This week in my headphones

This week I have been listening to a LOT of Nirvana. Seriously just not stop.

It all started with this cover song:

It's incredible. It's a cover of a blues song from the 40's called, Where Did You Sleep Last Night by a guy called Leadbelly. Leadbelly is famous in guitar history for his work with 12 string guitars. This acoustic session is just pure genius and pure soul. Especially this song, it's a straight up blues minor chords change and very simple lyrics, but it has so much power.

It would be impossible for me to pick a favorite Nirvana song, but definitely this past week it has been:

Heart Shaped Box off of the In Utero album. This song is so Nirvana. It showcases the musical prowess of Kurt Cobain in his voice and guitar riffs and also Krist Novoselic with his funky ass bass lines and the power drumming of Dave Grohl.

Fun fact about this song: This was the last song sung in concert by Kurt Cobain before he took his own life. During that entire show, Cobain had Bronchitis.

Another great Nirvana song is Polly off of the Nevermind album (the one with the naked baby in a pool grabbing at a dollar on a fishing hook on the cover). Kurt Cobain saw the story in the song on the news and was so touched that he wrote this song, so the story goes.

This is the unlugged version, although there's a dirtier version on the actual Nevermind album, I actually like this one better.

How sad that Kurt Cobain died right? I think about this a lot actually. What if Kurt Cobain never used drugs and wasn't depressed and didn't want to kill himself and were still alive.

Well, there simply wouldn't have been a Nirvana. At least not like we know it today.

I'm not advocating drug usage or suicide. Not even a little bit. But I think those things highly influenced the songwriting of a genius.

That is all.