The Man Who Sold The World

The Guardian has a nice piece up on Nirvana's high-water mark:

Opinion on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance at Sony Music Studios in New York on November 18, 1993, is divided into two camps.

Some people consider it to be Kurt Cobain, the tortured genius, stripping both his songs, and himself, to the bone in a brilliant, painfully raw performance that amounts to a kind of suicide note.

Others reckon it to be an interesting and eclectic example of the Unplugged format, but that any deeper meaning is the product of myth-making and hindsight.

When it was released seven months after Cobain took his own life, Nirvana: Unplugged in New York sold over 5m copies in America alone, topped the album charts in seven countries, and went on to win a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. But until now it has never been available as a video or DVD (bootlegs notwithstanding).

Many people will be familiar with this performance from the album, but even so this 66-minute unedited footage (including Something in the Way and Oh Me, which were cut from the original broadcast) makes fascinating viewing. It also supports both sides of the you-could-tell-something-was-wrong / it-was-just-a-good-gig argument.

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Listen to "Oh Me" (Unplugged, Meat Puppets Cover):

[Download the MP3 Here]
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