Comments on: Kurt Cobain's birthday: "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"

By: elusis

elusis — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:30:00 +0000

Thanks for reminding me of that – it’s been a long while since I watched that show and now I’m dying to do so again. LOVED the Meat Puppets and their appearance.

By: elusis

elusis — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:30:00 +0000

You shut up, because I watched it in my dorm too.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:13:00 +0000

Hey, she was educating you about important music

By: Jack_Walker

Jack_Walker — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:09:00 +0000

Love the Meat Puppets. We got so much shit for liking them in the early ’80′s — the weren’t hard enough. We saw an epic show in Charlottesville in the mid ’80′s. Meat Puppets II is great, Meat Puppets I is very good indeed, and Confusion Fog from Mirage is just a great great great song.

By: Cornan_KotW

Cornan_KotW — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:00:00 +0000

This particular performance was what made a 15 year old me want to learn to play guitar. The entire Unplugged set was amazing but this specific song hit me deep in the feels.

By: Slartibartfatsdomino

Slartibartfatsdomino — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:58:00 +0000

I was into much more political/hardcore punk back in the day and generally scoffed at Nirvana (and remain somewhat annoyed at the disproportionate attention they got when there were/are lots of great bands getting largely ignored), but I remember the first time I heard this it gave me chills and allowed me to like Nirvana a little more, although they still haven’t ever cracked my top ten, or even 20.

By: Cornan_KotW

Cornan_KotW — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:58:00 +0000

For quite a while the safe assumption was that Kurt was extremely high when he decided to kill himself. Rumors abound though so who freakin’ knows.

By: wingo shackleford

wingo shackleford — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:20:00 +0000

Way to rock the turtleneck, Dave. I remember watching this in awe the first time it aired, in my dorm room. Good grief I am getting old.

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:19:00 +0000

Confusion understandable. From memory he’d had some sort of OD a few months before he died.

By: Katey Corrigan

Katey Corrigan — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:12:00 +0000

This makes me feel so much better about my I Dream of Genie gaffe the other day…

By: Buddy Bradley

Buddy Bradley — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:35:00 +0000

It’s a damn good cover, no question.

I can see how punk rock types would be attracted to Lead Belly. Not just because of his story as a con (or rather, murderer) but because he sounds total bad-ass. I’ve always thought “Rock Island Line” is really proto-punk
http://youtu.be/7iJEVOUqepo

By: Erik Denning

Erik Denning — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:42:00 +0000

Most historians agree Lead Belly existed.

By: spejic

spejic — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:01:00 +0000

Maybe Cobain’s fatal search for The Real might have been soothed if he knew that Lead Belly was a fake.

By: DJBudSonic

DJBudSonic — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:58:00 +0000

Watch the entire show and rejoice in the appearance of the mighty Meat Puppets, without whom, Kurt said, Nirvana would not have existed. The listen to some more Meat Puppets and hear why he said that.

By: JoshP

JoshP — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:13:00 +0000

He was an angel… Seeing them perform was more life changing than having my first dial-up.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:53:00 +0000

I was so SICK of the same old standards by then. I found a station that played Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana and such and even though I couldn’t understand a single word anyone was singing, I listened until I liked it because I wanted something new so badly.

By: Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:49:00 +0000

My first ever published short story (that Cory bought, for an anthology) featured this song. Loved it then. Love it now.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:43:00 +0000

LOL. I seriously thought he ODed on heroin. I guess I am not a true fan. But I still love that guy.

By: Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:28:00 +0000

To be completely fair, there isn’t really, like, a recommended daily allowance for shotguns.

By: xzzy

xzzy — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:27:00 +0000

I want to thank him for ushering 80′s music out of the building.

I do wonder what the 90′s would have been like without Nirvana.. I’m sure “alternative” music would have still thrived in some form, but it’s hard to argue that Nirvana really kicked the whole thing off. My favorite thing to point out is the style of songs that won MTV awards.. the change in character from 1991 to 1993 is pretty staggering.

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:23:00 +0000

The Unplugged years were dark times indeed

By: Wisconsin Platt

Wisconsin Platt — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:20:00 +0000

Just for accuracy, he OD’d on a shotgun.

I will say, its one of those “I remember where I was moments…” (On a bus somewhere between TX and MS, heard it on a radio station I was listening to on my Walkman)

By: Benjamin Palmer

Benjamin Palmer — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:12:00 +0000

I love the Nirvana Unplugged session so very much. So did our music/chorus teacher in my school, she’d play it very often. Many times that would be all we would do for the day in class, watch that from start to finish, move on to the next period.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:54:00 +0000

When Kurt Cobain ODed, the media were all, “The voice of a generation is dead. The Gen Xers are weeping tears like our parents shed when John Lennon was murdered,” and I was all “Kurt who?” But now as a Gen Xer I have dabbled in Nirvana and I have to say, DAMN YOU KURT COBAIN FOR FUCKING KILLING YOURSELF WITH THAT CRAP! You were our only hope!! I love you man! I love you!! Happy birthday. (sheds tear like when John Lennon was murdered)

By: shoomonfoo

shoomonfoo — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:09:00 +0000

Reminds me of a short story in Jean Toomer’s Cane.