“Lithium” is a perfect description of manic depression, where every line is both happy and sad, up and down, while having references to God recalling when Kurt lived with a devout Christian family. The title invokes lithium salts, a key drug in treating the disorder.
Lithium is more prescribed for Bipolar disorder which is what I've always felt this song is about. It's the balance of manic "high" and depressive "low". That's why every line in the song had a happy line followed by a "sad" contradiction. It's that bipolar "back and forth" in his head.
Always took this as the thoughts of a person taking lithium to treat their mental condition…love you, hate you, I’m happy, I’m sad and ugly…just all over the spectrum.
Lithium is the drug prescribed for manic depression, and these lyrics really express well the positive-negative mood swings, the up and down emotional rollercoaster experienced by people with that condition.
Um, not exactly. Lithium is a metalic element. It's tge lightest metal & the lightest solid. Litium is USED in medicines to treat depression, bi-polar disorder, and schizophrenia.
I love watching u guys react to music u can see it on brads face how hard he is trying to focus on the lyrics and trying to understand the meaning of the song while lex is next to him just feeling it
Watching you Two is like Lex being a young girl who just bought this Cd and brought it home and Brad, Lex's strict Dad is evaluating the CD to make sure its clean enough for Lex to listen to. Lol
like many times these 2 . Lex is crazy , likes all the good songs , Brad is like , ok what is happening . He should hold on to her since she is much hotter then him .
Brad doesn't give much away, "cool little song", means I'm pretty certain he liked it. With Lex, no debate. The head moving and body swaying hardly stopped the moment the song started. The smile on her face was present nearly the whole reaction.
The best way to describe Kurt Cobain’s songwriting is abstract. He wrote much like a painter in that he used phrases and words to paint a mental image or mood rather than relate a story. He love painting as a teenager and he has said he would have loved to be a film director so he is very much a visual artist. The deeper you dive into poetry the more you see that a lot of poetry is not literal and can be very abstract.
@@aerahtv0000 I can agree that people love to overanalyze artists in a lot of cases, but at the same time Kurt was very humble and he would be the one to say something like that in order not to put attention on himself even if he knew the real meaning behind the lyrics was actually deep. It could also be the case that he honestly did think "oh, it's just something I came up with randomly, there's no deeper meaning", but the thing is that these "random" thoughts/ideas come from one's subconscious mind and for a deep and tortured soul like Kurt, he may be expressing himself in this sort of abstract way without making conscious effort. So while Nirvana's lyrics are clearly not something extremely deep/nuanced in general (a lot of repetition and in some cases nonsensical sounding combinations of words), I think some parts of Kurt's soul "spilled out" into them so it's not fair to call them simplistic (even if artist himself may have said that publicly).
At 60 years old, I realized some lyrics are deep, some are simple, some are complex, some can have many interpretations and some make absolutely no sense. I just go with music.
Lex has the perfect attitude to rock music. You don't have to put it somewhere just remember it and enjoy it. That's all. It'll make sense when or if it need to. Like all music
1:25 Lex: “Sounds like he been smoking” Brad: “The songs called Lithium tho, so keep that in mind.” Lex: “Yeah smoking that lithium.” Me: 😳🤨😐😄😆😂🤣 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Lithium was traditionally a treatment for bipolar disorder and depression... re-think the lyrics in that frame of mind and they still don't make sense but they're reasonable. And, honestly, how boring would it be if they made sense?
Lex nailed it as per usual, they're a vibe band, ignore the words, this was spoken about by the band themselves, the words mean nothing on purpose, they never cared about lyrics just about the vibe and the energy
I was so excited to see Brad’s reaction to a Nirvana song because he often thinks about lyrics in a literal way. Taking that approach to a Nirvana song would make your head explode (not literally).
I loved this song in High school. I'm not sure why, I know it's about mania which I don't suffer from, but this was one of the songs I regularly bumped in my headphones in high school. It just felt so comfy to listen to.
Not in this case. At least most of it is about depression and his god - the antidepressant lithium, which is also probably a metaphor too for clinical depression.
@@aerahtv0000 That's a more interesting song subject than the vast majority of what comes from the mainstream nowadays. Don't fully listen to what he says in interviews and stuff because he lied alot
Hahaha and YAY!!!👏👏👏👏 Brad likes Grunge!! Or at least that's how I'm gonna take his comments, "I like the sound of it though", "It's easy to listen to" and "it's a cool little sound"!!!😉😂🤣😁 This is the most I've ever seen him be expressive with his facial movements in a reaction!! Love it!! Lex you just get it ❤ and yep, this is a great, grungy, dirty song to take a shower to!!!🤣😂😁 I hate that I missed your Grunge live stream but am loving these reactions!! You guys rock!! 😎
I'm a GenXer and I love watching reaction videos, but it also makes me realize how much I didn't really think about the lyrics. Pre-interwebs, we didn't have access to so much information. If I liked it, I liked it. So watching people analyze songs and lyrics is fascinating to me. I learn new things about songs I've known since they came out. My ex-husband worked with people in various bands, so we went to many shows and band practices. Many great memories. RIP to the artists we lost too soon. Love your reactions and interactions with each other. :)
its a song about the battle in his own mind. bipolar, manic depression were some of the issues Kurt faced. there's a song named "penny royal tea" which was about his stomach issues with heroin addiction
Bradster! You ain’t no fool! You do know the imagination of the hearts of men! Oh, it comes with the territory … but as long as respect and honor come first , then the animalistic side of man is kept in check , and even his own thoughts will make him ashamed. You and Lex are so different , yet I could not see y’all being apart . Y’all complement each other perfectly .
You cannot ignore the lyrics to Nirvana songs. He's literally singing about what was going through his head. The pain, the anger, the mental illness he was living with and what ultimately took his life.
I would agree. I get why people who haven't worn the shoes like Kurt wore wouldn't understand. I only was able to do so, to some degree, after conversing with him, and later on, having a profound relationship with someone else who went through the same thing. Kurt 's music, despite its many tempos and intensities, had a heartfelt soulfulness to it that still rings true to this day. "Grunge" music might go out of style, but Kurt's lyrics will stand the "test of time."
Yeah it was during a time when mentally I’ll people didn’t kill other people before committing suicide. Back then they only killed themselves but unfortunately the killers of columbine high school made it a trend to kill others first
Actually the song is about when he lived with his high school bff family they was big church people kurt went with them every Sunday and that's how he learn Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam and they hun hang him on the cross song he wrote this song because his friend went in the army and was ship out to Afghanistan when Bush Sr went to war with them kurt wrote this song to pay tribute to him and his family his friend Jesse was ok saw kurt 8 months before he died in 1994
This had nothing to do with Kurt's suicide this didn't come about until he got deeper into drugs and when Courtney love told kurt get clean or lose me and your daughter see kurt felt abandoned his hole life his dad mom sister aunts uncle's his hole family turn there backs on kurt as a teen most people don't know kurt was captain of his football and wrestling teams as he was in junior high he lived with his dad he was a daddy's boy but that all changes when he dad pick a woman over him Courtney love saying what she said to him brought all the old abandoned feelings back that's why he killed himself kurt didn't get bad until late 1993 early 1994 did he talk about suicide yes did he really want to die no he loved his daughter but when his wife said you never see her again he felt life was over read Have you been heaven book you want his reasons for him ending his life read his bio
Y'all know Courtney Love was talking to Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins before she got with Cobain. Corgan is the lucky one. He's still around being the same jerk he always been
Lex I'm so amused watching you grin and bop to all these deeply sad songs... There's a lyric to another Nirvana song that comes to mind: "He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun, but he don't know what it means." They meant it mockingly and derisively but I don't. As a musician I love that you dig music on the melody level. Every song is written both as music and as story, and you so clearly dive into the music and show when you love it. Thank you!
This is great you guys!! I love the way Brad is a little perplexed right? And Lex is all smooth groovin' she's diggin' it... HAhaha! Made me smile; made my day~! THanx :)
song lyrics, poems, books etc.. are ambiguous and can only really be explained by the writer- so this is just my take on it, what i think- that yeah it's a drug song; frustration with addiction. My addiction is ugly and I'm ashamed of it, but maybe so are you, i'm not the only one (we broke our mirrors), sunday morning is every day for all i care & i'm not scared (i'm not just spiritual/high on sunday but every damn day, & i'm not afraid to die), light my candles in a daze cuz I found god, (so I know I could OD or this is gonna kill me but I'm gonna try not to worry about that right now cuz it feels so good)- then the yeah, yeah, yeah feel-good groove- Then it makes me do off the wall shit sometimes shave my head but I don't care what others think, I'm just over here doin' me, and you should too- I'm excited to meet up w/ you & get some more! Then the guilt afterward about the i love it, i miss it, i should kill it, but I'm not gonna crack- iow I'm not gonna break down, I'm tryin' my damndest to hold it together over here the best I can. The other comments aren't wrong either- it's a combo of a lot of things, and addiction is part of self-medication for depression etc..
When I grew up with the songs you guys react to, I just enjoyed them, lived through them and felt through them. It’s a strange feeling for me to break them up line by line and see them analysed like this. Not just this song, but in general. I love to see reactions to the songs I know so well, but at the same time it’s so weird… that I’ve never viewed them from the “obvious” point of view. I don’t know if that makes any sense. Anyway… Great memories, great songs. Love your reactions!
I honestly want Lex to write a book on life. Just to get her perspective on every day things. She's always positive and smiling. You've a gem there, Brad.
I can totally imagine taking a shower to this and singing 🎤🎶Yeah...Yeah....Yeeeeeah....Yeeeeaaah...🎶 while washing all the dirt of life off my body. lol!
I think this is a fantastic example of something we do in poetry, a lot, the key to the poem is in the title of the piece. In this case, you need to know what lithium is and was used for, unfortunately, today someone might see this title and think of batteries whereas when I first heard it in the mid-‘90s I knew it as a prescribed drug. If you take the lyrics literally you end up with a list of behaviors someone on and off of psychiatric medications might engage in or perspectives they might have.
Mate!!! Love how you try and listen with your head Brad and Lex just listens with her heart. Got to let you know Brad that Lex is a keeper. Take your guard down Brad and follow Lex. Music is all about the feeling and very little about understanding.
Listening to this song when I was younger it was so confusing how the lyrics were all over the place, but since i have been diagnosed with bipolar myself it all makes so much sense now
Hilarious, the guy was super serious, trying to understand the lyrics. The girl (absolutely gorgeous, by the way), understood, and UNDERSTOOD the lyrics. She is beginning to truly, begin her transformation, to rock star goddess. Welcome, to a brand new, awesome world.
You know a band is all time when they can make a song and the hook is literally “yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah!” Hahaha! We’ve all been blessed by the existence of this but also deprived of what we could have ultimately realized ongoing! RIP Cobain!! ❤️
What I always got from the lyrics was complacency. It's like lithium..makes you numb, indifferent. It's like yeah," I am so ugly and so are you"..so what of it? What does it matter?
"Sunday morning is every day for all I care, and I'm not scared." These lyrics really spoke to me after starting to develop panic attacks on Sunday/Sunday night for no real reason recently. Just a mix of depression and anxiety. But I felt really different. Confusing and scary because I didn't feel like myself at all. It was really hard to pinpoint. But it ended up making me feel worried about Sunday coming around again. Then I heard those lyrics really for the first time and that sentiment, of not caring, not being scared of the dark, the depressing, the sad. Saying it could be Sunday every damn day, I wouldn't care. Helped me to get over it and not worry about it. Which in turn made it disappear.
I am also bipolar and on Xanax And Librium to keep me sane... i know every word of this song by heart because it keeps me sane and not lonesome... btw...you are my favorite couple here...i enjoy your videos so much...no it is not a drug song..its about mental health
These songs , like bands like Radiohead also, are often celebrating being an outsider, feeling ugly, being socially awkward, a loser, struggling with life as opposed to everything is great, we’re in love etc coz that’s how a lot of us really feel. We don’t all belong, life is hard and shit but that’s cool too.
Lithium provides a great example of what I think has often been overlooked by even hard core Nirvana fans such as myself and that is the contributions of the bassist Krist Novaselic. While Kurt's raucous guitar and his lyrical pith sear images of manic mood swings between sad indifference and rage the playfully melodic bass provides juxtpositional cheer and the song becomes hey nonny nonny.
❤️ Think it has to be one of my favourite songs of all time, every time I hear it takes me right back to being 12 years old (30 years ago😬), hearing it for the first time and going absolutely mental!
A must do is Heart Shaped Box - Similar style as this tune. Kurt's writing was more poetry than the typical song. Leaves open interpretation to the listener. You don't even really have to have an idea while listening to Nirvana you can simply just enjoy the music for what it is.
Above all, Kurt’s vocals/lyrics fit vocal lines, lines/notes/harmonies of music. They fit the songs as the 4th instrument and get caught in your head because of the notes/pitches.
This album "never mind" kills all the rock bands with saloon hair styles.. You know what I mean?? I growing up hearing this kind of music, they bring us a new era of rock scene.. Worldwide!!
Ok, you 2 are just as addicting as the great songs you listen to. This is like the 10th damn video in a row I just watched from you guys and you both are so damn funny. I love how you try to dig in to what a song is tryin to say but its ya guys personalities that keep me comin back. I need friends just like you to hang out with cuz people are slackin in my hood
I'm sure Kurt would like it if everyone made their own opinions of his lyrics,I did as a '90s teen. Enjoy the music and interpret the lyrics to work for you! ❤️🏴
The name is kind of a giveaway, if you know what it means. Lithium, years ago was given to mental patients to keep them under control but it would often cause delusions or strange visions. So the randomness of the lyrics is part of it.
“Lithium” is a perfect description of manic depression, where every line is both happy and sad, up and down, while having references to God recalling when Kurt lived with a devout Christian family. The title invokes lithium salts, a key drug in treating the disorder.
Slow down there
Da Vinci code cracked Braad
Bingo
Lithium is more prescribed for Bipolar disorder which is what I've always felt this song is about. It's the balance of manic "high" and depressive "low". That's why every line in the song had a happy line followed by a "sad" contradiction. It's that bipolar "back and forth" in his head.
@@UMfan21 "manic high and depressive low"...
Sounds like manic depression.
Always took this as the thoughts of a person taking lithium to treat their mental condition…love you, hate you, I’m happy, I’m sad and ugly…just all over the spectrum.
Yep, pretty much is used for bipolar disorder and this song pretty much displays bipolar, "so excited" into "I don't care", quickly changing moods.
Yup, exactly this
"I found my friends, they're in my head" is the key lyric to this song
No it isn't. It's just part of it.
@@alukuhito 201 ppl disagree
@@georgecostanza5562 7 billion people agree.
@@georgecostanza5562 200 people are enough to convince you he’s right ? this comment could have 10k likes and it would still only be an opinion.
@@Adam-ro8vj it’s a opinion that it’s a key lyric though it’s a fact that 217 ppl disagree
Lithium is the drug prescribed for manic depression, and these lyrics really express well the positive-negative mood swings, the up and down emotional rollercoaster experienced by people with that condition.
Um, not exactly. Lithium is a metalic element. It's tge lightest metal & the lightest solid. Litium is USED in medicines to treat depression, bi-polar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Lithium carbonate has been the go-to drug for treatment of type one bipolar disorder.
@@smashleyscott8272 Sure, if you take everything pedantically, then there are always problems and nothing makes sense.
Well its called Bi Polar Disorder nowadays, and back in that day I took Lithium, too......but not anymore Im better now....and i smoke weed instead
@@weedthepeople2795 Right you are, nowadays is bipolar disorder. Different name, same thing. Glad you're better now.
Krist's bass on this track doesn't get the respect it deserves.
haven't heard this song in ages. was thinking the exact same thing
I was thinking the exact same thing; it’s the foundation of the song.
He's taking that thing for a walk!
He is amazing on the MTV unplugged !! The Blame song man who sold the world its killer!!
Krist's bass and Dave's drums hammer every single one of their songs into your mind
I love watching u guys react to music u can see it on brads face how hard he is trying to focus on the lyrics and trying to understand the meaning of the song while lex is next to him just feeling it
Those two combined is what a good music song is about.❤
Lex your smile is absolutely contagious.
It's absolutely gorgeous, what it is
@@Eowyn187 Yeah, stunning, 10,000 volts.
Lex, literally the only person to be like, "Lithium is a happy vibe." Seriously, you recognize the duality of the song that makes it great. Kudos.
😂😂😂😂😂
Watching you Two is like Lex being a young girl who just bought this Cd and brought it home and Brad, Lex's strict Dad is evaluating the CD to make sure its clean enough for Lex to listen to. Lol
😂😂😂 love it
YES!!!
Lmao
like many times these 2 . Lex is crazy , likes all the good songs , Brad is like , ok what is happening . He should hold on to her since she is much hotter then him .
@@sergesmets5685 I'm sure he's very aware people want his girl. Ever been there?
I love lex she just feels the music
Brad doesn't give much away, "cool little song", means I'm pretty certain he liked it. With Lex, no debate. The head moving and body swaying hardly stopped the moment the song started. The smile on her face was present nearly the whole reaction.
@Mr. frisky same!
He can’t give much away because he’s clueless.
He doesn’t get anything.
What a dunce.
oh Lex you have such a pure soul when it comes to music
The best way to describe Kurt Cobain’s songwriting is abstract. He wrote much like a painter in that he used phrases and words to paint a mental image or mood rather than relate a story. He love painting as a teenager and he has said he would have loved to be a film director so he is very much a visual artist. The deeper you dive into poetry the more you see that a lot of poetry is not literal and can be very abstract.
This is the perfect way to describe Kurt's songwriting! He was most definitely abstract ❤️ he would have made an excellent film director!
actually he said that his songs are very simplistic and people try too hard to find deep meanings in his songs, when there's no such.
Jim Morrison did that too that's pretty common in art..in real art..
@@aerahtv0000 I can agree that people love to overanalyze artists in a lot of cases, but at the same time Kurt was very humble and he would be the one to say something like that in order not to put attention on himself even if he knew the real meaning behind the lyrics was actually deep. It could also be the case that he honestly did think "oh, it's just something I came up with randomly, there's no deeper meaning", but the thing is that these "random" thoughts/ideas come from one's subconscious mind and for a deep and tortured soul like Kurt, he may be expressing himself in this sort of abstract way without making conscious effort. So while Nirvana's lyrics are clearly not something extremely deep/nuanced in general (a lot of repetition and in some cases nonsensical sounding combinations of words), I think some parts of Kurt's soul "spilled out" into them so it's not fair to call them simplistic (even if artist himself may have said that publicly).
Best way? I am going w/Beatlesque.
At 60 years old, I realized some lyrics are deep, some are simple, some are complex, some can have many interpretations and some make absolutely no sense. I just go with music.
To me, the sound is what matters the most. I hardly ever notice when lyrics don’t even make sense.
Did you think we'd still be rockin' at our age? I could not imagine anything else.
💯
Lex has the perfect attitude to rock music. You don't have to put it somewhere just remember it and enjoy it. That's all. It'll make sense when or if it need to. Like all music
I love Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Lex you are just too cute. I love your energy and smile.
That girl is a treasure, her laugh and smile and the way she shake the head. I'm in love!
Yooooo, cleaning off the grunge in the shower and singing yeah yeah yeaaaahhhhh, was the funniest thing I've herd in a long time! Thanks lol
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Lex: “Sounds like he been smoking”
Brad: “The songs called Lithium tho, so keep that in mind.”
Lex: “Yeah smoking that lithium.”
Me: 😳🤨😐😄😆😂🤣
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Lex and just jammong out and Brad's look on his face- concentrating so hard to figure the lyrics out lol
Yin and Yang
Lol he need to chill out, the more u focus on Cobain lyrics the more confusing things get but listen to it enough and it makes a whole lot of sense
Aneurysm and You Know You’re Right by Nirvana please! You Know You’re Right was Kurt’s last recorded song!
Lex has the most contagious positive vibes I've ever seen. Never thought Reaction channel would make me happy, but yall do. Lol. Thanks.
Lithium was traditionally a treatment for bipolar disorder and depression... re-think the lyrics in that frame of mind and they still don't make sense but they're reasonable. And, honestly, how boring would it be if they made sense?
I love cryptic lyrics.
Then add Courtney Love into the mix...
@@PorscheRacer14 lmao, seriously
@@PorscheRacer14 Hole has some great songs imo
The lyrics fit bipolar theme. They make sense in that context.
the two of you - fun to watch.
that's why we keep coming back :)
Lex nailed it as per usual, they're a vibe band, ignore the words, this was spoken about by the band themselves, the words mean nothing on purpose, they never cared about lyrics just about the vibe and the energy
I was so excited to see Brad’s reaction to a Nirvana song because he often thinks about lyrics in a literal way. Taking that approach to a Nirvana song would make your head explode (not literally).
cobain pun?
I loved this song in High school. I'm not sure why, I know it's about mania which I don't suffer from, but this was one of the songs I regularly bumped in my headphones in high school. It just felt so comfy to listen to.
Cobain often wrote opaque lyrics. Not meant to be analyzed, just enjoyed.
Not in this case. At least most of it is about depression and his god - the antidepressant lithium, which is also probably a metaphor too for clinical depression.
@@verbone this song is also very opaque, it's just what's happening inside a head of people with bipolar disorder.
@@aerahtv0000 That's a more interesting song subject than the vast majority of what comes from the mainstream nowadays. Don't fully listen to what he says in interviews and stuff because he lied alot
THIS! Right there, is the absolute best description of Kurt's writing I've heard. Opaque...brilliant!!
How is Lex so instinctivly insightfull about music. Nirvana is such a vibe indeed.
The first rock song as a teen that made me like rock. MTV days….
Now I listen to hard fast extreme metal lol
Hahaha and YAY!!!👏👏👏👏 Brad likes Grunge!! Or at least that's how I'm gonna take his comments, "I like the sound of it though", "It's easy to listen to" and "it's a cool little sound"!!!😉😂🤣😁
This is the most I've ever seen him be expressive with his facial movements in a reaction!! Love it!! Lex you just get it ❤ and yep, this is a great, grungy, dirty song to take a shower to!!!🤣😂😁
I hate that I missed your Grunge live stream but am loving these reactions!! You guys rock!! 😎
I could watch Lex smiling all day listening to music, she really feels tracks❤️🙏
its all about the energy!
I would've been so upset if you guys dissed one of my favorite bands. Love it when Lex gets into stuff.
No need to crack the Da Vinchi code, Brad, not much to know, the title Lithium is the best clue. Found my friends, their in my head says it all.
I'm a GenXer and I love watching reaction videos, but it also makes me realize how much I didn't really think about the lyrics. Pre-interwebs, we didn't have access to so much information. If I liked it, I liked it. So watching people analyze songs and lyrics is fascinating to me. I learn new things about songs I've known since they came out. My ex-husband worked with people in various bands, so we went to many shows and band practices. Many great memories. RIP to the artists we lost too soon. Love your reactions and interactions with each other. :)
It’s so funny to watch lex vibe on grunge. The whole 90s was like that. I feel like she would have fit in then so perfectly. It was a lot of fun.
I subscibed and I love how Brad is always so suspicious of rock music and Lex just loves just about every groove. She likes the boys in the band.
its a song about the battle in his own mind. bipolar, manic depression were some of the issues Kurt faced. there's a song named "penny royal tea" which was about his stomach issues with heroin addiction
Bradster! You ain’t no fool! You do know the imagination of the hearts of men! Oh, it comes with the territory … but as long as respect and honor come first , then the animalistic side of man is kept in check , and even his own thoughts will make him ashamed. You and Lex are so different , yet I could not see y’all being apart . Y’all complement each other perfectly .
You cannot ignore the lyrics to Nirvana songs. He's literally singing about what was going through his head. The pain, the anger, the mental illness he was living with and what ultimately took his life.
I would agree. I get why people who haven't worn the shoes like Kurt wore wouldn't understand. I only was able to do so, to some degree, after conversing with him, and later on, having a profound relationship with someone else who went through the same thing. Kurt 's music, despite its many tempos and intensities, had a heartfelt soulfulness to it that still rings true to this day. "Grunge" music might go out of style, but Kurt's lyrics will stand the "test of time."
Yeah it was during a time when mentally I’ll people didn’t kill other people before committing suicide. Back then they only killed themselves but unfortunately the killers of columbine high school made it a trend to kill others first
Actually the song is about when he lived with his high school bff family they was big church people kurt went with them every Sunday and that's how he learn Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam and they hun hang him on the cross song he wrote this song because his friend went in the army and was ship out to Afghanistan when Bush Sr went to war with them kurt wrote this song to pay tribute to him and his family his friend Jesse was ok saw kurt 8 months before he died in 1994
This had nothing to do with Kurt's suicide this didn't come about until he got deeper into drugs and when Courtney love told kurt get clean or lose me and your daughter see kurt felt abandoned his hole life his dad mom sister aunts uncle's his hole family turn there backs on kurt as a teen most people don't know kurt was captain of his football and wrestling teams as he was in junior high he lived with his dad he was a daddy's boy but that all changes when he dad pick a woman over him Courtney love saying what she said to him brought all the old abandoned feelings back that's why he killed himself kurt didn't get bad until late 1993 early 1994 did he talk about suicide yes did he really want to die no he loved his daughter but when his wife said you never see her again he felt life was over read Have you been heaven book you want his reasons for him ending his life read his bio
@@thewalkingdeaduniverse362 I think you meant to say the war against Iraq. The war against Afghanistan started in 1999
"If it was on, I wouldn't turn it off" sounds like a winner to me!
Krist Novoselic's Bass line in this track is so simple yet so groovy and legendary.
Love Lex Energy and acceptance of new music so quickly. Brad cool and smart . Great balance. 👍
great job as always. Would love to see a supercut of Lex mimicing / recreating sounds from songs. Ha!
Many of nirvana lyrics touched on teen angst, confusion etc... but after Kurt's suicide many are the reflections of his struggle with himself.
Smashing Pumpkins (Bullet with Butterfly Wings) would get you two rocking! don't see any reactions to them!
Agreed.
Yes! I've been waitin!!
Y'all know Courtney Love was talking to Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins before she got with Cobain. Corgan is the lucky one. He's still around being the same jerk he always been
@wim caubergs 1979 the year I started high school!
@wim caubergs gotta say it was a pretty good year!!!
I fell down a grunge rabbit hole with these two and it appears to be worth the ride. Good videos!
"Cracking the Da Vinci code"? U guys crack me up so much . thanx good job.
Yeah we all wanted to put this on our shower playlist back in the 90s. Lyrically perfect for cleansing.
Lex I'm so amused watching you grin and bop to all these deeply sad songs...
There's a lyric to another Nirvana song that comes to mind: "He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun, but he don't know what it means."
They meant it mockingly and derisively but I don't. As a musician I love that you dig music on the melody level. Every song is written both as music and as story, and you so clearly dive into the music and show when you love it. Thank you!
Love this. Great reaction. Thanks peeps!
This is great you guys!! I love the way Brad is a little perplexed right? And Lex is all smooth groovin' she's diggin' it... HAhaha! Made me smile; made my day~! THanx :)
song lyrics, poems, books etc.. are ambiguous and can only really be explained by the writer- so this is just my take on it, what i think- that yeah it's a drug song; frustration with addiction. My addiction is ugly and I'm ashamed of it, but maybe so are you, i'm not the only one (we broke our mirrors), sunday morning is every day for all i care & i'm not scared (i'm not just spiritual/high on sunday but every damn day, & i'm not afraid to die), light my candles in a daze cuz I found god, (so I know I could OD or this is gonna kill me but I'm gonna try not to worry about that right now cuz it feels so good)- then the yeah, yeah, yeah feel-good groove- Then it makes me do off the wall shit sometimes shave my head but I don't care what others think, I'm just over here doin' me, and you should too- I'm excited to meet up w/ you & get some more! Then the guilt afterward about the i love it, i miss it, i should kill it, but I'm not gonna crack- iow I'm not gonna break down, I'm tryin' my damndest to hold it together over here the best I can. The other comments aren't wrong either- it's a combo of a lot of things, and addiction is part of self-medication for depression etc..
Dude got totally hypnotized. Look at his eyes.
When I grew up with the songs you guys react to, I just enjoyed them, lived through them and felt through them. It’s a strange feeling for me to break them up line by line and see them analysed like this. Not just this song, but in general. I love to see reactions to the songs I know so well, but at the same time it’s so weird… that I’ve never viewed them from the “obvious” point of view. I don’t know if that makes any sense. Anyway… Great memories, great songs. Love your reactions!
I was just thinking the same thing
I honestly want Lex to write a book on life. Just to get her perspective on every day things. She's always positive and smiling. You've a gem there, Brad.
Love the permanent smile on Lex's face....Nirvana will do that...
A Grunge playlist to take a shower to!!! 🤣🤣🤣 ❤️ love you guys!
She so gets it - love the smiles!!!
Always exciting to hear Nirvana. Rock on Lex!!! I like your idea of a grunge list when showering!
I can totally imagine taking a shower to this and singing 🎤🎶Yeah...Yeah....Yeeeeeah....Yeeeeaaah...🎶 while washing all the dirt of life off my body. lol!
I think this is a fantastic example of something we do in poetry, a lot, the key to the poem is in the title of the piece. In this case, you need to know what lithium is and was used for, unfortunately, today someone might see this title and think of batteries whereas when I first heard it in the mid-‘90s I knew it as a prescribed drug.
If you take the lyrics literally you end up with a list of behaviors someone on and off of psychiatric medications might engage in or perspectives they might have.
Mate!!! Love how you try and listen with your head Brad and Lex just listens with her heart. Got to let you know Brad that Lex is a keeper. Take your guard down Brad and follow Lex. Music is all about the feeling and very little about understanding.
One of the most fun bass lines to play of all time
Listening to this song when I was younger it was so confusing how the lyrics were all over the place, but since i have been diagnosed with bipolar myself it all makes so much sense now
Hilarious, the guy was super serious, trying to understand the lyrics. The girl (absolutely gorgeous, by the way), understood, and UNDERSTOOD the lyrics. She is beginning to truly, begin her transformation, to rock star goddess. Welcome, to a brand new, awesome world.
She gets it! Lol He’s over thinking
Some music just wants to watch the world burn
I love you guys. You two crack me up!
You know a band is all time when they can make a song and the hook is literally “yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah!”
Hahaha! We’ve all been blessed by the existence of this but also deprived of what we could have ultimately realized ongoing! RIP Cobain!! ❤️
I've heard this song dozens of times, even before I bought the CD. I never new what the lyrics were. Thank you Brad & Lex
Great review from both of you! Love your hair Lex!
" Grunge play list to take a shower to" is absolutely brilliant 👏
It is good shower music. Never thought of it that way, but "YEAH".
What I always got from the lyrics was complacency. It's like lithium..makes you numb, indifferent. It's like yeah," I am so ugly and so are you"..so what of it? What does it matter?
Lithium is a perception for bi-polar and true ya feel like eve day does feel like Sunday..
Love you guys!! Seem very kool !!
When this shit dropped it was ice cold. There has never been band like Nirvana and there will never be another.
"Sunday morning is every day for all I care, and I'm not scared." These lyrics really spoke to me after starting to develop panic attacks on Sunday/Sunday night for no real reason recently. Just a mix of depression and anxiety. But I felt really different. Confusing and scary because I didn't feel like myself at all. It was really hard to pinpoint. But it ended up making me feel worried about Sunday coming around again. Then I heard those lyrics really for the first time and that sentiment, of not caring, not being scared of the dark, the depressing, the sad. Saying it could be Sunday every damn day, I wouldn't care. Helped me to get over it and not worry about it. Which in turn made it disappear.
I am also bipolar and on Xanax And Librium to keep me sane... i know every word of this song by heart because it keeps me sane and not lonesome... btw...you are my favorite couple here...i enjoy your videos so much...no it is not a drug song..its about mental health
This is a great song to play on guitar. My favourite Nirvana song. It has a funky vibe.
Lex can pull off any hairstyle
One of my favorite Nirvana songs. You guys should also listen to Heart-shaped Box and Man Who Sold the World.
These songs , like bands like Radiohead also, are often celebrating being an outsider, feeling ugly, being socially awkward, a loser, struggling with life as opposed to everything is great, we’re in love etc coz that’s how a lot of us really feel. We don’t all belong, life is hard and shit but that’s cool too.
I have the feeling like Brad is scared to let himself go and show that he likes something... like its something bad or uncool :D Brad let it goooo
Lithium provides a great example of what I think has often been overlooked by even hard core Nirvana fans such as myself and that is the contributions of the bassist Krist Novaselic. While Kurt's raucous guitar and his lyrical pith sear images of manic mood swings between sad indifference and rage the playfully melodic bass provides juxtpositional cheer and the song becomes hey nonny nonny.
❤️ Think it has to be one of my favourite songs of all time, every time I hear it takes me right back to being 12 years old (30 years ago😬), hearing it for the first time and going absolutely mental!
The song is about your heart, and what you find important.
If you ignore the words and just listen to the music it pretty much The Pixies. Kurts lyrics are what made Nirvana songs as great as they are.
In 1991 Nirvana changed my life “Aneurysm””Breed”🤘
A must do is Heart Shaped Box - Similar style as this tune. Kurt's writing was more poetry than the typical song. Leaves open interpretation to the listener. You don't even really have to have an idea while listening to Nirvana you can simply just enjoy the music for what it is.
My entry song into Nirvana back in highschool.
I believe they give lithium to people in medical detox for alcohol withdrawal symptoms along with other medication.
Above all, Kurt’s vocals/lyrics fit vocal lines, lines/notes/harmonies of music. They fit the songs as the 4th instrument and get caught in your head because of the notes/pitches.
This album "never mind" kills all the rock bands with saloon hair styles.. You know what I mean?? I growing up hearing this kind of music, they bring us a new era of rock scene.. Worldwide!!
Brad -- I don’t think every song has the level of meaning you look for - love the videos
🤣🤣🤣 He does look deep.
Some times ''Yeah yeah yeah'' is just a sound vocalists make.
Ok, you 2 are just as addicting as the great songs you listen to. This is like the 10th damn video in a row I just watched from you guys and you both are so damn funny. I love how you try to dig in to what a song is tryin to say but its ya guys personalities that keep me comin back. I need friends just like you to hang out with cuz people are slackin in my hood
I'm sure Kurt would like it if everyone made their own opinions of his lyrics,I did as a '90s teen. Enjoy the music and interpret the lyrics to work for you! ❤️🏴
The name is kind of a giveaway, if you know what it means. Lithium, years ago was given to mental patients to keep them under control but it would often cause delusions or strange visions. So the randomness of the lyrics is part of it.
His friends re in his head ! Saw them in 93 I think ..great show!!
Ok y'all just doin the best music on UA-cam. Subbed. ✔
The greatest music of my childhood.
Same I found nirvana in my early teen years and it has helpped me through a lot