![]() It is almost a perfect replication of what it must have been like to be sitting in that sound stage on that historic day. The picture is crystal clear and the sound has been arranged in a surround mix to get the most out of your home theatre. All the banter between Nirvana amongst themselves and between Kurt Cobain and the audience is finally available for us all to witness. The complete concert, which includes all fourteen songs and clocking in at 67 minutes, is the entire performance from the first tuning to band’s exit from stage. Even the CD release, which included the missing songs “Something In The Way” and the third song that Nirvana played with The Meat Puppets “Oh Me,” is still missing almost thirteen minutes of the chatter and tuning in between the songs. ![]() Almost fourteen years to the day of the original recording, Geffen Records is finally giving the fans what they need, and boy have they done it right! It is no secret that what fans saw on television was about two-thirds of the full recording, with two songs truncated from the set list and almost all of the down time between songs removed. While the broadcast was released on CD posthumously at the tail end of 1994, there has never been an official release of the episode. ![]() Performed in front of a live studio audience on November 18, 1993, and broadcast on MTV a month later, Nirvana Unplugged In New York is arguably the best episode in the station’s scattered series and as one of the last “officially” recorded releases in Nirvana‘s catalog, a somber reminder of the range and influence the noisy Seattle band had. It is with a tinge of irony that a band who took The Pixies’ loud-quiet-loud approach to songwriting into the stratosphere found one of their finest career moments on a candle-lit stage with acoustic instruments and backed by a cello. ![]()
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