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Song · 1994 · Alternative rock

The Man Who Sold the World

1994

★ 6.8 editorial score

Fourteen songs, one take, November 1993; Cobain plays Bowie through an amp and makes the song permanently his.

From the album

MTV Unplugged in New York

in the Albums canon

Genre

Alternative rock Rock

Subject

Identity Alienation

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