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My personal take is that it is interesting Cobain seemingly Grohl seemingly disagree on how to play the song before commencing Pennyroyal Tea. The lyrics referencing Canadian Leonard Cohen can be viewed through the prism of Cobain experiencing a spiritual crisis. The song Pennyroyal Tea is the first live song on the MTV Unplugged in New York album from the album In Utero. Whether this stands in for something specific weighing on the band or members of Nirvana isn’t fully clear to me, though the Bowie album from which the song is drawn was one that posterity recognizes resonated with Cobain. Written and originally performed by David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World gets into the notion of having sold out a sense of responsibility for the moral weight of the world. Kurt Novoselic plays accordion on what in retrospect is a clear sign of spiritual struggle that Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain was experiencing. Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam was written by Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee of the Scottish indie band The Vaselines. (Included in the picture of Nirvana of Seattle, from left are Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain and Pat Smear). The lyric about having no gun, claimed by Cobain to reassure people that his critique was of the larger society rather than individuals in it, took on a meaning not intended in the original song after Cobain had committed suicide with a shotgun. The alternating apparently contradictory seems to be a critique for how the world tells the people of the world, especially those coming of age, to act. The original version of Come as You Are landed on the Nevermind album. The myth underpinning the song is that it was written for a girlfriend of Kurt Cobain‘s, though that girlfriend reportedly learned of it by reading the 1993 Michael Azerrad biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. MTV Unplugged in New York opens with About a Girl from Nirvana‘s debut album, Bleach. The album, while recorded in 1993, was not released in 1994). (The album cover for Nirvana‘s live album MTV Unplugged in New York. Each song included below leads to the underlying track from MTV Unplugged in New York. The quartet of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Pat Smear, at points, were augmented with Cris Kirkwood and Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets and cellist Lori Goldston through the last, most famous performance of the band in New York City. It will have been twenty-seven years in November when Nirvana performed with a combination of three other musicians to create the 14-song live album that became MTV Unplugged in New York.
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