filled with enough sleaze to make your weekend feel naughty it remains the best version of Bowie’s iconic song." Track listing All songs written by David Bowie. "The Man Who Sold the World" – 3:58 "Watch That Man" – 5:11 Chart positions Personnel According to Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray: Lulu – lead vocals David Bowie – saxophone, backing vocals Mick Ronson – guitars Trevor Bolder – bass guitar Mike Garson – piano Aynsley Dunbar – drums Nirvana version Recording In his journals, Kurt Cobain of the American grunge band Nirvana ranked the album The Man Who Sold the World at number 45 in his top 50 favourite albums. Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic were introduced to The Man Who Sold the World by one of their drummers Chad Channing, who bought a used LP version and converted it to cassette. Cobain found great interest in the title track and was surprised to learn it was by Bowie. Nirvana subsequently recorded a live rendition of the song during their MTV Unplugged appearance at Sony Music Studios in New York City on 18 November 1993 and included it on their MTV Unplugged in New York album the following year. The song was also released as a promotional single for the album in 1995. O'Leary notes that rather than play acoustic versions of their more popular songs, such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the band instead opted for relatively obscure cover versions, including "The Man Who Sold the World", which at the time, was considered a Bowie outtake by MTV standards. For their performance, Cobain ran his acoustic guitar through a fuzz box that he could trigger with a pedal, allowing the guitar to sound electric. Nirvana's cover received considerable airplay on alternative rock radio stations and was also placed into heavy rotation on MTV, peaking at number 3 on MTV's most played videos on 18 February 1995; it also peaked for two weeks at number 7 on Canada's MuchMusic Countdown in March 1995. Nirvana regularly covered the song during live sets after their MTV Unplugged performance up until Cobain's death in 1994. Following Cobain's death, O'Leary states that the group's performance of "The Man Who Sold the World" became Cobain's "ghost song". In 2002, the song was re-released on Nirvana's self-titled "best of" compilation. Douglas Wolk of Pitchfork argues that the song "didn't really become a standard" until Nirvana covered