a brief history of unreleased nirvana songs (video essay)

found the perfect video to watch with my meal

Finally a video that don't talk about how Nevermind changed music. That's what Nirvana fans want.

finally someone talks about "talk to me" and "weirdo" they're my favorite songs by nirvana

As a kid in the 90's, the only way you could hope to hear "New Nirvana songs" after Kurt was gone was to luckily find an insanely overpriced bootleg such as the Outcesides in a Flea Market. Or also if you could find a rare single and hear the b-sides. With the internet and YouTube you can hear literally everything. Their unreleased songs are better than most bands best efforts. I'm STILL hearing songs that are "new" to me after 30 years and it's a beautiful thing...I hope this well never goes dry.

"all because of you" and "excuse" both 100% sound like kurt to me, "all because of you" sounds a lot like the early bleach videos and such, the deepness in his voice is heard throughout that tour as well and is probably because of the mic's used on gear back then. as for "excuse" that sounds like kurt to me, and i hear his stella 100% you cannot fake the sound of kurts stella.

I have a feeling this video is gonna be massive in a few days

Wish Talk to Me got a studio treatment. Great song

I had E-Coli in the script and was going to put it in the video, but I deleted it from the script and didn't realize. It might not count as a full song since there aren't any lyrics, just screaming, but since I included Lullaby I was planning on showcasing E-Coli as well. So just know that there is an additional unreleased Nirvana song you can listen to that I didn't cover in this video. Thanks for watching, and let me know if I got any details wrong or am missing anything else!

i really like this video, hard to believe theres only like 200 views

they played “horrified” live once i think. also drunk covered the kiss song “do you love me”

I believe that "Weirdo" is Nirvana. That scream is undeniable, and sounds exactly like the scream he does in the versions of "Help Me, I'm Hungry" ("Vendetagainst") that are out there. People can fake a Cobain mumble singing style, but his scream is almost impossible to pull off.

I started getting into music and playing guitar, discovered the seasons in the sun version of nirvana, now I’m making a cover of that in a sort of post punkish way

This video is fantastic! I knew about some of these, but I really learned about some other tracks too!

A few corrections: • They played several shows under the name skid row, but the recordings of weirdo & Ms Buterworth are from a taped 1987 rehearsal, most likely at Krist's family home • Talk to me is only rumored to have been 1 of the songs played at a home recording session Kurt, Pat & Eric Earlanderson (of Hole) took part in sometime in late 93 or early 94, (the ONLY confirmed song from this session by Earlanderson is actually a cover of the clash's "Should I stay or should I go?") but nothing from that tape or the supposed post-intervention 94 recording of Kurt & Pat playing has surfaced... & I'm not sure what several second clip of an acoustic "talk to me" you're referring to as I didn't hear it in the video, but if it's the one I think you're referring to, it's unfortunately a proven fake • Not sure what your source on VCV being played @ the Lang Sessions is, but there's no reference to it on any of the studio logs & is not listed in live Nirvana's definitive notes on the session • There was already a well known circulating (here on yt as well) composite of the studio version of "Jam after dinner" with the live vocals from their 12/29/93 performance synched over it... Which vocal performance did you use? Edit: forgot one when originally writing this... • The allegation of Mari Earl destroying the original "Organized Confusion" demo is only an unsubstantiated rumor, & even if this does prove to be true, Nick Broomfield videotaped Mari playing the tape in full for "Kurt & Courtney", but hasn't released it, fearing possible litigation as he states in the film • The "t" in Krist's name is silent. His given name at birth was the standard American "Chris", & only changed it to the Slovakian spelling after meeting some distant relatives of his on tour in 94' • "Fecal" in Fecal Matter is pronounced "fee • khul" Other than that: excellent video! I too am actually launching a Nirvana yt channel very soon, in partnership with a website, perhaps we could work together in some way?

insane video :) ive heard all of these songs already but im so glad there's now a video spreading awareness of these skgs!

I live for videos like this

This was great, learned some and was reminded of some

Awesome job. Two videos in and I am a big fan of this channel already.

This was awesome, I love hearing about kurts early music and unreleased stuff very interesting. subscribed 👍

I remember getting ahold of Kurt and Courtney on VHS... circa 1999. I was DEEP down the rabbit hole back then.