Added: 4 years ago
From: bermudezang
Views: 73,687
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (249)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • thats weird i thought this was the history of alt rock not just REM and Nirvana. One little mention of Smashing Pumpkins, wow. They were one, if not the biggest alt rock bands ever

  • this entire episode depresses me :(

  • oh man can you image R.E.M. and Nirvana collaborating on an album? Damn

  • fucking and where the strokes left the sons of bitches all .. suckle his mother skunk if it is the more righteous band of the last decade ..!!! She rescued the rock

  • Just watch the first part of this video of Dave Grohl after watching the end, It really cracks you up!! No sadness, always look on the bright side of life!

  • I recall when I heard his death and the way he dies I was super angry. Some how I knew Grunge was coming to an end it was way too short. My geneartion had to wait a long time to be heard thanks to the baby boomers and now what has replaced the meaingfull music I came to love? More Commerical crap. If you seek me you will find me left of the dial like in the old days. PEACE

  • i want to say this

    dont blame me for the shit played now

    blame ipod and 12 year olds

  • This eyes in 6:29 have a image of god to me...Love you man!

  • kurt cobain was and still is my very one hero. He was the reason to pick up a guitar, to appasionately love music. and, like bob dylan, my biggest respect for him stands for his autenticity. RIP Kurt. You are missed

  • Does anyone know what the music at 1:39 is?

  • Great, just wat i have 2 hear after the death of one of the greatest rock stars on earth, a Killers commercial, i mean, theres no soul in it

  • i can not imagine myself how dave and krist both felt when they were in that studio listening to the whole unplugged thing and finishing the recording process, rest in peace Kurt Cobain.

  • 'come as you are' sounds magical acoustically.

  • what's the music starts 1.40?

  • krist novaselich looks like all of the ghostbusters (except the black one) rolled into one

  • the ending makes me sadd still. we all know the ending of nirvana, and 16 yrs later I'm still saddin, and angered....

  • The early 90's were a unique era in music and art. A time when an artist could lay bare his emotions in a song, and it didn't really matter if he was the most technically competent musician. Today, I am sorry to say, "artists" seem more like they're all dressing up and playing rock star. Welcome back to the 1980's...

  • @berenanarion213 yes that meens the 90s repeates

  • the end made me cry

  • What Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and even Michael Stipe say at the end here is so heartbreaking. Kurt could've taken his music anywhere, had he gotten his demons under control. I get even more upset looking at today's young music stars who have almost none of the drive or the passion or perhaps most important of all, the life experience that Kurt had. None of that is reflected in today's music.

  • I know that it's said too often, but after seeing such a movie like this, I get so fucking upset. The real music starts to be forgotten, and all those motherfuckers like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga get plenty of chances. These people got a team of 30 men at their disposal who make a song for them and let them sing it. Where has the passion gone?

  • Damn the end is so sad with Krist tlaking about Kurt. I tear up every time I watch

  • though nirvana is amazing, they should talk about red hot chili peppers, smashing pumpkins and pearl jam, they focused way too much on nirvana and r.e.m. this is a documentary on alternative music

  • This was a good doc but it felt to me more like a Kurt Cobain bio.

  • Thank you, bermudezang! WMG are stupid, soulless bastards but your efforts are very much appreciated.

  • theres a rumor that kurt had a new Girlfriend and was planing on leaving courtney...and there is many more rumors!

  • @davie96667 *are

  • @davie96667 Id beleive it, Courtney was a total bitch. I would of blown my fucking head off too if i was with her, Now that bitch is still here except with all of kurts money

  • justiceforkurt(dot)com

  • Yeah, I think PJ's first 3 are their best and only the first 2 would I consider essential. Mojo magazine in a 1996 review of Neil Young's 'Mirrorball' album (where PJ was his backing band) said, "Nirvana had the substance, Pearl Jam had the fluff." Overstated but I still think there is a grain of truth in that. Still, it doesn't stop me from enjoying their music. Besides, Soundgarden was better than both bands!! :-)

  • Did anyone else got watering eyes by hearing Nirvana here? When i saw that episode (Left of the dial) i came to understand that with Kurt Cobain honesty pretty much died in music business, with the exception of Radiohead.

  • thanks to the uploader for posting but out of sync, can you fix?

  • so sad the bit at 6.55 i think where Dave Grohl talks about the one thing he'd change.

  • that stare at 6.29 is like hes just remembered he left the stove on...lol

  • @powertrust71 LOL agreed

  • I thought "The Burn out" Quote is from The Highlander movie

  • the climax of Where did you sleep last night is amazing.

  • lets put it this way, there's no more poetry in music these day's, and the 90's rock and roll was grunge, but the 2000's rock and roll bring nothing to the table to have young people relate to, the lyrics tell little to no story and pretty much any one can get a record deal these day's if they can rhyme and rap or sing songs along with a night club beat...All I have to say is fucking A.

  • i mostly agree, there are still some really good quality bands though. some not as hard as grunge but still good. bands like the white stripes, kings of leon, muse, wolfmother, eskimo joe.

    other bands like cog really have the potential to bring good loud meaningful music back.

    dont forget grohl either, foo fighters, somewhat successful (lol) and every bit as good as nirvana as well as his latest project, them crooked vultures (also featuring josh homme [QOTSA), John Paul Jones [zeppelin])

  • i loved this show. me, my brother, and my sister all watched Nirvana in Reading in HD then we watched this and i almost cried. we all enjoyed it except it was sooo sad at the end when it talked about trying to save kurt from his depression and then dave and krist were talking about his death and it was sooo sad):

    r.i.p kurt <3

  • Too bad the documentary focuses so much on Nirvana, and not so much on the bands that paved the way, would have loved to have heard more about Black Flag, The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr. etc..

  • too bad u seem to focus on this one instead of the entire video parts or never really seen this show....  they do not focus on nirvana... I also like Dino Jr. and so on!

  • I saw the whole series. They simply do, there is a little bit of talk about 'left of the dial', but the rest is pretty much about REM, Nirvana and the political circumstances under which alternative music of the late 80's and early 90's was shaped .

    They also discuss Black Flag a bit, but that's pretty much it.

  • Agreed! Has there been an "official" Nirvana documentary made? I would like to see some of those other bands mentioned as well.

  • April 5,1994 the day great and more importanly REAL music died,with the last great rocker Kurt Cobain,R.I.P.

  • There was a time when I would agree with you, but Radiohead and Jeff Buckley rose after him, and they were both 'great' and 'real.' But I agree it's been downhill since Kurt died.

  • Great musician, but no. Pearl Jam are still going strong, and they were much better than Nirvana. And if Cobain was still alive, Nirvana would either be irrelevant of broken up.

    RIP Kurt.

  • Going strong? Their last album was poo, and so were several prior to that. Honestly, the only Pearl Jam albums that I can listen to all the way through are Ten and Vs. Vitalogy has a few good songs but was inconsistent and a let down from Vs. Nirvana, if around today, would be far from irrelevant, though they probably wouldn't be popular. Cobain even said that he was planning on going in a different direction after In Utero - something more like New Wave.

  • Last album was critically acclaimed, and a great change in direction. Vitalogy has some of their best songs ever. The only albums I consider no good is Binaural, and that was a weak point for the band at the time. As good as Nirvana are to listen to, I cant help but think theyre slightly overrated based on Cobains death. Pearl Jam headlined Reading in 2006, Lollapalooza in 07, and Bonaroo in 09, theyre doing pretty well.

  • To each his own. In Utero was more gritty and had the sound Nirvana was looking for, but it was still grunge, and Cobain said he was done with grunge after that. He said he was experimenting with a lot of different sounds and wanted his fourth album to be much, much different. Obviously that wasn't going to happen, and what a bummer that is, I'm sure it would have been their White Album. Anyway, if you like Pearl Jam's later stuff then that's fine, but to me it's just not appealing.

  • I think thats the case with a lot of people with Pearl Jam. Their later stuff, people kinda took it or left it. Lot of people didnt like Riot Act, I do.

  • @PopCultureSucks If you look hard enough, there is still great music that has come out since Cobains death. I've never bought in to the theory that Nirvana was the last good rock band and music died the day he did.

  • @fatcatbuzz I did some thinking and they said the same thing after John Lennon died. It took about ten or so years before we saw another artist like John Lennon and that was Kurt Cobain. I don't think anymore that rock music is done, I just think now that it needs a new leader, but yes I totally agree with you.

  • @PopCultureSucks I agree with you about the leader thing. But, for me Nirvana was just one of many bands during that time I was into. In fact, I can think of many other bands during that time that I liked just as much if not more than Nirvana. I do know what you mean. Every since about 1998, mainstream music really went downhill. There definitely hasn't been good music on commercial radio and that's what I miss most about the 80s and 90s. Even MTV has changed since the 90s. It's sad, really.

  • @PopCultureSucks i feel u man, wat ppl should do now is just starting a new band nd try 2 bring real music back, thats wat im trying 2 do, posting my songs on utube nd stuff, but nobody will ever match the awesomeness nd just the sheer power nd feeling of kurt cobain

  • @ingk2 true WE have the power to change music and thats a brilliant idea

  • I don't know, I really, really don't know...I think Kurt killed himself partially because he knew where it was all going, I mean you could see the signs there, the Record companies had already turned all the sarcasm of Alternative music inside out into pretty 'sub-pop' records, what was left? But man, then I would have never imagined it would have gotten this bad.

  • LONG LIVE KURT COBAIN

  • YEAH LONG LIVE FOR A MUSIC GOD

  • Woooo HOTRODS!! I love those drum sticks.

  • Nirvana are not alternative rocks greatest triumph,sorry

  • Comment removed

  • yea the replacements are i agree.

  • Who are then? Radiohead? I'd go for them.

  • Id pick the replacements or rem. Radiohead had three great albums but have faded. And prob should call it a day

  • Replacements, haven't heard much by them, listened to Let it Be once. R.E.M. is my favourite band, so nice choice.

    Radiohead's last 6 albums have been unreal, whichever ones you didn't like, listen again, they reveal themselves slowly, but they're genius. In Rainbows, their latest effort, is one of my favourites.

  • good shout on replacements.

  • come as you are.

  • kinda pisses me off nirvana was great but not the only alternative band more grunge than alternative. and they spent the whole thing on one alternative band.

  • agree, i was waiting for this doc, and they turned it into a soap opera.

  • Man, what Krist says at the end really chokes you up.

  • so sadd,even to this day. to think of what kurt could of done more in music or life.

  • I hate reading the comments of people who expect musicians to be becons of a certain lifestyle. So Kurt had a big house, so he took drugs, so fucking what.

    He was a great song writer, and a troubled person, nothing more nothing less. Of course he wasnt flawless, you cant expect that of him.

  • none of u understood kurt...

  • unsigned alternative artist-please check out my songs on my channel---thanks,, jonathan

  • Kurt was a great songwriter, no doubt. But the very best from that era was Eddie Vedder. Absolutly no other artist has such talent as a songwiter and lyricist and yet goes about it with absolute grace and dignity.

  • That last bit on Unplugged when he stops and opens his eyes and then crys the last few notes, that really got me, R.I.P Kurt.

  • he may hav created grunge but he brought back a lot of stuff back to rock in general. great voice, great musician, great songwriter. xxx

  • R.I.P Kurt Cobain, you may be dead but you music will live on forever in my heart and many others alike.

  • its not stupid pepol who comit suicide, its those not strong enough to live the truth they were inteligent enough to understand.

  • sync it asswipe

  • Anyone who thinks he's a coward for killing himself i disagree with. Takes alot of balls to shoot yourself in the face, especially when you have as much as he did to live for. Which is why i to this day don't think he did it by himself.

  • Its a little bit of both. Sure, it might not be cowardly to go through with blowing your brains out and ending everything, but at the same time it's cowardly that he decided to deal with his life that way (ending it).

  • Ok, I like Nirvana as a band but I don't really like Kurt and I definitely can't stand his fanboys. However, he never asked to be a "spokesman of his generation". He was only labeled as such by the stupid media and treated as such. I don't recall him ever asking to be anyone's spokesman or idol or role model. No doubt what he did to himself was shitty, considering he had a kid...

  • Omg how can u hate some1 u don't know ..?

    I love his music cause it speaks 2 me , I've seen some of his home movies/interviews , read some of his journal(couldn't invade his privacy that much) , read some of his quotes he's a laid back, open minded , I don't care what u think about me kind of guy

    EVERY1 would love him ! !!!!!

  • I don't hate Kurt. I don't like him either. Even though I like the music and there were things about him that I liked (for instance, his stance on homophobia and racism), I can not condone what he did in any way.

  • Have you ever experienced withdrawl symptoms from heavy drug use? I haven't either but i can only imagine it puts you into your own personal hell and probably hard to think about others.

  • forever kurt cobain!!

  • so like me

  • DAMON ALBARN RULES BRIT|POP 4EVER

  • true this. albarns the man

  • they sent jason bourne to wack kurt cobain

  • Well Yusef, but Nirvana or Kurt´s image hasn´t really fade away, have they? I don´t think he saw the world the way you see it. He just lost the plot, I don´t see a spoil lad, just some one who lost direction. But definately I refuse to belive he would feel he was sentenced to fade away if he would have chosen to keep up with his music. As far as I´m concerned. He was a great musician, great writter.

  • It's pathetic if KC quoted that dumb Neil Young lyric in his suicide note. Pathetic and stupid. In fact, almost pathetic and stupid enough for me to lose respect. If KC perceived his choice as being between suicide and fading away and he chose suicide, he must have thought any continuing creative effort on his part was just a fading away. If so, there's no soul there. There's a spoiled, self-centered brat.

  • Interesting comment. But the "fading away" alternative was not related to the creativity flow, but to the "drug spin" he knew he couldn't control anymore. Cheers!

  • my exact opinion is wut Sebassthien says. i rly dont think Nirvana should be the band to represent the early rise of the alternative rock subgenre. they have some ok songs, but their too destructive. they dont have that kind of ring and/or 'chime' in their sound that actually defines the alt-rock sound like Pearl Jam and them. and not to mention that Nirvana is HORRIBLY overrated

  • Kurt Kobain seems like a nice guy though and i do still respect the guy. even he himself didnt like how Teen Spirit got so popular above almost all their other stuff. but seriously, his band really didnt have the true elements of the alt-rock sound.

    plus their music is the exact opposite of wut the word "nirvana" actually means. i mean LOOK IT UP

  • come on. maybe thats your opinion and i respect that but lets live it to individuals to judge what they like to listen to.

    don't have to impose your point of view on others on which band (s) should've taken the credit. if you like pearl jam and etc, thats good but you dont have to go so far and flame nirvana just because you dont find their sound 'appealing'.

  • yea i know. but its just that i'm so tired of everywhere i try to go to find other elements of the alt-rock sound, i hav to go through like seas of Nirvana jazz before i can get even just the least bit satisfied. i know that if it werent for Nirvana, fuckin hair metal would still be fagging up the place (but, not to mention, now we have to work on eliminating Emo.)

  • yeah. emo / screamo / post-hardcore scene. they're music is kinda good. but i just dont get it when they scream every now and then. and their image-conscious mindset which funnily reminds me of those 80s hair-metal bands.

  • 16 seconds dave

    wtf?

    haha

  • You can feel Novoselic´s nostalgy as he speaks of Kurt. He really belived in him, he really felt it!!!

  • ha they did more than pull the unplugged gig off

  • i HATE all the stupids what says that NIRVANA IS GRUNGE AND THE GRUNGE DIED WITH KURT COBAIN... i saw all the freacking documentary and i really expected something else... man... like an hour talking of nirvana and kurt... what about PEARL JAM what about ALICE IN CHAINS, SOUNDGARDEN, TEMPLE OF THE DOG...

  • yr totaly right

  • i liked the documentary but to make a documentary on alternative american rock and just making passing references to alice in chains pearl jam or the smashing pumpkins kinda sucks... nirvana and rem were great but there was more to it

  • 1991, i was eighteen and the music scene was unbelieveable.today im thirty five and i feel for the kids of today.the music SUCKS.there will never be a better time for music than early nineties. god help us

  • I'll help! We are the Desasterz. We have nothing but 10 songs,a couple of 270 dolar guitars,a cheap bass,a cheap bass amp and a guitar amp a guitar player in francewe are in england)and a crap mp3 player to record songs with,it makes them sound stressful.we sing bout how todays music sucks, how social life is brainless,how the media gets money out of the naivity of younth that now goes up to jujing the ones who are free from all that.nd about the horor of drugs that pepol never learn from.

  • subtitles in spanish please :(

  • i wish i ºcould have seen nirvana live

  • (U) x

  • god... i almost cried after seeing that kurt was dead, he was not just a muscician, he was obviously a great man despite his depression, god, if I had been there seeing in the news that kurt was dead i would cry like never before, god bless kurt, god bless nirvana, god bless r.e.m., god bless them all

  • This video almost brought tears to my eyes, I know that Kurt hated it when people idolized him but still.. he made amazing music. He's inspired some of the music that I've made. I wish I could have seen Nirvana live or something :(

  • sad

  • Theres no way to ever know if kurt killed himself or not, but what i do know, is that his music stands for something, its got passion, raw energy, has it all. thats why we still look up to him after all these years.

  • u said it, kurt rulez!

  • does anyone know the name of the music in the background between 2:25 and 3:52 or is it not even a song?

  • lol 0:00 - 0:20

  • Does anyone know the name of that piano piece Mike Mills was playing at the end?

  • I think it's Nightswimming R.E.M

  • The sadest part to me is that he could never move on from the pain he suffered as a child. Many of who us loved his music and connected with his pain were able to live a good life and still carry the scars. We all want something real and good and what Kurt found out is that the world he did business in was as foul as any other. It just brought him down more. Even his bitch of a wife was no more than a fucking leach.

  • This programme is brilliant.Plenty of post-cobain documentarites have made his suicide out to be something glamorous. This doesn't do that, purely because the people they choose to interview are entirely relevant, ie. his contemporaries and bandmates.Plus Grohl is brilliant; 'shall i just shake a rattle or something?'Haha.. The 'white light/white heat' episode is my favourite,same approach with Syd Barrett...Full marks to the bbc for showing it's still the great institution it's always been.

  • fuck....it kills me how Dave says, "If I could change anything I'd wish that Kurt was still alive, that's the only thing, that's it."....like he knows that it without a shadow of a doubt.. fuck.

  • 'If I could change anything I'd wish that Kurt was still alive, that's the only thing, that's it.' Dave Grohl

    'I'm sad that he died so young, because I feel he was moving out of songwriting and into a new phrase, and it could have been extraordinary, but he didn't make it' Michael Stipe

    'Kurt Cobain was a brilliant artist, and he could have done whatever he wanted, and been really good at it' Krist Novoselic

    What moving words.

  • almost makes me cry this video

  • i no this band has no bearing on grunge rock whatsoever but they are an alternative rock band in that they are mainly funk rock and i think they deserve a mention atleast once in this programme is the Red hot chilli peppers. I meen they have been going at it now for nearly 25 years and still keep coming up with the goods. Btw im a massive RHCP fan and feel sometimes they dont get the credit they deserve. Just my opinion your all free to disagree.

  • that look in his eyes at 6:29 is just so strong its amaizng

  • IDK if it will be "Grunge" when it comes back but I think pure rock n roll is on its way... The american government is in an unstable state, the young people lack a voice, and the music of today is growing mighty stale. If I see Emo, Screamo, Post, or Core tagged onto another myspace band that adds me im starting a fucking riot. Just give time the real punk rock mentality will eventually come back in some form of another.

  • 'im sad he died so young because i thibk he was just moving out of a phrase of wrighting into a new phase that might have extrodanery but he didnt make it' mike sripe (REM)

  • R.I.P Kurt Cobain the last great rock star.

  • here here

  • Mark my words, one day grunge will rise again...

  • There are those who said true thrash would rise again..

    And hair would rise again...

    And punk...

    And of course grunge...

    It ain't happening.

  • Idiot. You obviously aren't paying attention to today's metal scene. Mastadon *cough* *cough* Lamb of God *cough cough* Down, High on Fire, Machine Head, Sword, Chimera, etc etc etc. Metal survives because the musicians can actually play their fucking instruments and it's audience isn't pretentious art school junkies.

  • Oh yeah, all of the post thrash bands definitely. And of course post___ (and genre listed above).

    Peace..

  • wow, i can't believe you morons still use sub genres. hell, those are like sub sub genres. if it sounds like thrash, its thrash. either way, its all metal.

  • It probably means that there is something wrong with society.

  • I hate Charles R. Cross because he always say shit about Kurt. I bet that his Kurt's Biography is full of crap just because Courtney "Whore" bought the rights of it and want to make a film about it.

    LIVE KURT COBAIN!

  • the book is very good and courtney bought the rights to it this year and the book was published in 2001.trust me the book is great any nirvana or kurt cobain fan should have it

  • The american versio if this is better, it has more mention of other artists. Plus you have more interviews with nirvana.

  • Where's Sonic Youth??

  • Yeah lots of bands important to the 'indie movement' left out...SY, Dinosaur, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Husker Du, Melvins, Mudhoney, Butthole Surfers, My Bloody Valentine etc.. without these bands laying the foundation in the underground, Nirvana may not have received the amount of recognition they did. They'll always be amazing, but so will the bands that never had commercial success deserved it every bit as much.

  • I've always thought nirvanas performance on unplugged absolutely blew every other unplugged performance away. It's not even close. It's extremely somber and sad and really is like his swan song. And krist is right, kurt was an artist, he would have been good at whatever form of art he chose, be it writing, painting, sculpting, playing guitar, singing, wutever, he would have been good at it. Rip kurt.

  • The words that Novoselic says at the end are so sad. :(

  • If you were married to that cunt you'd have pulled the trigger too.

  • is this about alternative music or kurt cobain

  • both. Kurts just a main figure

  • i used to think that selling out was the worst think u can do if u have a band. then i realized that why should there be a problem if u stay true to yourself and u get some money for doing what u do best. im not saying sell out or anything like it. but noone cares that davinci had to paint for a f.cking pope or king. if mozart had to make music for the church . or michangelo had to paint in the vatican . all that stays is the art nobody cares how u pay the rent

  • thanks

  • I agree British rock gives american posers a run for their money, but grunge its the first time that the US produces something good, authentic... something that goes beyond making money. That´s why everybody respects Kurt´s legacy.

  • charles cross "romantacised" kurt cobains breakdown in a way that is unhealthy for a mass audience. agree?

  • i watched all of this documentaries and they are ok if u know nothing about rock. but when u kinda know a little more of the story this documentaries leave u with a taste of nothingness. they talk about pixies like 1 minute and they totally ignored sonic youth. if u wanna watch something really good that i feel lets u inside way more into the intimacy of nirvana and all that movement without lame voice tellling u "what happened" then watch 1991 the year punk broke

  • Kurt Cobain... +Rock In Peace+. The best, ever. Pura Vida.

  • u ass hole britishers ... fuk u shut up... u people still eat the fukn burger with a fork,,,

  • hahaha im not british. Truth can upset sometimes

  • lol

  • what? hahaha, Eating burgers with a fork, what the hell are you on about?

  • Kurt is missed quite a lot. Justice for Kurt, look it up. The media loves buying into Kurt's death to bring in money. They don't talk about Courtney enough. Watch "Kurt and Courtney" and don't read "Heavier than Heaven", a book by the interviewed Charles Cross with much help from Courtney.

    RIP Kurt

  • R.I.P KURT WE LOVE U!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Fuc#$%&/ In this edition of TV programme for Latin America, VH1 do not transmitted it altogether. I am now seeing parts of the video that never saw on TV. Anyone know if I can buy the complete documental at any online store?

  • The American version is missing parts too, which means more "Kurtness".

  • NIRVANA for ever !!!!!!!!!

    i listen the songs every day

    sorry for writing mistakes

  • God! I miss Kurt.

    I would love to hear the music he would have made as a solo artist.

  • I guess the best thing you can do to honor Kurt´s memory is just enjoy his music and let him rest in peace. No fucking shirts or souvenirs, just listen to his music and remember him as a human being and artist.

  • oh man sometimes i stop to listen the nirvana's music but some point of my life i turn back to listen that great fucking sound.....PD: sorry!!...mi english sucks

  • we all miss that voice

    but kurt will always live in our souls:)

    i fuckin get deppresed for that man

    by the way courtney is a bicth :D