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Nov. 19th, 2007 02:12 pmNirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance was finally released on DVD today!
VH-1 Classic (you know you're old when you're not just watching VH-1, you're watching VH-1 Classic) has been running late night repeats of the concert, along with original audience interviews and behind the scenes stuff.
I happened to catch it about song three the other night ("Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam") and just sat there gobsmacked as I watched, just like I did when it originally aired in 1994. I forgot how much I freaking love Krist on the accordion on "Sunbeam." The interviews informed me that they had just been dicking around with that Vaseline's cover during rehearsals and Krist was all, "Unplugged! I could play an accordion!" The fact they did is one of the number one reasons Nirvana will forever be in my top 5 bands of all time.
The cello! And the stargazer lilies and black candles! And Pat Smear with no shoes and his red white and blue Buck Owen's guitar! I had totally forgotten in the passage of time (14 years - can you fucking believe it?) that the audience was unfamiliar with "All Apologies" and "Pennyroyal Tea." God, Kurt's face on "Pennyroyal Tea." It's gorgeous and too painful to watch, knowing what comes five months later.
And who knew Dave Grohl would get cute? I mean, he's wearing a scrunchie, for God's sake. *throws Mentos* And no one (mainstream) knew who the Meat Puppets were! Love the covers - I do a mean one of "Lake of Fire," myself. It's mainly me screaming, but hey. "Man Who Sold the World" is still, in my opinion, the pinnacle of cover songs and Kurt's screams on "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (which I will always associate with Loretta Lynn, not Leadbelly) tear my heart out.
My Nirvana memories span![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uberaeryn getting "Bleach" in the mail when she was the Copy Editor-Music Editor-Oracle of Cool at our college newspaper and both of us going, "The hell?" to dancing my ass off in stupid floral baby doll dresses and knock-off Doc Martens (what we used to call our "Faux-Grunge") to "Teen Spirit" and "On a Plain" to the morning uberaeryn called me, almost laryngital with shock, to tell me Kurt had died. (If you pick up the 1994 Cobain memorial issue of Rolling Stone, uberaeryn has a kick-ass letter to editor eulogizing Kurt.)
But yeah, check out the DVD if you need a shot of non-ironic musical nostalgia, and feel free to share your Nirvana love with me. Like Donovan said: Wear your love like heaven.
VH-1 Classic (you know you're old when you're not just watching VH-1, you're watching VH-1 Classic) has been running late night repeats of the concert, along with original audience interviews and behind the scenes stuff.
I happened to catch it about song three the other night ("Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam") and just sat there gobsmacked as I watched, just like I did when it originally aired in 1994. I forgot how much I freaking love Krist on the accordion on "Sunbeam." The interviews informed me that they had just been dicking around with that Vaseline's cover during rehearsals and Krist was all, "Unplugged! I could play an accordion!" The fact they did is one of the number one reasons Nirvana will forever be in my top 5 bands of all time.
The cello! And the stargazer lilies and black candles! And Pat Smear with no shoes and his red white and blue Buck Owen's guitar! I had totally forgotten in the passage of time (14 years - can you fucking believe it?) that the audience was unfamiliar with "All Apologies" and "Pennyroyal Tea." God, Kurt's face on "Pennyroyal Tea." It's gorgeous and too painful to watch, knowing what comes five months later.
And who knew Dave Grohl would get cute? I mean, he's wearing a scrunchie, for God's sake. *throws Mentos* And no one (mainstream) knew who the Meat Puppets were! Love the covers - I do a mean one of "Lake of Fire," myself. It's mainly me screaming, but hey. "Man Who Sold the World" is still, in my opinion, the pinnacle of cover songs and Kurt's screams on "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (which I will always associate with Loretta Lynn, not Leadbelly) tear my heart out.
My Nirvana memories span
uberaeryn getting "Bleach" in the mail when she was the Copy Editor-Music Editor-Oracle of Cool at our college newspaper and both of us going, "The hell?" to dancing my ass off in stupid floral baby doll dresses and knock-off Doc Martens (what we used to call our "Faux-Grunge") to "Teen Spirit" and "On a Plain" to the morning uberaeryn called me, almost laryngital with shock, to tell me Kurt had died. (If you pick up the 1994 Cobain memorial issue of Rolling Stone, uberaeryn has a kick-ass letter to editor eulogizing Kurt.) But yeah, check out the DVD if you need a shot of non-ironic musical nostalgia, and feel free to share your Nirvana love with me. Like Donovan said: Wear your love like heaven.
