Track of the Week - 18 August 2019
It was Mrs Tea at Johnny's' birthday this week so we took a trip to Compton Verney House in Warwickshire. It's set in some lovely grounds (I'm sure they would have looked even more lovely on a day when it wasn't raining) but our main reason for going was to see the Art Gallery there and an exhibition called A Tea Journey.
It was alright without being outstanding. There some good exhibits but it felt like the emphasis switched too much to art rather than history along the way.
There was a tea poem in one of the exhibition rooms but no tea songs. Let's put that right.
Pennyroyal Tea was on Nirvana's their 1993 (final) album In Utero. Due to be released as a single the following year it was pulled after singer Kurt Cobain's suicide.
I've gone with the MTV Unplugged version of the song from November 1993. Five months before his death, it's easy to look back at the show and think Cobain was putting his own epitaph together that night. He even asked the producer to dress the stage: "like a funeral".
This turned dark quickly!
To summarise:
Tea is great
Art exhibitions can be too arty for their own good sometimes
Kurt Cobain was a tortured genius
Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York album is a masterpiece.
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