MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
Track listing:
1."About a Girl"
2."Come as You Are"
3."Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam"
4."The Man Who Sold the World"
5."Pennyroyal Tea"
6."Dumb"
7."Polly"
8."On a Plain"
9."Something in the Way"
10."Plateau"
11."Oh Me"
12."Lake of Fire"
13."All Apologies"
14."Where Did You Sleep Last Night" Now, there are, for the most part, 2 good kinds of live albums.
The explodey insane ones that the band could never capture in studio (Kick Out THe Jams, Live At Leeds, Bob Dylan's Bootleg albums) and the acoustic ones.
This album is the latter.
This album probally isn't what most of you would expect from Nirvana.
It's not the explosive loud grunge bomb that is Nevermind.
No, this album is more in the style of the more mature Nirvana of In Utero. It's a more stripped down layed-back performance.
Not only does it not have the insane wailing guitars of Nevermind, but they don't play the hits either (Except for Come As You Are...). They play a ton of covers too which really shows where Kurt Cobain got a lot of his influence from.
Kurt's vocals on the album are also totally incredible, which is actually probally because they didn't play their hits. I remember reading somewhere that Kurt didn't like that Nevermind became so popular and hated playing stuff like Teen Spirit live.
Kurt's vocals are just awesome on this album, they have an almost haunting sound to them on some of the tracks.
Grohl's drumming is also awesome.
Now, while the original Nirvana songs on the album are great, the covers are absolutley amazing.
There's Bowie, The Vasolines, and Lead Bellies covers. The Meat Puppets even show up to play a few songs with Kurt.
Seriouslly, this album is just awesome.
I know I've said this like, 4 times, but Kurt's singing is awesome. Just listen "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", "Lake Of Fire", or "Dumb"
Really, this album is just incredible.
10/10 
