Kurt's guitar was an electric acoustic. From what I remember he wanted to use a particular amp that was his " Linus blanket". I think his melancholy appearance on this song was his nervousness because they messed it up a bunch of times in rehearsal.
Great David Bowie cover. I love the original, but I prefer to listen this version. So many little Kurt nuances like the yodel/vocal breaks. One of my favorite MTV Unplugged performances too.
Gotta respectfully disagree on the electric guitar sound. I feel that it adds to the melancholy of Nirvanas cover. It felt as though that was the Nirvana “flavor” that made the song unique (along with Cobain’s particular vocals). I listen to all three versions of this song and idk which is better. They’re all great imo
The best guess that this song is about denying harsh reality of loneliness and nothingness with an either real or fake excuse of him selling the world .which represents anyone's ambition to succeed on the expense of others
Kurt liked ambiguity in lyrics this is probably one of the reason he covered this song. Even though it's sad thinking of his passing I enjoyed that it felt he was always himself and had true love for music.
Unplugged show is amazing, but sad at the same time. The set looked like a funeral. Where did you sleep last night is the most emotional performance ever. Kurt was in major drug withdrawals at the time.
“I was simply blown away when I found that Kurt Cobain liked my work, and have always wanted to talk to him about his reasons for covering ‘The Man Who Sold the World’” and that “it was a good straight forward rendition and sounded somehow very honest. It would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking with him would have been real cool.” -David Bowie
This is months before he left us. One of the last real performances. And in several songs you really get a feel for where his headspace was at. This one and Where Did You Sleep Last Night are especially heartbreaking
Seriously? They played the West Coast leg of the In Utero tour and then half of the European leg before they canceled the tour, all *after* this performance. Yes, it was three or four months before he died, but they played hundreds of songs live in front of hundreds of thousands of people between this performance and his death.
Love this song. Brings whole new emotions for me. One of my greatest loves❤. She loved this song. We grew up to Nirvana songs together. She passed. This n many other things are painful reminders of her...
I’ve been a nirvana fan since I was 6 years old. I’m 38 now. It’s a lot to take in when u watched them as a kid and how big they were at one time and then how they went away so fast. They truly had a big impact on my life and I can’t really explain it. Kurt was truly a legend and rare. There’s a lot to take in about the whole situation. I enjoy your nirvana videos thank you for it!
I was 14 when Kurt died, it was hard they were my stepping stone to grunge, rock and metal who evolved in to nu metal and now deathcore. I had this concert on VHS :D
Yeah, Kurt's Martin guitar has electric pickups, so he presses a pedal to switch between electric and acoustic. Love your reactions to Nirvana. Would love to see you react to Come As You Are Unplugged next. I love his voice in that. Or the Heart-Shaped Box music video (original, not the director's cut...but I like aspects of both). Cheers.
If i remember correctly, Kurt had to really fight to use the distortion since it was supposed to be unplugged, i remember watching this when it aired on MTV and thought it was an amazing set!
You should listen to the original version by David Bowie, then Midge Ure’s version and you can kind of take away different feelings from the same song. The original in the 70’s, Midge Ure’s in the 80’s then Nirvana’s in the 90’s all feel different while being the same song, and are all haunting in different ways
Kurt was in fact using an electro-acoustic guitar, he used a pedal to switch from clean to distortion. This song is in the key of C# minor, another famous piece in this same key is Beethoven's Moonlight sonata.
Yeah, Nirvana is always rough to hear nowadays. Back in the 90s when he was on top, he was utterly mesmerizing to watch and hear. I can’t relay how devastating his death was. I suppose I was 14 at the time I had nightmares for weeks afterward after his death. It’s funny, I never paid attention to the lyrics, back then it didn’t matter. It was the sound. To hear these reaction videos going into the lyrics to me is strange. I think it’s about the feeling he puts into the words and of course, his passing a few months later, that makes this song, particularly rough to listen to.
It's a Bowie song, Kurt sings it his way but David Bowie praised this cover and Kurt Cobain. It's a song about huge success twinned with substance use, which both of them experienced. RIP to them both ❤❤
I found realy neat to hear Dave Grohl say he would give up everything he has built to play with Nirvana again.He realy seemed to have loved his time with Nirvana
Kurt had already stopped playing Teen Spirit at shows. You can just feel Kurt knew this was a goodbye to the world. This was like a new album but recorded live. It is a masterpiece but very sad too. So emotional. Drugs got the best of him.
Cobain did what he wanted, even ending his life. With all the people around him, and Cobain himself, nobody cared what he was feeling. I’m sure Courtney Love was no help.
Yeah, a dark secret about guitar is that acoustic guitars can actually sound good sometimes when you add distortion. It doesn't seem to be talked about that much, even by guitarists. One problem, though, is that it's harder to control feedback because acoustic guitars tend to have more natural resonance than standard electric ones.
I think trying to interpret and guess Kurt's state of mind at a glance just from seeing this kind footage, is pointless, we all have millions of things on our minds at all times and in this case Kurt and the rest of the band were all more focused on the performance.
Real world fact... If kurt would have died a few years earlier. No one wouldve cared. He would have been considered another drug addict loser. Funny how fame changes things...
Kurt was in a lot of physical pain from chronic pancreatitis, as I understand things. I believe that's what drove him to heroin and been a large contributor to why he committed suicide. The other theory is Courtney Love had him murdered because he was going to leave her.
Prova a guardare quanto era lungo il fucile Che Mike Ciesynsky Trovò sul luogo del suicidio E la lunghezza delle braccia che avrebbe dovuto avere per spararsi
"I must have died alone; a long, long time ago"....You did😢
Kurt's guitar was an electric acoustic. From what I remember he wanted to use a particular amp that was his " Linus blanket". I think his melancholy appearance on this song was his nervousness because they messed it up a bunch of times in rehearsal.
Great David Bowie cover. I love the original, but I prefer to listen this version. So many little Kurt nuances like the yodel/vocal breaks. One of my favorite MTV Unplugged performances too.
Maybe the reason that guitar sounds so familiar is because its a David Bowie song.
I did not know this! Thanks! The original is so good!!
Gotta respectfully disagree on the electric guitar sound. I feel that it adds to the melancholy of Nirvanas cover. It felt as though that was the Nirvana “flavor” that made the song unique (along with Cobain’s particular vocals). I listen to all three versions of this song and idk which is better. They’re all great imo
The best guess that this song is about denying harsh reality of loneliness and nothingness with an either real or fake
excuse of him selling the world .which represents anyone's ambition to succeed on the expense of others
Kurt liked ambiguity in lyrics this is probably one of the reason he covered this song. Even though it's sad thinking of his passing I enjoyed that it felt he was always himself and had true love for music.
He loved Queen & David Bowie.
This and "all apologies" were the most played songs on the radio at the time.
Unplugged show is amazing, but sad at the same time. The set looked like a funeral. Where did you sleep last night is the most emotional performance ever. Kurt was in major drug withdrawals at the time.
“I was simply blown away when I found that Kurt Cobain liked my work, and have always wanted to talk to him about his reasons for covering ‘The Man Who Sold the World’” and that “it was a good straight forward rendition and sounded somehow very honest. It would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking with him would have been real cool.”
-David Bowie
This is months before he left us. One of the last real performances. And in several songs you really get a feel for where his headspace was at. This one and Where Did You Sleep Last Night are especially heartbreaking
Seriously? They played the West Coast leg of the In Utero tour and then half of the European leg before they canceled the tour, all *after* this performance. Yes, it was three or four months before he died, but they played hundreds of songs live in front of hundreds of thousands of people between this performance and his death.
This is about five months before he passed.
This was filmed November 18, 1993,we realized he had passed away April 5, 1994…
Passed? He committed suicide. Let’s not sugar coat things.
@@alexfilma16 do people not die/pass away when they commit suicide?
@@alexfilma16 sayin shit to say shit
@@alexfilma16 this is the most slow comment i think i have ever seen in my existence......u feeling alright
Love this song. Brings whole new emotions for me. One of my greatest loves❤. She loved this song. We grew up to Nirvana songs together. She passed. This n many other things are painful reminders of her...
Kurt died in the spring of 94 and the mtv unplugged was taped in november 93 so like 6 months
April 5th 1994 to be exact👍
I always think of this as having a melancholic resignation.
More Nirvana, please!! 🙏
Info section you said: "I highly suggest you listen to the original song" - it is a cover of David Bowie's song from 1970
I’ve been a nirvana fan since I was 6 years old. I’m 38 now. It’s a lot to take in when u watched them as a kid and how big they were at one time and then how they went away so fast. They truly had a big impact on my life and I can’t really explain it. Kurt was truly a legend and rare. There’s a lot to take in about the whole situation. I enjoy your nirvana videos thank you for it!
I was 14 when Kurt died, it was hard they were my stepping stone to grunge, rock and metal who evolved in to nu metal and now deathcore. I had this concert on VHS :D
Yeah. This was 18th November 1993 and he died on the 5th April 1994
Yeah, Kurt's Martin guitar has electric pickups, so he presses a pedal to switch between electric and acoustic. Love your reactions to Nirvana. Would love to see you react to Come As You Are Unplugged next. I love his voice in that. Or the Heart-Shaped Box music video (original, not the director's cut...but I like aspects of both). Cheers.
my favorite junkie!
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If i remember correctly, Kurt had to really fight to use the distortion since it was supposed to be unplugged, i remember watching this when it aired on MTV and thought it was an amazing set!
Kinda wish you'd watch this whole Unplugged set front to back. It was special ❤🤘
You should listen to the original version by David Bowie, then Midge Ure’s version and you can kind of take away different feelings from the same song.
The original in the 70’s, Midge Ure’s in the 80’s then Nirvana’s in the 90’s all feel different while being the same song, and are all haunting in different ways
that song was one of my favorite songs in metal gear phantom pain, it just fits so perfect to Big Boss & Venom Snake
I love the original version by David Bowie
Kurt was in fact using an electro-acoustic guitar, he used a pedal to switch from clean to distortion.
This song is in the key of C# minor, another famous piece in this same key is Beethoven's Moonlight sonata.
Yeah, Nirvana is always rough to hear nowadays. Back in the 90s when he was on top, he was utterly mesmerizing to watch and hear. I can’t relay how devastating his death was. I suppose I was 14 at the time I had nightmares for weeks afterward after his death. It’s funny, I never paid attention to the lyrics, back then it didn’t matter. It was the sound. To hear these reaction videos going into the lyrics to me is strange. I think it’s about the feeling he puts into the words and of course, his passing a few months later, that makes this song, particularly rough to listen to.
They do a live version that’s electric, it’s pretty good. It’s on the “Live and Loud” record, which has a live video recording. Good show.
A producer of the shower did in fact admit Kurt was using an amp and they disguised it pretty well
It's a Bowie song, Kurt sings it his way but David Bowie praised this cover and Kurt Cobain. It's a song about huge success twinned with substance use, which both of them experienced. RIP to them both ❤❤
I found realy neat to hear Dave Grohl say he would give up everything he has built to play with Nirvana again.He realy seemed to have loved his time with Nirvana
THANKS RACHAEL. This one really is a bit of mystery in terms of what the song is meant to be about
It's about satan
Now reacts to greta van fleet - when the curtain falls, greetings from argentina🇦🇷
Slash ft myles kennedy n the conspirator "anastasia"❤
Rolling Stones- Mixed Emotions
Awesome video.
Nice, I wanted to request this song on your twitch stream but I guess I don't need to anymore. HaHa, but it's such a good cover of David Bowie
Nirvana refused to play most of their big hits on this. Still produced one if the best mtv unplugged albums
Kurt had already stopped playing Teen Spirit at shows. You can just feel Kurt knew this was a goodbye to the world. This was like a new album but recorded live. It is a masterpiece but very sad too. So emotional. Drugs got the best of him.
Them and Alice in Chains.
I can only assume, from this reaction, that you HAVEN'T seen "Where did you sleep last night?" from this same unplugged performance?
Cobain did what he wanted, even ending his life. With all the people around him, and Cobain himself, nobody cared what he was feeling. I’m sure Courtney Love was no help.
Please react to Radiohead - Android Paranoid 😊
Yeah, a dark secret about guitar is that acoustic guitars can actually sound good sometimes when you add distortion. It doesn't seem to be talked about that much, even by guitarists. One problem, though, is that it's harder to control feedback because acoustic guitars tend to have more natural resonance than standard electric ones.
"tend to"😆
It's such a shame!
I grew up with Nirvana.
I think trying to interpret and guess Kurt's state of mind at a glance just from seeing this kind footage, is pointless, we all have millions of things on our minds at all times and in this case Kurt and the rest of the band were all more focused on the performance.
if you're a gamer you mightve heard it associated with Metal Gear Solid 5
Oh my god, you need to react to Joy Division though
Greatest Unplugged episode imo. Just captivating the whole episode.
Hios last concert
David Bowie favorit song
Real world fact... If kurt would have died a few years earlier. No one wouldve cared. He would have been considered another drug addict loser. Funny how fame changes things...
Hai mai visto
Murders by numbers
Con Sandra Bullock
Film 2002 Thriller Psicologico
Have you ever heard My Soul by Thrice?
10/10 youre beautiful
Kurt was in a lot of physical pain from chronic pancreatitis, as I understand things. I believe that's what drove him to heroin and been a large contributor to why he committed suicide. The other theory is Courtney Love had him murdered because he was going to leave her.
Yen - Slipnot, please
You made this a pretty depression reaction.
Folk ballad
Pennyroyal Tea
Kurt looks depressed on this but i dont think he was that depressed as people thinks.
This is Nirvana’s best song and they didn’t even write it
I should have jumped
out of place? how?
Kurt Cobain forever...
Your energy matches this video. Why? Not interested in watching someone barely get through a youtube video.
Things about it felt out of place???
Prova a guardare quanto era lungo il fucile
Che Mike Ciesynsky
Trovò sul luogo del suicidio
E la lunghezza delle braccia che avrebbe dovuto avere per spararsi
E in più si era appena fatto una
......
November Rain
Guns n' Roses
Don't cry
Guns n' Roses
please and me paleface swiss
That guitar out of place? You really need to listen to more music girl...
David Bowie wrote it, so I feel like his explanation is the only one that matters. He said it was about drug addiction.
I've never been a fan of them.
Hilarious 😂
@@christopherking4932 why is that funny?
@@macusermdm I'm pretty sure you can figure it out 🤣😂😏
@@christopherking4932 sorry, the only thing I can figure out is that you love the laughing emoji a bit too much.
@@macusermdm I use to think that Dave Chappelle is the greatest comedian of all time but now I believe it's gotta be you. 🤣🤣🤣😘🥵👅👑