#10: Nirvana — The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie’s original 1970 title track was a glamorous, heavily produced piece of sci-fi art rock featuring strange, phasing electronic effects. For their MTV Unplugged appearance, Nirvana stripped away the glitz, performing the song on acoustic instruments with a haunting, distorted lead guitar. Kurt Cobain’s cracked, world-weary vocal delivery grounded Bowie’s surrealist fantasy in deep, haunting emotional reality.
