Back in the day, my gf had a crush on Kurt. Lots of people did, he was a good looking dude. A lot of the time, his hair was in his face and she couldn't see his eyes. So when the moment happened at the end of the song when he opened up his eyes wide with that burning intensity, her crush turned into an obsession. She told me that the vhs she recorded the show on had a spot worn on it, due to her constant rewatching of that section. I would recommend the live version of Aneurysm (live at The Paramount) it's one of my favorites.
This is a folk song that they don't know when it was originally written. It's very likely hundreds of years old. And has been sung by blues men, folk singers and then Nirvana.
MTV can’t do concerts like this anymore because 90% of top 40 music is auto tuned and the “artists” don’t play instruments or even write their own songs. These concerts were a look inside the genius of the bands who made and appreciated great music and songs.
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🖤
Kurt was really coming into his own as an artist I mean the entire unplugged is FANTASTIC such a shame that we lost him I imagine what else he could and would of done!😢😢
This whole show was electrifying and iconic. Hard to believe just months after this performance Kurt was gone :( R.I.P. Kurt Superb reaction Lilly Jane!
You should see really old vids of the speed metal band he was in called scream. Dave was such an incredible drummer he may of actually dumbed himself down to play nirvana.
My favorite live song by Nirvana is”Breed” is from the Paramount. Is all over RUclips…easy to find. Loud and fast and shows them as they really were in concert
RIP to Kurt Cobain he was a legend we lost him to soon The part when he takes a breath and opens his eyes wide his eyes are like a portal to his soul I got lost 💜💜💜💜💜
Ah, the early 90’s. What a great time it was to be young and into music. If only I would have known where music was going, I might have done something to stop it.
Been so long since I've heard this one and it brings back some strong feels. Over 20 years ago, in High School, my gf was completely obsessed with Kurt, so for her birthday I performed this for her. Did the melody on my bass guitar, sang (poorly), and did it all nude with only the guitar covering up any potential distractions. She enjoyed it, so much that I barely was given a chance to put down my guitar before she dragged me off. Simpler times.
@@TenTonNuke 17 year old boys aren't known for their critical thinking skills, especially when girls are involved. She ended up getting me expelled instead of breaking up a year or so later, so, like I said, simpler times.
This is actually my favorite live performance, but “the man who stole the world“ is so beautiful. Also unplugged. It’s a cover that was done by David Bowie. I was a teenager when videos or everything and unplugged was the bomb. I think we should start a petition to MTV to bring it back! Great reaction❤✌️🔥
as someone who saw MTV from 1984 on...i miss MTV! remote control, headbangers ball, pimp my ride, jackass. They didnt seem like the good old days at the time.
Good old days that they were mate. I miss the 80''s and 90's so so much, good time to be alive. We'll never experience anything remotely like it again.
@@dertodesking. maybe you should look again. It’s half and half. 14 tracks, 7 of their songs and 7 covers. It has About a Girl, Come As You Are, Pennyroyal Tea, Polly, Dumb, Something In the Way and All Apologies…those are all Nirvana songs.
This was their last televised performance as a band. And at the end where he takes a pause and deep breath and stares into the camera, it was almost a goodbye from Kurt. And then to follow that with the belt/yodel he did is just absolutely heartbreaking
I don't know why people keep thinking this was their last tv show cause it wasn't. They did the MTV news years live and loud show 3 weeks after this and did the French TV show appearance in February
I was curious about this so I went and looked up the in the pines phrase for metaphorical meaning. Back when this song was likely written, it was a reference to women who for whatever reason just left their lives behind and ran off. Considering the Courtney Love relationship, it seems likely that that's what Kurt was referring to.
I logged in just to compliment you on your legit reaction. Your face is so emotional listening to this song. Also I love your hair it's awesome. Keep up the vids.
Thanx from France. To me their best perfomance was recorded (my point of view) on the "LIVE AND LOUD" in Seattle, 1993. Where you'll also find The man who sold the world (David Bowie cover) "plugged version". And Pat Smear (peroxyded blond hair) gives a real help to Kurt for guitar parts. I was 11 when I first discovered Nirvana in 1992 : And for me Kurt is probably the last "rock super star", like Hendrix or Jim Morrison. That was an other world also (I know I talk like a boomer ^^) ! Goodvibes. And afterthat that was a great entry in the music world, also with the beginnigs of hip-hop, trip-hop, techno and drum and bass. And so a great period in music history PS : Finally I have tons of vynils because I became DJ in french freeparties of the late 90's-earlyY2K's ! With the oldschool MIDI home-studio (no PC)... You ll be nostalgic too in 2040 I can tell you that ;-P
@@ca9968 That may be true (that Courtney Love is/was a 304) but in Cobain's suicide note he said of her "I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy". It is possible (though unlikely) the suicide note was planted.
MTV started as a 24/hr cable channel where current music videos would be played in 1981... it revolutionized the music industry as the 80's began. Artists had to be visually captivating in that era, as well as make cutting-edge music... a lot of 70's artists didn't have the 'look' and went into decline in the 80's because they didn't fit the MTV format and radio was not as effective at selling records as before. MTV also got into the business of promoting artists live in concert and biographies, and then 'MTV Unplugged' came as an idea that artists should have the opportunity to play their songs acoustically... Rapper L.L. Cool J. was the first rap artist to do that show w/ a live band instead of a DJ. The changes came in the 90's after Nirvana broke big in 1991... the 80's trends came to an abrupt end, and 90's artists were either rap/ hip hop or grunge/ alternative rock... it was the antithesis of the 80's scene, where music was supposed to be authentic. But by 1995, the lack of visual artists had MTV searching for other mediums... 'Beavis and Butthead' was the MTV animated show that created controversy, and that was the start of MTV trickling away from 24/7 music videos and focus on artists, to more entertainment... 'The Real World' was one of the first reality TV shows in the 90's, and that broke big long before 'American Idol' and 'Survivor' became a trend. The quest for ratings by the late 90's began to subvert MTV away from music videos (which was in decline) and put more non-music programming, like reality TV and animated adult cartoons. In the early 2000's, MTV had sporadic success w/ music video shows like 'TRL' (Total request Live) where artists would make appearances... but it was dominated by rap & hip hop artists in the decade, and by 2008, rating were falling. It was tough to make music stars on MTV w/ the internet making access to people so much wider newer artists just did not have the draw of 80's icons like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and George Michael. RUclips had launched and music videos were playable on demand on the net, and MTV was losing that rating war... and shows playing music videos were not drawing viewers any more. So in late 2008, the decision was made to end 'TRL' and once that was over, MTV had moved out of the music video platform and focused on shows that they could sell. That was the end of MTV's music video era. Even the 'side' music channel VH1 had moved away from promoting classic videos and focused on non-music entertainment, like reality TV and talk shows. The music video format was just not sustainable w/ record sales plummeting in the 2000's because of downloading (now streaming) platforms, and the money made in the music industry had dried up.
Same MTV Unplugged, personal favorites go-to are "Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam" and "Lake of Fire" lyrically and vocally and musically. Speaking of, MTV (Music Television) is nowadays, and has been for a long while now, the History Channel of music. Also, Nirvana song of "Oh Me" 🎤
You just need to watch the entire Live & Loud Concert from 1993 in Seattle. Effin amazing performance start to finish. The energy and performances were off the chain.
Since you asked about Nirvana live stuff. I have couple recommendations. Nirvana-Drain You live at the paramount, Nirvana-All Apologies from Live and Loud 93, and finally Nirvana-School live from Reading 1992.
The Pines is a literal place. The southern U.S. particularly Georgia. Miles and miles and miles of pine trees. So many cryptid stories and ghost stories and actual murders.
Great job with your reaction to Were Did You Sleep Last Night live performance from Nirvana . It's still sad this would be one of Kurt Cobain RIP last public appearances and shows l do believe.
It's a must to react to Nirvana's classics like About A Girl, Negative Creep, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Lithium, In Bloom, Dive, Sliver, Aneurysm, Heat-Shaped Box, Numb, Dumb, Pennyroyal Tea, and All Apologies.
The Pines were the pine and cypress swamps that were the only refuge for slaves that ran because the dogs could not track them in the swamps... this comes from historical data...such a powerful song!!!!!!!
Pines are trees, they're a type of evergreen tree that doesn't have leaves. Instead, they have these green needles, they call them needles. Also known as conifer trees, which is the genome, or species.
Couple of points on *MTV Unplugged* artists would come & play their hits acoustically, *Nirvana* turned that on its head they didn't play any of their own music. Oh & that *$500,000 Leadbelly* guitar would be *$1Million* in *2022.* So it should be pointed out the guitar *Kurt* is playing sold for *$6Million*
So crazy you did a reaction video to this. Most people don't know he did this cover. The original was incredible too. I'm curious how you heard about it. Also notice not a single person in the crowd is watching through a cell phone. Back when you lived the moment instead of recording it.
He was in the moment when he belted out those screams. I heard recently while this concert was going on that Courtney was out doing her job. We know what her job/jobs detailed at the time.
my first lisening Nirvana song Scentless Apprentice my favorite if you here more scream listen this Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice ( MTV Live And Loud, Seattle / 1993 )
Watched this in 94 when it aired, it was like a kick in the b*lls when he took his own life. Seeing this hurts so bad knowing that he had a huge future if he could have gotten away from the drugs.
“Kurt had a real connection to the song as he was performing it”… Absolutely AGREE. I feel like this was his way of telling his wife Courtney and the world: I know my wife’s being unfaithful and she’s broken my heart. (Kurt’s wife actually didn’t attend this gig, because he had this song in the set list.)
Great reaction video. Kurt had such an incredible voice. I would love to see your reaction to a couple other great artists. Maynard James Keenan the Singer for Tool (Tool has sold over 14 million albums) and Lead vocalist of A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. A great place to start would be the Tool Song's The Pot, Sober(Live), The Grudge (Which has an almost uncomfortably long gutteral scream), Lateralus, 46 and 2, Push it, StinkFist, Third Eye as well as a great live drum cam performance of "Pneuma" focusing on Danny Carey(AKA The Octopus) doing his thing. Great A Perfect Circle Songs would be "Judith"(Named after Maynard's mother and basically about how god let's bad things happen to good faithful people.), Week and Powerless, Counting Bodies Like Sheep(To the Rhythm of the War Drums), The Outsider, The Doomed, TalkTalk, The Hollow, Magdalena, "So Long and Thanks for all The Fish". And Puscifer songs to start with The Remedy, Queen B, Momma Said, Humbling River, The Mission(M is for Milla), Conditions of My Parole, Vagina Mine, Rev 22:20, Green Valley, Telling Ghosts. The late and great Layne Staley of Alice in Chains also had an MTV live concert with some pretty amazing performances by the band of the songs Nutshell, Down in a Hole, Heaven Beside You, Sludge Factory(I could just list every song in that performance), as well as some other great performances elsewhere like Love Hate Love(live), Rooster, Man In a Box, Them Bones, No Excuses, Would?, I Stay Away, Grind, He was also the lead vocalist for the Seattle Supergroup Mad Season that had some amazing songs like The River of Deceit, Long Gone Day, Wake Up, I don't Know Anything, Lifeless Dead, I'm Above. Mad Season was made up of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and Walkabout bassist John Baker Saunders. They made one amazing album together.
Where were you when you heard Kirt Cobain past. 💔 I was 14 years old. Skateboarding through a park that bordered the home I grew up in. I was wearing a Nirvana T-shirt. And i was skating passed a kid a few years younger then me. He said do you like Nirvana. I said. Yes. Im wearing the t-shirt. He said Kurt Cobain was dead. I looked at him as if he was crazy. Remember. This was before Google or the internet. 1994. I couldn't register what was said. I thought he was crazy. I went home and watched the TV for hours before i saw anything about what had happened. It was unbelievable. Nirvana had so much influence over my life at that time. To this day. 30 years later. Im still affected by the loss of this great musician. He was shaping my future. Then he was gone.
MTV was playing Nirvana, but in the cars and at home everyone was listening to Guns N Rose's, Megadeth, and Metallica..... and GNR's shows were legendary, there were riots. I don't remember anyone going to a Nirvana show in 1991-93.
If you want to look into someone's soul stop video at 6:24. Kurt started the whole grunge movement. I remembered where I was the first time I heard Nirvana and also when Kurt died. Another one lost way too young.
You can’t go wrong with any of the songs from the Unplugged show or Live At The Paramount. First ones for each you should do though are Breed and Drain You from Live At The Paramount to get a sense of the intensity of the shows and the band and how amazing they are electric, and for the more emotional and acoustic vibe I’d go with the David Bowie cover, The Man Who Sold The World, or All Apologies from MTV Unplugged
I love watching peoples reaction to this song. Now yall know what we feel. Every. Single. Time. You want some really good live stuff with a ridiculous amount of sheer power, check out literally anything from Live And Loud or Reading 1992. That shit will change your life
Just to think him playing that guitar would end up making it sell for $6m 27 years later, considering the story he told of being offered Ledbellys for $500.000.
You should react to the OG singer Lead Belly... Lead Belly sang it in the 1930"s but he did not write it...the song was from the 1800's... Lead Belly is one of the reasons rock and roll exists!!!!!!!
singing the black man's blues, you want to find out check out Leadbelly's where did you sleep lastnight, leadbelly songs influenced and were covered by few bands but the rabbit hole gets deep and you have to be willing to put the time in it
Every other normal Nirvana concert has a lot of electric guitar with kick boxes and lots of distortion. Pennyroyal tea, endless,nameless and School are my faves.please review Guns n’Roses at the Ritz 1991 just came out ,looks and sounds amazing and it’s somewhat intimate.
Back in the day, my gf had a crush on Kurt. Lots of people did, he was a good looking dude. A lot of the time, his hair was in his face and she couldn't see his eyes. So when the moment happened at the end of the song when he opened up his eyes wide with that burning intensity, her crush turned into an obsession. She told me that the vhs she recorded the show on had a spot worn on it, due to her constant rewatching of that section. I would recommend the live version of Aneurysm (live at The Paramount) it's one of my favorites.
Those blue eyes 💙💙💙💙
Back in the day my Mom had a crush on Slash. That's all for now..
Yes fantastic version of Aneurysm
Nice of her to casually tell you about her obsession with another man lol. 😜
@@mrhobs I've told her mine lol
This is a folk song that they don't know when it was originally written. It's very likely hundreds of years old. And has been sung by blues men, folk singers and then Nirvana.
It's a blues song..
Lead bellies done the song.
Bluegrass
💯 originally “in the pines” and “the longest train” Lead Belly’s version was by far the most popular prior to Kurt’s.
Man! Something about that last breath he takes before delivering the last couple words is so haunting.
The breath he takes.... and then the look he gives. Chills.
MTV can’t do concerts like this anymore because 90% of top 40 music is auto tuned and the “artists” don’t play instruments or even write their own songs. These concerts were a look inside the genius of the bands who made and appreciated great music and songs.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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🖤
Kurt is the new owner
i think his cover of the Meat Puppets Plateau was definitely the best
one of the best performances from anyone ever
Kurt was really coming into his own as an artist I mean the entire unplugged is FANTASTIC such a shame that we lost him I imagine what else he could and would of done!😢😢
And while you’re dipping into the MTV Unplugged basket, definitely check out some of Alice In Chains performance as well. So good.
Can't second this enough
@@redrune100 can't third this enough!!
Quad it
Can’t really lose going over any of the grunge MTV Unoluggeds.
This whole show was electrifying and iconic.
Hard to believe just months after this performance Kurt was gone :(
R.I.P. Kurt
Superb reaction Lilly Jane!
This performance of this song is legendary. Some people still laughably claim he can't sing.
Kurt was ahead of his time and misunderstood
Kurt and Layne Staley had incredible voices
eddie vedder and chris cornell
@@zahira_rania yeah the emergence of grunge brought with it some great voices. I thought about adding Cornell 🤘
They both were very tortured yet underatedly funny guys.
I think Layne Staley had the best voice in all grunge
Don't forget, Chester Bennington
This song has been giving me goosebumps for close to 30 years now and I'm 39.
R.I.P Cobain. ☘️
Still awesome to see young Dave Grohl (lead singer of Foo Fighters) on the drums. Whole MTV Unplugged performance was legendary.
Man Who Sold The World another classic track from the performance.
Makes me fucking sad. I miss these times.
You should see really old vids of the speed metal band he was in called scream. Dave was such an incredible drummer he may of actually dumbed himself down to play nirvana.
Did you get goosebumps listening to this?! Because I can watch and listen a million times and I get them every time!
My favorite live song by Nirvana is”Breed” is from the Paramount. Is all over RUclips…easy to find. Loud and fast and shows them as they really were in concert
RIP to Kurt Cobain he was a legend we lost him to soon The part when he takes a breath and opens his eyes wide his eyes are like a portal to his soul I got lost 💜💜💜💜💜
100% I agree with you.
Does the color of the hearts mean something specific to your comment about Kurt I actually want to know 💜💜
I love that part also
@@los__unicos2777 probably not. Just a personal preference. I like to use 💙
@@andrewnovak6591 ok
Poker faced when he starts to sing BECAUSE the emotions go so deep.
Ah, the early 90’s. What a great time it was to be young and into music. If only I would have known where music was going, I might have done something to stop it.
Been so long since I've heard this one and it brings back some strong feels. Over 20 years ago, in High School, my gf was completely obsessed with Kurt, so for her birthday I performed this for her. Did the melody on my bass guitar, sang (poorly), and did it all nude with only the guitar covering up any potential distractions. She enjoyed it, so much that I barely was given a chance to put down my guitar before she dragged me off. Simpler times.
And you weren't at all concerned that a song about a girl cheating on her man turned your girlfriend on?
@@TenTonNuke 17 year old boys aren't known for their critical thinking skills, especially when girls are involved. She ended up getting me expelled instead of breaking up a year or so later, so, like I said, simpler times.
Now that’s how you do it right there
This is actually my favorite live performance, but “the man who stole the world“ is so beautiful. Also unplugged. It’s a cover that was done by David Bowie. I was a teenager when videos or everything and unplugged was the bomb. I think we should start a petition to MTV to bring it back! Great reaction❤✌️🔥
as someone who saw MTV from 1984 on...i miss MTV! remote control, headbangers ball, pimp my ride, jackass. They didnt seem like the good old days at the time.
Good old days that they were mate. I miss the 80''s and 90's so so much, good time to be alive. We'll never experience anything remotely like it again.
the way his voice breaks is so beautiful
Always get shivers listening to this. One of the best blues covers ever done.
"shivers" or "SHIIIIVEEEEEEERSSS"?
@@dezerte4gle284 shivvvvverrrrrrs 😀
Anything off of that MTV Unplugged album is great. My faves on there aside from this one are, The Man Who Sold the World, Plateau and Lake of Fire.
It's pretty funny that it's all covers.
@@dertodesking. maybe you should look again. It’s half and half. 14 tracks, 7 of their songs and 7 covers. It has About a Girl, Come As You Are, Pennyroyal Tea, Polly, Dumb, Something In the Way and All Apologies…those are all Nirvana songs.
@@SpyderOne1981 I meant the ones you mentioned in your first comment, but yes, that's correct.
@@dertodesking. yes I’m aware, a David Bowie cover and 2 Meat Puppets covers.
This was their last televised performance as a band. And at the end where he takes a pause and deep breath and stares into the camera, it was almost a goodbye from Kurt. And then to follow that with the belt/yodel he did is just absolutely heartbreaking
I don't know why people keep thinking this was their last tv show cause it wasn't. They did the MTV news years live and loud show 3 weeks after this and did the French TV show appearance in February
Coffins were traditionally made of pine boards nailed together.
I was curious about this so I went and looked up the in the pines phrase for metaphorical meaning. Back when this song was likely written, it was a reference to women who for whatever reason just left their lives behind and ran off. Considering the Courtney Love relationship, it seems likely that that's what Kurt was referring to.
Just an iconic performance Love you Kurt.
I logged in just to compliment you on your legit reaction. Your face is so emotional listening to this song. Also I love your hair it's awesome. Keep up the vids.
This still effects me just as much as it did when it first aired 28 years ago.
I love love love love seeing reactions to that last vesre! When he belts...its unexpected
Favorite Nirvana live performance is definitely Breed (Live) At The Paramount 1991.
MTV started August 1, 1981 died somewhere around 1995 I have not looked at it in over 20 yrs
Thanx from France. To me their best perfomance was recorded (my point of view) on the "LIVE AND LOUD" in Seattle, 1993. Where you'll also find The man who sold the world (David Bowie cover) "plugged version". And Pat Smear (peroxyded blond hair) gives a real help to Kurt for guitar parts.
I was 11 when I first discovered Nirvana in 1992 : And for me Kurt is probably the last "rock super star", like Hendrix or Jim Morrison. That was an other world also (I know I talk like a boomer ^^) ! Goodvibes.
And afterthat that was a great entry in the music world, also with the beginnigs of hip-hop, trip-hop, techno and drum and bass. And so a great period in music history
PS : Finally I have tons of vynils because I became DJ in french freeparties of the late 90's-earlyY2K's ! With the oldschool MIDI home-studio (no PC)... You ll be nostalgic too in 2040 I can tell you that ;-P
After they walked offstage, the producers tried to get them to play one more. Kurt said, “I can’t do better than that.” And he was right.
Pain. Curt was such a great artist. The way he could communicate the pain of dealing with a partner who is not faithful - amazing. RIP
Well he was married to a 304...he was just singing from experience...
@@ca9968 That may be true (that Courtney Love is/was a 304) but in Cobain's suicide note he said of her "I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy". It is possible (though unlikely) the suicide note was planted.
This whole show is my favorite. You have to watch the whole thing from start to finish
All time finish to song, emotional set, just such a great final show for him. That look he gives with the breath is crazy.
MTV started as a 24/hr cable channel where current music videos would be played in 1981... it revolutionized the music industry as the 80's began. Artists had to be visually captivating in that era, as well as make cutting-edge music... a lot of 70's artists didn't have the 'look' and went into decline in the 80's because they didn't fit the MTV format and radio was not as effective at selling records as before.
MTV also got into the business of promoting artists live in concert and biographies, and then 'MTV Unplugged' came as an idea that artists should have the opportunity to play their songs acoustically... Rapper L.L. Cool J. was the first rap artist to do that show w/ a live band instead of a DJ.
The changes came in the 90's after Nirvana broke big in 1991... the 80's trends came to an abrupt end, and 90's artists were either rap/ hip hop or grunge/ alternative rock... it was the antithesis of the 80's scene, where music was supposed to be authentic. But by 1995, the lack of visual artists had MTV searching for other mediums... 'Beavis and Butthead' was the MTV animated show that created controversy, and that was the start of MTV trickling away from 24/7 music videos and focus on artists, to more entertainment... 'The Real World' was one of the first reality TV shows in the 90's, and that broke big long before 'American Idol' and 'Survivor' became a trend.
The quest for ratings by the late 90's began to subvert MTV away from music videos (which was in decline) and put more non-music programming, like reality TV and animated adult cartoons.
In the early 2000's, MTV had sporadic success w/ music video shows like 'TRL' (Total request Live) where artists would make appearances... but it was dominated by rap & hip hop artists in the decade, and by 2008, rating were falling. It was tough to make music stars on MTV w/ the internet making access to people so much wider newer artists just did not have the draw of 80's icons like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and George Michael.
RUclips had launched and music videos were playable on demand on the net, and MTV was losing that rating war... and shows playing music videos were not drawing viewers any more. So in late 2008, the decision was made to end 'TRL' and once that was over, MTV had moved out of the music video platform and focused on shows that they could sell. That was the end of MTV's music video era.
Even the 'side' music channel VH1 had moved away from promoting classic videos and focused on non-music entertainment, like reality TV and talk shows. The music video format was just not sustainable w/ record sales plummeting in the 2000's because of downloading (now streaming) platforms, and the money made in the music industry had dried up.
Love that man. When he died it hurt.
More Nirvana! Ty for this reaction. Gone to soon. Rip.
Thank you for doing this. I miss Kurt and Nirvana a great deal.
Few guys in music changed the course of a sound, Kurt Cobain is one.
Same MTV Unplugged, personal favorites go-to are "Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam" and "Lake of Fire" lyrically and vocally and musically. Speaking of, MTV (Music Television) is nowadays, and has been for a long while now, the History Channel of music. Also, Nirvana song of "Oh Me" 🎤
You just need to watch the entire Live & Loud Concert from 1993 in Seattle. Effin amazing performance start to finish. The energy and performances were off the chain.
Hay q agradecer q nos dejo estas reliquias... fue muy corto tu viaje en esta vida kurt...
Since you asked about Nirvana live stuff. I have couple recommendations. Nirvana-Drain You live at the paramount, Nirvana-All Apologies from Live and Loud 93, and finally Nirvana-School live from Reading 1992.
The Pines is a literal place. The southern U.S. particularly Georgia. Miles and miles and miles of pine trees. So many cryptid stories and ghost stories and actual murders.
I remember when I saw this performance without knowing anything about Kurt this last song had something, like he was saying goodbye.
Last song he ever played in front of cameras. I don't know if "living his best life" is the best way to describe that moment.
...in that moment. Doing your you, your purpose is a best life. Doesn't always mean trappings of living it up like Vegas or some such, no?
Always the greatest…I’m crying
That look right before the last lyrics with the huge breathe in. He knew it was the last thing he would ever sing live.
Great job with your reaction to Were Did You Sleep Last Night live performance from Nirvana . It's still sad this would be one of Kurt Cobain RIP last public appearances and shows l do believe.
Haunting when he starts screaming.
It's a must to react to Nirvana's classics like About A Girl, Negative Creep, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Lithium, In Bloom, Dive, Sliver, Aneurysm, Heat-Shaped Box, Numb, Dumb, Pennyroyal Tea, and All Apologies.
At 6:22 it's as if Kurt just saw how violently and tragically his life would end just a few months later.
The Pines were the pine and cypress swamps that were the only refuge for slaves that ran because the dogs could not track them in the swamps... this comes from historical data...such a powerful song!!!!!!!
Pines are trees, they're a type of evergreen tree that doesn't have leaves. Instead, they have these green needles, they call them needles. Also known as conifer trees, which is the genome, or species.
Couple of points on *MTV Unplugged* artists would come & play their hits acoustically, *Nirvana* turned that on its head they didn't play any of their own music. Oh & that *$500,000 Leadbelly* guitar would be *$1Million* in *2022.* So it should be pointed out the guitar *Kurt* is playing sold for *$6Million*
This is a perfect moment in time. I wish I could have been there.
What a Rockstar and you're absolutely right about MTV
I remember staying up with my brother to watch this on mtv. I didn’t know that it would be kurt’s last live performance.
This album and Seether "One Cold Night" are my favorite of the "Unplugged" genre...so damn good!
So crazy you did a reaction video to this. Most people don't know he did this cover. The original was incredible too. I'm curious how you heard about it. Also notice not a single person in the crowd is watching through a cell phone. Back when you lived the moment instead of recording it.
Try these live Nirvana performances:
School - Live at Reading 92
Aneurysm - Live at the Paramount
Scentless Apprentice - Live and Loud
Nirvana unplugged - lake of fire, plateau, and man who sold the world are also all great follow-ups!!
Also Nirvana unplugged - in bloom
Also Nirvana unplugged - About A Girl
Also Nirvana unplugged - Come As You Are
Nirvana - Grape Me [(not grape, but you know - Live At The Paramount, Seattle / 1991) might not be good for youtube algorithms..]
Nirvana - Breed (Live And Loud, Seattle / 1993)
He was in the moment when he belted out those screams. I heard recently while this concert was going on that Courtney was out doing her job. We know what her job/jobs detailed at the time.
I love nirvanas breed on Live at the paramount concert! You should definitely listen to it! So much energy!
my first lisening Nirvana song Scentless Apprentice my favorite if you here more scream listen this Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice ( MTV Live And Loud, Seattle / 1993 )
- Breed (Live at The Paramount, 1991)
- Tourette's (Live at Reading, 1992)
- Lithium (1992 MTV Video Music Awards)
Watched this in 94 when it aired, it was like a kick in the b*lls when he took his own life. Seeing this hurts so bad knowing that he had a huge future if he could have gotten away from the drugs.
Nirvana MTV unplugged
Was mostly cover songs
And it seemed like he was trying to "pass the torch"
To a band called
The meat puppets
You should react to NIrvana's "Lithium" live on the 1992 mtv video music awards.. it's the best thing mtv ever aired
this is an "every time goosebumps" type of song
“Kurt had a real connection to the song as he was performing it”… Absolutely AGREE.
I feel like this was his way of telling his wife Courtney and the world: I know my wife’s being unfaithful and she’s broken my heart.
(Kurt’s wife actually didn’t attend this gig, because he had this song in the set list.)
The best vocal perfomance ever
Thanks for reaction..
RIP Kurt Cobain 🙏
Best MTV unplugged ever!
Great reaction video. Kurt had such an incredible voice. I would love to see your reaction to a couple other great artists.
Maynard James Keenan the Singer for Tool (Tool has sold over 14 million albums) and Lead vocalist of A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. A great place to start would be the Tool Song's The Pot, Sober(Live), The Grudge (Which has an almost uncomfortably long gutteral scream), Lateralus, 46 and 2, Push it, StinkFist, Third Eye as well as a great live drum cam performance of "Pneuma" focusing on Danny Carey(AKA The Octopus) doing his thing. Great A Perfect Circle Songs would be "Judith"(Named after Maynard's mother and basically about how god let's bad things happen to good faithful people.), Week and Powerless, Counting Bodies Like Sheep(To the Rhythm of the War Drums), The Outsider, The Doomed, TalkTalk, The Hollow, Magdalena, "So Long and Thanks for all The Fish". And Puscifer songs to start with The Remedy, Queen B, Momma Said, Humbling River, The Mission(M is for Milla), Conditions of My Parole, Vagina Mine, Rev 22:20, Green Valley, Telling Ghosts.
The late and great Layne Staley of Alice in Chains also had an MTV live concert with some pretty amazing performances by the band of the songs Nutshell, Down in a Hole, Heaven Beside You, Sludge Factory(I could just list every song in that performance), as well as some other great performances elsewhere like Love Hate Love(live), Rooster, Man In a Box, Them Bones, No Excuses, Would?, I Stay Away, Grind, He was also the lead vocalist for the Seattle Supergroup Mad Season that had some amazing songs like The River of Deceit, Long Gone Day, Wake Up, I don't Know Anything, Lifeless Dead, I'm Above. Mad Season was made up of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and Walkabout bassist John Baker Saunders. They made one amazing album together.
i second that Tool is one of the best bands ever
First time viewer of your channel here, what a perfect introduction this video has been to your channel. Subbed!
That intense flash of green eyes at the end … I just want to confess all my sins.
Nirvana Reading festival..... epic!
Also Nirvana live at Paramount was great show.
today's singers would have 30 dancers on stage.
Granted, Nirvana had “dancers” as well in a few shows, but it was fun.
Where were you when you heard Kirt Cobain past. 💔
I was 14 years old. Skateboarding through a park that bordered the home I grew up in. I was wearing a Nirvana T-shirt. And i was skating passed a kid a few years younger then me. He said do you like Nirvana. I said. Yes. Im wearing the t-shirt. He said Kurt Cobain was dead. I looked at him as if he was crazy. Remember. This was before Google or the internet. 1994. I couldn't register what was said. I thought he was crazy. I went home and watched the TV for hours before i saw anything about what had happened. It was unbelievable. Nirvana had so much influence over my life at that time. To this day. 30 years later. Im still affected by the loss of this great musician. He was shaping my future. Then he was gone.
My favorite live Nirvana performance is Radio Friendly Unit Shifter from Live and Loud 1993.
MTV was playing Nirvana, but in the cars and at home everyone was listening to Guns N Rose's, Megadeth, and Metallica..... and GNR's shows were legendary, there were riots. I don't remember anyone going to a Nirvana show in 1991-93.
I saw nirvana live with the Violent Femmes.
I did also see GnR too though lol
Edit: you're right about the riots haha
I love watching Dave when he used to play the drums.
the most honest interpretation of Leadbelly's country/blues classic I've ever heard.......
If you want to look into someone's soul stop video at 6:24. Kurt started the whole grunge movement. I remembered where I was the first time I heard Nirvana and also when Kurt died. Another one lost way too young.
You can’t go wrong with any of the songs from the Unplugged show or Live At The Paramount. First ones for each you should do though are Breed and Drain You from Live At The Paramount to get a sense of the intensity of the shows and the band and how amazing they are electric, and for the more emotional and acoustic vibe I’d go with the David Bowie cover, The Man Who Sold The World, or All Apologies from MTV Unplugged
Your reaction when he changed his tone towards the end was priceless
You should do man who sold the world mtv unplugged next, another great performance by them!
I love watching peoples reaction to this song. Now yall know what we feel. Every. Single. Time. You want some really good live stuff with a ridiculous amount of sheer power, check out literally anything from Live And Loud or Reading 1992. That shit will change your life
Aneurysm-Live at The Paramont-Seattle, 1991.
🤘🖤
I enjoyed your reaction! As for the best unplugged renditions Polly, Man who sold the world, and all apologies. That should do you good to hear those.
Just to think him playing that guitar would end up making it sell for $6m 27 years later, considering the story he told of being offered Ledbellys for $500.000.
And another of his electric guitars he destroyed in 1989 was recently sold for this 500000$
You should react to the OG singer Lead Belly... Lead Belly sang it in the 1930"s but he did not write it...the song was from the 1800's... Lead Belly is one of the reasons rock and roll exists!!!!!!!
singing the black man's blues, you want to find out check out Leadbelly's where did you sleep lastnight, leadbelly songs influenced and were covered by few bands but the rabbit hole gets deep and you have to be willing to put the time in it
No way. This is the most effective vocal performing of ANY song in general.
in the pines - pining, when you fret in silence
Every other normal Nirvana concert has a lot of electric guitar with kick boxes and lots of distortion. Pennyroyal tea, endless,nameless and School are my faves.please review Guns n’Roses at the Ritz 1991 just came out ,looks and sounds amazing and it’s somewhat intimate.