Ha! Ha! Watch This (lyrics, bass, pop, album, Kurt Cobain)

Miltamec Soundsquinaez · 01-23-2008, 11:47 PM

I don't know how many of you have seen this, but it's awesome

I'd heard that Nirvana's performance on the BBC was their quintessential FU to the media. Kurt Cobain never made a secret about his loathing for the media. He would constantly screw with gullible interviewers and give them fictitious answers.
Well, here he is performing on the BBC. They apparently ask their musical guests to joyfully pantomime along with the music, and this is the result: Cobain not even making an attempt to play the guitar, and Novoselic wildly flailing his bass around in a way that couldn't bear semblance to one playing it, and Grohl totally out of sync. What a way to say screw you to the media, who is always portraying things differently than they actually are, and asking the world's hottest commodity at the time to go up on stage, and pretend to be really enjoying their fake plastic performance, so it could be all packaged up for the BBC. BBC didn't know what they were in for. Enjoy!
YouTube - NIRVANA - smells like teen spirit

sleepy jack · 01-23-2008, 11:53 PM

Lol@Kurt's singing/lyrics.

Miltamec Soundsquinaez · 01-23-2008, 11:57 PM

such unbridled enthusiasm

Joshee · 01-24-2008, 03:38 AM

Muse did the same thing,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXhEUPcLSCI

655321 · 01-24-2008, 06:05 PM

i saw that video awhile back thought it was really funny, a former friend of mine had a really rare nirvana tape, i have no idea were he got it but ath was on there

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-24-2008, 06:47 PM

Not as cool as Ian Brown calling them a bunch of f*cking amateurs

sleepy jack · 01-24-2008, 06:53 PM

Weren't the stone roses shit

pheurton · 01-25-2008, 08:43 AM

not even karaoke

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-25-2008, 11:59 AM

I actually think this is a pretty sh*tty thing to do by Cobain.

If it was any other media organisation i'd say it was deserved. But this is the BBC , the same BBC who would give exposure and go around recording hundreds of sessions and gigs by the underground bands he said he loved so much.
Including his own band, the BBC were probably the only media organisation in the world that actually gave a sh*t about Bleach when it came out & played the thing.

In conclusion : F*ck Kurt Cobain and the commercial pop album he was promoting at the time he did this.

cardboard adolescent · 01-25-2008, 12:04 PM

I prefer this to the album version.

Besides, can you really blame them for putting on a good show?

01-23-2008, 11:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
Miltamec Soundsquinaez Aural melody discerner Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in a truck down by the interstate Posts: 347	Ha! Ha! Watch This I don't know how many of you have seen this, but it's awesome I'd heard that Nirvana's performance on the BBC was their quintessential FU to the media. Kurt Cobain never made a secret about his loathing for the media. He would constantly screw with gullible interviewers and give them fictitious answers. Well, here he is performing on the BBC. They apparently ask their musical guests to joyfully pantomime along with the music, and this is the result: Cobain not even making an attempt to play the guitar, and Novoselic wildly flailing his bass around in a way that couldn't bear semblance to one playing it, and Grohl totally out of sync. What a way to say screw you to the media, who is always portraying things differently than they actually are, and asking the world's hottest commodity at the time to go up on stage, and pretend to be really enjoying their fake plastic performance, so it could be all packaged up for the BBC. BBC didn't know what they were in for. Enjoy! YouTube - NIRVANA - smells like teen spirit

01-24-2008, 06:05 PM	#5 (permalink)
655321 i ruin threads Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: littleton newhampshire Posts: 110	i saw that video awhile back thought it was really funny, a former friend of mine had a really rare nirvana tape, i have no idea were he got it but ath was on there __________________ Well there's one thing to know about this town Not a person doesn't want me underground

01-24-2008, 06:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Not as cool as Ian Brown calling them a bunch of fcking amateurs __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.*

01-25-2008, 11:59 AM	#9 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I actually think this is a pretty shtty thing to do by Cobain. If it was any other media organisation i'd say it was deserved. But this is the BBC , the same BBC who would give exposure and go around recording hundreds of sessions and gigs by the underground bands he said he loved so much. Including his own band, the BBC were probably the only media organisation in the world that actually gave a sht about Bleach when it came out & played the thing. In conclusion : Fck Kurt Cobain and the commercial pop album he was promoting at the time he did this. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.*

01-23-2008, 11:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
Miltamec Soundsquinaez Aural melody discerner Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in a truck down by the interstate Posts: 347	such unbridled enthusiasm

01-24-2008, 03:38 AM	#4 (permalink)
Joshee Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Under a big top. Posts: 142	Muse did the same thing, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXhEUPcLSCI

01-25-2008, 08:43 AM	#8 (permalink)
pheurton n/a Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 990	not even karaoke

01-25-2008, 12:04 PM	#10 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	I prefer this to the album version. Besides, can you really blame them for putting on a good show?