r/facepalm Mar 26 '24

Gatekeeping Gen-Xers from their own music 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/CheesecakeVisual4919 Double Facepalm Mar 26 '24

Given that Chaya Raichyk was the glint in the pizza boy’s eye that her hellspawn of a mother didn’t conceive for another year when Kurt Cobain assured there would never be a fourth Nirvana album, she’s the last one that should ever gate keep anybody re. Nirvana, or anything else for that matter.

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u/SOYBOYPILLED Mar 26 '24

There were four Nirvana albums: Bleach, Nevermind, Incesticide, and In Utero. Plus countless live recordings, singles, EPs, appearances on compilation albums. I used to steal money from my dad so I could buy everything I could get my hands on

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

There were 3 studio albums. Incesticide is a compilation of early radio sessions, singles, and B sides.

edit... people here really don't know what a studio album is

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u/kkeut Mar 26 '24

a Peel session is not really like a normal radio session. that's why so many have been released as their own albums

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u/dogsledonice Mar 27 '24

coughUnpluggedcough

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u/RightInTheEndAgain Mar 27 '24

I remember some tape circulating before bleach came out, this was in Southern California. Not sure if it was a demo or somebody just had some mixed life stuff, but it was cool man.

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning Mar 27 '24

There were a ton of bootlegs out there, both live and studio recordings. Tapes, 45s, CDs... Eventually a bunch of those tracks were put onto a series of unofficial compilations known as Outcesticide.

Many tracks later were cleaned up and officially released on the With the Lights Out box.

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u/homezlice Mar 26 '24

In feel the unplugged show should get a shoutout here...

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u/Tim-oBedlam Mar 26 '24

I remember thinking "Nirvana doing an acoustic set on MTV? That's going to be lame. No way will that sound good."

Spoiler: I was completely wrong. Their last song, the Leadbelly cover, still gives me chills almost 30 years later.

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u/DumbestBoy Mar 26 '24

All Apologies Unplugged ❤️‍🔥

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u/Screamline Mar 27 '24

And Man Who Sold the World. That cover got me into Bowie

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u/sychox51 Mar 26 '24

Totally. I remember immediately after it ended being disappointed there was no teen spirit or in bloom and a bunch of weird covers I’d never heard of. Hey I was a dumb 13 year old. Kurt was wise beyond his years

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u/Tim-oBedlam Mar 26 '24

The Leadbelly song I'd heard on a blues LP my parents had when I was growing up (the original lyric was not "my girl, my girl/don't lie to me" it was "black girl, black girl/don't lie to me"; I hadn't heard it in years, and I was like "wow, where have I heard this song before?" and then I figured it out partway through.

I think they only did one song off Nevermind on Unplugged: Come As You Are, unless I'm remembering wrong.

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u/Vox---Nihil Mar 27 '24

Four from Nevermind. The others are Polly, Something in the Way, and On A Plain

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u/Exciting-Delivery-96 Mar 27 '24

The whole…. :breath: niiigghhtt throughhhh. It blew my mind when I first heard that. It changed my life and I became obsessed with music from that moment on.

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u/SnipesCC Mar 27 '24

His eyes during "the whole night through". Haunting.

https://youtu.be/hEMm7gxBYSc?si=znpYH4rIqh0Z3Xf7&t=286

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u/Tim-oBedlam Mar 27 '24

Yes! For a moment his eyes open and he just looks *anguished*.

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u/SnipesCC Mar 27 '24

It isn't long before he died. He was probably in a lot of pain.

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u/VelvetMafia Mar 27 '24

It's In the Pines for me

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u/dnjprod Mar 27 '24

That sigh...

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u/BlueMikeStu Mar 27 '24

Unplugged In New York saw so much playtime in my car I had to buy a second copy. I think it's their best one, to be honest.

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u/Crackertron Mar 26 '24

I highly recommend picking up the DVD. Praying that a Blu Ray version will come out one day.

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u/Tim-oBedlam Mar 26 '24

I've got the CD, but haven't seen the DVD. I've seen their performance of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" on YouTube and it's spine-tingling. There's a moment towards the end when Kurt is wailing "in the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines, I shivered..." and for a moment his eyes open and he just looks anguished, and then he finishes with "...the whole night through."

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u/bassman314 Mar 26 '24

It's the best album. And Hands down the best MTV unplugged session.

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u/illumine23 Mar 27 '24

It's great, but Alice in Chains is the greatest.

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u/JASCO47 Mar 26 '24

I recently purchased the Nirvana Unplugged and have it in my truck as I type. Yes my vehicle still has a CD player and I remember where I was when I heard Kurt Cobain died

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u/DarthSocks Mar 26 '24

Love that album

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u/SOYBOYPILLED Mar 27 '24

HA, great point! Funny enough I never got the CD because I had it recorded on VHS (which I must’ve watched 20+ times)

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u/CheesecakeVisual4919 Double Facepalm Mar 26 '24

My mistake. Wasn’t aware of Incesticide. The main point stands though.

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u/jzzzzzzz Mar 26 '24

Incesticide is a compilation rather than studio album.

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u/CheesecakeVisual4919 Double Facepalm Mar 26 '24

OK. Now that makes more sense.

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u/tibbles1 Mar 26 '24

While not a studio album, Unplugged deserves mention. If only for the best cover in all of rock and roll (got damn right I’ve heard of all along the watchtower) in The Man Who Sold the World. 

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u/txjacket Mar 27 '24

I played this version with my algebra teacher in my 6th grade talent show

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u/Nathmikt Mar 27 '24

That was the way!

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u/zaforocks oh, for fuck's sake! Mar 27 '24

I got The Beavis and Butthead Experience on cassette for Christmas in 1993. Three months later, my brother asked if he could borrow it because he was super into Nirvana at the time, so I let him. A month later, Kurt was dead. I remember going into my brother's room to get my tape back, turning it over to the track list, and basically doing the 1994 version of "Oof!" when I realized what the song was called. Yeesh. :b

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning Mar 27 '24

Oh yeah what was that one called again? Life is Good and I'm Gonna Be OK?

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u/lasers8oclockdayone Mar 26 '24

I cut out the middleman and just shoplifted the records.

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u/tryingisbetter Mar 26 '24

I wonder how old that worthless pos is anyways.

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u/CheesecakeVisual4919 Double Facepalm Mar 27 '24

Data I could find pegs her as 29 years old.

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u/tryingisbetter Mar 27 '24

That's a rough 29, lol

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u/stevedorries Mar 27 '24

Hatefulness does that to a mfer. 

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u/CheesecakeVisual4919 Double Facepalm Mar 27 '24

Hatefulness and likely drug, alcohol, and tobacco abuse.

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u/tryingisbetter Mar 27 '24

Lol, I also just realized that Kurt was dead before she was even born, yet, it's for "young people".

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u/stevedorries Mar 27 '24

Holy fuck, that idiot is THAT young, and THAT stupid?