤣 yall don’t mind nothing 😂

  • @KingOfTheKnight
    @KingOfTheKnight Месяц назад

    Something in the way is Dave Grohl

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +2

      Steve Albini and Livenirvana say it was Kurt, but it does sound a bit like Dave

    • @saxwastaken
      @saxwastaken Месяц назад +1

      @@rarestnirvana How would Steve know? He wasn't involved in the recording of Something in the Way

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +2

      @@saxwastaken Sorry, Butch Vig is who I meant to say. Butch Vig said that.

  • @Death-Axe
    @Death-Axe Месяц назад

    Something in the way was Dave not Kurt

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад

      Butch Vig confirmed that it was Kurt

    • @Death-Axe
      @Death-Axe Месяц назад

      @@rarestnirvana was it? If so I didn’t know. I always thought it was Dave lol

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад

      @@Death-Axe he said "later on we overdubbed drums and Kurt added some harmonies". it does sound kinda like Dave though
      www.livenirvana.com/sessions/studio/may-june-1991.php#gsc.tab=0

  • @ratsontherails
    @ratsontherails Месяц назад +1

    What the fuck is Desire?

    • @rarestnirvana
      @rarestnirvana  Месяц назад +2

      one of my favorite unused kurt compositions. silly voice he's using, but very pretty melody

    • @ratsontherails
      @ratsontherails Месяц назад +2

      @@rarestnirvana it's exciting to hear these basic ideas of songs that never were fleshed out I'm a fan for over thirty years and never heard some of this stuff!

    • @onyxsafira2813
      @onyxsafira2813 Месяц назад

      @@ratsontherails Me to, had no idea of these songs; reminds me of the box set.

  • @TheWhiteJamesBrown
    @TheWhiteJamesBrown Месяц назад

    ✍️📖🐦🎶😶‍🌫️👼

  • @Blisteryn
    @Blisteryn Месяц назад

    Do you even know what falsetto is??😂😂😂😂😂

  • @shellydavis4399
    @shellydavis4399 Месяц назад +1

    Hate it!!!!! Freaking thank god he chose to sing the way he did!!!! God Dam!!!!

    • @enriquepastor3626
      @enriquepastor3626 Месяц назад +5

      It’s just an easy non exhausting way to test stuff while writing songs

    • @shellydavis4399
      @shellydavis4399 Месяц назад

      @@enriquepastor3626 I know. Their just goofing around and having fun with it. I get that. It's my opinion....

  • @williambeckham7703
    @williambeckham7703 Месяц назад

    I'm pretty sure that Buzzs Les Paul Coustom that Kurt is muckin with.

  • @crescendo5594
    @crescendo5594 Месяц назад +6

    The Desire song definitely has an interesting melody and could have culminated into a nice song.

  • @LeandroVecchione
    @LeandroVecchione Месяц назад

    Isn't dave on something in the way backing vocals?