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Nirvana — The Man Who Sold The World
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johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 10:34
 
I wonder how much one would pay for the world?

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 10:34
 
I wonder how much one would pay for the world?

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 10:33
 
 rdo wrote:


Yeah, it's not an easy question to answer honestly, without coming across as pretentious.  I always feel the urge to say "good". Don't even get me started when it comes to reading...

 
"Well crafted" is my usual response. Seems to satisfy most and makes me feel ok about not apearing too pretentious.

Thin_Air
Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 03:13
 
Great song - but think Lulu did a much better version than Nirvana in fact everything Lulu has done is better than Nirvana!

 

slr242
(San Francisco)
Posted: Mar 30, 2013 - 01:34
 
A first-time hear for me. Had no idea that they covered this tune. Marvy to hear immediately after Lady Grinning Soul. Not altogether different than the original, but still quite worthwhile. Thanks.

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 10:34
 
 Byronape wrote:
Please keep in mind that people with a range in musical taste as your average RP listener is rare.  Just think of the question that vexes me every time someone asks me...

"So what kind of music do you listen to?"

If you can answer that question easily, than you won't be spending any time here.

 

Yeah, it's not an easy question to answer honestly, without coming across as pretentious.  I always feel the urge to say "good". Don't even get me started when it comes to reading...

Emjo
Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 07:51
 
I like this, not a big nirvana fan but this is easy listening :-)
max_p
Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 07:51
 
 ziakut wrote:
 always cringe during the solo where Kurt Cobain slides up to the wrong note and the slides half step down to the right note. Geeez. I guess it's a good testament that this was live and I actually prefer the imperfections with it being live.
 
also that lil feedback. I seem to wait for it..

stunix
(Narrowboat nr Caen Locks)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 02:46
 
 Toke wrote:
Eat your heart out Bowie this guy actually SINGS .... not moaning and droning .. great rendition.
 

that's so funny on so many different levels.

babswalker07
Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 14:31
 
 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:
Nice follow-up after David Bowie — Lady Grinning Soul, although I prefer Bowies version best!
 
Me TOO.. 

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 05:56
 
Eat your heart out Bowie this guy actually SINGS .... not moaning and droning .. great rendition.

Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88')
Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 06:26
 
Nice follow-up after David Bowie — Lady Grinning Soul, although I prefer Bowies version best!

CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 07:33
 
They're both great.   Bowie's version is preferred only because of the chanting on the coda.   So otherworldly....

PA1749
(Room 106)
Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 05:55
 
I always liked this version better than Bowie's. Cobain really puts himself into it. I think he really connected to the song on a personal level.

ziakut
(Albeit In The Meantime)
Posted: Jun 20, 2012 - 08:11
 
I always cringe during the solo where Kurt Cobain slides up to the wrong note and the slides half step down to the right note. Geeez. I guess it's a good testament that this was live and I actually prefer the imperfections with it being live.

mcullers
(Country-Dominated TX)
Posted: Jun 20, 2012 - 08:10
 
The feedback adds to this live performance. It wouldn't be as good without it.

Guodlca
Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 14:40
 
I prefer this version to the Bowie's. The instruments are basically the same, but the singing is more to my liking.

Stingray
("ANONYMOUS INTERNET")
Posted: May 24, 2012 - 09:21
 
 spigolli wrote:

No doubt there are plenty of dudes who've been into Bowie deeply.

 

Does your statement have a "deeper" meaning...?

Certainly you are right. Iggy for example has been very deep into Bowie!



orquidea
(SPAIN)
Posted: May 24, 2012 - 09:19
 
I like it a lot...{#Drummer}

Stingray
("ANONYMOUS INTERNET")
Posted: May 24, 2012 - 09:19
 
THE WONDER-HIT-WONDER (school-)BAND!

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: May 03, 2012 - 20:51
 
Love it love it love it. Great record and a great cover Much more pathos than the Thin White Duke evoked.

spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 11:34
 
 misterbearbaby wrote:


I'm with you, in this case- their version is true to the Bowie original in a way that makes you think they really got into Bowie deeply!
 
No doubt there are plenty of dudes who've been into Bowie deeply.


ThePoose
(Ottawa, capital of Canada)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 11:33
 
 Shawnmcc wrote:
Never been a big fan of lost heroin junkies.
 
What about saved heroin junkies?


ThePoose
(Ottawa, capital of Canada)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 11:32
 
 patrick30 wrote:
who is david bowie and what is nirvana??
 

More—or less—importantly, who are you?


ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 09:07
 
 Byronape wrote:
"So what kind of music do you listen to?"

If you can answer that question easily, than you won't be spending any time here.
 
I listen to GOOD music. {#Wink}

misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 11:08
 
 rulebritannia wrote:
I'm a Bowie fan and I almost always prefer an original cut, but put me in the Nirvana camp on this one!

 

I'm with you, in this case- their version is true to the Bowie original in a way that makes you think they really got into Bowie deeply!

rulebritannia
(NYC - Back in the USA!)
Posted: Dec 17, 2011 - 18:19
 
I'm a Bowie fan and I almost always prefer an original cut, but put me in the Nirvana camp on this one!


KatieBob
(Houston, Texas)
Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 07:25
 
Hmm... The Shatner/Ben Folds "Common People" and now Nirvana's version of "The Man Who Sold the World".  Do I, perhaps, detect a fellow Cracked reader among the RP Airplay Assembly Line Elf Squadron?

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 07:13
 
 Byronape wrote:

Please keep in mind that people with a range in musical taste as your average RP listener is rare.  Just think of the question that vexes me every time someone asks me...

"So what kind of music do you listen to?"

If you can answer that question easily, than you won't be spending any time here.

 
{#Clap} Nicely and pithily put, and I'm not taking the pith :o)

Maybe Bill & Beckie could use that as RP's strapline?



patrick30
(Austria)
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 01:08
 
who is david bowie and what is nirvana??

allenrudd
(2219.62 miles east of Paradise)
Posted: Oct 15, 2011 - 11:49
 
You know....I like em both.

acolt
(Pittsburgh, PA)
Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 13:36
 
I heard this before Bowie's version. I like this better. Let your ridicule flow.

Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 13:36
 
The original by Bowie is far better!!! {#Wink}

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 22:34
 
Another for the rare list where I prefer the cover - as much as I love this album and loved Nirvana I think all the best songs on it were the covers like this,where did you sleep last night and jesus don't want me for a sunbeam.

Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 02:49
 
 MojoJojo wrote:
I love the, "that was a David Bowie song" insightful footnote at the end.  Like, totally, dude?  
 
You have to consider the fanbase for Nirvana at the time.  Bowie was light years away from the kind of music that the vast majority of Nirvana's fans would ever listen to.  If not for that, I wouldn't have known when I first heard this song.  It was nearly 6 years after hearing this that I first heard the original by Bowie and I frankly hated it. 

Of course, in the ensuing decade and a half or so, my tastes have expanded greatly and I've discovered hundreds of artists and songs that I would have likely turned my nose up at when I was a teenager.  Maybe it's maturing as a person, or maybe it's just the natural evolution of musical taste, but I suppose that happens to most folks. 

Please keep in mind that people with a range in musical taste as your average RP listener is rare.  Just think of the question that vexes me every time someone asks me...

"So what kind of music do you listen to?"

If you can answer that question easily, than you won't be spending any time here.


MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA)
Posted: Aug 13, 2011 - 13:34
 
I love the, "that was a David Bowie song" insightful footnote at the end.  Like, totally, dude?  



sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jul 13, 2011 - 04:44
 
I'm sorry, no disrespect to Bowie and I like his version too, but this one is better.{#Yes}

Johnny_Wave
(California, baby)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 22:14
 
The original is good, this version *still* sucks

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 11:36
 
 RipperP wrote:
Okay, that's not fair RP...going from a pretty marginal Bowie song to a great one only to be performed by another artist (a superb cover, admittedly). Are we trying to diss the White Duke?!? 
 

I was thinking the exact same thing!{#Yes}

RipperP
Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 11:35
 
Okay, that's not fair RP...going from a pretty marginal Bowie song to a great one only to be performed by another artist (a superb cover, admittedly). Are we trying to diss the White Duke?!? 

unclelonghair
Posted: Apr 04, 2011 - 11:52
 
 bindi wrote:
My Opinion: BETTER than the original.  {#Clap}
 
He did a bunch of covers on this album that I think were each much better than the originals, an unusual feat  He covered The Vaselines, David Bowie, Meat Puppets and Lead Belly, and improved all of their songs IMHO.  Especially the Meat Puppets, I never really had much interest in Plateau until I heard Cobain do it.

I think that Cobain was maturing as a musician and was adopting more sophisticated songwriting and instrumentals, it is a real pity that he could not keep himself together and stick around so we could hear what other music he would have produced.  He was f'ed up personally but had a lot of talent.

I think this album was released after Cobain was actually dead.

CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 23:08
 
Pay no attention to that handsome, ageless rock star behind the sofa!

(former member)
Posted: Mar 08, 2011 - 19:31
 
 horstman wrote:
 bindi wrote:
My Opinion: BETTER than the original.  {#Clap}

But sadly, Mr Bowie can still perform his music..

 
I think he's done.



mvanderford60
Posted: Mar 08, 2011 - 19:30
 
Love this version - loved the original well when I was a mere child . . . Kurt does an admirable here.

(former member)
Posted: Mar 08, 2011 - 19:30
 
 Shawnmcc wrote:
Never been a big fan of lost heroin junkies.
 
Hate the sin, love the sinner.


alph
(Honolulu)
Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 00:39
 
So you're not a fan of the bulk of great rock songs ever recorded?

 Shawnmcc wrote:
Never been a big fan of lost heroin junkies.
 


Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Mar 04, 2011 - 00:37
 
Nice: a Bowie-song right after a song by Bowie himself (Lady Grinning Soul). And yet I prefer the original version...!

Shawnmcc
(Victoria, BC)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 14:35
 
Never been a big fan of lost heroin junkies.

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 14:28
 
lemmoth, I punched up the playlist to moan about "How can you play this most inferior version ...", but stopped to read your comment first.

Perhaps I should re-evaluate Nirvana, as I never have given them an honest, patient listen.  (Was too busy worrying about my boys and their depressing Smashing Pumpkins CDs.)

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 14:25
 
Interesting bass run ...