MTV Unplugged In New York

I came into this project thinking I did not really like Nirvana - then gave nevermind 5 stars, but this makes me think I was kind or right . For a live album it’s good and the interesting comes across but I just find the striped down version of the songs are missing something

Review - I'd never actually listened to this beginning to end for some reason. I think I've always sorted of blamed Unplugged sessions with rock bands as being responsible for the early '00s rise of "acoustic" music, in opposition to folk music, which irked and prejudiced me. Well, I'm glad to have given this album a fair chance now. A truly great album. Good mix of early and later songs, covers, folk songs that fit the format well. Really puts his voice at the forefront, which is great. Always viewed this as a sideshow to the bands "real" albums but very glad to have listened to it now. Score - 9/10 Need to listen? YES

Nirvana but quiet is also good

No need to listen. I watched this back in the day and bought the CD when it came out. Ordinarily consider Nirvana a 4 band but this album, like the same done by Alice In Chains, is a 5 all day long. No doubts. No regrets. 5/5

Fantastic album. Songs stick in my head for days. Could easily put the album on repeat and not be bored for awhile. This album solely responsible for me thinking acoustic versions of rock bands would always be awesome and coolest thing ever (not always the case)

I like Nirvana, but I still don't like live albums

I like nirvana but not as into this album as many people are. 3.5

One of my favorite albums of my lifetime. This is the performance that made me interested in Nirvana, and in turn, in music as a lifestyle. Shapeshifting for an 11 year old boy.

I understand that it was Kurt’s last album but it felt like there was no emotion and it wasn’t rlly that good

Ca m'embête un peu de mettre un 5 à un live mais que puis-je faire face à ça

OK, il va donc falloir être le plus objectif possible. Je trouve que c'est un plutot bon album, que les musiques choisies pour ce live sont plutot bien enchaînées, que les reprises sont plus ou moins réussies, que les musiques provenant des précédents albums sont plutot bien interprétées. Voici le détail des notes : About a girl : 5/5 Come as you are : 5/5 Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam : 5/5 The man who sold the world : 8/5 Pennyroyal : 5/5 Dumb : 5/5 Polly : 5/5 On a plain : 5/5 Something in the way : 5/5 Plateau : 5/5 Oh me : 5/5 Lake of fire : 5/5 All apologies : 5/5 Where did you sleep last night : 5/5 Note particulières aux interactions hors musiques : 5/5

Great guitar, but don't like Nirvana that much.

Favorite unplugged album

Un incontournable, unplugged en plus

Great performance of great songs by a great band. Heard it before? ❌ Listen again? ✅ Rating out of ten? 8

Best Nirvana album. I'm not even sorry.

I’ve heard this before and I own it. This was probably the best Unplugged show both in terms of performance and showing how good a song can be stripped down to acoustic. Also Kurt used the platform to bring attention to unappreciated bands to the point he brought the Meat Puppets on to play their covers. I picked up a Raincoats tape after this and checked out Meat Puppets II (didn’t like it at first because I was a dumb little shit but now it’s one of my favorites). This was on mtv constantly back when they played music and only kicked it up a notch after Kurt died. I have a lot of nostalgia about this album because I played it so much in high school but that doesn’t mean it’s not a perfect album.

Super album qui m'a rappelé mon enfance et qui me motive a réécouter du nirvana. Petit coup de cœur pour "The man who sold the world" (le riff venant tout droit du paradis) et "Something in the way".

this was great

great

Enjoyed this. Didn't know much about nirvana but this was more chill even though i knew it was unplugged

I don't like live albums 😞

Really enjoyed the man who sold the world, also liked come as you are

SO good. unreal. live albums are so hit or miss but this fucked. great time

Pert near perfect unplugged performance.

Such a great performance which serves as a sad end-note for the like of Kurt Cobain. Knowing how high and strung out he was during the filming makes it more compelling.

Not even the greatest grunge band unplugged but legendary for a reason.

Charismatic to say the least. Felt the sound as a farcry to help.

One of the only things MTV ever truly did right was their Unplugged performances. Nirvana’s is easily one of the best. A masterpiece of a live album. These versions of these songs stand on their own and for good reason. 5/5

Un album symbolique. C'est vrai que les lives ca rend le truc plus proche entre celui qui ecoute et celui qui chante. C'est cool. Dommage qui rejoint le club des 27. C'est terrible. A part Come As You Are les autres je les ai un peu ecoute en fond.

Excellent. Incroyable la différence avec la version normale. Les grunge man tu leur débranche la guitare ils redeviennent sympas. A se demander si on aurait pas du leur interdire la guitare electrique directement.

Who knew these songs would work so well unplugged? Actually an album I come back to a lot.

🤯

Before I start listening, I'm guessing part of the reason this album had some incredible reception on release is because it came out after Kurt Cobain's death. That's also underestimating how good Nirvana is, though. I'm not generally a big fan of live albums, but one thing that I also don't value enough on live albums is being able to hear how the band interacts with each other between songs. On studio albums, you might get that on any bonus content or extended songs, but that's pretty infrequent. This is really good. The quality of the music is on par with Nirvana's studio albums. Just another really high-quality album from one of the best bands of the 90s. Favorite Song(s): Come As You Are, Dumb, Something in the Way, Where Did You Sleep Last Night

*That sounded good.* *Shut up.* It is common to accuse Kurt Cobain of not caring, and almost as common to accuse Cobain of actually, secretly caring an awful lot. On one hand, somebody who cared would have made more of an effort to Play the Hits here; of Nirvana's most famous songs as of the performance date, only "Come As You Are" makes an appearance, and even that feels a tiny bit perfunctory. Cobain doesn't even bother to introduce the songs from the then-new *In Utero* as being from "the new album" the way an even marginally more commercially-minded artist would. On the other hand, somebody who didn't care wouldn't put together such a perfectly paced and unfolding set as this - one that takes pains to highlight Cobain's indie heroes the Vaselines and the Meat Puppets as well as putting forth both the best Bowie cover ever and the best Lead Belly cover ever. The solution, as always, is that Cobain's selectivity in what - who - he cares about. He centers his influences as a way of decentering himself. He refuses to play "Lithium" and "Heart-Shaped Box" and the rest as a way of telling his followers to go away. He gives careful attention to the music he makes to make up for his own lack of self-care. Whatever else he is here, he is dead serious about making this show into his own funeral - right down to the surfeit of flowers onstage. I am trying hard not to romanticize the self-effacement on display here, which if I'm being honest is what drew me to Cobain as a self-hating teenager in the first place. I'm trying hard and I'm failing; the howl of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is sublime and overwhelming and *heavy* in all the best ways. Goddamnit.

As with In Utero, I’d checked out by the time this came out so heard it for the first time doing this list. Of course it’s good. And like all Unplugged recordings, it sounds great. The interaction between the band adds to it too.

Great live album, some tracks get given a new life, great cover choices, sometimes I don't love Kurt Cobain's voice here but it's rare.

Very good, but for me the best was the Alice In Chains Unplugged

Second album proposé après ‘In Utero’ que j’avais noté 4/5 (un tout petit peu moins réussi que ‘Nevermind’ qui est mon préféré du groupe). Ce live me déçoit beaucoup. Certes j’aime toujours les morceaux, mais en ‘unplugged’ ils perdent de mon point de vue toute leur énergie. Les reprises ne m’ont pas vraiment inspirées par ailleurs. Et j’ai fini par faire autre chose, le comble pour ce groupe dont j’adore les albums studio. Bref, aucune chance que je le réécoute ! =>2/5

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged is, admittedly, the weakest of their albums--but the work Kurt and Co. put into it is nothing short of what is to be expected. Not only does it host some of the best live versions out there, but it also holds the beauty of (at least in my opinion) one of the best covers of all time in the live version of Bowie's Man Who Sold the World. I really wish it could bring just that little inch of work more to the table, but I'm not complaining.

Älskar detta album och har alltid gjort. Inget mindre än en femma är bra nog, hade gärna satt ett högre betyg än så om det hade gått.

Одно время я довольно много слушал Nirvana, поэтому могу сказать, что отчасти я их фанат, но именно эту запись я целиком никогда не слушал, так что это было довольно увлекательно. Большинство песен, даже те, которые написаны не группой, я уже где-то слышал до этого. Это не тот максимум, который может дать эта группа, ближе к концу альбома песни становятся немного скучными, тем не менее акустическая Nirvana — это здорово. Думаю, что теперь стоит посмотреть и видеозапись этого концерта. Лучшая песня: The Man Who Sold The World

3.5 stars, alright - never really care for live performances

I liked their covers more than most of their original stuff on this album. They made some of the tracks work, but it was far from their best.

I wonder how many people made an “unplugged” joke when he offed himself? Live album with the cap of three stars

Nirvana at the their least interesting

Very much enjoyed, think it's a 4.5, probably bc I won't to much of it as singles gets a 4 but still really strong showing

Fantastic live performance with songs I generally love. The Vaselines cover is a current favorite. We have this album on vinyl.

Rather overrated covers and album. The covers don't seem to add much to the original songs, and they all kind of meld together by the end.

больше года не слышал этот лайв, пока мне не попался он тут. не знаю как комментировать, в отличие от "In Utero" мне нечего сказать про альбом. просто крутой лайв, один из тех, который можно слушать постоянно

God, theyre dull.

fire

One of my favorite ever

Good okey but not great. The best songs are covers that i prefer the originals compared to these versions

I've never been drawn to grunge, I've never really listened to Nirvana before, outside of knowing the more famous songs. I was pretty disappointed, this did very little for me. I didn't enjoy Kurt's singing, the music felt very dreary to me. I know I'm in the minority here but I just didn't like it. I went back and listened to part of the album again, it was less boring to me the second time, saving it from 1 star, but still not something I'll be coming back to.

Legendary

⭐⭐⭐+ Jag kan uppfatta det här albumet som lite överskattat. Det finns riktigt bra spår här men det är en del fillers också. Plus att de jag gillar tycker jag är bättre i studieversionen. Kommer nog lyssna på det igen men är inte så säker på att det blir hela albumet så det blir en stark 3a. Bäst är Come as you are, Polly, Something in the way, Where did you sleep tonight

That was legendary

Alright, I understand why this is the only MTV Unplugged performance anyone seems to talk about anymore.

Very good acoustic live set by them. I find it gets a little overhyped and over rated fir obvious reasons. Man Who Spld The World is a highlight

They sound so good.

GOAT 🐐

This is a historic piece of music that everyone in the world probably knows and loves very much. It was also a production with no small amount of drama surrounding it. With artefacts like this one, I am always apprehensive: the history surrounding it is so great, you can lose the music behind the fog of the numberless of readings that have emerged in the years since the work's emergence. The genius of Cobain's songwriting has always eluded me and it did here again. Perhaps to his credit, the offerings are diverse covers with a few original Nirvana numbers mixed in. This is not really what I'd call "unplugged," since it sounds like clean electric guitars with electric bass and minimalist percussion. (Then again, this is 90's era acoustic pickups we're talking about, so I would be prepared to be wrong in my judgment.) But the boys sound pretty darn good under these circumstances and for once, I felt the gravitas that Nirvana possessed firsthand. I confess the aughties grunge era is a dark era in rock music in my view, and I tend to put Nirvana at the center of that black hole, but this was a pleasant surprise. Kurt and friends push the boundary of what one can achieve with a cover song, giving the songs new life, remaining additive rather than derivative. The original numbers, too, never sounded better.

It's hard to pinpoint just exactly what makes this album great. It's the sound of the hugest band in the world at that time taking a huge swing for the fences and nailing it. It's revelatory in how many more shades to Nirvana it shows, and it's heartbreaking in how it points to what might have been.

No sabia que iban a haber unpluggeds, y por lo que vi este es histórico. La verdad no lo conocía, gran descubrimiento. Estaba escuchandolo con los parlantes de mi oficina y mi jefe paso por al lado y dijo "este es el unplugged de nirvana, historico"

Not exactly a hot take but best live album ever? Only downside is the fact there’s 3 Meat Puppets songs. Not bad, decent covers, but 3 in a row? Yes I know the Meat Puppets backed them up, but you’ve got limited time guys! Anyway, the last song alone probably makes this an automatic 5 stars, but the rest of it is so damn good, I have no hesitation giving this full marks.

Well it's Nirvana. What else do I need to say. Felt like I was teleported on a submarine with a psycho medic and a few raptors in the ballast... btw why is there a hole in my room ah yes it's new engi's toy.. If 5 stars is 'absolutely amazing, one of my favorites of all time' then this is 4. Solid, but not Five Magics solo yet.

A solid collection of songs. I am not a big live album guy, and especially not an acoustic-only live album, but I still enjoyed this.

Refreshing after the last album

The vocals are raw and everyone loves them, but frankly I think this is a deeply underwhelming album and if things hadn't panned out like they did it wouldn't be remembered so fondly.

iconic performance

an incredible recording that deserves all the praise. the only track I could take or leave is "Pennyroyal Tea" which is one of my least favorite Nirvana songs in the first place. the rest is outstanding. Kurdt delivers haunting vocals, the band shows massive restraint, and they take the opportunity to showcase their influences and bring out Meat Puppets for some of their songs. I haven't really listened to any of the other MTV Unplugged sessions of other acts, but this one feels like it must be hard to beat. I can't help but sing along to all the songs, and it makes you wonder what else Cobain could have evolved into had we not lost him too early.

Obviously interesting and cool to hear Nirvana like this. Cobain's voice is so damn raw, just a goosebump machine.

Muziek is top, maar geen fan van live albums

Dit is geen album maar gwn een optreden. Daarnaast vind ik nirvana zwaar overrated.

Heel erg hard, ben altijd best een Nirvana hater geweest, maar om het allemaal in 1 album te horen heeft mn mening veranderd. Hoop meer projecten van ze tegen te komen in de lijst. 4 bangers!

Not a great option for this band to jump onto the 'unplugged' craze. In particular, Cobain's vocals do not suit the gentler, stripped-back acoustic guitar vibe.

I’m sure those at the gig really enjoyed it, but this did little to change my opinion of Nirvana Out grunge music in general.

Not big on live albums. Liked man who sold the world tho

One of the best albums and live performances ever

Tops: Jesus doesn’t want me for a sunbeam ; The man who saved the world

algum trem no caminho

The best thing about this album are the tremendous cover versions. The unplugged versions of their original songs are lacking any sort of bite. This is an ep not an lp

Memorabel

Haven't listened to this in a while. One of my favourites.

If I listen to Nirvana I want Nirvana not covers. Just me. 3.00

The covers are the best tracks here. Lead Belly, Bowie, Meat Puppets. The Nirvana song choices are interesting and ‘chef’s kiss.’ Kurt does read as a super depressing guy in this, but without hindsight, could anyone have guessed how authentic that depression was?

One of the most famous and best live albums, Imho. Always a good listening experience. Favourites: About A Girl, All Apologies, Lake Of Fire, The Man Who Sold The World.

I remember really liking this at some point but I had a really hard time continuing to listen to this.

I listened to it.

8/10 - Great album and culturally significant. Highest I can do is a 4 for a compilation/live/greatest hits album.

This deserves all the plaudits it has received. They sound great live and playing with softer instrumentation. 8/10

Just amazing performance by one of the greatest. Classic 5

My parents were obsessed with this album. Most of what I would consider their music doesn't resonate with me but this one really does. Great sound, the gravely vocals paired with the acoustic sound amazing. Better than the original Nirvana albums but a long short IMO. "Dumb" is sad and evocative. Songs like "Polly" that garner shock value by being suggestive of abusing women are distasteful to me. There are tons of examples in 1001 albums and across popular music. I think in this world we should really be interrogating why songs like this get made and are "popular". I think "Polly" is a good song but I question what content like this says about and does to our culture. In the wake of Jeffery Epstein, I think we should all be interrogating who is served by "cool" media that references abusing young women. Overall, a great album- would listen again and again

라이브 버전이라 안들었다.

Wild set list, played more songs by other artists than themselves. Kurt was definitely an odd one

high 3

Not a fan of live albums, but I do not mind the unplugged ones, so this was good.

One of the best live albums exists on the planet Earth, love it so much, lisetened 1 million times before, listeted to 3 times now and going to listen more and more

Переслушано, наверное, сотни раз. Отличный альбом как по содержанию, так и по мастерингу.