It's possible I'm being melodramatic and reading far too much into this, but I believe that at the time this was recorded Kurt had already made up his mind he would be ending his life sometime soon. I believe that it's quite possible he understood how powerful this unplugged record would be and that he had designated it as both his and the band's last big hurrah. You can tell that Kurt pours his entire being into this performance and like someone said earlier, nearly all the songs have to do with death and despair. He had talked about going out in a blaze of glory while he was on top his entire life. The last line in the song, where he pauses, it almost feels like a sigh of relief that it will all soon be over.
I believe that Kurt Cobain was one of the most fascinating and talented storytellers of his time, especially for the many of us who've had less-than-perfect childhoods and struggle to find that sense of self-worth that a divorce will steal from you as a child. He didn't tell stories to your mind, he told stories to your heart. I believe that he was consumed by emotions that not many people understand and I think that was part of his frustration. I think that he sang intensely personal songs that people interpreted as songs about sex and drugs and all kinds of crap. I think that he was a very simple, almost child-like, man who just wanted to be surrounded by all things beautiful and gentle.
To this day, over ten years after his death, I still get misty-eyed thinking about what he was...and what he could have been.
@spotchester I tend to agree with the whole Kurt had his mischievous adventure thought out. Not planned just thought about. 17 years since your post. In that time Axel rose came out of the closet. Could you see them doing a duet lol. M Cyrus and tallica. The music scene is so much different now. Here in AUS post covid, we have fuck all good music festivals. Now we none. Unless your happy to pay stupid money to see one or 2 bands at best. Out of 20 on the line up.
@spotchester I tend to agree with the whole Kurt had his mischievous adventure thought out. Not planned just thought about. 17 years since your post. In that time Axel rose came out of the closet. Could you see them doing a duet lol. M Cyrus and tallica. The music scene is so much different now. Here in AUS post covid, we have fuck all good music festivals. Now we none. Unless your happy to pay stupid money to see one or 2 bands at best. Out of 20 on the line up.
It's such a shame that mainstream music is disposable. Rinse wash repeat.
Kurt did very well to wrap this idea up in the MTV set.
One last message to go, then iam done, and I can go home.
That's exactly what he did. (Maybe the msg was that album or maybe it was to his special friend budha from childhood.) Either way he definitely went home.
One door closes.
Hey hello monkey wrench, and who the fuck is this.....
Now ghrols legacy is still churning.
Standing that test of time. Not many have been able to.
It's possible I'm being melodramatic and reading far too much into this, but I believe that at the time this was recorded Kurt had already made up his mind he would be ending his life sometime soon. I believe that it's quite possible he understood how powerful this unplugged record would be and that he had designated it as both his and the band's last big hurrah. You can tell that Kurt pours his entire being into this performance and like someone said earlier, nearly all the songs have to do with death and despair. He had talked about going out in a blaze of glory while he was on top his entire life. The last line in the song, where he pauses, it almost feels like a sigh of relief that it will all soon be over.
I believe that Kurt Cobain was one of the most fascinating and talented storytellers of his time, especially for the many of us who've had less-than-perfect childhoods and struggle to find that sense of self-worth that a divorce will steal from you as a child. He didn't tell stories to your mind, he told stories to your heart. I believe that he was consumed by emotions that not many people understand and I think that was part of his frustration. I think that he sang intensely personal songs that people interpreted as songs about sex and drugs and all kinds of crap. I think that he was a very simple, almost child-like, man who just wanted to be surrounded by all things beautiful and gentle.
To this day, over ten years after his death, I still get misty-eyed thinking about what he was...and what he could have been.
@spotchester I tend to agree with the whole Kurt had his mischievous adventure thought out. Not planned just thought about. 17 years since your post. In that time Axel rose came out of the closet. Could you see them doing a duet lol. M Cyrus and tallica. The music scene is so much different now. Here in AUS post covid, we have fuck all good music festivals. Now we none. Unless your happy to pay stupid money to see one or 2 bands at best. Out of 20 on the line up.
@spotchester I tend to agree with the whole Kurt had his mischievous adventure thought out. Not planned just thought about. 17 years since your post. In that time Axel rose came out of the closet. Could you see them doing a duet lol. M Cyrus and tallica. The music scene is so much different now. Here in AUS post covid, we have fuck all good music festivals. Now we none. Unless your happy to pay stupid money to see one or 2 bands at best. Out of 20 on the line up.
It's such a shame that mainstream music is disposable. Rinse wash repeat.
Kurt did very well to wrap this idea up in the MTV set.
One last message to go, then iam done, and I can go home. That's exactly what he did. (Maybe the msg was that album or maybe it was to his special friend budha from childhood.) Either way he definitely went home.
One door closes. Hey hello monkey wrench, and who the fuck is this..... Now ghrols legacy is still churning.
Standing that test of time. Not many have been able to.