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Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Unplugged)

Maybe THE music moment of my life.  My sister and I watched Nirvana on MTV Unplugged in 1993.  I was a sophomore in high school, and as I’ve mentioned here before, I was running a Nirvana fever.

Unplugged was great. I was smitten. The Bowie cover was amazing, the Meat Puppets were a great new discovery, and I thought Lake of Fire would be the highlight. Then they launched into a cover of an old folk tune known as Where Did You Sleep Last Night, or sometimes, In The Pines. Bets and I were stopped in our tracks. The death cry that Kurt unleashed at the end of this tune will never be topped. I can only hope for another music moment like this in my lifetime.