![]() ![]() You can see the peculiarity of his position in a throwaway remark at the Unplugged show. If Cobain didn’t exactly cultivate his hurt, he knew how to make use of it. At their best, before Cobain’s attempts to anaesthetise himself took their toll, Nirvana were an act of catharsis. ![]() Sure enough, Cobain was gone within five months.īut then, morbidity was hardly a novelty for Cobain. On the next track – a weary busk through The Vaselines’ warped Sunday School spiritual, “Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam” – the singer can be heard moaning: “Don’t expect me to die for thee”. As early as the second song – a naked version of “Come As You Are” – Cobain is singing “No, I don’t have a gun”. The set, with candles and stargazer lilies, looks dressed for a wake at a well-appointed funeral home. Fourteen years into the sainthood of Kurt Cobain, it’s hard to watch Nirvana on MTV’s Unplugged without the benefit of grim hindsight.
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