the best songs ever: the lost years

[gabrielle]

"Lake of Fire," performed by Nirvana for the album MTV Unplugged, 1994.  

Quote:In a 2013 interview, MTV Unplugged producer Alex Coletti remembers Cobain purposely wanting to perform the Meat Puppets covers in keys slightly out of his range, so his voice would sound strained. See "Lake of Fire," a surrealistic fantasy about the afterlife whose images are pinched straight from the Book of Revelation, where the pinch in Cobain's voice makes him sound less like an ambassador of youth than some wizened pappy staring into middle-distance from his rocking chair. An especially canny choice when placed before "All Apologies" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?," two songs that made the band sound in touch with evils much older and more mysterious than corporate rock. 

--http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/...e-20150403