he did a few songs that night that were totally cool and showed us another side. his songs with the meat puppets were really cool, too. plateau, oh me, lake of fire
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Definitely. The cover of Lead Belly, Where did you sleep last night is one of my favorite songs!
original, for those who haven't heard it:
That would work nicely as its own post....
I really liked, and still listen to, the album 'too high to die'.
It's a good album that is solidly written and produced.
But, the original versions of the songs Kurt covered on the unplugged sessions ... suck pretty hard. It always leaves me in awe of how he could hear something more graceful in those songs.
But where did you sleep last night/in the pines is the best version of any cover song ever made. Specifically, the breath and look up to the heavens after the gutteral soul crushing screaming of shiver into the last words he would ever sing....
Fuck.
1993, and i can still remember exactly the moment you mention. wow.
also, it just occurred to me that i've never actually listened to the meat puppets' original versions of the songs he did. wow.
edit - just listened to the meat puppets to lake of fire. um, kurt definitely did it better..
I was lukewarm about nirvana until the unplugged show. It made me hear them in a new way that clicked for me, where they hadn't previously.
MTV Unplugged did good things for some artists. i also love the alice in chains concert. but then Lauryn Hill happened. that was sad.
I remember hoping some big name metal bands would go on the show.
yeah, um, they tried that.. it didn't go so well
Oh god. I was thinking more Metallica or Megadeth, or even a metal-adjacent hard rock Guns and Roses, something more on the old side of the great metal/nu-metal divide.
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Listening now this is unpleasant
i sent you the link, so now i feel obliged to listen to it, too. i'm about 20 minutes in. they're doing "got the life". there is no god.
He's singing Radiohead's Creep around 14:30, this is unexpected in a bad way. Appreciate the evening's soundtrack though!
Edit: oh no, Got the Life
beer helps. lots and lots of beer.
guitar player here just doing his best not to remember ibanez low-b guitars
edit - i had to go back and see the creep part you mentioned. must have shut my ears off already by then. wow. but not, like, a good wow. wow. no wonder radiohead won't play it live any more.
Finished it up, alcohol did help. It wasn't terrible, they can't all be the Nirvana performance.
okay, at least we've got you to have a few beers. this was all to get you ready for lauryn hill's unplugged:
Imagine if they greenlit this instead of Pantera
Haha wow Evanescence's singer is there. This so close to when popular music started being for millenials rather than Gen X. Sticking with this vid for archaeological reasons
I love how the band took an already legendary song and put their unique spin on it and made it their own.
To this day I can't decide which version I like better, I listen to them both all the time.