Hey mikestu139, don't disrespect. Everyone has done something regrettable in their lifetime. We can't judge a person for a single act they committed in the past, but rather how they made up for it afterward.
Yeh we've all killed someone haven't we?! just forgive and forget cos he could play a nice song. Does the same apply to oj simpson. He played som good football so lets forget the whole 'killing his wife' thing!
This is a song by Leadbelly. It is a traditional southern black american folk song thats where the song originates from and thats where Leadbelly originates from. This song was recorded by Leadbelly in 1940 I think. It is Leadbellys song!!!
Oh by the way this song is about him precieving his girlfriend cheating on him. him going to jail for abusing her. Its possible that he is also describing how he killed her husband. His head was found in a driving wheel but his body was never found. Possibly hiding out from the cops in the pond, in the ponds where the sun never shines. They find him when its dark. He was a cleaver mother fucker
Hi: Just a little correction - he is singing ''in the pines, not ''in the ponds'' and the reference to the person whose head was found in the driving wheel was the girl's father (at least in all of the versions that I have heard) Great song though, any way you sing it!
Music now has a different purpose. Making money that is. Everything I hear is God awful imo haha. Touching music isn't manufactured. Good music makes a connection. Listening to your ipod is nice but I would rather get a group of friend and improvise.
I hate people who say "this version is better" when someone makes a tribute to another band. All versions are different and great (exeption for MCR cover of Queen). This version is awesome, but you gotta love Kurt's unique voice when he screams MY GIRL, MY GIRL...
people dont know about music that sad they think that metallica is the best poor guys they dont know what to listen this days they are yong people that needs to have some music lessons i just to be like those guys but right know i understend music thats why i love this song................
ok gays thats is an example to keep in your brain kurt cobain play black people songs and my brain is asking why are so many wars out there i am crying realy for some peace only the thing that controlsme is the nirvana songs 'cause is an example of peace why i realy know i am just a mexican..............
yea. this just goes to smash the kurt cobain is racist rumors peopl spread. im like no he wasnt. good example is covering a song like this. also he said he is racist against racists. anyway beautiful song. its so deep.
Wow, hard to believe this is the first time I've listened to this. The cover of this is easily among the best in Cobain's tracks but this is really amazing, to hear old led belly wailing like that is pretty fucking awesome.
what are you chattin about lanesque the music is basicly the same its just a singing voice thats different, you dont need a perfect voice for the blues its what gives it that edge on modern crap and half baked covers
exactly. some people are idiots. that comment wasnt nessecary for that eprson to make. im a huge Nirvana fan and both versions of the song are beautiful
the blues is the darkest music ever....sooo much misery and pain, these newbies could have a lesson from mr leadbelly. At least he knows how to emote square from the heart. Cant teach that only can learn from experience.....this is no reply to anyone just my observation and my opinion, not trying to prove anyone wrong
I got taught by Billy branch, and blues will never stop being my favorite music, even as a metal head. Its all about this music. This the roots of any sort of american music. No one can deny that blues is our start, in any case.
HelloConformity is right, besides, this was kurts favorite song. if you respect kurt, you should respect and admire everything that he likes. So if anyone hates one either of these guys you suck and should die, however if you are into leadbelly and older blues and you dont like the kurt version thats okay because you still have a matter of opinion. personaly i love the kurt version.
just because you respect someone doesn't mean you HAVE to admire everything they like. i would say you have a twisted outlook on life if you believe the crap you say.
I wasn't saying Kurt's version was bad, but it was not better than the original. When I first seen this on MTV's unplugged I was surprised. I'm not 80 years old and yes I do listen to metal. These early artists were the early pioneers of what we listen to today. Its their early riffs and chords that brought rock, metal and grudge what it is. Some of you guys need to grow up, blues music has been around for the last 80 years, where is grunge today.
Shoot man, if you's don't like that ole like that, hot-damn, man. Not only is you a dude don't like black people, you suck d*ck wit yo ass. How it is now, got-damnit?
Kurt version is good, but come on it does not come close to Lead Belly's. You kids need to start listening to some of this great early pre -war blues. Get yourself some Skip James, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and even some Josh White. You will find out there was a whole other world of music out there. And don't forget Charlie Parker.
Bloody hell, I love what Kurt did but seriously let's be reasonable, this is the shit !! Without this, there would have been no Bo, no Chuck, no Elvis, no Stones no etc.
Huddie William Ledbetter or lead belly as he was known has influenced pearl jam, nirvana, led Zeplin, the list is too long to name. He was from Louisiana. almost every "great" rock musician in the last 50 years has been influenced by Louisiana music. . that's why you saw the outcry for support from so many musicians when Katrina happened. now its like we have been forgotten again. Time passes slower on the bayou, and it gives us a chance for perspective. the world needs to take a lesson from us
Im sorry that your an idiot, this statement "leadbelly was good but kurt is amazaing" was the point I was trying to make in the first place. Btw im 15.
Also lol at Slipknot and Korn being metal. Pantera and Metallica arn't even good examples of metal either, no your generes buddy.
you will go to hell pretty soon for those comments, you are probably living in hell already in your head with those kinds of thoughts, Nazi. I bet it's awful in your mind, all dark and evil, it must be hell for you, pure torture.
Fuck you man, just because Kurt covered Leadbelly doesnt mean he tried out doing him. When you cover something it's because you admire them. If you had talent maybe you could make something as great as Leadbelly or Kurt, but that would involve you getting your ass off the internet and creating art, something you and your incapable mind could never do.
In my opinion, Kurt had a whole different take on the song.
Anyone who likes Leadbelly or Robert Johnson has GOTTA check the 2 'Collapsy Joe' vids I have on my channel. Watch the second one first. The 'Blues Dance' clip is quite good.
thanx nat. i think sometimes its worth to listen to more than one version of just one song. cause sometimes different versions complement each other that good so that you can get a better acces to the songs meaning , i mean phenomenologically from a philosophical point of view. in the case of "where did you sleep" i just have to say that both versions are great an should be recognized.
hey men , both versions are great. to create the original is as difficult as doing such a great interpretation as kurt cobain did with nirvana... it s just great music. normally i like the originals more but there are some records which are better in the cover version or just as interesting , like train kept a rollin from yardsbirds/aerosmith / all along the watchtower dyland/hendrix or whatever...
Well said BerlinRock79, to a point. Creating a great song is without doubt more dificult than performing it. Covers are sometimes much better than the original artist that wrote and performed them. You named 2 excellent examples. I agree both versions are great, Cobain does sound better to me. At the same time Hubbie Ledbetter is awsome also, but in a different way.
i think its best just to see leadbelly and nirvanas versions of the song as just two entiry different songs. both are great on their own merits, but both are very different styles and so its hard to say which is objectivly best
Well said. I like Cobains cover better but there both great. Kuut did have a lot of help though. Better recording equipment, good back up people etc. So hard to write a great song. Stands to reason in time most great songs can be covered well if not better as technolgy improves. Kurt did add a new demininsion to this, such great vocals. It is like a different song. I'm glad Kurt did it his own style.
I think Hendrix´s version of "All along the Watchtower" is better than Dylan´s(witch doesn´t mean that I don´t like Bob!!!)
And I think that Cobain´s version of "Where did you sleep last night" is better than Leadbelly´s(But I gotta say,Nirvana is my fav. band ever and I still like Leadbelly)
So please people,don´t get mad and come down again
cobain had to add to his cover . the blues is sometimes hard and loud, but this song should never be sang like that. leadbelly sang it to the girl and I think she got the message very clearly his cool intact. black betty was covered by ram jam I believe. why don't you guys keep sniveling. it's kinda funny to read. Listen to Jimmie Rodgers' "gambling barroom blues" or memphis minnie (Lizzie Douglas) "down in the alley". Let's see who can cover those and do Minnie even half as good.
A lot of songs did the rounds among players/singers around Leadbelly's time. So what is original? Who cares. This is though. Rather listen to it all on original 10" vinyl. You'll never beat a real deal.
Leadbelly's version is amazing, but to say Nirvana's wasn't is absolute bull shit. Kurt brought a raw intensity and excruciating pain and passion to it, and made the song legendary. Both versions are different, but to say one is actually superior is just plain ignorant.
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He was a talentless psycho. Tried to murder several people. But he could sing? Like a beached walrus. Be glad he's dead. If only we could killl his awful music.
regardless of a talentless psycho or assualts if this man didn't exist, we would have lost out on a lot dylan wouldn't have existed the way he does same with the whole generation of music that was developed during those times ccr were greatly influenced by lead belly, so if you think he was a crazy bad man oh well because hundreds didn't, also many other people from his time were the ones influenceing the whole generation that came next and i thank those "psychopathic's"
without leadbelly there would be no bob dylan or led zeppelin, not to mention various songs by nearly every artist from nirvana to those guys that did Black Betty. i forget the band who im thinking of, but anyways, you get the picture. he basically is the father or modern music, as he wrote half the songs that are out today!
boils2 before you start chatting shit about him being a psycho. He only killed one person and claimed it to be a mistake (it was a drucken bar fight). I also don't think you grasp how the environment effected him. Viloent times make violent people and he was born in 1889 meaning he grew up during perhaps the most diffcult time to be a black man in the deep south, racism was at its peak as were the KKK so he had to be tough to survive.
Also be more respectul to his music, with out him all that type of music, there would be no Nivarna or any of the popular music of today or the later part of the 20th centrey.
He didn't do anthing wrong 11R14192s. Unfotnately he was often around clumsy people that ran into knife's he was holding while making dinner. Accidents do happen.
Dylan, Hendrix whoopee Now this man here is GOD. He used to sing for his parole. Did you know that Ledbelly murdered a man and was doing ife and sang for his freedom? man, this dude fucking lived. He was in the chain gangs. Heavy dude but a brilliant blues man.
how simple the voice, how universal the message, how profane the posted comments seem to find a lowest common denominator. Let Hendrix be... and find solace in the humanity of these words
I liked this version but I also like Kurts version better, with that voice it just sounded 10 times more sad. As far as All along the Watchtower, Hendrix rocked it, very uptempo and rocking and the solo was just badass but Dylans version definatly suited the content of the song better. Also agree with you dylan it's very sad what people listen to nowadays and don't appreciate the actual art of music unlike now.
kurt cobain expressed many times that his favorite musician was lead belly... so anyone who claims that cobain's version of the song is better than lead belly's... come on...
dont fucking compare them for fucks sake Kurt was inspired by it so he covered it he never said "I'm so much fucking better" everyone one especially kurt knew a Cover is never better than the orginal
stop comparing nirvana's version to leadbelly's. of course they are different so keep your opinions to yourself. noone gives a shit which version you like more.
I wish more pop(ular) "artists" these days had the BALLS to dig alllll the way to our "dinosaur"-age of music & cover great 20s-40s songs & get the younger kids into ACTUAL music. But nah. Commercial artists don't like losing money. I'm glad Nirvana, as commercial as they were & are, had the balls to introduce people to Leadbelly. I just hope they get even more curious & dig along Leadbelly's contemporaries. Why don't people use their money & fame for restoring good music? Ah well. RIP LB.
It doesn't need to be "restored" as you're saying. Why should music have to be "restored" just because younger kids don't hear it on the radio?? Are they just sitting there with their mouths open like chicks saying "Feed Me". If people are passionate about music they will search these artists out and discover the music for themselves. We need new music not covers. Some covers are amazing but new artists should create their own
New music has been created for the past 8 years..Which...Is not a good sign. Heh, I was out of line saying 'restored' but you can't deny that people's lack of interest in the older stuff (I'm talkin' 30s-60s here, ol' style) is severely hurting our decade. Atleast for people who prefer LB to MCR or Beatles to Metallica or whatnot. New artists should but we know all about influence & blahblahblahhiimramblingwannagoout, nice though.
i wish blacks still made music like this instead of the rap crap
NirvanaPunk999 3 years ago 6
altro che nirvana...
cornutazzo23 3 years ago
so what if he killed some body Kurt killed himself. Awesome song I wish blacks were still making good music instead of all this cRAP
trkddy 3 years ago
i totally dig
leosport7 3 years ago
this is soooo awesome. thank you. this song is to be played at my funeral.
TangoSore 3 years ago
incredible
billyshitcheese 3 years ago
i prefer leadbelly version...he have more feeling and is more dark!
hbguedes 3 years ago
yes, he's more dark ;-)
affenarsch87 3 years ago
does anyone know the orignal to any old folk songs or are they just lost in all the covers and time
rocknrollporn 3 years ago
hahaha at the begining sounds like the adams family!!!! hahahahaha
mariaalelu 3 years ago
prefiero la de nirvana mil veces
chatocarlosalberto 3 years ago
why is it evil??
kidreaper696 3 years ago
i love the 2 versions...but this is the evil one...i prefer this one :)
quinnsita 3 years ago
: O :O wow
ototokun93 3 years ago
on a lighter note.... I'm going to the Lead Belly Blues Festival, May 9. I love lead belly. he seemed like a cool dude.
Juawana01 3 years ago
i just read somewhere that Leadbelly was a murderer..awesome song tho.
DEERE436 3 years ago
Very eerie seeing as how this is close to 100 years old, but amazing nonetheless!
dimelivesthrume 3 years ago
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I like Kurt's version the best.
GuitarGypsy94 3 years ago
duh
Pantera420Ever 3 years ago
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Created some good music but at the end of the day he was a murderer so fuck him!
mikestu139 3 years ago
who did he kill?
IKilledYouVids 3 years ago
His cousin in law, I think it was in a bar fight or something.
almanacofsleep 3 years ago
Hey mikestu139, don't disrespect. Everyone has done something regrettable in their lifetime. We can't judge a person for a single act they committed in the past, but rather how they made up for it afterward.
Cryptographer12 3 years ago
Yeh we've all killed someone haven't we?! just forgive and forget cos he could play a nice song. Does the same apply to oj simpson. He played som good football so lets forget the whole 'killing his wife' thing!
mikestu139 3 years ago
Why does the fact that he killed someone mean that he can't play a good blues song?
Tis what happens when you sell your soul
BurnerOfBethlehem 3 years ago
This isn't originally a Leadbelly song, it originates back to at least the 1870's.
v1c0d1n 3 years ago
I didn't know this was a folk song until my friend told me today. This version is just as good as Kurt's though
DrummerZM 3 years ago 3
is there a way to get a copy of the film of Leadbelly playing
beeteep60 3 years ago
Yeah..
/watch?v=htMwu3hF8_E
=)
hunterthompson123 3 years ago
This is a song by Leadbelly. It is a traditional southern black american folk song thats where the song originates from and thats where Leadbelly originates from. This song was recorded by Leadbelly in 1940 I think. It is Leadbellys song!!!
scarlett72nd 3 years ago 4
Oh by the way this song is about him precieving his girlfriend cheating on him. him going to jail for abusing her. Its possible that he is also describing how he killed her husband. His head was found in a driving wheel but his body was never found. Possibly hiding out from the cops in the pond, in the ponds where the sun never shines. They find him when its dark. He was a cleaver mother fucker
aes005 3 years ago
Hi: Just a little correction - he is singing ''in the pines, not ''in the ponds'' and the reference to the person whose head was found in the driving wheel was the girl's father (at least in all of the versions that I have heard) Great song though, any way you sing it!
mara235 3 years ago 5
Music now has a different purpose. Making money that is. Everything I hear is God awful imo haha. Touching music isn't manufactured. Good music makes a connection. Listening to your ipod is nice but I would rather get a group of friend and improvise.
aes005 3 years ago
leadbelly and otis redding, both have inspired generations of fans
lynstly 3 years ago
What disc belong this song?
indexnet 3 years ago
I hate people who say "this version is better" when someone makes a tribute to another band. All versions are different and great (exeption for MCR cover of Queen). This version is awesome, but you gotta love Kurt's unique voice when he screams MY GIRL, MY GIRL...
l123321 3 years ago
Actually... you don't.
rossobass420 3 years ago
In the pines:) 5*****
maxboehner 3 years ago
wow
iowdiva 3 years ago
i will shiveeeeeeeeer.. :D
VlaekvanP 3 years ago
people dont know about music that sad they think that metallica is the best poor guys they dont know what to listen this days they are yong people that needs to have some music lessons i just to be like those guys but right know i understend music thats why i love this song................
gnr124124124 3 years ago 2
what i beatiful song............
black people are the best...
they know what to play from blues to jazz thats music mother fu...............
gnr124124124 3 years ago
I do wish someone would ask me something in this way...
DeeDeeRodeo 3 years ago
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he stole this song from bluegrass king bill monroe's "In the Pines" look it up, typical nigger stealin shit
CarolinaGuitarPlayer 3 years ago
Bill Monroe stole this from an American Folk song of the 1870s, typical bluegrass moron stealin shit
dirtymagik7 3 years ago 7
ok gays thats is an example to keep in your brain kurt cobain play black people songs and my brain is asking why are so many wars out there i am crying realy for some peace only the thing that controlsme is the nirvana songs 'cause is an example of peace why i realy know i am just a mexican..............
panchin3 3 years ago
Id fucking put 327438927423740 positive (y) for u now, but I can only put one. You are one in a million that knows whats Nirvana all about.
l123321 3 years ago
yea. this just goes to smash the kurt cobain is racist rumors peopl spread. im like no he wasnt. good example is covering a song like this. also he said he is racist against racists. anyway beautiful song. its so deep.
butterflyfist19 3 years ago
Wow, hard to believe this is the first time I've listened to this. The cover of this is easily among the best in Cobain's tracks but this is really amazing, to hear old led belly wailing like that is pretty fucking awesome.
lGnossos 3 years ago
i love this song, i appreciate blues more, now i think. glad modern-ish bands are influenced by this kinda music.
missandreachristine 3 years ago
The originals better. Wow, I was able to say that despite what you said. Guess you're wrong bucky.
legunncat 3 years ago 2
The greatest EVER his music inspired alot of people and his songs have been recorded by Creedence clearwater revival, Animals ,
Nirvana, ram jam , spider bait , Johnny Cash and the list goes on
ZevanCassidy 3 years ago 3
what are you chattin about lanesque the music is basicly the same its just a singing voice thats different, you dont need a perfect voice for the blues its what gives it that edge on modern crap and half baked covers
DannyCarer 3 years ago
exactly. some people are idiots. that comment wasnt nessecary for that eprson to make. im a huge Nirvana fan and both versions of the song are beautiful
butterflyfist19 3 years ago
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Crap compared to Nirvana's version. Sorry but it's true.
Ianesque 3 years ago
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Kurt Cobain ain't nothing but a bad smell
dan520dan 3 years ago
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Who ever gave me thumbs down are bad smells too
dan520dan 3 years ago
The man wrote the song!! end of!! these bluesmen were the start of what we all know today musically!!
bentheled 3 years ago 3
He didn't write it, it's a folk song, it's so old that no one knows who write it.
Antitodo2889 3 years ago 2
best version by far
squirrelnutcased 3 years ago
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i dont really like it since its not angry enough
TheCaniac 3 years ago
the blues is the darkest music ever....sooo much misery and pain, these newbies could have a lesson from mr leadbelly. At least he knows how to emote square from the heart. Cant teach that only can learn from experience.....this is no reply to anyone just my observation and my opinion, not trying to prove anyone wrong
hammerofgod85 3 years ago
I got taught by Billy branch, and blues will never stop being my favorite music, even as a metal head. Its all about this music. This the roots of any sort of american music. No one can deny that blues is our start, in any case.
pongus322 3 years ago 4
HelloConformity is right, besides, this was kurts favorite song. if you respect kurt, you should respect and admire everything that he likes. So if anyone hates one either of these guys you suck and should die, however if you are into leadbelly and older blues and you dont like the kurt version thats okay because you still have a matter of opinion. personaly i love the kurt version.
2531317 3 years ago 3
just because you respect someone doesn't mean you HAVE to admire everything they like. i would say you have a twisted outlook on life if you believe the crap you say.
wesjoe311 3 years ago
I know this is an odd question that I can't rightly expect anyone to answer, but does anyone know if this was played on a twelve string?
Janefly 3 years ago
i think he only used a 12 string but i could be mistaken....i know thats what he was famous for
hammerofgod85 3 years ago
I wasn't saying Kurt's version was bad, but it was not better than the original. When I first seen this on MTV's unplugged I was surprised. I'm not 80 years old and yes I do listen to metal. These early artists were the early pioneers of what we listen to today. Its their early riffs and chords that brought rock, metal and grudge what it is. Some of you guys need to grow up, blues music has been around for the last 80 years, where is grunge today.
qwikfish1 3 years ago
cant we just enjoy music...like really
GBallaJ 3 years ago 5
regardless whether you prefer kurt's version or leadbelly's, you have to respect this version in that kurt's would exist without it.
HELLOCONFORMITY 3 years ago
seanny lead
seanmclaren101 3 years ago
dony worrynboh
seanmclaren101 3 years ago
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Voice is good but the guitar is a little above beginner.
SauronsEye 3 years ago
If you don't think leadbelly was a good guitarist listen to his recording of a tune called fanin street.
pianiplunker 3 years ago
Your opinion is just as right as his. It's all personal preference. shut the fuck up and listen to what you like..
PunkRockIsNicsFredom 3 years ago
Yeah fck u Kurt Cobain is amazing, Leadbellys original version is really good
ZenVT802 3 years ago
Shoot man, if you's don't like that ole like that, hot-damn, man. Not only is you a dude don't like black people, you suck d*ck wit yo ass. How it is now, got-damnit?
JimiTheSaint206 3 years ago
Kurt version is good, but come on it does not come close to Lead Belly's. You kids need to start listening to some of this great early pre -war blues. Get yourself some Skip James, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and even some Josh White. You will find out there was a whole other world of music out there. And don't forget Charlie Parker.
qwikfish1 3 years ago 2
ok???, and u need to find some metal, like Pantera, Metallica, Slipknot, Korn, even some Bloodhoundgang, even the bloods arnt really metal
juggalo36forlife 3 years ago
Bloody hell, I love what Kurt did but seriously let's be reasonable, this is the shit !! Without this, there would have been no Bo, no Chuck, no Elvis, no Stones no etc.
This is beautiful.
Much Love
Xx
alextheplumber 3 years ago
Huddie William Ledbetter or lead belly as he was known has influenced pearl jam, nirvana, led Zeplin, the list is too long to name. He was from Louisiana. almost every "great" rock musician in the last 50 years has been influenced by Louisiana music. . that's why you saw the outcry for support from so many musicians when Katrina happened. now its like we have been forgotten again. Time passes slower on the bayou, and it gives us a chance for perspective. the world needs to take a lesson from us
xion420 3 years ago 2
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covers are better than that shit kurt rules !!
s7095 3 years ago
I wouldn't refer to this as shit, these folk songs had a big impact on music.
Trode57 3 years ago
i´m soorry man it´s not my foult that you are 80 years old, leadbelly was good but kurt it´s amazaing don´t you denny
s7095 3 years ago
Im sorry that your an idiot, this statement "leadbelly was good but kurt is amazaing" was the point I was trying to make in the first place. Btw im 15.
Also lol at Slipknot and Korn being metal. Pantera and Metallica arn't even good examples of metal either, no your generes buddy.
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how gay, fucc you i´m sure you´re nigger monkey, donkey you´ll be in my zoo
s7095 3 years ago
you will go to hell pretty soon for those comments, you are probably living in hell already in your head with those kinds of thoughts, Nazi. I bet it's awful in your mind, all dark and evil, it must be hell for you, pure torture.
scubanutta 3 years ago 4
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Kurt Cobain made this song a thousand times better.
natgirl23 3 years ago
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Kurt Cobain is a fag he didnt have shit on leadbelly
jstos23 3 years ago
Fuck you man, just because Kurt covered Leadbelly doesnt mean he tried out doing him. When you cover something it's because you admire them. If you had talent maybe you could make something as great as Leadbelly or Kurt, but that would involve you getting your ass off the internet and creating art, something you and your incapable mind could never do.
Trode57 3 years ago 2
hahahahaha
jstos23 3 years ago
your the most stupid ignorant person i could ever imagine
GMusic11 3 years ago
hahahahaha
jstos23 3 years ago
and you are an ignorant homophobe
countvoncount123 3 years ago
que coisa mais linda!
mccfl 3 years ago
this feeling is damn hard!!
my girl tell me where did you sleep last night...
why ?
izibouli 3 years ago
Excelente!!!!!!!!!!
Nada que ver a la mierda que hizo NIrvana.
Saludos
elhorcas 3 years ago
Excelente.
Muito bem
cambizes 3 years ago
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nirvana did itt way betrter < soz ixm abit drumk
lolapaloser 3 years ago
You know nothing.
billis000 3 years ago
how could it be a cover by nirvana.this song was wrot in like 1945
SuperNovaLp 3 years ago
It's on their acoustic tapes. Songs don't die. I could cover Mozart if I felt like it.
billis000 3 years ago
amazing!!!!!!!
jess16saint 3 years ago 2
Everybody, check out the Long John Baldry Interpretation of this song it`s excelent!
chafografo 3 years ago
The original sounds better in it's right context, but Cobain's cover is a decent tribute to it.
devoid1979 3 years ago 2
Rock/Pop came from guy's like Leadbelly, Cobain was a pale interpretaion.
ixion58 3 years ago
In my opinion, Kurt had a whole different take on the song.
Anyone who likes Leadbelly or Robert Johnson has GOTTA check the 2 'Collapsy Joe' vids I have on my channel. Watch the second one first. The 'Blues Dance' clip is quite good.
Oh, and check out the rest of my stuff too!
Rhympe 3 years ago
timeless
bojangles927 3 years ago 3
simplement beautiful
kurtofavalon 3 years ago 4
I love it!
athinna 3 years ago 2
just gotta show leadbelly some love. thank you huddie ledbetter.
sde815 3 years ago 3
i like both versions... but i like kurt's voice though... just my opinion
polakorn 3 years ago 6
yeah... leadbelly and, in fact, most artists from that era, have bad voices but I have mad respect for them cuz they inspired people like cobain.
LPJeetkunedo 3 years ago
i do like kurts version of this song. This song works for both artists. To me, they are two different songs between them.
rightredbln 3 years ago 6
the original! and what a life leadbelly lived!excellent...go h'iontach !!!
(as gaeilge!)Greetings from Ireland..Eire
DerekMarten1983 3 years ago 2
lol never seen irish on a youtube comment go raibh mile mile maith agat
crisbonnell 3 years ago 2
excellent !
merci !
reggaebomb 3 years ago 3
thanx nat. i think sometimes its worth to listen to more than one version of just one song. cause sometimes different versions complement each other that good so that you can get a better acces to the songs meaning , i mean phenomenologically from a philosophical point of view. in the case of "where did you sleep" i just have to say that both versions are great an should be recognized.
BerlinRock79 3 years ago 3
Obie, no need to decide. There very different versions, but both are awesome. Just enjoy each for what it is. A GREAT song.
Natalie78644 3 years ago 2
Leadbelly put the grisgris on Cobain
ferfoxakeladdy 3 years ago
realy dickson111??????????
leadbelly's so cool
....use this power thats been thrusted upon you well grasshoper.....
william1theguitarwah 3 years ago
don't worry i am a good samaritan and will honour your request
dickson111 3 years ago 2
i am leadbellys grandchild and hence possess his great guitar/woman shagging abilities.
dickson111 3 years ago
hey men , both versions are great. to create the original is as difficult as doing such a great interpretation as kurt cobain did with nirvana... it s just great music. normally i like the originals more but there are some records which are better in the cover version or just as interesting , like train kept a rollin from yardsbirds/aerosmith / all along the watchtower dyland/hendrix or whatever...
i think in these cases both records are great..
BerlinRock79 3 years ago
Well said BerlinRock79, to a point. Creating a great song is without doubt more dificult than performing it. Covers are sometimes much better than the original artist that wrote and performed them. You named 2 excellent examples. I agree both versions are great, Cobain does sound better to me. At the same time Hubbie Ledbetter is awsome also, but in a different way.
Natalie78644 3 years ago
i think its best just to see leadbelly and nirvanas versions of the song as just two entiry different songs. both are great on their own merits, but both are very different styles and so its hard to say which is objectivly best
Stereohands 3 years ago 3
Well said. I like Cobains cover better but there both great. Kuut did have a lot of help though. Better recording equipment, good back up people etc. So hard to write a great song. Stands to reason in time most great songs can be covered well if not better as technolgy improves. Kurt did add a new demininsion to this, such great vocals. It is like a different song. I'm glad Kurt did it his own style.
Natalie78644 3 years ago
Ok,guys,here´s my opinion:
I think Hendrix´s version of "All along the Watchtower" is better than Dylan´s(witch doesn´t mean that I don´t like Bob!!!)
And I think that Cobain´s version of "Where did you sleep last night" is better than Leadbelly´s(But I gotta say,Nirvana is my fav. band ever and I still like Leadbelly)
So please people,don´t get mad and come down again
PEACES
jayamy94grohl 3 years ago
yeah man, how can you go wrong with hendrix? he put so much soul into his song's.
hallowedbethname 3 years ago
cobain had to add to his cover . the blues is sometimes hard and loud, but this song should never be sang like that. leadbelly sang it to the girl and I think she got the message very clearly his cool intact. black betty was covered by ram jam I believe. why don't you guys keep sniveling. it's kinda funny to read. Listen to Jimmie Rodgers' "gambling barroom blues" or memphis minnie (Lizzie Douglas) "down in the alley". Let's see who can cover those and do Minnie even half as good.
2madaug 3 years ago
A lot of songs did the rounds among players/singers around Leadbelly's time. So what is original? Who cares. This is though. Rather listen to it all on original 10" vinyl. You'll never beat a real deal.
minutegongcoughs 3 years ago
peace brotha
xnickcoenenx 3 years ago
Leadbelly's version is amazing, but to say Nirvana's wasn't is absolute bull shit. Kurt brought a raw intensity and excruciating pain and passion to it, and made the song legendary. Both versions are different, but to say one is actually superior is just plain ignorant.
GrungeRock1991 3 years ago
i love Leadbelly he was a great guy and amazing guitarist.
deadspace00 3 years ago
thanks lead belly
jordanmcneil01 3 years ago
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He was a talentless psycho. Tried to murder several people. But he could sing? Like a beached walrus. Be glad he's dead. If only we could killl his awful music.
boils2 3 years ago
regardless of a talentless psycho or assualts if this man didn't exist, we would have lost out on a lot dylan wouldn't have existed the way he does same with the whole generation of music that was developed during those times ccr were greatly influenced by lead belly, so if you think he was a crazy bad man oh well because hundreds didn't, also many other people from his time were the ones influenceing the whole generation that came next and i thank those "psychopathic's"
jordanmcneil01 3 years ago
without leadbelly there would be no bob dylan or led zeppelin, not to mention various songs by nearly every artist from nirvana to those guys that did Black Betty. i forget the band who im thinking of, but anyways, you get the picture. he basically is the father or modern music, as he wrote half the songs that are out today!
jessupar 3 years ago
boils2 before you start chatting shit about him being a psycho. He only killed one person and claimed it to be a mistake (it was a drucken bar fight). I also don't think you grasp how the environment effected him. Viloent times make violent people and he was born in 1889 meaning he grew up during perhaps the most diffcult time to be a black man in the deep south, racism was at its peak as were the KKK so he had to be tough to survive.
almanacofsleep 3 years ago 14
Also be more respectul to his music, with out him all that type of music, there would be no Nivarna or any of the popular music of today or the later part of the 20th centrey.
almanacofsleep 3 years ago 5
Amen!
ToWalkintheMoonlight 3 years ago
that's directed at 2pacinseattle...
Papposilenos 3 years ago
Leadbelly was not a psychopath. He spent alot of time in jail mostly for assaults.
And If memory corrects me he killed a relative of his over a woman.
wayyonder 3 years ago
cuz sometimes it's hoes way before bro's even when the're a relative
GARYTEXAS 3 years ago
stupid comment
boils2 3 years ago
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This psychopath shoulda died in prison.
boils2 3 years ago
Why is this guy a psychopath? What did he do, I don't have an extensive Leadbelly knowledge, lol?
11r14l92s 3 years ago
He didn't do anthing wrong 11R14192s. Unfotnately he was often around clumsy people that ran into knife's he was holding while making dinner. Accidents do happen.
Natalie78644 3 years ago 2
C'est absolument sublime!
SovietBeatmaster 3 years ago
This song is easier to play then any hendrix song i know...
mikemayhaus 3 years ago
Dylan, Hendrix whoopee Now this man here is GOD. He used to sing for his parole. Did you know that Ledbelly murdered a man and was doing ife and sang for his freedom? man, this dude fucking lived. He was in the chain gangs. Heavy dude but a brilliant blues man.
bigbadreddog 3 years ago
how simple the voice, how universal the message, how profane the posted comments seem to find a lowest common denominator. Let Hendrix be... and find solace in the humanity of these words
daisyjane00 3 years ago
so eerie, i love it.. even cobain did this song justice
alcoholman01 3 years ago
I liked this version but I also like Kurts version better, with that voice it just sounded 10 times more sad. As far as All along the Watchtower, Hendrix rocked it, very uptempo and rocking and the solo was just badass but Dylans version definatly suited the content of the song better. Also agree with you dylan it's very sad what people listen to nowadays and don't appreciate the actual art of music unlike now.
Cghost1031 3 years ago
"All along the Watchtower" is most commonly attributed to be a Bob Dylan song, even though it was Penned by Richie Havens.
Dansull123 3 years ago
xD thats all i have to say is "xD"
wizardted2 3 years ago
I really love leadbelly.... his awsome
Zafoueze 3 years ago
I prefere the Cobain vertion, but this one not's bad! :P
mohawkman92 3 years ago 3
kurt cobain expressed many times that his favorite musician was lead belly... so anyone who claims that cobain's version of the song is better than lead belly's... come on...
Papposilenos 3 years ago
thats a dumb comment.
hendrixs favorite artist was bob dylan and hendrixs version of all along the wathctower is by far better then dylans.
so you made a dumb comment
2pacinseattle 3 years ago
well... i actually like dylan's version better... it's art... it's music... its all opinionated... so just chill out...
Papposilenos 3 years ago
How can you compare a grunge interpretation to its 1945 blues inspiration? Way to go, guys.
TheInformation 3 years ago
dont fucking compare them for fucks sake Kurt was inspired by it so he covered it he never said "I'm so much fucking better" everyone one especially kurt knew a Cover is never better than the orginal
jimmypageforprez 3 years ago
ahem....... hendrixs version of all along the watchtower is better then dylans so be quiet. oh yeah, hendrix is better then page 2.
2pacinseattle 3 years ago
aw page is also good :(
BazzTheBoss 3 years ago
I beg to differ, a cover can be better than the original, especially if they add something new to it and revolutionize it in their own way.
GrungeRock1991 3 years ago
just perfect!!!
bilginey 3 years ago
stop comparing nirvana's version to leadbelly's. of course they are different so keep your opinions to yourself. noone gives a shit which version you like more.
gratefuldead76 3 years ago
I wish more pop(ular) "artists" these days had the BALLS to dig alllll the way to our "dinosaur"-age of music & cover great 20s-40s songs & get the younger kids into ACTUAL music. But nah. Commercial artists don't like losing money. I'm glad Nirvana, as commercial as they were & are, had the balls to introduce people to Leadbelly. I just hope they get even more curious & dig along Leadbelly's contemporaries. Why don't people use their money & fame for restoring good music? Ah well. RIP LB.
DylanKerouac42 3 years ago
Well, if it makes you feel better, Cobain did blow his head off because he felt shitty about being at all commercial.
davestshirt 3 years ago
For the longest time I thought there was no Santa Claus..Until April 5th :3
DylanKerouac42 3 years ago
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you fucking cunt kurt has more talent in one of his fucking pubes than you'll ever have you piece of shit
y0ur0ck 3 years ago
did you know that kurt would bow down to leadbelly,one of his greatest influences?
amanic15 3 years ago 5
It doesn't need to be "restored" as you're saying. Why should music have to be "restored" just because younger kids don't hear it on the radio?? Are they just sitting there with their mouths open like chicks saying "Feed Me". If people are passionate about music they will search these artists out and discover the music for themselves. We need new music not covers. Some covers are amazing but new artists should create their own
scarlett72nd 3 years ago
New music has been created for the past 8 years..Which...Is not a good sign. Heh, I was out of line saying 'restored' but you can't deny that people's lack of interest in the older stuff (I'm talkin' 30s-60s here, ol' style) is severely hurting our decade. Atleast for people who prefer LB to MCR or Beatles to Metallica or whatnot. New artists should but we know all about influence & blahblahblahhiimramblingwannagoout, nice though.
DylanKerouac42 3 years ago
I can play this awesome song
bloodprouductions 3 years ago
noone gives a shit...its easier than hell
HugustusMaximus 3 years ago
not as haunting as Cobain, but still amazing.
burnthemausoleum 3 years ago