10 Perfect Soft Rock Albums Of The '90s

For as aggressive as Kurt Cobain came off in interviews around 1993, no one could have predicted what was going to happen a few months down the road. Amid all of the media coverage and his own complicated relationship with fame, Kurt was found dead in his Seattle home in early 1994, having killed himself a few days before he was found. Though In Utero may have been the last full body of work that Nirvana put out, he did leave us with a goodbye of sorts with their appearance on Unplugged.

Though this is still billed as a Nirvana performance, this one show tells you a lot more about Kurt Cobain as a performer, trying to give us a look at the more introspective side of him on just acoustic guitars. While the actual musical side has been toned down, the intensity of the songs has not, from Kurt reinterpreting the sounds of David Bowie on his version The Man Who Sold the World and eventually stripping it back to just him and a guitar on his solo version of Pennyroyal Tea.

Knowing what we know now though, hearing songs like Where Did You Sleep Last Night hit a little different these days, including a moment captured on film where you practically see the light behind Kurt's eyes before he belts out the final lines of the song. This is really where you start to see why Kurt was so particular about his craft. This wasn't just about playing a bunch of songs he liked...it was about letting out some demons from his soul.