Nirvana Unplugged: The Man Who Sold The World, with Dean Wareham

10/06/22 • 36 min

Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500, Dean & Britta, etc) is on the show!

Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Dean's band Luna was making major label rock albums at the same time Nirvana was, so he has an interesting perspective on the time period.

Dean and Jason talk about the aesthetics of "Unplugged", vocals, covers, and more.

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Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500, Dean & Britta, etc) is on the show!

Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Dean's band Luna was making major label rock albums at the same time Nirvana was, so he has an interesting perspective on the time period.

Dean and Jason talk about the aesthetics of "Unplugged", vocals, covers, and more.

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Nirvana Unplugged: Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam, with John Whitaker

We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York song by song. John Whitaker joins Jason to talk about Nirvana's cover of The Vaselines' Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam.

The two old friends and bandmates discuss John's teenage perspective on Nirvana in the 90s, everything that Dave Grohl adds to this performance, what it's like to have lived a song, the gift that Nirvana gave so many people by covering relatively unknown songs, and more.

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Nirvana Unplugged: Pennyroyal Tea, with Rob Collier

Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Rob Collier returns to the show to talk about Pennyroyal Tea, the 5th song on the album.

We explore why Rob didn't get into Nirvana in the 90s as much as he did the other major grunge bands, what makes this song and Kurt's performance of it on Unplugged so compelling, a little bit of music theory, and a lot more.

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