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In 2004, the NME ranked "Pennyroyal Tea" at number six on their list of the "20 Greatest Nirvana Songs Ever." [35] The same year, Q erroneously included the song on their list of "12 Album Tracks That Should Have Been Singles, But Weren't," at number two. [36] In 2015, Rolling Stone placed it at number 11 on their ranking of 102 Nirvana songs. [37]
"Plateau" is a song by alternative rock band the Meat Puppets, written by vocalist and guitarist, Curt Kirkwood. It appears on the band's second album, Meat Puppets II, released by SST Records in April 1984.
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 ...
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]
"That's why it's probably the first Nirvana song you've heard in a movie," Nelson said. [27] [28] On April 24, 2020, American musician Post Malone performed the song during his 15-song Nirvana tribute concert, which was livestreamed on YouTube and raised more than $4 million for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. [29] [30]
The Vaselines re-released the song in 1992 on the compilation albums The Way of The Vaselines: A Complete History, [2] and All the Stuff and More. The song was little-known outside the indie-pop scene until Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded the song in November 1993 for their live acoustic album MTV Unplugged in New York , re-titling it ...