Nirvana Podcast

In this episode podcasters Sytse and Jedidjah talk about the second half of Nirvana's legendary MTV Unplugged show and album. We talk about the songs, listen to demo's and researsals and share facts and our personal feelings about the music. We also discuss and listen to The Meat Puppets, Mark Lanegan and Leadbelly. And Batman. Please share, rate & review if you like the show.

What are the connections between Nirvana and The Beatles? Of course there is the musical inspiration, but there's more. Much more. And we try to uncover it all.

From Kurt as a child singing Beatles songs to Krist Novoselic doing the same during Nirvana shows. From Montage of Heck to the Kurt Cobain solo single And I Love Her. And from Nirvana to Sirvana...

What do you do when your spouse doesn't really like one of your favourite artists? You talk her into doing a podcast series with you for which she has to listen to all of their albums! That's the origin of a new podcast series about the great music of Iron and Wine.

Nirvana was a great live band and that's why we discuss their live albums: From the muddy banks of the Whiskah, Live at Pine Street Theatre (1990), Live at Reading (1992), Live at the Paramount (1991) and Live and Loud (1993).

In this episode - our penultimate - we discuss Pearl Jam and their relationship to Nirvana. Also we talk about Green River, Mother Love Bone, Neil Young and songs that have lists in them. Our guest Jelger explains what Pearl Jam means to him and why he thinks Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain were similar in spirit.