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« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2016, 11:26:45 AM » |
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Here's another live performance, this time of Breed from the Nevermind album. The video shows a delay in starting the song, with crew members making adjustments. Kurt Cobain fills the time by explaining "We're all patiently waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die, and then we'll all move into their homes." I've always been amazed that a trio could make as full a sound and have as much energy on stage. This song shows Cobain bounce away from the microphone, land on his back for a blood-curdling guitar solo, and while the camera is off him, he somehow manages back up on his feet at the microphone just in time to start singing the chorus again. I can only imagine drugs helped, because I can't think of any other way someone could pull this off. If you watch Dave Grohl on drums, it looks like he's playing in the rain (he had just spit a mouthful of water in the air, and the lights show it still coming down seconds later, but also sweat is flying off of him everywhere) and this question is posed by commenters on this video: Spookwagen: Why does it rain when Dave plays the drums?
Ryan Trepanier: Tears of joy from the god grunge?  Here's the song: Breed
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« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2016, 09:29:17 AM » |
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"And I swear I don't have a gun" I always thought of it as "come as you are because I am defenceless and I won't put you down" or "just be yourself and I'll accept it without firing 1000 reasons at you for being the way you are and ask you to change". Same thing with "you know you're right", I read it as "yeap, there are a bunch of things going around, some are right, some are wrong, some are strange, some are just part of life, you are right in pointing things out to me, I know the consequences of my actions... YET I have go down this path... BUT you are right, and I still have to go my own way". Which lead to the pain and confusion Kurt was feeling in the end, because he didn't have a gun, he didn't have a way (or knew of a way) to fight back.
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« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2016, 01:39:23 PM » |
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I always thought of it as "come as you are because I am defenceless and I won't put you down" or "just be yourself and I'll accept it without firing 1000 reasons at you for being the way you are and ask you to change".
Same thing with "you know you're right", I read it as "yeap, there are a bunch of things going around, some are right, some are wrong, some are strange, some are just part of life, you are right in pointing things out to me, I know the consequences of my actions... YET I have go down this path... BUT you are right, and I still have to go my own way". Which lead to the pain and confusion Kurt was feeling in the end, because he didn't have a gun, he didn't have a way (or knew of a way) to fight back.
Fantastic. I love your interpretation of these songs.
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« Reply #28 on: January 28, 2016, 01:43:28 PM » |
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Three of my favorite rock albums. For a long time, I always alternated between Nevermind and another favorite, Ten by Pearl Jam.
Mine too. I also love Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Live. Ten is one of the best albums of all time. Not to veer off the subject of this thread, but sometime (if you haven't already) try YouTubing Eddie Vedder singing Jeremy "Vocals only". There's a few other Pearl Jam songs that were mixed to remove the instruments. As much as I love these other bands, it's always Nirvana I come back too. It's Cobain, 100%. He's so deep and the emotions and pain just break you when you listen. And when it's just loud and rocking, it's the greatest there is.
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« Reply #33 on: February 03, 2016, 11:33:58 AM » |
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I prefer the "sad" version mainly because that was the first version I ever heard... from the Outcesticide cd. I have good memories trying to find the Outcesticide in flea markets and dodgy music stores in Lisbon. A friend and I spent countless hours, and days, running around Lisbon trying to find it and when we finally found it, it was magical. I believe this version now appears in the "Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck" cd. I prefer it because it is a low key demo, with a certain degree of intimacy, almost as a if a sad secret is being revealed. Sometimes, I also think of it as a prayer. It was "somehow" released in 1993, as an hidden track in the "No Alternative" compilation (here) with the title "Verse Chorus Verse". I love this version as help. And I love to see the evolution of the lyrics. Brett Morgen said there must have been, at least, fifteen different versions of "Sappy" but Kurt was never completely satisfied with any of them. And, to me, that's sappy: sad because we never got to see a "final version" and happy because we have so many "not final" versions to pick from.
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"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." Carl Sandburg
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