Mtv Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by Nirvana, an American band formed in 1987 with this album being released on November the 1st, 1994. It reached number 1 in the US, UK, Australia, Spain as well as other countries. It was shortly released after the suicide of singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It sold 5 million coppies in the US alone. As well as the CD, a DVD version was released in 2007, which features the set list nirvana played. The album is brilliant in many ways. One of them being the fact that Kurt Cobain and his band members pull off the acoustic versions of usually heavy grunge based songs to extreme quality. I ...  Read the complete review

Nirvana Unplugged is many things. A chance to see the softer side of a loud band. A chance to hear the wonderful pop music behind the distorted guitars. A sign of what would come next from the band, and ultimately a poignant reminder that for all his faults Kurt was truly a once in a generation talent. A lot of Nirvana fans reacted badly to this gig at first and only really embraced it after Cobain's death. They felt it was a sell out, but ultimately it give Kurt a chance to evolve musically for the first time in many years. There is a rumour that the next musical project for Kurt was an acoustic album with Michael Stipe. This set is the standard ...  Read the complete review

This is the best Nirvana album in my opinion. Basically because of the beautiful rawness of the songs and Kurt's vocals. Nothing is polished like some other studio albums, and the set that they chose is just amazing. There is a couple of covers in there like 'Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam' by the 'vaselines' and 'The man who sold the world' by David Bowie. The man who sold the world for me is a real faveorite. It really shows the rawness of Kurt's voice and the ease in which he sings. The album was released after Kurt's death, and you can see when you watch the performance on TV that Kurt isn't one for being so exposed. He looks uncomfortable with the camera so ...  Read the complete review

I recently rediscovered this album while I was transferring cds to my mp3 player, I used to listen to it virtually every day when it came out, I was a massive Nirvana fan and remember the excitement the first time I watched the performance and then the desperation to own the cd. It has not diminished in impact over these years, dont get me wrong, I have often stuck it on as background music over the years at dinner parties and when friends have been round but because of massive over familiarity with it from years of constant rotation I had stopped really LISTENING to it. It has also not diminished in significance either, this album was special when it was ...  Read the complete review

On November 18th 1993, the kings of 'grunge' stepped into a small studio filled with fans to perform an acoustic set. The traditionalist would have expected, or wanted, them to play the obvious likes of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Heart Shaped Box. But what Kurt Cobain had in mind was something beautiful enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. As I gradually review all Nirvana's releases, if anyones checked my other reviews....(hint!).... this cannot be mentioned in the same breathe as say, In Utero, just simply because this is the other side of Nirvana that we rarely saw, and perhaps would have seen more of, had it not been for Cobain's ...  Read the complete review