resumiu perfeitamente. Kurt entendeu completamente como fazer melodia dentro do som q ele fazia e expressando oq ele pensava. Esse refrão é perfeito. talvez o melhor refrao de musica ou pelo menos um dos melhores
To understand why this song is so good you must go back to 1991 and understand how the rockscene was right then. The hairbands were all over the sunset strip and everything was about women, sex, alcohol and drugs. Then this band came and changed everything. The glam/sleeze scene were pushed way to far and everyone was fed up. This was something new and it changed everything forever. Unfortenly Kurt was not ready for being the person everyone Wanted him to be. God bless his soul.
The SONGS was all about the same things. Not the groups. Everything has its glory days and the glam/sleeze/hair era had pushed it to the max. Something else was ready to take over and that one was Nirvana.
Kurt didn't like being famous and probably played a huge role in his demise. He just liked making music and it ended up catching on in a big way to the point where they were the biggest band of the early 90s and everyone became obsessed with him as a person and how he looked and it imploded real quick. Nirvana is one of the biggest bands of all time but the weird thing is they only released 3 albums and the first of those didn't get that big. They only really got to release 2 albums while they were on top. The album that got them big and the follow up to it over like a 2-3 year period. Its such a tragic story.
Some would argue that the Chrons disease that even heroin couldn’t help the pain of had the biggest influence on his death. And another group blame Courtney Love....
@@MainelyW212 There is definitely more than one thing that caused it but he may have had a easier time dealing with his personal issues if he didn't have eyes on him all the time.
I think Kurt likes hating the idea of fame than actual fame. He was a introvert but also seemed to love the admiration and the need to be respected. Mostly though he loved heroin and he didn’t want to quit. He had a kid and Courtney got off drugs and expected the same out of him. If anyone was ever a drug addict they would know how much opiates take control. Dude loved being high and loved it more than his kid. Sucks to say but the dude was sick and Courtney is bat shit crazy. Last time he tried to kill himself she was cheating on him with Billy Corgan when she was in Europe. This time she was saying get clean or I will leave you and take our kid. It was too much for him and wasn’t ready to get clean. It was less about being a tortured artist, as much people want to believe it. It fits his image people portray him to have. He really was the greatest songwriter and probably the last legendary figure of rock.
@@greengopher2354 There's a difference. It's the difference between wanting praise and wanting to be praised. Wanting praise is about respect. Wanting to be praised is about fame. He wanted the acknowledgement, but not the idolatry.
“What kind of person goes after the people who like his music?” The person who hates some people not knowing or caring, to take the time to think about what the music is really about.
Kurt said a lot of ppl put too much thought into his lyrics and that a lot of them have no meaning. He supposedly wrote this song about his best friend, Dylan Carlson, but I agree it seems to be taking a stab at the fans that came with mainstream success; the interesting thing though is that this song came out before they had gotten a lot of mainstream success. Their first album, Bleach, was decently successful but they didn't break big until the album this song was on came out. I reccomend you reading the book "Journals". It's basically just photo copies taken from his own personal journals; it really helps you understand who Kurt was as a person. It's really interesting, Kurt really was a brilliant mind. It's also rather sad because you can tell when he started becoming an addict, his handwriting becomes very sloppy and his thoughts become more and more convoluted with each entry. Also other songs by Nirvana to check out are "Drain You" and my personal favorite "Territorial Pissings".
Yeah, I was going to bring up that _Nevermind_ was their first mainstream success. In that light, I don't think the chorus is strictly autobiographical, but more of a "there's always going to be those people who..." statement. It's a rather John Lennon-ish sentiment.
He also hid alot about himself and his lyrics having little meaning have been long since debunked by people who were personally close to him and could actually pick apart what he was saying. His lyrics definitely meant quite a bit, but we're also clearly wrote in a way as to not put himself out there.
Cobain said (maybe twice) in interviews that people read too much into his lyrics, but anyone who really analyzes his writing can see there is intent, and that he was probably just being too humble about his ability, or he was embarrassed about being asked about the meanings of his songs in literally every interview. We know he was pissed at the image of the "tragic artist" and wanted to fight against it, so all those questions usually came with suggestions that he was depressed and morbid. I also think that if you're just writing meaningless songs you don't need a lyric book to add to the way we know he did every day. It also shows in Hole's album Live Through This, which most people heard and believed was Kurt's lyrical skill and not Courtney's. People openly talked about the possibility that either Kurt had written her songs or she'd just taken them. That idea is only supported even more when you realize that Hole couldn't write anything after Kurt died. You'd think Courtney would have been able to create a few incredible albums after the trauma of that but she obviously didn't have that ability. Kurt even told a story about writing the lyrics to Heart Shaped Box and Courtney asking if she could have the song instead.
I feel like Kurt was purposefully dumbing the lyrics down, there are too many patterns and arrangements to be accidental. I think it's just something no one had heard before.
Punk could keep you going for a while. Could do everything from Ramones, The Clash, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Bad Brains, etc to the 80's/90's bands like NOFX, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Religion, Rancid, Green Day, Propagandhi, etc. I know I missed a ton of bands, lots of stuff to pick from.
I think it would be better to hear the studio version first like many of us PJ fans did. Then the Unplugged version. Though I will say there are better live versions out there than the Unplugged version. That's not to say that the Unplugged version doesn't have a special place in my heart.
@@665don667 Yup. You only hear a certain song for the first time once so it should be the studio version. I personally think "Given to Fly" & "Corduroy" are vastly under-rated. Everybody on these reaction video's say "Black" but those other 2 are right up there.
Excellent reaction! I suspect Kurt would like your takeaways from the song as his comments in interviews were similar to your thoughts about the song. As for the part about the hicks, Kurt actually didn't grow up in Seattle. He grew up in a very rural area of Washington state called Aberdeen. Aberdeen was near enough to Seattle that the band ultimately migrated there as they got big. But growing up Kurt, always a very sensitive and liberal minded kid, was very frustrated and put off by the attitudes, beliefs and politics of the rural area in which he lived. And when his band began getting notoriety, he watched as people who previously couldn't give him the time of day, cheered mindlessly along to his music. Music that was often expressing the very views he was always mocked for.
I've heard this song Kurt wrote this song for his best friend Dylan. Dylan is a drug addict just like kurt was and by "likes to shoot his gun" is not literally a gun it is meaning he likes to "shoot heroin into him". And by "he's the one that likes all the pretty songs and he likes to sing along" kurt is trying to say that his bestfriend Dylan likes all of Nirvanas best songs and he likes to sing along to them while he is "shooting up".
Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Melvins, Mudhoney, Mad Season, Pearl jam, and Mother Love Bone were all from the greater Seattle area, or from the region. I am a native of the area.
Pearl Jam has so many songs that will talk to you guys. They have a lot of very deep lyrics on social issues and life. Black, Even Flow, Garden....etc...etc...etc...just getting started.
Chicago TRS - the one song that spoke to me the most was man of the hour. Especially if you had lost your father or someone close the song has a very deep meaning
The Black Dahlia Murder - The Window, The Lonely Deceased, Deathmask Devine, Abysmal, Closed Casket Requiem, I Will Return, Denounced Disgraced, Crucifed in Cruciform, Nocturnal, Funeral Thirst, Miscarriage, Dave Goes to Hollywood, Statutory Ape Moonlight Equilibrium. Please give any of those songs a listen.
You can't stop Grunge yet! Way to many good songs still for you to hear. Temple of the dog "Say hello to heaven" Chris Cornell Wrote and sings it for his friend Andrew wood( singer for mother lovebone) who died of a OD. Another big TOTD song is 'Hunger Strike" With both Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder (pearl jam) singing.. Mad Season "River of Deceit" Layne Staley singing.. Dont stop!!!! Your missing so much good music i promise...
Stoner rock/Doom metal week: Start with Sheavy - Electric Sleep - Tales from the Afterburner - Strange Gods, Strange Altars - The Golden Age of Daredevils ..or make it the King Diamond week: We need the full reaction/review of Abigail album, right? Now that you’ve heard one song off that album, you’ll want to get the whole story 😉
Let's include The Obssessed and Saint Vitus in there, that would be awsome. Man, I completely back you up on King Diamond week (yes, we need the full Abigail album review), Merciful Fate must be included in that week, in case that happens.
@@olubcs44 For sure.. and maybe Sleep, Monster Magnet and Electric Wizard. Black Sabbath would be obvious choice too, but these guys have already done 7 songs from them. Mercyful Fate would be awesome. I would vote for Satans Fall, but any other song(s) will do..
Also add King Weed and Ufomammut to the list for some instrumental Psychedelia. and Oh,Oh! Also Blood Ceremony for that sweet-sweet old-school Prog Psychedelic Doom (Jethro Tull + Sabbath) goodness.
I like Dan Wilson (Semisonic) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, R.I.P.), and Jack White (occasionally). I agree that out of the scene of the early 1990s, Kurt’s songwriting was superlative.
Me being an 80s rocker along with my friends were not grunge fans at the time, but loved the drumming on this one and Smells like teen spirt. Mu 2 fave from Nirvana
I have been listening to this song since I was a kid and now I have to look at it in a completely new light. I love it when you guys do that! I'll still be singing along with the catchy lyrics though ;-)
The way your describing how you don't know how to convey what you mean, kind of reminded me of a lyric in smells like teen spirit "I found its hard, hard to find, ohh well, whatever, never mind" and I'm the same way, its torture not being able to explain anything but also being conscious about it
27:50 Sori it is beautiful, a lot of these “grunge” songs are really deep. I think a lot of it is inspired by the darker side of the human experience but there is beauty in the muck, like the lotus.
wow, i've been a long term fan now 47 years old. You made me realise he was talking about fair weather fans of Nirvana, one minute into them and when the trend changes, so does their focus.
It has been a nice week. You can look at technical death metal ( Archspire; Allegaeon; Revocation; Dyscarnate etc. etc. etc.) It will blow grunge away (in a way)😊
Genre suggestions: Goth (the Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim) 60s psychedelic/acid rock: (Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Blind Faith, Country Joe and the Fish)
And if you decide to check out these particular genres, I would be most happy to help you be your guide and offer you historical bits and assorted pieces of information, since those two genres (other than metal) are my expertise.
A lot more than I listed! Steppenwolf, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Blue Cheer, Jimi Hendrix, 13th Floor Elevators, Hawkwind, and Vanilla Fudge. Heavy metal grew out of psychedelic rock as well.
and after they're done with that, they should continue with the Psychedelic/Stoner Doom Metal or Rock of today so that they can see the 60-years progression that had happened between then and now of that sound.
Great reaction and interpretation! Awhile back, I saw someone online put the two verses together and rearranged them so they read as the following lyrics with an ABAB format: Sell the kids for food We can have some more Weather changes moods Nature is a whore Spring is here again Bruises on the fruit Reproductive glands Tender age in bloom With this rearrangment, it helped me gauge the bigger picture of the verses. The lines stringed together also sounds very poetic😊
I think he would get such a kick out of people trying to understand his lyrics so many years later and making videos about it. Then people commenting on what they thought the people in the videos think he was thinking. Lol. Awesome. He was a poet, always said "it's your crosswords puzzle". Keep it up
This is how I am understanding the song, Nirvana : In Bloom : He is saying - Sell the kid for food - Weather changes moods - Spring is here again - Reproductive glands - means sale your kid and have another. He is using it as a business way of the circle.
Seeing as though he's from Aberdeen a logging town.. the Pacific Northwest isn't all represented by Portland and Seattle.... I'm a southern 45 year old from Alabama and I loved Nirvana and lord have mercy I miss his music. Gone way to soon.
@Sori The album cover pic is a standard (probably stock photo) picture of a baby swim session, the kind where a photographer comes along for the final lesson and shoots cute underwater pics of your baby that they sell to you. It's meant to be a snapshot of a part of your child's development, not eerie. The eerie part is introduced with the dollar bill inserted into the photo; it changes everything towards the grotesque. But that's art.
my fav Nirvanna song! this song answers your questions to all their other songs. Kurt didn't try to make sense with his lyrics. He just wanted to use words that sounded good with the music.
It's about sexuality and his unhappiness with the bags of shit like homophobes and bullies were liking his music and coming to his shows. Not making sense to you, isn't the same thing as doesn't make sense.
Ivaylo Iliev Silverchair was one of many bands picked up by a record industry desperate to keep grunge alive. Hey weren’t great. They were just promoted.
@@fendranm2914 they had a few good songs and i think the lead singer has a good voice but i wouldn't call them great either. they where kind of like 30% pearl jam 30% nirvana 40% STP
@@zakrowe1301 I'm going to absolutely disagree about how good they were. If all you listened to was their early (grunge) stuff then you've missed their best. Listen to Neon Ballroom, Diorama and Young Modern. Absolutely genius music and Daniel John's vocals are amazing.
@@seandan7873 i never said they where bad, i just said they weren't great. led zepplin, queen, the beatles those are a few examples of great bands. silverchair are a good band and i like some of their music, including songs from neon ballroom and diorama, not to keen on young modern though. and i said i liked daniels voice.
sigh, While not bad, there are so much better Nirvana songs. "Big Long Now", "Aneurysm", "Negative Creep". Apart from that Temple of the Dog is a must (Say Hello to Heaven) or maybe "Hunger Strike" are basically what made Pearl Jam come into existence. Speaking of Pearl Jam, more or less every song of "Ten" is flawless. And since you already did Soundgarden, you need to listen to some of their grittier songs. Maybe "Jesus Christ Pose" or "4th of July"
I have a brilliant sketch on paper I'll text you for Boobie. Once I get this comp I will get her all sorted *ALSO DO AFTER FOREVER!!!!!!!* My pledge of Allegiance part I and II Good conversation could be made on domestic violence. Plus you already heard Estranged which is in line on the Decipher album with Pledge of Allegiance. The album tells a story of domestic violence and religion (in these songs there's a heavy religious tone. I can't think of the religion at present but I believe it's Muslim) And as I told you. This particular album got me through my own chapters of being in abusive relationship
The song is going after those that don't understand the meaning of something but still buy into it. The very first line is a reference to Jonathan Swift's satire of how to solve the famine and starvation on Ireland - sell your kids as delicacies for the rich people. Which upset a lot of people at the time that didn't understand the satire.
Know im late but, Nirvana was from Aberdeen, Washington. Alot of people associate them with being from Seattle. But I think thats because of its importance to the genre.
Change of pace of some of the other requests mentioned: Violent Femmes - Kiss Off Soul Asylum - Runaway Train Rollins Band - Liar Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon L7 - Fast and Frightening Pixies - Monkey Goes to Heaven
Wow. Great review guys. I love Nirvana! There was a time about 12/13 when I went through a phase of listening to nothing but green day and nirvana. Nevermind was the 1st album of theirs I bought. I wish you had discussed the line don't know what it means when I say yeah. You blew my mind. I'm ashamed to admit I think I'm one of the people Kurt is talking about because I take things to literally sometimes and never picked up on the depth you saw. But in context of how I now interpret that line and apply it to my life. Holy shit. Head blown lol
Always wondered if this was about Jason Everman. Was in a bunch of the Seattle bands, including Nirvana, then left and went to be an Army Ranger, and then joined Special Forces.
Yea they're all from Seattle. Kurt was a huge fan of the Melvins also from Seattle. Mahoney grew up down the street. In Bloom i heard was about people outside the underground music scene that flocked to Nirvana when they blew up. Kurt expressed on multiple occasions how he hated the fame.
I will take the place of the Russian now, but this time with Fear Factory, and some of their best songs and then you will choose any of your preference: UPDATED LIST: -Pisschrist -Zero Signal -Replica -Martyr -Crash Test -Big God/Raped Souls -Freedom or Fire -Edgecrusher -Resurrection -Linchpin -What will become? -Invisible Wounds (Dark bodies) -Archetype -Drones -Slave Labor -Supernova -My Grave -540,000° Farenheit -Controlled Demolition -Final Exit -Powershifter -The Industrialist -Corporate Cloning -God Eater -Regenerate -Battle for Utopia -Expiration Date ONE MORE UPDATE: Do NOT react to FF live, vocalist Burton C. Bell isn't great when it comes to clean live vocals in their songs, so Studio versions only, all of the songs have industrial elements. To all comment readers, make your song suggestions too from this band, and insist Vin and Sori to notice me more xD (pls!!)
Jean Franco Zarate my favorite metal song of all time is Archetype! The only songs I have heard are Replica, Drones, Slave Labor, Archetype, and Corporate Cloning.
That frustration of not being able to articulate thought or being misunderstood reminds me a bit of a song that, controversially, Judas Priest covered called Better By You, Better Than Me. It has the chorus "Better by you, better than me. You can say what I only can see. You could tell what I wanted to be. It's better by you, better than me."
