I demand an explanation for what is happening in this nirvana apperance

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCQ3at2432U&search=top%20of%20the%20pops

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Is he singing? what's with his voice??!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 7 May 2006 03:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brainmeeting.com/images/brain_Animation2.gif

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

they're taking the piss.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 7 May 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Indeed. I thought it was widely known Nirvana pulled this shit a lot in their career. As did others on shows like TOTP because they didnt want to have to mime - and wow, a whole wiki page on just that! :D Brill.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 7 May 2006 07:06 (twenty years ago)

I see. I realized he was not playing the guitar, but the vocals threw me. I always notice, in movies or "live" music, when people are not really playing their instruments. Espcaially in movies where people are playing the piano. I love when you hear a cymbal crash and you see that the drummer has not crashed any cymbal, or when you hear a flute or something and there is no flute player

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 7 May 2006 09:11 (twenty years ago)

they were always up to this sort of stuff, didn't they sing different lyrics on a performance on The Word?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Sunday, 7 May 2006 11:49 (twenty years ago)

I think he's paying tribute to Andrew Eldritch

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 7 May 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

they were supposed to play whatever the single at the time was when they played Jonathan Ross, but switched to Territorial Pissings instead.... that was awesome...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

didn't they sing different lyrics on a performance on The Word?

They ended a performance on the Word with Kurt saying "Courtney Love is the greatest fuck in the world", didn't they?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

that's the one...

y'know, having not seen any of this footage for ages, its a shock just how awesome nirvana looked on teevee.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

otm

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 7 May 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I think he's paying tribute to Andrew Eldritch

HAHAHAHAHA. Holy shit! This is not an understatement nor overstatement, either.

― DOQQUN (donut), Sunday, 7 May 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

It was actually a tribute to Morrissey, fact fans.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 7 May 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

One of the greatest TV moments ever. (I guess I'm pretty fucking biased though, since in my prospective top 100 TV moments, at least 6 or 7 of them would be Nirvana related.)

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 7 May 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Didn't they also do "Rape Me" at the Grammys or MTV awards after they'd promised they wouldn't?

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

dude throwing his bass up in the air and it landing on his head was funny AND scary. think that was on mtv awards. maybe not. i remember it made me like the guy a little bit more. it was so nerdy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

It was actually a tribute to Morrissey, fact fans.

hold up mark, are you sure you're not confusing this with the lemonheads' mighty totp version of "mrs robinson", during which evan sings the "where have you gone jo dimaggio etc" bit in a pitch-perfect moz voice?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Kurt certainly had the mozza vibrato going in that chorus, so I'd buy it. The verses were too low for his register tho, which is why he's got more of an Eldritch thing goin' on there. I thought it was great!

I wonder why theyoutube clip ends early tho - it looked like a bunch of kids had started storming the stage...?

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

It was actually a tribute to Morrissey, fact fans.

Morrissey = didn't wear shades on stage, didn't use fog machines, doesn't have a particularly low voice, doesn't stand dead still in front of the mic
Eldritch = always wore shades on stage, always used fog machines, has a low tremulous voice, stands dead still in front of the mic

of course Cobain may have said it was Morrissey, but in all likelihood Cobain had forgotten all about the whole affair within days...it was a rather busy year for him

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he'd just fucked up his voice and couldn't be arsed screaming. :)

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

haha yes there's also the possibility that he'd been high for fourteen consecutive months and the whole thing was just sort of a lark

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

i think i do still have Nirvana's 2nd appearance on SNL on tape somewhere, doing "Rape Me" as their 2nd song

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

DUDE. I would totally listen to Nirvana all the time if they actually sounded like that.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 8 May 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

this was that sweet honeymoon period nirvana went through. somewhere between "holy fuck were an alternative band and were number one!!" and "holy shit if i have to play that song again im going to kill myself gimme some smack". this was one of many shots at the whole top 40 establishment that was hilarious at the time. kind of a 'hey we're indie and we fooled them, now look how were fucking with them! haha!' vibe.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016fr66/broadcasts/upcoming

BBC4 are broadcasting the "Live at the Paramount" filum.

That's what is happening in this apperance.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

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