The band clearly didn’t put deep thought into the shows. The last-minute nature of their practicing doesn’t indicate an enthusiastic desire to engage with the performance. The band went on stage nervous about a lack of practice and comments, for example by the Kirkwood brothers, indicate Kurt was hardly a meticulous attendee at the rehearsals, nor a sober one. Instead, Nirvana played every single acoustic, or at least QUIET, song they ever placed on an album there was nothing left unless they wanted to do some more work - a handwritten set-list mentioned at states Marigold and Old Age were also under consideration just one day before the band were due on stage, apparently Been a Son was considered. The With the Lights Out box-set indicated that a surprising number of the late era Nirvana songs started off as acoustic tracks, so did Sappy, while other songs had been attempted in acoustic format at one point or another (see LiveNirvana’s guide to Rehearsals to see the band trying to work out songs acoustically in July 1993.) With that in mind it wasn’t that the Nirvana catalogue couldn’t be adapted…It was that they weren’t willing to take the time required to do so. Six of fourteen songs performed were covers, there’s no reason at all why the band couldn’t have worked over their extensive catalogue and brought a few more originals to the blend. I don’t wish to be a killjoy but all the talk of how the band ‘wanted to do something different’, or how ‘most Nirvana songs don’t really sound good acoustically’ feels a little like press statements to put a positive gloss on what occurred. The quality of what took place on stage is undeniable and I have no wish to deny it, I love the performance same as anyone else. It also led to the CD release which is the Nirvana album that anyone who doesn’t really like rock music has in their collection. The latter show is, of course, a triumph - it’s funny, beautifully performed, featuring some of the vocal performances for which Cobain will always be known. Mastered at Precision Mastering (Los Angeles, USA).Earlier today we focused on the subject of Nirvana cover songs and pointed out that in 1993 there were two performances strongly dependent on cover songs Sao Paolo and then MTV Unplugged in New York. Recorded live for MTV at Sony Studios (NYC, USA) on November 18, 1993. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1996. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and has become the group's most successful posthumous release, having been certified 5x platinum in the United States by 1997. MTV Unplugged in New York was the first Nirvana album released following the death of Kurt Cobain. As opposed to traditional practice on the television series, the band played a setlist composed of mainly lesser-known material and cover versions of songs by The Vaselines, David Bowie, Lead Belly, and Meat Puppets, whose Cris and Curt Kirkwood joined Nirvana onstage. The show was directed by Beth McCarthy and first aired on the cable television network MTV on December 16, 1993. It features an acoustic performance taped at Sony Music Studios in New York City on November 18, 1993, for the television series MTV Unplugged. MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by American grunge band Nirvana.
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