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Sorry to disappoint David Bowie but, I have to go with Nirvana’s. It’s kinda like hearing Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt or Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah. There’s something that redefines the original version and makes it theirs.
I heard Nirvana first but I vastly prefer the Bowie version, and I prefer that album over mtv unplugged as a whole. I love nirvana but I'm not crazy about mtv unplugged or nevermind. It's not that it's not the original, I just don't like the vibe on the Nirvana version and love it on the Bowie recording. I feel roughly half of nirvanas work gets a cringe pass because of the tragedy, and some of their work has the negative qualities of post-grunge like Nickelback or whatever
@@sstaners1234I respect your opinion and I've heard the same thing repeated about cash and Buckley's covers. I took that for granted for a long time. I like both cash and Buckley for the most part. I also love NiN and Cohen. I gotta go with those originals, but not because they're originals. To me those are obviously better artists and better recordings. Both of those covers have a weird overblown and overdramatized vibe, kinda fake I guess? Almost like how some big metal band covered the sound of silence. I don't mean to sound too inflammatory but in my mind its like what a philistine would think is an improvement. Like "there, now it's fixed!" but it's just dumbed down a lot. The original versions sound so much more sincere and meaningful to my ears. I can understand why people are impressed by Jeff Buckley's virtuoso singing (that's a much lower bar than understanding Cohen, I think) but why the Hurt cover is regarded more highly than the original still confuses me.
this cover was actually the first piece of nirvana music i heard after it came up on a spotify playlist for me last year (crazy i know but im gen z with african parents lol forgive me) and as embarrassing as it is to admit, i thought it was a nirvana original song for a while. i instantly fell in love with the song, then nirvana, then 90's rock in general. when i discovered it was bowie's song, i felt stupid but excited to get into his music too, and then a tons more 70's & 60's rock. anyway just really grateful for this song, and both nirvana & bowie, for getting me into a genre that is now so personal to me and has changed my world completely.
Good for you for being open to music that's new for you and especially when it's not the type of music that people might "expect" you'd like! It doesn't matter how you got there at all, only that you got there!
Pat and Kurdt were sitting in a living room and talking about Bowie and I think Pat said he LOVED that LP and song.... Kurdt agreed and said it gets looked over SOOOOO MUCH! and that's how it was picked for the UNPLUGGED set!
Bowie was just tuned different like Cobain. When Bowie talked, i listened and believed him when he talked about the lyrics to this song being mystical.
Before Spotify and streaming platforms I was trying to find the Vaselines albums to listen to. I got lucky when a friend who was a huge punk/ska fan had a copy.
Nirvana struck me the most because when I heard it at first I thought it was a good song yet once I payed attention to the lyric and HOW the lyric was presented I teared up because in myself I feel a part of me died alone a long long time ago and that specific cover makes it so heart-felt to me
Heard my band played in the Radio and heard my name said also that same night!!! They announced a show, album release date and tour!!! I was 😮😮😮😯😯🤯🤯🤯😳😳😳 blown away!!! Sadly, was the same day Bowie passed away!💔💔💔💔
Interesting how the title says in part "Bowie's Underrated Gem". To us Bowie fans who have been listening to Bowie's music since the late 60's, "The Man Who Sold the World" was never considered 'underrated". That would only be true to people unfamiliar with the song.
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My personal journey to nirvana started with listening Queen then to David Bowie with Under Pressure and then i found the Live and Loud Nirvana performance which i thought was amazing
I feel like there is a massive difference between how Brits see this and how Americans see it. In UK Bowie is seen as the great genius of popular music, in America it seems like he’s just another artist. I never thought of this as anything other than Bowies, with Lulu and Nirvana doing ok covers of it, no more than that.
Why do I believe that Midge Ure introduced this song to Kurt, chronicle was when he was a teenager, just like Devo's Turnaround..Just another point of view that Kurt liked electronic music too!
Very few covers are better than the original. Whitney's I will always live you, Rage the ghost of Tom Joad, but the best cover of all time is Nirvana cover of this song.
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You’re incorrect, the cartoon cover was the original US release in 1970, the photo with his leg up and guitar was a Ziggy era photo used for the 1972 reissue
You're quoting yourself wrong within the first 20 seconds of this video. Is it "great artists copy" or "great artists borrow"? Get you pictures and voiceover aligned! Is there any reason I should trust anything I will see from now on?
A song cannot be iconic - nor any Sound at all, for that matter. Only images are iconic - i.e., a person or thing whose Image is famous. The word Icon, in original Greek, Means Image. The word is apparently mistaken to mean simply "widely known," or "instantly recognizable," etc. But, just as flavors, scents, bodily sensations, ideas, emotions, etc. can't be Iconic, neither can Sounds. For instance, no one (hopefully) would think of calling ice cream flavors, or the smell of sulfur, or the feeling of rain on one's face, or the Pythagorean Theorem, or the symptoms of a flu, or the heartbreak of unrequited love "iconic." Misuse of this word (perhaps the most overused term on RUclips) has become rampant of late due to the RUclips Feedback Loop. Indeed, if misusers' notions of the word's definition were correct, we could say that this widespread mistake has become an Iconic Linguistic Error.
It’s not that transformative, it’s just a cover of a Bowie Sonny by Kurt Cobain…he could have sang the Theme Song to The Odd Couple and it would sound just like this…it’s a decent cover by no means as transformative as Soft Cell’a version of Tainted Love…yawn…
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Sorry to disappoint David Bowie but, I have to go with Nirvana’s. It’s kinda like hearing Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt or Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah. There’s something that redefines the original version and makes it theirs.
I heard Nirvana first but I vastly prefer the Bowie version, and I prefer that album over mtv unplugged as a whole. I love nirvana but I'm not crazy about mtv unplugged or nevermind. It's not that it's not the original, I just don't like the vibe on the Nirvana version and love it on the Bowie recording. I feel roughly half of nirvanas work gets a cringe pass because of the tragedy, and some of their work has the negative qualities of post-grunge like Nickelback or whatever
@@sstaners1234I respect your opinion and I've heard the same thing repeated about cash and Buckley's covers. I took that for granted for a long time. I like both cash and Buckley for the most part. I also love NiN and Cohen. I gotta go with those originals, but not because they're originals. To me those are obviously better artists and better recordings. Both of those covers have a weird overblown and overdramatized vibe, kinda fake I guess? Almost like how some big metal band covered the sound of silence. I don't mean to sound too inflammatory but in my mind its like what a philistine would think is an improvement. Like "there, now it's fixed!" but it's just dumbed down a lot. The original versions sound so much more sincere and meaningful to my ears. I can understand why people are impressed by Jeff Buckley's virtuoso singing (that's a much lower bar than understanding Cohen, I think) but why the Hurt cover is regarded more highly than the original still confuses me.
Kurt just nailed this song made it what it should be in my opinion. One of the best covers of the times.
There is just one Metrobolist, Spike on his shoulder, dripping blood and sporting a fatal sentence. There is just one Super Man
"...i must have died alone, a long long time ago..".. hearing kurt sing these words 30 years on from his death is heavy 🥀
this cover was actually the first piece of nirvana music i heard after it came up on a spotify playlist for me last year (crazy i know but im gen z with african parents lol forgive me) and as embarrassing as it is to admit, i thought it was a nirvana original song for a while. i instantly fell in love with the song, then nirvana, then 90's rock in general. when i discovered it was bowie's song, i felt stupid but excited to get into his music too, and then a tons more 70's & 60's rock. anyway just really grateful for this song, and both nirvana & bowie, for getting me into a genre that is now so personal to me and has changed my world completely.
Don’t ever feel embarrassed at how you discover great music. Heck, I got into classical music by watching looney tunes and ren and stimpy
Good for you for being open to music that's new for you and especially when it's not the type of music that people might "expect" you'd like! It doesn't matter how you got there at all, only that you got there!
Same thing happened with me and Nirvana, as well as with Alice In Chains with their own tortured soul frontman, Layne Staley
Pat and Kurdt were sitting in a living room and talking about Bowie and I think Pat said he LOVED that LP and song.... Kurdt agreed and said it gets looked over SOOOOO MUCH! and that's how it was picked for the UNPLUGGED set!
Haha I’ve been a lifelong Bowie fan since buying the Ziggy album in 1973 at age 16. I’d never hear of Nirvana’s version of this song until just now.
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Agreed
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Bowie was just tuned different like Cobain. When Bowie talked, i listened and believed him when he talked about the lyrics to this song being mystical.
Both versions are just amazing Kurt’s version just hits so different like a man giving into despair
Well said and very insightful.
Such a great song and cover. Hard to believe they're both gone.
But, how many kids got into Bowie, Meat Puppets, and Lead Belly because of Nirvana?
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Before Spotify and streaming platforms I was trying to find the Vaselines albums to listen to. I got lucky when a friend who was a huge punk/ska fan had a copy.
Sonic Youth & The Pixies as well.
Yeah
Good thing the Melvins
exist, if Buzz Osborn pulled the plug
We'd never know
Nirvana or Kurt
don't stop, because one day this channel will have so much success
Nirvana struck me the most because when I heard it at first I thought it was a good song yet once I payed attention to the lyric and HOW the lyric was presented I teared up because in myself I feel a part of me died alone a long long time ago and that specific cover makes it so heart-felt to me
Nirvana version, 100%. I am biased though as it came out when I was 13 and it was the only version I was familiar with.
Heard my band played in the Radio and heard my name said also that same night!!! They announced a show, album release date and tour!!! I was 😮😮😮😯😯🤯🤯🤯😳😳😳 blown away!!!
Sadly, was the same day Bowie passed away!💔💔💔💔
What a fantastic video. I'm sure to leave my like, and hope you rightfully surpass the 200 mark.
Thank you! 🤞
i think the way bowie felt was the same way kurt did feeling like in becoming famous you sold yourself out
She lost me in the opening minute with “Bowie had recently moved past a breakup with Hermione FRANGLE?!” 😮
Interesting how the title says in part "Bowie's Underrated Gem". To us Bowie fans who have been listening to Bowie's music since the late 60's, "The Man Who Sold the World" was never considered 'underrated". That would only be true to people unfamiliar with the song.
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My personal journey to nirvana started with listening Queen then to David Bowie with Under Pressure and then i found the Live and Loud Nirvana performance which i thought was amazing
Is it just me of is the narrator sound like it’s AI? There’s weird glitches and pronunciations that make it seem like it’s AI.
No its AI seems to be allot of that creeping in to youtube
Nirvana MTV that guitar & chelo solo was hormonized well and Novoselic bass lines well covered with Dave drumming 🙏
I feel like there is a massive difference between how Brits see this and how Americans see it. In UK Bowie is seen as the great genius of popular music, in America it seems like he’s just another artist. I never thought of this as anything other than Bowies, with Lulu and Nirvana doing ok covers of it, no more than that.
Nirvana David was B4 my time.
Why do I believe that Midge Ure introduced this song to Kurt, chronicle was when he was a teenager, just like Devo's Turnaround..Just another point of view that Kurt liked electronic music too!
“It’s Been 9 years….”
Not me with my dad debating which version is better
Haha, which one did you end up choosing?
I can’t believe I have in my channel a video with 200 views, and this great, well-crafted and nicely edited video just have 731 wtf.
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Very few covers are better than the original. Whitney's I will always live you, Rage the ghost of Tom Joad, but the best cover of all time is Nirvana cover of this song.
Here because of Kojima
I like that song
Sorry I love your channel’ but your pronunciation of some words is really different’ there has been many instances of this throughout your videos’ please understand that im in not in anyway trying to be rude at all’ I just find it a little bit strange’ in the case of this video’ it’s instead of pronouncing Krist u say carice’ it just sometimes sounds like it’s a bot doing the vocal for your vids’ anyway big love ✌️🙌
The cartoon cover is a bootleg. The American cover is a black and white live photo of Bowie
You’re incorrect, the cartoon cover was the original US release in 1970, the photo with his leg up and guitar was a Ziggy era photo used for the 1972 reissue
You're quoting yourself wrong within the first 20 seconds of this video. Is it "great artists copy" or "great artists borrow"? Get you pictures and voiceover aligned!
Is there any reason I should trust anything I will see from now on?
Schizophrenia and split personality?
Two very very different diagnoses!!!
Somebody doesn't know what they're talking about....
I got sea sick watching the still pictures move around.
Nirvana's version for me because it was the only version of that song that I listened to. And I love their version of it.
AI Story
The song is about a ghost. Every line of it. How is this not obvious?? Sad Lisa Sad by Cat Stevens is also..
Good artists copy and great artists steal?! Surely good artists cover and pay tribute to artists and great artists create their own work!!
I knew it was a cover. But didn’t know it was Bowie.
Very sorry, Lulu's version is nothing less than appalling. She makes it sound like a Eurovision song.
A song cannot be iconic - nor any Sound at all, for that matter. Only images are iconic - i.e., a person or thing whose Image is famous. The word Icon, in original Greek, Means Image.
The word is apparently mistaken to mean simply "widely known," or "instantly recognizable," etc. But, just as flavors, scents, bodily sensations, ideas, emotions, etc. can't be Iconic, neither can Sounds. For instance, no one (hopefully) would think of calling ice cream flavors, or the smell of sulfur, or the feeling of rain on one's face, or the Pythagorean Theorem, or the symptoms of a flu, or the heartbreak of unrequited love "iconic."
Misuse of this word (perhaps the most overused term on RUclips) has become rampant of late due to the RUclips Feedback Loop. Indeed, if misusers' notions of the word's definition were correct, we could say that this widespread mistake has become an Iconic Linguistic Error.
Is This Narrator new to English? She Mispronounces many words.
It’s not that transformative, it’s just a cover of a Bowie Sonny by Kurt Cobain…he could have sang the Theme Song to The Odd Couple and it would sound just like this…it’s a decent cover by no means as transformative as Soft Cell’a version of Tainted Love…yawn…
It's a dress. Why did you call it "a man's dress"? Did Bowie borrow it from a man?
Michael Fish, the guy who made it, literally designed it and sold it as a “Man-Dress”
@@michaelnoonang9207 Thanks I didn't know that. I wonder how if Bowie wore a Manssiere under there
what a boringly delivered video about 1 of the greatest songs ever. why does this sound like a watchmojo video