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It was instead posthumously released as simply "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" on the band's MTV Unplugged in New York album in November 1994, and as a promotional single from the album, [12] receiving some airplay on US rock and alternative radio in 1994–95. [13] [14] The song also received some airplay in Belgium and France, [15] and in ...
The set ended with a performance of the traditional "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", following the arrangement of blues musician Lead Belly, whom Cobain described before the song as "his favorite performer ever". Mark Lanegan had covered this song previously on The Winding Sheet (1990) with Cobain on guitar. After the band finished, Cobain ...
Nirvana was an American grunge band formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987, with drummer Dave Grohl joining the band in 1990. The band recorded three studio albums ; Bleach , Nevermind and In Utero , with other songs available on live albums , compilations , extended plays (EPs ...
In a reader's poll of Nirvana songs conducted by Louder Sound in May 2018, "Scentless Apprentice" placed 23rd. [13] In 2019, it was ranked at number 15 on The Guardian's "Nirvana's 20 greatest songs" list. [14] In 2023, Stephen Thomas Erlewine ranked it at number 19 on his list of Nirvana's "30 greatest songs" for the A.V. Club, calling it "a ...
For those in the room, it felt as though Cobain – an icon of angst who had almost named Nirvana’s third album, In Utero, “I Hate Myself and Want to Die” – was pouring his well-publicised ...
"Polly" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It is the sixth song on their second album Nevermind, released by DGC Records in September 1991. The song was written about the abduction, rape, and torture of a 14-year-old girl returning home from a punk rock concert in Tacoma, Washington in 1987.
Nirvana regularly covered the song during live sets after their MTV Unplugged performance up until Cobain's death in 1994. Following Cobain's death, O'Leary states that the group's performance of "The Man Who Sold the World" became Cobain's "ghost song". [60] In 2002, the song was re-released on Nirvana's self-titled "best of" compilation. [67]
Describing the tour in his 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, American music journalist Michael Azerrad wrote that "No one was happy about Nirvana playing second fiddle to the Peppers, but they had already committed to it during the chaos of the American tour. At any rate, Nirvana stole the show."