Nirvana Before Nevermind
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- Kurt Cobain wasn't born a rock god. Before Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Lithium, Something in the Way, Nevermind, Heart Shaped Box, or In Utero, Nirvana was just a band. Learn about their first label, Sub Pop, their first single, Love Buzz, their first album, Bleach, their first tours, and a lot more. Most notably, how they found Dave Grohl, and how they signed to DGC. All in one neat video.
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Oh btw, Krist Novoselic, Chad Channing, the Melvins, Foo Fighters, About a Girl - ตลก
i think nirvana is a pretty neat band :)
Don't we all?
@@YouraverageDusterfanWe do
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Me too Kurt is peachy keen
yeah it's cool i thinks
Jason: *does the same things as kurt*
Kurt: P O S E R
punk rock in a nutshell
every genre involving guitars in a nutshell
That was just a joke. Nirvana and Jason parted ways because Jason wanted to play sludge (like Bleach), whereas Kurt wanted to write pop songs (for Nevermind).
thats kinda what a poser is, alfonso.
Jason was very put together mentally, had a solid upbringing, didn't do heroin, and had a positive outlook on life. Completely different person than Kurt.
Imagine that feeling of having a song you recorded be played by a radio station for the first time.
I do think that Kurt was plagued by a feeling that nobody understood him or got him. I think he saw himself as an ineffective communicator and there was so much he wanted to express and so he relied on his music to be heard. You can imagine how he felt when the jocks and rednecks thought they understood him. He was continually frustrated and felt so alone a lot in this world.❤
@@joleneloveland4602 no, he was in love with his own melodrama and was a "nice guy" given everything he wanted but was just too edgy to live
@@joleneloveland4602 Irony is he'd probably identify more with the rednecks today since they're the current impermissibly alienated outcasts of society. It's either that or Rage on the part of The Machine.
I know you probably get this a lot, but your videos are very well edited, as well as informative, you manage to keep the balance between being too boring and being to loud, you have established the perfect medium for music lovers looking for a bit of insight on their semi niche topics. either way I'm all here for it. keep up the great work!
That's very nice of you to say. Thank you!
It is terrible. Stop watching 20 minute trash videos and thinking you educated yourself on something.
Agreed.
@@MarcButEvil your videos are better than social studies if it was music instead of our country’s history
Yep good job brother 💯
As a hardcore Nirvana fan, I'm happy a pre nevermind history video with this amount of class, respect, knowledge, era appropriate footage/photos and good taste in humor. Thank you very much for this video and all your other works
@theshiningemerald4288 completely agree with you. We need more videos like this one. I think Cobain will never cease to be an important figure on the international rock scene. He left its mark on an entire generation and continues to impact the most recent ones. Kurt's story is worth knowing and telling.
Yes
You didn't finish your sentence
Happy birthday Brian Bell, Nevermind changed my life and im so glad Brian left his indelible mark on history with this one
He's so goddamn hot bro
Chad actually looks alot like Rivers Cuomo tbh.
I fucking love brian bell@@Jervenshmine
Nirvana is probably one of the best examples of hard work pays off. They literally started off so broke that they were having trouble paying off bills. And yes, hard to believe that the world’s largest grunge band started off with no money. Now if I were them, I wouldn’t believe in myself and I would probably just give up on trying to make it big. But Nirvana (specifically Kurt and Krist) didn’t think or do that. They kept working and working and going to shows and preforming. Kurt was literally singing and playing the guitar while dealing with stomach pains. And after 3 hard years of work, they did it. They had become the #1 grunge band in the world. They went from selling thousands of records to selling millions. They went from preforming in front of a few hundred people or a thousand people to preforming in front of tens of thousands of people. They had become the biggest band of the early 90s. And that is a good example of why hard work pays off.
To bad Kurt had demons he literally was a genius, and genius misunderstood
I'm just correcting this out of my OCD but it's not preforming it's performing
Nirvana became big in 3 years or over 2 and it took led zeplin 6 or so years
The lyrics thing isn't true. He wrote lyrics and poetry in a notebook and all the songs had lyrics when they were practicing them. New songs he would change the lyrics until he was happy with them and when he went in the studio he would have to settle on what they should be. Dave said he saw him scribbling lyric ideas at the last minute on the way to the studio and everyone took this to mean he didn't care about lyrics and threw them together at the end. But he was just taking what he already had from his notebook and finalizing them. He also went to the library and studied poetry. So the, "he didn't care about lyrics" myth really sucks. He also liked teen spirit despite what the internet generation think.
I posted a similar comment lol no great lyric writer does it in 5 minutes
but still, that's not really caring about lyrics, right? just getting some pieces of poetry and glueing them together to form something somewhat coherent is far from caring about lyrics
Studying about the subject doesnt really seem like something anyone would do if they didnt give a shit @@pedrov.8087
Hey whatever works..looks like it worked for him. His lyrics can all be pared down to get what he was addressing and how he felt about it..although his screaming indicated the depth of that pain, while the lyric lines were the back story. He was alot about relating his pain to you in hopes that somewhere someone could relate or understand.❤
@@pedrov.8087 It is his own poetry...
I am a founding member of the Nirvana fan club on prodigy message boards. Pre nevermind days were rough as the internet was basically people dialing up to prodigy or AOL to write a message on a public forum that might never even be seen by anyone. I was 12 years old and it was a really fun time!
I have the flu but I saw nirvana/ MarcbutEvil I clicked on it and I already feel better. Thanks marc. It is incredible how well detailed the story is, you are a great storyteller with a particular sense of humor. I really enjoyed these videos about nirvana.
It's so refreshing to find someone who makes informative but entertaining videos about Nirvana! I never heard about the nervous breakdown and also the breakup with that girl and what made him push to drugs... Thank you.
Nirvana left their mark on an entire generation. Some fans said that he hated “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. According to them Kurt wasn't the most excited about playing it live. It is said that in many shows he avoided doing so and if he did, he made an intentional mistake.
You can see videos of them f*cking up the song live.
The thing about never mind is that it kind of goes against a lot that curt stood for
Curt cobain hated the mainstream and loved being an underground band so now that all the jocks and popular people think it’s the best album ever he kind of no longer enjoyed it
If that makes sense
My dad loves underground bands and used to listen to nirvana before never mind
It’s not necessarily a bad album at all it’s just the mainstream ruining cultures / music scenes
@@BlaiseStAmand lol People talking about their dads
OH MY GAWD
The care and consideration that went into this video is very apparent. You've ballenced the line of funny and informative increadibly and your voice! Silky smooth! Please make more videos! (And maybe about other Seattle groups)
I was thinking about it & I realized that Nirvana was touring Bleach in Europe right when the Berlin Wall fell. In fact, they started the German leg of the tour two days before it fell. Not that they were some huge stadium act at the time, but I think that the excitement of the era definitely contributed to their success, because they were an American punk band. I think they were actually bigger in Europe first before Nevermind was released, you can kinda see this vibe in 1991: The Year Punk Broke.
I don't understand. What does the emotion of the falling of the berlin wall have to do with Nirvana itself, mate? I don't understand, mate.
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I will now be using love buzz to describe that
Honestly an amazing video, looking forward to the next part!
a new marcbutevil video is the best thing to happen to me today
i got so excited when i saw you posted, i love your content man, keep it up!!
I've never bought the idea that he didn't put much thought into the lyrics. With the number of rewrites he did it's clear he put a lot of thought into them. I've always thought he was just distancing himself from how truly personal a lot of them are.
Indeed. I think he resented people trying to "figure him out" as if that could be done from a few lines he wrote. So I think he very much tried to simplify his songs by making his situations more universal than personal. But because of his raw emotional vocals you could tell the words meant a lot to him. So as not to encourage speculation, in interviews he would down play them. I think the last thing he wanted was anybody feeling sorry for him.❤
I was born the same year as Cobain so may have similar/crossover influences. I played guitar and wrote songs from 89-99. I always thought lyrics were secondary and often threw many different ideas into the same song just to get a rhyme or words that sounded good together.
I do believe Cobain was much the same, certainly with the lyrics to most songs that made up the first.two albums. I believe he may have put himself under pressure to have more cohesive lyrics for In Utero though to satisfy the fans.
I found your channel today and have enjoyed every video so far! My hat is off to you, you will 100% get more subs with this content and you deserve it too! Would love to see more videos about various bands, One I think would fit your recent videos would be one about the Soviet rock band Kino and Viktor Tsoi
Nirvana is back! Great video as always👍
I love the way you presented this video, the memes, the photos, and footage of their old days before nevermind! Great video!
it’s so surprising you don’t get hundreds of thousands of views, genuinely well put together videos
i love your videos they are so good and you go into so much detail its impressive
Absolutely love these videos
Pretty much some of the best music journalism on TH-cam
Great summaries of the history of various bands that really only present the most important or interesting info
Question: Are you gonna check out the new edition of Come As You Are?
I heard it doubled the page length
I know I wanna check it out eventually
Yet another banger brought to you by MarcButEvil
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A MARCBUTEVIL VIDEO HAS BEEN RELEASED
I see your real, objective and humurous perspective dear sir and I appreciate it. Well put.
aw yeah man new marcbutevil nirvana video
That was awesome...probably gonna watch it more than once...Thanks...
The best art is made after a heart is broken
Ah another great video from my favorite nieezer hall channel
i would love it if you continue the nirvana videos until their end
You are awesome I watch every video you make you light up my day.
Nice video!! I can tell that you put a lot of effort in it, keep it up!!
Very well done video. Thank you!
Mannn i want the 3rd video i love them!!!
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i havent watched the full thing does this have anything to do with this
Every time MarcButEvil uploads a video it’s the best part of the time until he uploads again
i really look forward to your videos thank you a lot
truly an amazing video
Thks a lot for the info and the researching. Im just discovering Nirvana and wanting to know more objetive info. It was a video with value amd also I passed a good time ^^
Honey, wake up Marc uploaded!
Fantastic video, thanks!!
1988 was cool ....i was in high school in Santa Ana California...good stuff
wow, dgc really took a leap of faith and Nirvana truly delivered beyond all expectations.
I've been waiting for another NIRVANA video after the last one.
Well done vid of early days Nirvana. I like it!
Haha hey man!
As hardcore Nirvana fan... This is a Great video!
This is the first of your videos that I've ever seen, and it absolutely shreds the lazy video essays I have so far seen here about music from my formative era during the alt/grunge renaissance. It's really satisfying to consume a video made by someone whose personal investment in the topic is unmistakable and whose research goes deeper than Wikipedia and Rolling Stone. So I've got to say thanks, man - my radio heroes as a kid were Kurt, Layne, Scott, Chris, and Eddie... and Eddie's the only one that life, the industry, or a combination of both didn't break in the end. I miss them all, and getting to see Kurt's stories done right in this format has been a treat.
I don't think any of their music is incredible. But I credit Kurt with being the 90's version of Bowie. As a curator keeping alive & getting back together bands who he loved and/or influenced him which were IMO much more groundbreaking & overall musically prescient than Nirvana. If nothing else, he had impeccable musical taste.
This ways beautifully done
Every video is excellent. You make it seem effortless but I can tell you put so much effort into your research, script and editing ~ excuse me while I rewatch every Weezer video 😅
Oh this is gonna be fantastic.
Thank you bro! We finally got good a band that isnt the foo fighters or weezer
Dude great video
love videos like these
The stuff Nirvana was playing between 1987-1988 deserved its own album. Dark, weird, uncomfortable, hilarious.
fire video. i luv nirvana
“Tad” threw a party in July of ‘94 & my band played our first show together there.
Time flies. ☮️❤️🎶
i love this channel
This band going to be BIG , cant wait
YES NEW POSTT
It's the spontaneity of the lyrics, the immediate thoughtlessness of them, that make them so awesome. And Mudhoneyed af.
I never really enjoyed music that much i liked listening to it but nothing outside of that until I found buddy holly and thus found ur channel ik it sounds cheesy but ur channel helped spark an interest in music for me and I'm grateful i found it
That's awesome! I hope that interest only grows from here.
Buddy Holly was the one that seriously started the varied genre of rock n roll. He lived just long enough to see it's very beginnings; it's birth, but he was very aware of it and realized it's potential power.
These guys are gonna be huge
Personally I've always preferred Bleach to Nevermind
Also Jason Everman became a Green Beret and went to Columbia so I think he wound up doing OK
Also also Kurt probably had Celiac before people knew what it was
i appreciate how much you emphasize on how much 100,000 dollars is
Now we can just wait for the “Nirvana after Nevermind” or “Cobain before becoming a contemporary artist” in fact ngl I’m really interested to see the next video
Back when Nirvana was punk!
We need a Novoselic After Nirvana video. Absolutely love your content been bingewatching all weekend
Great Video !
Awesome video❤
Never been this early to a video I know will blow up
Dude I am completely convinced you are the TH-camr that could make a video on how similar Weezer/Nirvana are. Your research for videos and content is very noticeable
I was past 40 years when I first heard, Nirvana’s music. I was not impressed with the first 16 bars of one of there early album songs but then they played the 17th bar and it was the perfect resolution to what had gone before and I was hooked. God, I love listening pleasure.
Beautiful video
Waited 4 months for this video 😿
I miss Kurt and he was my favorite person and guitar player rip happy 30 y😢🎉
As soon as I saw this on my for you page I was like oh hell yeah
Damn, Nirvana didn't seem to like Rome very much.
True. Rome is the city where Cobain will later be hospitalized in 1993, about a week before his death.
DUDE YOUR VIDOES ARE SO GOOD I LOVE THIS SHIT
I was happy seeing them in 1989 in Austria Graz. It's was only a coincidence but after the first song, i knew they will get big. Even in his youth was my favorite at that day…
It is hard to get those opportunities nowadays in music industry.
Im not too sure if u have done a video like this, but do u have plans to do a video on chris novoselic? And where he is today and what not
Please do a part 3
I enjoy your videos cuz I'm a big fan of bands like Nirvana and Weezer,etc...
But I'm also a huge comic book dork. And so I HAVE to ask; what's the deal with Nightcrawler's face on your little channel icon thing?
I was 11 when I first heard Nirvana on MTV in `91. I still remember "slamming" on my grandparent`s shaky livingroom floor as I heard Nevermind for the first time! They were the beginning of my independent taste in music.
It`s still funny to me, born in 1980, to hear people born in the 70`s, hate on Nirvana. They cannot see the genious of his melodic hooks and lyrics, for the death of their beloved hair /glam metal genre! Had he just found the strength to kick the heroin and continued to write music, I am 100% sure he would rise to Lennon level legend!
And all the hair metal dudes would still hate on them just because!
Huh, huh, huh This is cool!
It's confirmed: Garfield is a punk rocker
I personally read Heavier than Heaven about 2-3 years ago and I gotta say, it's a great read if you're into Nirvana.
Also amazing video 🤘🤘
The author takes Courtney Love's word as gospel so there's alot of lies in the book.
@@lorisnyder8224 I hear people say this, but no one ever points out the specific lies. I've read both Heavier Than Heaven and Come As You Are and I don't recall there being much difference between the two.
You should see Soaked in Bleach & listen to CL being taped. I would not read it but can guess what she said about her great love for Kurt. Bet she left out the part about him asking for a divorce.
@@lorisnyder8224 I'm not interested in that conspiracy BS. I asked for an example of the lies in Heavier Than Heaven. I'm assuming you haven't even read it.
@@paulwblair an easy example is in regards to Nirvana's final recording session. the information was easily accessible to him given how much access he had to courtney when he was writing the book. instead he peddled BS like the following:
* You Know You're Right had lyrics like "walking in the piss" when this was in Courtney's version.
* Kurt played drums on Marigold (the entire song was recorded by Dave and Dave only)
* Kurt screams "Pain" in You Know You're Right when listening to the acapella he clearly just screams "hey"
* He attributes "Skid Marks" and "Butterfly" to Kurt when these were both written by Dave and were recorded without Kurt around (the second song is actually Butterflies and is a popular unreleased Foo Fighters song)
Bonus: He claims Courtney "co-wrote" Pennyroyal Tea when the first recording is of Kurt and Dave recording it in 1990 in their apartment.
The book is a piece of garbage full of inaccurate information. Before you give me the "oh, how could he have known," there are other folks like Gillian Gaar who had less access than he did and put in the time and research and got paid less to actually obtain the facts.
If you need more proof of the worthlessness of the book, happy to keep going. Thanks.
People tend to overlook that Kurt was pretty savvy in promoting Nirvana in the early days. He so desperately wanted to become big that when it hit like a tsunami it was at first exhilarating but when the newness of fame wore off he become an icon and voice that he had a love/hate relationship with.
I could imminently tell that the first song was “heart shaped box” it’s my favorite nirvana song
I found you while going down a rabbit hole last night. I now have no sleep but have never been more entertained.
The original Love Buzz song by Shocking Blue is trippy.
The bands were all looking for their "psychedelic sound" around then with a trippy instrumental break in the middle of the song.
The Grateful Dead continued the practice, at their live concerts, which they called "space"
That’s a cool video, I hope nothing bad happened later
epic video
18:19 that camera man was wilding
i get him though
I grew up listening to Nirvana. Read a couple of biographies. Man, oh man, was Kurt cobain A little whimp lol. But I still love them.
This end before the "90s" actually started. Incredible how one album shape the music of half a decade.
"and high on their many successes at this point, and some other things-" i loled (lol)
Yea 1989 on tour he still sounded like any other drunk bar band back then, when I saw them live.and he was on Sub Pop the 'THEE' label back then.