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Thirty years later, this album remains a cornerstone of rock and a source of inspiration for countless musicians. To honor the 30th anniversary of MTV Unplugged from Nirvana , seven artists ...
Happy anniversary for Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York album! The final months of Kurt ... in choosing cuts and including a number of cover songs, something that didn't exactly sit well with ...
Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance is a time capsule of the influence the band created. Creating a mix of tracks from the band’s most popular songs, deep cuts and covers, it is the perfect album for ...
Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York was never meant to be a big deal. It was a lark, an afterthought, something recorded in roughly an hour that the band didn’t plan to release. It was ultimately ...
MTV Unplugged ... selling MTV Unplugged album. On release, it went straight to number one on Billboard, which hadn't been seen for an MTV Unplugged record since the days of Nirvana over ten ...
If any other band had packed as many cover songs into their set ... is utterly tragic. The album version of Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set was released several months after Cobain took his own ...
Who can say why MTV chose to air Nirvana ... cover songs Cobain chose to sing that evening, five mention death in some way. And the lilies, candles, and heavy drapery that adorned the Unplugged ...
Nirvana at the 1992 MTV Video ... But the album also provides valuable clues to better understand the extent of Nirvana’s sonic infatuations, notably through this cover of Devo’s “Turnaround.” ...
“I guarantee you I will screw this song up,” Kurt Cobain told the crowd before Nirvana launched into their stirring cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” on MTV Unplugged ...
“We’d seen the other Unpluggeds and didn’t like many of them,” Nirvana ... defying MTV pressure to play their biggest hits in favour of more sombre tracks and choice cult covers.