Nirvana - Lithium (Live at Reading 1992)
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2009
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Music video by Nirvana performing Lithium. (C) 2009 Geffen Records
Me: Mom I'm on a band.
Mom: ohh really? What's your role?
Me I jump around
Only the guy who's jumping around is playing the distortion
Nevermind
😆😆
The Evangelicals stole this guys dance moves
They guys called pat smear
The guy dancing on stage with this great music blasting right in his face must have the most amazing feeling ever!
ear plugs
Jorge el cholo You can feel music in more than just your ears.
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RebelThoughts82 The stage is generally the quietest place.
RebelThoughts82 ThinkSmallOrBig Yea i can agree that as a stage musician. Me and my band were afraid to put up the volume since it would effect us. But in the first song it was so quiet i stopped the song and put the master volume up.
this has to be one of the best performances of Lithium ever
I am force to agree
this performance makes lithium a 10/10 for me everything that was good about lithium in the nevermind version becomes a greater version than its studio version
I was there!!!!
@@mattjammy9884 Nice
no its not
I was there. It was something I'll remember until I die.
So lucky dude, i feel so jealous
Wish I was you
You are so lucky. Congratulations! Greetings from Argentina.
Lucky
im so jealous of you...ur incredibly lucky
Lithium is the perfect song to start off the day.
dolphinmeat or to end it
@@guycroxford8192 :-)
@@guycroxford8192 I see what you did there, nice one ;)
Are you a Hutu or a Tutsi? that’s the point, lithium is a bipolar medicine
Start and end depending on the dosage
Teacher: what do you want to be when you’re older?
Me: probably a random guy on stage moshing to Nirvana.
Daniel Ward they should of hit him a thing with that hip scotch game to jump on but that’s funny
Too bad that's not an option anymore...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That's not moshing
His name was Dancing Tony. He appears in a lot of Nirvana's live stuff.
Imagine yourself in a stage with a guitar while thousands of people singing your song..... Damn, just imagine that
yeet - Millions sang his songs, but that didn't help him much...
@@pit2ryan3 imagine singing a song that people scream their heart! but you don't feel it at all
@@ipi223 - So you have to sing it bad, haven't you?
@@pit2ryan3 if you don t feel something don t do it
@@ipi223 - Great tip ipi223, hope to be able to take it into consideration, cheers!
Can we take the time to appreciate Krist on bass - such a good player. Solid from start to finish. Never let the band down at all.
Hes a monster and was just simply and happily overshadowed by 2 generational talents. This guy in the 90s was almost 7 foot tall, a giant man with huge hands and a big heart and personality and those characteristics shone through his playing, which is basically unmistakable like his bandmates.
@@SlowerRiot Krist is such a wonderful person. He didn’t deserve to lose his best friend the way he did
He was the anchor and a true friend to Kurt in every sense of the word. It’s always been apparent that a piece of him died along with his band mate.
Frrr
true-ish statement. krist is a filthy bassist, if you just try and zone in on him, he is fantastic @@SlowerRiot
You know a song is full when it makes you feel depressed when you're depressed and happier when your happy
hit the nail on the head with that
Personally this song never makes me feel depressed. It's one of those songs which makes me feel better if im feeling down.
antroidi you mean when you're down is up?
This is a gold comment!
word
Love the crowd singing along. This is the perfect performance of this song
Same like in brazil concert
I was there 😀😀😀😀😀 19 years old right in the thick of it Reading 92 will forever be etched in my memory
@@onechopbuddy3849 omfg
British audiences are amazing
My favourite
Hearing all them people singing in the background is giving me goosebumps it’s actually incredible and you can tell that year and generation was the best! It was all about the music!
of course
Thanks I was one of those voices🤘
@@neilmcgarrity178wow you are so lucky
@@neilmcgarrity178 Hell yeah
@@neilmcgarrity178YEEEE🎉
I’m from Seattle, saw them at the Seattle center in 1988! Concert was free, they’re still timeless 💜
We are learning about atoms in school and every time the teacher mentions Lithium (a LOT), it reminds me of this song and it plays in my head for a couple minutes
Same. I told her that and my science teacher had no idea what I was talking about.
If your teacher made you remember it was number 3 on the atomic chart, just think nirvana had 3 albums.
lithium is an element
ajaxgotpwnd And an anti depression drug
My freshman year in HS (last year lol) science teacher is 68, 69 now I guess lol but she's shared so many stories from the Cold War era and we ask her about bands and whatnot and she remembers The Beatles (when she was a teenager) and Nirvana, but she was an adult during Nirvana's era so she didn't really listen to them but she remembered all the hype. Pretty cool. She told us about how during the Cold War era, and the Cuban missile crisis, people thought the soviets were gonna nuke us (I live in Rhode Island USA btw) and they thought the world was gonna end litterally...scary time but interesting. My favorite era in history.
Imagine Kurt just walks uo to you on the street and says "Ill pay you to go on tour with my band. All you have to do is rock out on stage"
Killer__Rage id pay him
I'd ask if he was high or some shit
f**k ill do it free of charge!!!
Me: ...
Kurt: "free drugs"
Bruh that's Dancing Tony
Simple riffs. Haunting vocals and catchy melodies.
Nirvana were great
I prefer the live performances of Nirvana WAY more than the studio versions. The amount of raw unfiltered energy you can feel from their live performances is unparalleled.
Same, except “smells like teen spirit” i just don't like the live versions of it, especially the fact that kurt switches the word “group” for “tribe”.
@@SkidMarkOfficiaIkurt would intentionally butcher teen spirits on lives as he hated it bc it was the most "famous" song in the band and would shadow other songs
@@ringo5721 and even in the studio version of the song i agree with kurt, it became repetitive, there is a limited number of times that u can play it until it becomes anoying
Explosion of pure art❤ kurt Legend foreva
The guy in the middle is living the dream
CKG He is my inspiration
I thought he was gonna knee himself in the head.
I think his name is tony but I'm not sure
Can anyone tell me where is he now?
a medical prankster. :)
The way that the public sings with kurt make it like an angelical song
+ElPrimoBenja man i no that my favorite part of the show when the crowed sings lithium with him give me shivers
It'd be a beautiful thing if I had been there, beautiful music surrounding my soul, shaking my core, as we sing like a family. Sadly I wasn't born yet lol
TALKINGtac0 yeah i no what your saying, how ever i was born in 1990 tho so i was alive but far form old enough to going to a show lol didnt even know of nirvana till i was like 10 or so maybe older, how ever i do remember when i was small there was this song that was always on the radio and i loved the opening riff and it stuck with me forever untill i was older and my buddy came over and was playing my guitar that i barely could play at the time and played smells like teen spirit riff and i was like "WAIT.... WAIT.... what song is that! " and hes like smells like teen spirit by nirvana and that was the start of it aoways new there was this dope band out there and i loved that sound and riff but couldnt figure out who it was or the song name untill he played it fell in love with the band almost immediately
+CHUCKYLOSTIT Nirvana has the power to change many people's lives in many different ways. Few bands can do that. It changed my life. Before, I just listened to and played music (I only played piano) to relax, and move on to another world for a little while. But when I heard Nirvana, evertthing changed. They inspired me to play the guitar, the first full song of theirs that I played was Lithium. I also began to consider music as a possible career. I started taking my guitar to school, playin gn at lunch. Now, music was not just a temporary escape. No... now it was a way of life, it took a tenacious grip of my heart. I breathe music now. My past self would not understand what I'm talking about if weren't for Nirvana. Nirvana literally changed my whole life.
+CHUCKYLOSTIT I can't let go of my guitar now. It literally hurts lol
Just discovered Nirvana and I cannot get enough, what a band .. RIP Kurt 🙏🏻
Keep discovering more songs, you will love them.
My Favorite song is radio friendly unit shifter
Check out "Do Re Mi (Home Demo)" by them, last song he wrote
Get a guitar and play. It’s easy.
Welcome to the club
The crowd was so lit! Definitely the best lithium live performance
MTV VMAs are a close second
Instead of complaining about how broken modern music is, pick up an instrument and fix it
*_This_*
or put more effort into finding good music instead of listening to only the most popular shit
EXACTLY
Callum 246 that’s the plan
im working on it mate
Who else envies all these people who got to see the band live?
ses S Awwwh that’s so sweet!!
No I just feel happy for them tbh
I wasn't even alive... But whatever
@@Kevin-it4fh I was there, as a wide-eyed 17 yr old It was f*cking fab, as i sort-of remember as i was well gone by the time they played. Don't recall any Porto-shitter incidents though lol....
@@01782644468 lol, that's good for you man. At least you got to experience it
Hearing Cobain and the crowd singing together it's just beautiful
It's sounds amazing with thousands of people singing with him
You know you've made it when the crowd is singing along with you.
Yes you so do know that you have made it when crowd is singing along with you. Very well put and cheer for band and give it large at the beginning of concert. Maedbh ❤️
i hate that he suicides 2 years later
Not when you are a coverband
Friday night... 12:32am.... watching old Nirvana concerts, eating chips and loving life.
same here lol
And drink a beer! :)
Glass of wine relaxing
That's basically my life 😂
Nikki B this chips for u.. for Kurt
Krist on bass sounds unreal on this performance, I love the tone so much
*This song is forever. If you're a fan of this song, you'll never forget it*
UA-cam! The best time machine around!
Darren Claxton absolutly
Tienes toda la razón ... no hay por el momento otro lugar donde encontrar tus videos del recuerdo
Darren Claxton ❤️❤️❤️❤️
We both did kind sir. I call you that because thats me
The best time machine until it's cancelled by corporations.
Can’t believe this was happening before I was even born. Feel like I missed out big time
You will never understand the golden age when we were then and there, it's like a total different life experience
My God, it was glorious...
@@MARKINAU8 the 90's for me were - raves, concerts, gigs, parties, raves, concerts, gigs, parties, raves, concerts, gigs, parties... and a bit of college!
A couple other unbelievable things happened before you were born, but if you celebrate them like this here, you're blessed anyways.
@@stuartgoswell1193 And lot of sex and soccer
When you get to a gig by the skin of your teeth, this was one of them. That's a story in itself. So glad I saw Nirvana live.
This performance of Lithium is fxcking PERFECTION!!!!! Their live show is amazing
So cool that Anthony Kiedis joined in to dance on stage
Krist looks like a total badass here
right??
ahah Kris always been the man xD
he should have kept his long hair.
@@thebootywarrior1308 he would have lost it anyways
What do you do for a living?
I travel around and jump on stage for Nirvana when they play Live!
Dream job
tap22 not just lithium, all the songs on the set
yup
Probably didn't get much though, Courtney love probably took 90 percent of his pay too (you may understand the joke if you're informed on the royalty bullshit she pulled on Nevermind)
tap22 /Actor
Love how the crowd is singing along that’s amazing 🤩
UK crowds do it the best
Dancing Tony probably had the best work ever existed
3:01
as a 17 year old I can say I absolutely love this and wish I was around for this music, rip kurt
@@adambutta188 wow
@@adambutta188 you stole his thunder
you are blessed with good taste then! :)
@@hashem5957 bvbbbjkllkklo
Bless you young people. This is my gospel. I'm 38. Kurt is amazing. Go listen to "where to did you sleep last night". His pleading screaming is hauntingly beautiful.
I love the fact that he didn't stop singing or did that douchey move of pointing the microphone at the audience just because they started to sing the lyrics
+boo boo true as fuck
he couldnt move the mic he was holding his guitar
jazzblaster some people manage to do so i've seen it a hundred times
+boo boo Got that right
+Samuel Gonzalez exactly people came to fucking see him sing not hear the audience sing
Damn! That Bass tone is killer!
Love the part at 3:19 it looks like all those thousand of voices are all coming from Kurt.
Right there. Right fucking there. When the whole crowd starts singing with Him. That the must be the most euphoric feeling ever. It brings a tear to my eye.
so true !
Anastasia Kelly I highly doubt it mats you sound like an edegy 7 year old
Anastasia Kelly It's a joke I just don't like when people do cool things and I don't get to
Anastasia Kelly it is.
Anastasia Kelly you haven't tried heroin
I love when everybody sings along with him
It would be rude not to
+BlackDiamond1774 damn it, i would have sang. damn it.
+BlackDiamond1774 Kurt only liked it when the public who singed along showed signs who undertsood what he said.
Me too! You should watch green day doing boulevard of broken dreams at reading in 2013. I'm not a fan of green day but the crowd reaction is unbelievable
+joe foley Too right man on that one Green Day's reading 2013 was brill
This band singlehandedly kept actual, good rock music afloat from the mid 90's until today. As a rock listener, their albums have been unusually solid with an amazing 1-3 hits per release. They did great guitar and drum music during the shitty late 90's modern rock era, the shitty Metallica 2000's, mallcore and Nu Metal garbage, and up to this day. You have bands like the Killers and Black Keys taking up their own reigns in the genre, but Nirvana have created a seamless blend of punk roots, 90's indie rock and early 80's Nirvana successfully created a kingdom for themselves that defined a generation of guitar music that I'd feel proud to expose my kid to. Dave was and still incredibly under-rated. -Thanks nirvana, I wish you were still here.
God dam right 👍
In 8th grade at a Catholic school a few friends & I convinced the school to do a talent show. They made us call this song Happy instead of Lithium. They tried stopping us on the "I kill you" line but it was sure fun watching a few nuns trying to stop the feedback in a gym when I walked off with the guitar leaning on the amp. We had to turn in lyrics prior but I'm pretty sure they didn't read past "cause I found god".
That’s awesome, Any video of the performance?
@@aggym503 Not that I know of. That was over 25yrs ago before everyone had a camera on their phone.
No cellphones, no playback, no choreographs. Just pure talent and honest fans.
And a dancing Tony 😉
1992 ...
There were no cellphones because it was 1992....
Well I mean, In Come As You Are I'm pretty sure Kurt used a backing track but ok.
I don't see how recording a moment you want to relive makes you a dishonest fan.
my favourite version of lithium
Alvs Notes yeaah 😍
Alvs Notes agree 100% m8!.
don't wanna ruin thouse 69 likes
Agreed. They are timeless. Nirvana has to be spoken in the same sentence as Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. They ushered in and defined an era (whether they wanted to or not)
Alvs Notes
My favorite version of Lithium is the one from Johnathan Ross show 😂
It was just a normal saturday night in my hometown. Go to the pub, drink, go to the club, take pills, get fucked up. Sister knocks on my door at 10am "wanna go and see Nirvana at Reading?" no i just wanna sleep for a thousand years. Missed the best gig ever. My sister loved it. Reading 92 is my favourite Nirvana gig.
I don’t think any of them expected the crowd to sing along like that. It was such a beautiful moment, I cry every time 🥺
I know Dave always did. He says it now, its his best part of a show when the crowd sings the songs. And I feel he really means it.
Love this bassline of this song so much.
Man you could just tell Kurt put his heart into music with the effort he puts in here, insane
+John Uskglass Truth brother!! He acted on what people wanted to see.
He’s putting his jaw into it too
coke, MDMA few things that'll make your jaw swing haha
Kirk Purdy yes he actually tried when the crowd got into it
Is there just a random guy losing his shit in the middle of the band? I'm high right now and feel like I'm the only once seeing this.
No that's dancing Tony he's been dancing for them since 1990 he's been in Leeds polytechnic 1990 and reading 1991
that is dancing tony
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hodgkinson
So many people know about tony dancer that you are the stranger here, not the sulfur discoverer.
I think that dude did that their entire set. Drugs and endurance!
For guitar players only. This is the only concert ever where he played the intro and whole first verse with the sliding into the d5 power chords before switching to the cheater d sus in the chorus and second verse. Makes this version that much more unique.
People say Kurt wrote hooky melodies and what not, but man, not enough credit is given to Krist. Those baselines really catchy.
Correct me if im wrong but i think Kurt wrote the bass lines too.
Krist is a great bassist, though, thats for sure.
I think kurt wrote those too.
I agree
Krist is vastly underrated. Totally agree, really great, hooky basslines. Melodic, almost beatle-esque. Kurt and eventually Dave Grohl were more popular, but he was key in that band. Apparently he was the one who came up with the final Teen Spirit arrangement when Kurt brought the riff to rehearsal (all of them co-wrote the track).
Kurt wrote some of them but Krist wrote most of them. He also said, "I learned everything Paul McCartney."
"can't wait to meet you there..." We feel the same way, Kurt.
I love how the whole crowd is singing to this!
that bass sound man, love. it.
this band was and still is AWESOME
Nirvana should have made that dancing guy an official member of the band lol
He is. Dancing Tony is a Nirvana member
Its a girl actually
he is the one who wrote all of their songs
@@fanceapa6355 true
@@LiamgamingYT It's a guy
This has got to be the ONLY live Nirvana video out there where you can actually hear the crowd singing along! This is amazing! Really makes it feel like you’re there
It legit sounds like an army was out there singing Lithium
You can kinda hear the audience in his performance of Teen Spirit in the same show which makes sense considering it’s his most popular song. I think the distorted guitar and the intensity drowns a lot of it out
Also it’s kinda hard to understand and learn the lyrics compared to Lithium considering you just can’t look them up compared to today.
Thanks to the film maker, uploader & UA-cam for me being able to watch this as if I’m really there.
Legendary band
Reason why we need time machines
o M absolutely man
youtube is a time machine
We're currently building it, man. We all gonna go back time.
when i get a time machine that concert is the first thing i visit
o M if I had a time machine I'd stop Courtney love from killing him
can't wait to meet you either, buddy. till then, R.I.P.
I remember it being 2012. I was born in 2000. My older brother showed me Nirvana and I became obsessed. I found this a bit later and showed my Mom, who still recalls where she was when Kurt died. Her and I were dead silent until I quietly asked, "can you hear-" and she cut me off with awh, "the crowd singing along?" Amazing. I love you, Kurt.
Here I am. 2022 crying for a friend who's favorite song was Lithium. RIP Sierra
This is probably the best live of any songs i've heard. Got me through the toughest times of COVID
0:22 50,001 people singing all at the same time..magical
Mr.UA-cam you know most of the people have same rhythm feeling
@Gengar Phantom '92 man.
I was born in 1942. My grandson said this is what the cool people listen to.
then you must be cool! ( :
My mom was born in 1947. She loved Nirvana so much we actually buried her in her Kurt Cobain t-shirt. :D
Haaaa, thanks! The moral of this story- "age ain't no thang". :)
He'd be correct.
This is so cute :)
It must have made Kurt feel amazing to hear all the people singing along with his lyrics
I grew up in elementary school, junior high and high school listening to Nirvana
The very first rock song I ever heard was smells like teen spirit when I was a kid, I remember listening to nevermind on CD over and over during my childhood in the 90s
i was always mystified by how one man could form songs like this intense and deep in meaning
We miss you Kurt.
it literally makes me cry hearing the crowd sing with him
The bass riff from 2:42 is just mind blowingly awesome
It had been playing since like 30 seconds in you just couldn't hear it.
@@variklane7032 not in any substantial way.
Krist and Dave are putting up a hell of a rhythm. It’s amazing
Hearing the crowd makes this version 10 times better!
i could listen to that intro for years.
Can't go through a single day without listening to at least one song by Nirvana
Wesley same
Wesley same
Wesley same
Wesley same
Wesley U damn right
The way the crowd starts to sing with him just omg
No matter how much time passes, Nirvana's songs will always be good
At 2:43 he almost smiles, but an awkward smirk was all that came out.
Beautiful performance. The crowd singing along, and for a hard rock song, it's done very elegantly, smoothly, and leaves a lasting impact and legacy; think whatever you want, but Nirvana are legends. The music plays on and on, forever. "I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends, they're in my head."
+FunnyVideoMaker77 Very true. You put it well!
FunnyVideoMaker77. BC. Wax UN
NEW YORK SPORTS FAN fcccvv. Fx
NEW YORK SPORTS FAN Yes!!!
I love when a crowd sings along, must be the best feeling ever for a band to hear the appreciation and passion sung back to them, NIRVANA are forever. Yeeaaaaah yeeeaaaaaaahh
i love how the crowd just starts singing along with kurt that was amazing
Instant goosebumps when the crowd started singing back! :')
I’m 63, it’s 2021 and these guys sound fucking great.
the people in that crowd dont know how lucky they are
McCaroni they do now
It was mental. Gf lost her shoes in the crush
RIP GENTLE SOUL KURT, U R SORELY MISSED MY FRIEND.................................
yep
VEGASGIRL RIP your caps lock button dude. Caps just make a comment look wierd.
but u spelled 'weird' weird, so thats weird
true
This performance is so beautiful because it feels real, I feel the black star, I feel the falling sky, I feel that satellite it's so raw and it feels like thom is going through it as he sings the song, Gorgeous
this song is so good they named an element after it
If I was able to go back in time I would go back just to see nirvana live, sucks being born in 1999
I was also born in 99, and it only sucks because people don't have ambition. We need to be the change!
Me and you both need to go back! I would be screaming in the crowd!
Yeah, sucks being born in 98... Missed out on being able to see a ton of great music live... Nothing is even close today :/
2000 here. Being here woulda been just phenomenal. And it was just 8 years earlier...think about it that's pretty short..8 years ago today it was 2007 and it seems far yet close
Go see royal blood live it's pretty phenomenal
For me, this 4 minutes and 27 seconds of sound was the best ever produced.
You've clearly never heard "lucky charms" by biz markie then
+Captain Doob he literally said "for me"
This is the only performance that has made me shed a tear it was so beautiful and emotional I loved all of it. Thank you so much Nirvana.
3:00 When you walk in the house drunk, but still trying to stay quiet 😂
I like the live version better than the studio version. Anyone else?
if its nirvana ... live is always the way to go !!
I like the live version better too
For me it is the best show they did and the best version of this music.
I was born 1991 and I love Nirvana. Now it's 2016 I'm still listening to it. And gonna die listening to Nirvana.
He sound's mad at the whole world, everyone and everything!!!
Perhaps even himself!
That may even be true. Doesnt make it less powerful
Everyone singing along; the voice of our generation. Thanks for the music, Kurt.
This song makes me euphoric and melancholic at the same time, it’s beautiful. No other song like it. Still my favourite Nirvana song
I love how Kurt pretty much re learned half of the songs from this set 5 seconds before he started the song lol
Stewart Ross Same dude!
Because the tune of the guitar?
Because he practices the riff before each song.
Kurt Asa Yeah I notice it, it's because for nevermind the tune was standard and Kurt decided to low the tune to be because that way he don't get that tired
In Nevermind it was mostly E. Come As You Are, Lithium, and Drain you were in D standard. On a Plain was Drop D.
That voice... Nothing quite like it still to this day.
Hands down the best gig nirvana played. And given that nirvana were probably the best band ever this is very likely the greatest gig in history.
This video quality is still good in 2016.
ikr
It's remastered.
They put visual effects to make it look MUCH better
it does, but live at the Paramount is still the best looking nirvana concert
Mostly in comparison to the autotune and lipsinging of today
Baseline rocks....props to krist its always the understated guy who really is the glue of the band....
i like to think in this moment kurt felt happiness. that he got to live out his ultimate dreams as a musician and as a rock star knowing without a doubt this performance would make himself and his music immortal.
I got massive goosebumps when I watched this for first time on that "Live! Tonight! Sold Out!" VHS tape all those years ago. I still get massive goosebumps as I'm watching it now. I can only imagine how it feels like to be in the crowd and singing along with Nirvana.