Other covers included David Bowie's " The Man Who Sold the World," which would serve as a single from the album release, Lead Belly's " Where Did You Sleep Last Night," which closed out the set, and a re-titled " Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam," which was initially done by The Vaselines.Īs for the Lead Belly cover, the song dated back for Cobain to the aforementioned Mark Lanegan disc The Winding Sheet. They were one of the only bands I'd seen since the Butthole Surfers that I really felt was in the same ballpark as us nihilistically and aesthetically and spiritually." Nirvana, "The Man Who Sold the World"
I think they immediately warmed my heart because I immediately felt some sort of spiritual kinship. Musically - by the time we heard them - we were too far gone into our own thing. He stated, "We'll never know how much influence we had on Kurt because we can't ask him that. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Curt Kirkwood was asked about the band's influence on Nirvana. Producer Alex Coletti told Guitar World, " wanted to hear the 'right' names - Eddie Vedder or Tori Amos or God knows who." Cris and Curt Kirwook joined the band for performances of " Plateau," " Oh, Me," and " Lake of Fire," the latter of which would receive plenty of play in the aftermath of the airing. Speaking of covers, three of those belonged to the Meat Puppets, whom Nirvana had been touring with just prior to the taping. Among the set list, only " Come As You Are" could be considered a major hit for the band. Unlike a lot of their peers, Nirvana didn't view this as a "greatest hits" show, instead opting to go deeper in choosing cuts and including a number of cover songs, something that didn't exactly sit well with the network. The disc featured a more stripped back sound and it should be noted that both Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic made guest appearances on the Lanegan disc. As Dave Grohl stated, "We'd seen the other Unpluggeds and didn't like many of them, because most bands would treat them like rock shows - play their hits like it was Madison Square Garden, except with acoustic guitars." Instead the band looked at Mark Lanegan's 1990 album The Winding Sheet as a source of inspiration.
But the band wasn't exactly keen on replicating what had been done by others before. Nirvana, who had released their In Utero album just two months prior to the taping, had been pursued by the network for what would definitely be considered a coup for the show.
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