Vincent Vega Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I recently got the Nirvana boxset. As much as I didn't like Kurt as a person, I have to admit their music was the rawest, most touching music of their time, along with Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. Upon listening to Do Re Mi, which was Kurt Cobain's last song, recorded in his bedroom on approximately March 25, 1994, that raw edge is still there and you can really hear the pain and sorrow coming through his voice on the song. Just a very melodic, raw and beautiful song, even if it's a demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Is0tope Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 I recently got the Nirvana boxset. As much as I didn't like Kurt as a person, I have to admit their music was the rawest, most touching music of their time, along with Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. Upon listening to Do Re Mi, which was Kurt Cobain's last song, recorded in his bedroom on approximately March 25, 1994, that raw edge is still there and you can really hear the pain and sorrow coming through his voice on the song. Just a very melodic, raw and beautiful song, even if it's a demo.it's an awesome song. one of my favourite Nirvana tunes.you can really hear the pain and sorrow coming through his voice on the song. Just a very melodic, raw and beautiful song, even if it's a demoexactly.Damn, next Nirvana album would have been "very quiet and acoustic, with lots of stringed instruments" according to Michael Stipe with whom Kurt wanted to record a demo tape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 Damn, next Nirvana album would have been "very quiet and acoustic, with lots of stringed instruments" according to Michael Stipe with whom Kurt wanted to record a demo tape Wow. They were really hitting their musical peak when Kurt died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoon87 Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Damn, next Nirvana album would have been "very quiet and acoustic, with lots of stringed instruments" according to Michael Stipe with whom Kurt wanted to record a demo tape Reading that makes me really sad, cause we can only just imagine how fuckin' beautiful this would have turned out to be... Damn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Is0tope Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 (edited) Here's the whole Michael Stipe interview:Author: Jeff Giles Source: Newsweek, 9/26/94, Vol. 124 Issue 13, p60, 3p. What can you tell me about "Let Me In"? That's a song that I wrote to Kurt Cobain after he killed himself. [Pause.] I, um...I should be able to do this without getting emotional. [Pause.] I lost a friend in October -- River Phoenix was a very, very close friend of mine. And I've never suffered such a profound loss. I couldn't write for five months. We had started the record in September. I'd written two songs and then River died. And, having written "Automatic for the People," I was not about to write another record about death and loss. So it took me five months to sit down and write again. Then, halfway through making "Monster," Kurt died. At that point, I just threw my hands up and wrote "Let Me In." So when you sing "Hey, let me in" -- that's you talking to Cobain? That was me on the phone to him, desperately trying to get him out of the frame of mind he was in....In the most big- brotherly way -- God, I hate that term -- in the most genuine way, I wanted him to know that he didn't need to pay attention to all this, that he was going to make it through. If R.E.M. had sold 5 million copies of "Murmur," none of us would be alive to tell the tale. I really believe that. I'd have died with Quaaludes in my blood and a lot of Jack Daniels. What else did you and Cobain have in common? One of the things I think I've done successfully as a media figure is avoid a lot of the cliches, like the macho posing. I've tried really hard to blur the lines, and a lot of that does have to do with sexuality. I like fucking around with gender. I like writing songs that aren't gender-specific. And I really felt an alliance with both Kurt and River in that both of those guys, in their respective fields, were doing the same thing. The cliched take on your career is that, when you started out, you were very shy. It's not a cliche. It's the dead truth. I was unbearably shy. And that's part of what drew me to River. I recognized that in him. The first time I met him, his hair was completely covering his face. And I was like, "God, that was me at 22." There's an incredible vulnerability at the core of what River, Kurt and I do -- or did. Just before his death, Cobain said all he wanted to do was record with you. Do you know what sort of music he had in mind? Yeah, he talked a lot about what direction he was heading in. I mean, I know what the next Nirvana recording was going to sound like. It was going to be very quiet and acoustic, with lots of stringed instruments. It was going to be an amazing fucking record, and I'm a little bit angry at him for killing himself. He and I were going to record a trial run of the album, a demo tape. It was all set up. He had a plane ticket. He had a car picking him up. And at the last minute he called and said, "I can't come." Edited December 17, 2006 by pet0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Spade Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Does the rest of the song go "Fa So La Ti Do"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 wow that's funny... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Yeah, I love that song. I even cried the first time I heard it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicious Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Damn, next Nirvana album would have been "very quiet and acoustic, with lots of stringed instruments" according to Michael Stipe with whom Kurt wanted to record a demo tape Reading that makes me really sad, cause we can only just imagine how fuckin' beautiful this would have turned out to be... Damn...from what i've read it was to be kurts solo carear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songbird Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Damn, next Nirvana album would have been "very quiet and acoustic, with lots of stringed instruments" according to Michael Stipe with whom Kurt wanted to record a demo tape Reading that makes me really sad, cause we can only just imagine how fuckin' beautiful this would have turned out to be... Damn...Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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