Day Seven

I love a good cover, especially a live cover. There’s nothing like an artist reinterpreting an old favorite in their own special way. I think it gives so much insight into an artist and how they approach music when we see how they approach another artist’s song.

One of my favorite live albums Nirvana’s Unplugged. There is so much I can say about Nirvana and the way they’ve been one of the musical through lines of my life. It’s devastating that they were cut short by senseless tragedy (spare me your conspiracy theories). They perform a few covers during this set, but the one I come back to over and over is their cover of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World.

Though it is fairly similar to the original sonically, there is something about Kurt Cobain’s voice here that gets me every time. I can’t quite explain it. Maybe it’s because, knowing that Cobain would be gone soon after it was recorded, listening to this song always feels so haunting. But there’s also something about his voice that makes me really stop and listen to the words every time I hear this version. To me, this song evokes so much loneliness and sorrow, but there is also something else – an otherworldly feeling that I can’t explain.

Love,
February

[Song of the Day: The Man Who Sold the World as performed by Nirvana, orig. By David Bowie]

I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years and years, I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare
At all the millions here
We must have died alone
A long long time ago

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    omg! i absolutely love this album and this song.
    I used to listen to this album in the early 90’s when I was in college. Those were rough times and music was what I leaned to all the time.

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      This album definitely got me through some rough patches in high school and university. It’s so good, I can never get enough of it.

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    God dam! I think you are the first ‘girl’ I know who has the same music taste as me….where have you been in my RL???

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      Haha, that’s awesome. I have got fairly eclectic taste in music. But then again so do a few of my friends, and it’s how I bonded with one of my roommates in university. Music is my lifeline, can’t live without it.

      I’ll be sharing a playlist in a few days too, so you’ll get a real good look at my music taste then.

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        Music is everything to me! I sing and I work in music. I have been told many times my taste is ‘boy like’ haha! Whatever that means! I must say I got the best exposure to excellent music growing up in the 90’s.

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          WTF, “boy like”? Music is universal! I was young in the 90s but all my cousins are 10-12 years older so I spent my middle and high school years mining their music collections, hence my affinity for grunge. Plus my parents aren’t into music so I explore a lot of different genres and artists on my own, and I tend to do deep dives when I find a new genre or artist I like.

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