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Recorded live at Sony Music Studios, New York, New York on November 18, 1993.
UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.
If In Utero was a suicide note, MTV Unplugged in New York is a message from beyond the grave, a summation of Kurt Cobain's talents and pain so fascinating, it's hard to listen to repeatedly. It's a nakedly emotional record, the subtext meaning more than the main themes of how Nirvana wanted to prove showcase the depth of their songwriting. Cobain's hurt and suicidal impulses bubble to the surface even as he's trying to suppress them. Few records are as unblinkingly bare and naked as this; no other band could have offered covers of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" and Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" on the same record, turning in chilling performances that reveal as much as their original songs. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK is part of MTV's "Unplugged" series.
Gold disc version.
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain (vocals, acoustic guitar); Dave Grohl (vocals, bass, drums); Krist Novoselic (guitar, accordion, bass).
Personnel: Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar); Dave Grohl (vocals, drums); Krist Novoselic (guitar, accordion); Cris Kirkwood (guitar, background vocals); Curt Kirkwood, Pat Smear (guitar); Lori Goldston (cello).
Recording information: Sony Studios, New York, NY (11/18/1993).
Photographer: Frank Micelotta.
Additional personnel: Cris Kirkwood (acoustic guitar, bass); Pat Smear, Curt Kirkwood (acoustic guitar); Lori Goldston (cello).Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.56) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Rolling Stone (10/1/94, pp.120-121) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Nirvana's performance is stirring and occasionally brilliant, electricity be damned....Without the wild blasts ordinarily produced to fire Nirvana's sound, Cobain's love-buzz vocals are the focus..." Spin (1/95, p.71) - Highly Recommended - "...UNPLUGGED captures the moment of Nirvana bathing in its own richly deserved light, and though the moment couldn't last, nothing in the music suggests that there was anything inevitable or natural about the next chapter of the story..." Entertainment Weekly (11/4/94, pp.70-71) - "...Listening to MTV UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK is an unsettling experience....the band...concentrates on the numbed-out chamber-grunge numbers....delicacy and intimacy of these acoustic re-arrangements hint...where Nirvana...could have gone..." - Rating: A Q (12/99, p.82) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." Q (12/94, p.147) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...stripped of the noise...the band sounds most moving, possessed of a ragged glory. And...it becomes clearer than ever just how much Nirvana owed to less feted Americans such as The Sneakers, dBs and Mitch Easter's Let's Active..." Alternative Press (1/95, pp.63-64) - "...UNPLUGGED is about as fine a memento mori as anyone could hope for..." Melody Maker (10/29/94, p.35) - "...gut-twistingly poignant....a fine and unreservedly recommended album, a melancholy masterpiece..." Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #4 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Mojo (Publisher) (p.64) - Ranked #09 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Brittle and heartbruised, Nirvana's songs were stripped bare and scratched out on an acoustic guitar." Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.51) - Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994" - "...a performance of raw vulnerability that served as the perfect epitaph for poor Kurt Cobain." New York Times (Publisher) (1/5/95, p.C15) - Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums of '94 - "...These songs...[are] strings of epitaphs delivered in a blistering, electrifying unplugged show." NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.29) - Ranked #27 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums". NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #4 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.' NME (Magazine) (10/29/94, p.45) - 9 - Excellent Plus - "...this album makes its makers sound legendary. Your hankies should be at the ready..."
Excellent Well, I only started listening to this album a few months ago (2005), and I haven't stopped since. I normally enjoy hard rock, but there is just something about this CD. It is just an excellent listen.
Really makes me appreciate music as an art. Submitted by bensouth (Australia, Perth) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 2 of 2 found this helpful.
revolutionized the unplugged genre revolutionized the unplugged genre by playing not only some of the bands' greatest songs but some of kurt's favs and songs from another band (meat puppets) Submitted by rmpollex (piscataway nj) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
The BEST Unpluegged ever made. Nobody can't deny that affirmation. This is the greatest MTV Unplugged ever recorded and one of the best acoustic shows too. Everything is just too framed and flows pretty lovely. Submitted by ery_kx (Springfield, CT, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
A must have in your cd collection I never really was into the grunge scene back then still angry at the 80's rock scene being taken over by bands like Nirvana but one day I seen this cd in my friends collection listen to it and i was blown away this is music at it's finest the sadness is Kurt Cobain is not with us , he was a mad genius , Submitted by brianmarto (Derby UK) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Magic this album is not art is pure magic of the snake charmer Kurt Cobain Submitted by homicide4you (Caguas, Puerto Rico) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Excellent
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