Yup. Song is about ultimate sorrow. The fact Kurt took his life a few months after this performance tells you where his mind was at. At one point he even says it out loud, when he whispers- “Sing this for me”. That last part where he takes a deep breath and opens his eyes before singing the last line, you can see into his soul.
As someone who was trying to get a band together back in the day, believe me, there weren't too many singers who didn't wish they could sing like Kurt. It wasn't just growling or screaming like you hear in a lot of heavy metal, but there was actual music to it. He could hit notes while sounding like that. Crazy powerful. Like raw country/folk music from hell. They had a lot of happy, upbeat songs too. Anything off Never Mind is good. "About a Girl", "Lithium", "Breed", "Drain You", "Sliver", "Lounge Act", "You Know You're Right" are some of my favorites.
If you enjoyed Kurts voice in this, you will love, Love, LOVE Layne(Alice in Chains) in "Love, Hate, Love"....you have to watch the live version!! It's a MUST reaction.
This is my favourite Nirvana performance EVER! I was so pleased when 'Nirvana Unplugged' was released as an album. This is IMO the best song on there, even though it was a cover - Kurt's voice & charisma took it to a whole new level - the way he gasped & looked up in the last line - haunting, brings me to tears every time. Kurt was a gentle but troubled soul who hated fame; I was deeply affected by his tragic death, but what a wonderful legacy he left us........I wish he'd got to see his daughter grow up. R.I.P. Kurt Cobain 💔 PS the song is over 100 years old - recorded under different titles including 'In The Pines' and 'Black Girl' - Leadbelly recorded it in the 1940's. I think it will always be Kurt's song now due to this performance 🖤
Remember, this is the only MTV Unplugged at the time where the band played the whole set in one take, no editing or redoing anything.. honestly this is one of the best live performances ever recorded in my opinion and Kurt was going through fuckin heroin withdrawal.. insane.
hola soy de chile siempre tuvimos la esperanza que viniera nirvana a tocar a mi pais pero no fue pero nirvana seguira en nuestros corazones y su letras tendran mucha importancia en generaciones saludos
Read all the lyrics, the ladies husband was murdered, his severed head was found but not his body !! This was a remake of an old Delta blues song from the 1930's
This song is a very old one , first covered by Delta Bluesman Leadbelly in the 30's . I remember it from my Granddaddy who was a Bluegrass fan , I think it was covered by Bill Monroe back in the 40's or 50's .
Wow...zoom ...bang....this song was written by Ledbetter in the 1930s...i see someone told u what its about...he sould had rapped it i guess ...arent i a stinker
The saddest part is...this was a direct question to his wife this night, not so much a song for us. He knew she was cheating on him, even the nanny looking after his daughter had slept with her.
oh my gosh, you paused it at the exact wrong time! and then you paused it again! during the best part where you are getting shivers from his voice. really? I agree with your assessment but your pausing was surprisingly ill timed.
@@mikeblanchard7579 I just don’t understand this trend...this is a common comment made on other reactions to this song...it’s ignorant. You can literally google the date of the concert and the date of his death. If you’re online watching UA-cam, you can search dates. Heck, you could just stay on UA-cam and figure it out.
You're thinking of "The Man Who Sold the World", which Nirvana also covered for this concert. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is an old blues song, and there are versions of it that date back to the 1870s
He wants to know where she slept so he can go kill the man she slept with. It’s foreshadowed in the lyrics when he sings about how her husband was killed. The singer killed her husband so they could be together. That’s why he screams the last chorus. He is in a murderous rage.
This song is actually about a father searching for his daughter who hung herself out in the woods after her husband was killed by a train.
I'm gonna have to look into this song a little more. I've been getting different versions of the backstory.
@@kailamay2278 It's a very old folk song from the south.
Yup. Song is about ultimate sorrow. The fact Kurt took his life a few months after this performance tells you where his mind was at. At one point he even says it out loud, when he whispers- “Sing this for me”. That last part where he takes a deep breath and opens his eyes before singing the last line, you can see into his soul.
As someone who was trying to get a band together back in the day, believe me, there weren't too many singers who didn't wish they could sing like Kurt. It wasn't just growling or screaming like you hear in a lot of heavy metal, but there was actual music to it. He could hit notes while sounding like that. Crazy powerful. Like raw country/folk music from hell. They had a lot of happy, upbeat songs too. Anything off Never Mind is good. "About a Girl", "Lithium", "Breed", "Drain You", "Sliver", "Lounge Act", "You Know You're Right" are some of my favorites.
He was soo talented!!!
One of the best performances ever! Kurts so Charasmatic, and it's so raw real and screams of desperation!!! Died five months later
His voice does sounds raw and I just eat up every word.
An old tune notably done by LeadBelly. It's amazing to hear his 1944 version I highly recommend it. Such a dark story with dark lyrics.
Yep, what's crazy is I guess it isn't known who originally wrote the song, its been around a long time.
Greatest unplugged album ever made.
A classic song. Kurt had this talent of using lyrics from others and making them mean new things.. beyond talented.
If you enjoyed Kurts voice in this, you will love, Love, LOVE Layne(Alice in Chains) in "Love, Hate, Love"....you have to watch the live version!! It's a MUST reaction.
This is my favourite Nirvana performance EVER! I was so pleased when 'Nirvana Unplugged' was released as an album. This is IMO the best song on there, even though it was a cover - Kurt's voice & charisma took it to a whole new level - the way he gasped & looked up in the last line - haunting, brings me to tears every time. Kurt was a gentle but troubled soul who hated fame; I was deeply affected by his tragic death, but what a wonderful legacy he left us........I wish he'd got to see his daughter grow up. R.I.P. Kurt Cobain 💔
PS the song is over 100 years old - recorded under different titles including 'In The Pines' and 'Black Girl' - Leadbelly recorded it in the 1940's. I think it will always be Kurt's song now due to this performance 🖤
Sad. Poor guy! Such a shame to lose someone so talented!
Remember, this is the only MTV Unplugged at the time where the band played the whole set in one take, no editing or redoing anything.. honestly this is one of the best live performances ever recorded in my opinion and Kurt was going through fuckin heroin withdrawal.. insane.
So much respect and admiration for Kurt. Loved by the world but nobody to call a friend. Everybody used him...
RIP Kurt
For more of the unplugged series I'd vote for Stone Temple Pilots-Plush or Alice in Chains - Rooster next
Please react to a live performance of Nirvanas “lithium”. Or his music video for “heart shaped box”
In Bloom too
Pennyroyal tea also
I love Nirvana, beautiful song, beautiful reaction, beautiful face😊
Thanks love
Great song 🤘🏻🔥
hola soy de chile siempre tuvimos la esperanza que viniera nirvana a tocar a mi pais pero no fue pero nirvana seguira en nuestros corazones y su letras tendran mucha importancia en generaciones saludos
de nuevo te doy gracias por reacionar a nirvana
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@@kailamay2278 I guess last year they didn't have the translate icon?
Great reaction vid. You should check the song "oh me" from the same concert. Another good song. New fan from Sydney, Australia. Rob
Thanks love
Last night me and a former girlfriend decided to sleep on a water bed but we kept on drifting apart
I love that when she paused to talk about the song she glossed over the fact that girl's husband was decapitated.
Read all the lyrics, the ladies husband was murdered, his severed head was found but not his body !!
This was a remake of an old Delta blues song from the 1930's
That's crazy! I had no idea.
Keep reactin' Kai 👏👏👏
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Awesome song, awesome reaction
Thank you
This song is a very old one , first covered by Delta Bluesman Leadbelly in the 30's . I remember it from my Granddaddy who was a Bluegrass fan , I think it was covered by Bill Monroe back in the 40's or 50's .
I had no idea it was a cover.
@@kailamay2278 even the version in the 40s was a cover, nobody knows who wrote this song or when they wrote it.
All that joking around about Lead Belly’s guitar available for $500k...the guitar Kurt played here sold for $6 million.
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Dang girl look at you!
I luv how she paused it half a second b4 arguably the greatest rock moment in TV history. I think maybe just react to kpop sweety.
When MTV was good....
Its a cover from a folk song where the mans wife possibly murdered someone
I thought he wrote it
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box (198M views)
Love kurt ❤️
More nirvana please
Wow...zoom ...bang....this song was written by Ledbetter in the 1930s...i see someone told u what its about...he sould had rapped it i guess
...arent i a stinker
Yes plz do some TOOL-; LATERALUS or FORTY SIX & 2.
I wonder what tuning he’s using on this.
Drop d
@@mikeblanchard7579 Thanks, that helps me out.
Love Kurt cobain
He was soooo talented!
Michael Jackson Billie Jean? Você pode reagir?🇧🇷
Oh and i would had loved to hear someone call him a artist ...he would of said a artist is someone who cant draw or play
Do a Danish band called dizzy mizz lizzy with there song silverflame
Thanks for the suggestion love
Please react to nirvana-drain you (studio version).. i dedicate this song to you lady 😘
Thanks love! I'll check it out!
The saddest part is...this was a direct question to his wife this night, not so much a song for us. He knew she was cheating on him, even the nanny looking after his daughter had slept with her.
That's sad!! Poor guy!
Saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴... Sugerencias... Reacciiona a soda stereo, Pink floyd, Metallica 🤘🏼😁
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Kurt cobain the best
check out leadbellys original
You know curt did not write this song right?
No I didnt know that.
He committed suicide after this ...he set the stage up as a funeral
Rip Kurt Cobain!
Hi...... I'm cover too...... Did you hear from Asian tone ok🌹
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@@kailamay2278 I'm sing this also in my channel.. Just for fun... Thanks
oh my gosh, you paused it at the exact wrong time! and then you paused it again! during the best part where you are getting shivers from his voice. really? I agree with your assessment but your pausing was surprisingly ill timed.
Check out Tyler Childers please you’ll love it
Cival War Guns n Roses :)
congratulations, you screw the last verse hahhahahahahaha
Oh no! Did I stop it too soon? There was another verse? 🤦♀️
Rip
Crazy part is he was dead in less than a month
What ya mean? This concert was November 93, he died april 94....do the math
@@mikeblanchard7579 I just don’t understand this trend...this is a common comment made on other reactions to this song...it’s ignorant. You can literally google the date of the concert and the date of his death. If you’re online watching UA-cam, you can search dates. Heck, you could just stay on UA-cam and figure it out.
@@GhostDrummer I know right....there next big show was live and loud which was 3 weeks after this concert....some people are just brain dead I guess
He said he wanted to do an album of Leadbelly covers
@@dallascoug and that has to do with this conversation how?
I believe this is a David bowie song..."smells like teen spirit" would have been a better choice imo
It's actually an old blues Singer. Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter.
It is a Leadbelly song. He is a famous blues artist from Mississippi, and the song is actually called "In the Pines".
You're thinking of "The Man Who Sold the World", which Nirvana also covered for this concert. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is an old blues song, and there are versions of it that date back to the 1870s
Lead Belly brought it to prominence, it is an old southern folk song.
He wants to know where she slept so he can go kill the man she slept with. It’s foreshadowed in the lyrics when he sings about how her husband was killed. The singer killed her husband so they could be together. That’s why he screams the last chorus. He is in a murderous rage.
It's dark but still a good track
@@kailamay2278 I love Nirvana! I love their version of this song!
This is a man's pain and you act like it's a movie?
Обламала весь кайф желаю тебе такого же. Ставлю дизлайк
You’re clueless
2:36 😂😂😂😂😂 the way she reads it.....but she seeems cute so who cares lol
5:18 if u promise NEVER to do that again I will send you 1 billion dollars (over the course of 10 billion years)