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MTV Unplugged in New York (Music)
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MTV Unplugged in New York is a Live Album by American Alternative Rock group Nirvana, released through DGC Records on November 1, 1994. It contains perhaps the most famous concert to ever come from MTV's Unplugged series, and notably ended up being Nirvana's final concert, with "All Apologies" being the last Nirvana song Kurt Cobain played live during his lifetime.The album was recorded on November 18, 1993 in New York and broadcast on MTV. It was also their first posthumous release, coming seven months after frontman Kurt Cobain's death, and added two bonus tracks that weren't broadcast on TV at the time.The band chose not to perform any of their big hits, apart from "Come as You Are"; at that point, "All Apologies" and "Pennyroyal Tea" were both scheduled to be released from their then-new album, In Utero. It's also a partial Cover Album, as they performed songs by some of Cobain's musical influences and thus gave many of these artists more mainstream attention.The album hit #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States, and the Official Charts Company album chart in the United Kingdom. It finished at #13 on the year-end Billboard 200 chart for 1995, and was in the top half of the OCC year-end chart in both 1994 and 1995. A vinyl re-release became a hot seller throughout The New '10s in the UK. It was certified eight-times Platinum by the RIAA, and triple-Platinum by the BPI. It also won Best Alternative Music Performance at the 1996 Grammy Awards, the band's only win for the award.The live version of "About a Girl" also became a minor hit in some countries, where it was released as a single. However, the unquestioned highlight of all the covers the band played that night was their haunting closing cover of Lead Belly's "In the Pines," titled here as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"The album was remastered, and re-released for its 25th anniversary on November 1, 2019. Released on CD, digital, and a double-record vinyl album, it added five rehearsal tracks. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The stage was decorated with stargazer lilies, black candles and a crystal chandelier. Cobain suggested this touch because it would look "like a funeral." Also makes the concert Foreshadowing and Harsher in Hindsight considering, seeing Cobain would be dead only half a year later. Series producer Alex Coletti later said pretty much exactly this in a Guitar World interview. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: The acoustic sets of "MTV Unplugged in New York" was a surprising and welcoming change of sound compared to their previous loud rock albums. | |
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Special Guest: For the Meat Puppets cover versions the actual Meat Puppets perform along with Nirvana. Cello player Lori Goldston is also featured on a number of songs. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: In a deleted part Cobain takes audience requests, though after hearing most of them he simply says tongue in cheek: "Fuck you all" and plays "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning: "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is a far more dark and disturbing cover of the genuinely cheery sounding Lead Belly song "In the Pines". | |
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Think of the Censors! | |
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Think of the Censors!: The band struggle what final song to play, so they take suggestions from the audience. When one female fan shouted "Rape Me", Kurt's reply was this: | |
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Metal Scream | |
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Metal Scream: Most of the chosen songs are soft and gentle. Only "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" ends with a trademark Cobain yell. | |
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Alternative Rock | |
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Alternative Rock: Acoustic renditions of Nirvana songs from previous albums, along with cover material. | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: People who have seen the rehearsal tapes say they make crystal clear the extent to which Cobain was in charge of Nirvana. Among other things, he corrects Pat Smear's off-key vocals, and directs Dave Grohl to play louder or softer at times. | |
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Questioning Title?: "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Although the official title of this album is "MTV Unplugged in New York", many people refer to it as "Unplugged in New York." | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: During a huge part of the concert, Cobain sounds rather depressed, sarcastically putting himself down and making snide comments. This is however a bit of misconception, because the CD release cut a lot of funny conversations between Cobain and the audience. He even jokes about how long the Meat Puppets (who he idolized) were taking to get ready for their set. | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: The group covered songs by The Vaselines ("Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam"), David Bowie (The title track from The Man Who Sold the World,) Meat Puppets ("Oh, Me", "Plateau", "Lake of Fire") and Lead Belly ("Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is a cover of "In the Pines".) David Bowie himself liked the band's rendition of "The Man Who Sold The World" During the final two songs Cobain takes time for requests, though all this audience conservation was cut from the 1994 album release, as well as the MTV broadcast. He refuses "Sliver", because he has to scream for it. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is dismissed by Novoselic: "That's for Tori Amos." When someone shouts "Rape Me" Cobain says: "I don't think MTV will let us play that". | |
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Shout-Out: Red Hot Chili Peppers provides a shout-out to Nirvana's "Unplugged" concert in the music video of "Dani California" from the album Stadium Arcadium. | |
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Self-Deprecation: Intro to "The Man Who Sold the World". And later... | |
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Live Album | |
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Live Album: It was entirely played live, in one take. Occasionally you hear a few musical mistakes. When Cobain announces "The next song is "Oh, Me"" you hear one of Kirkwoods say: "Oh?" as if he expected a different number in the line-up. | |
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Unplugged Version | |
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Unplugged Version: As the title explains, though Cobain actually did plug his acoustic guitar into an amplifier that he had hidden in front of him. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: The entire concert takes a relatively soft tone compared to Nirvana's typical output. But most notably, while the original recording of "All Apologies" was already among the band's softer songs, the version played here is even more gentle than the original. For this reason, songs from the album received airplay on stations that wouldn't even normally touch hard rock, let alone grunge. | |
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