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Track List
01) About a Girl
02) Come as You Are
03) Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam
04) The Man Who Sold the World
05) Pennyroyal Tea
06) Dumb
07) Polly
08) On a Plain
09) Something in the Way
10) Plateau
11) Oh Me
12) Lake of Fire
13) All Apologies
14) Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
01) About a Girl
02) Come as You Are
03) Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam
04) The Man Who Sold the World
05) Pennyroyal Tea
06) Dumb
07) Polly
08) On a Plain
09) Something in the Way
10) Plateau
11) Oh Me
12) Lake of Fire
13) All Apologies
14) Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
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4:13
4:37
4:21
3:40
2:52
3:16
3:44
4:01
3:38
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5:06
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First Released
1994
Grunge
Sad
Rock/Pop
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5,000,000 copies
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MTV Unplugged in New York est un album live du groupe de grunge américain Nirvana publié le 1er novembre 1994 en CD par DGC Records, puis le 20 novembre 2007 en DVD. Alors en tournée pour promouvoir In Utero, mais dont les ventes sont plus faibles qu'espérées, le groupe accepte de participer à l'émission MTV Unplugged. Dans une ambiance tendue entre Kurt Cobain et les représentants de la chaîne, ils répètent deux jours avant d'enregistrer en une seule prise l'intégralité du concert le 18 novembre 1993 dans les studios Sony Music de New York. Diffusée le 12 décembre, leur performance permet à leur album studio de franchir la barre du million de copies vendues, mais également de donner un nouveau souffle au programme télévisuel.
Émotionnellement encore touchés par la mort de leur chanteur en avril 1994, Dave Grohl et Krist Novoselic sont incapables de faire un tri dans leurs enregistrements lorsque leur label leur demande de publier un disque réunissant différents morceaux live. Ils choisissent alors de publier l'intégralité de l'émission. L'album se place directement à la première place de nombreux classements de ventes dans le monde entier, dont la France, les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni, récoltant ainsi de nombreux disques de certification. Quintuple disque de platine outre-Atlantique et double disque de platine en France, MTV Unplugged in New York s'écoule à plus de 6,8 millions d'unités, dépassant In Utero et devenant l'album posthume le plus vendu au monde.
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Appealing to our sense of romantic nostalgia for a time when music making was about connecting flesh and bone to wood and wire rather than the mains socket, Unplugged has seen many occasions when rock songs stripped of all their sonic frills and amplified heat become reinvented and revelatory. When it works best it tells us something new about both the singer and the song. Neil Young’s Unplugged and his version of “Like A Hurricane” immediately springs to mind.
What do we learn from the gentle stroll-through renditions of “Come As You Are” or “About A Girl” that wasn’t said more successfully on the originals? The muted expression in these campfire run-throughs, as though the band are sensitive about having their playing exposed to the kind of scrutiny the Unplugged format invites, makes them tentative and tepid compared to their fiery forebears. Only “Something In The Way” with added cello gravitas seems to be comfortable in its new arrangement.
With more cutting-edge than a sawmill working double shifts, Nirvana’s clout was always located in their sound as much as the songs themselves, whose essence was utterly defined by their reliance on electricity. As with most of the grunge movement their material is so intrinsically linked to the juice that without it, this stuff has a slightly hollow ring to it.
It’s interesting that they seem to audibly relax and stretch a little when playing other people’s songs”“notably on the Meat Puppets’ lamentation “Oh Me” and The Vaselines’ “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For A Sunbeam.”
Had Cobain lived this set would be viewed as a mildly entertaining but probably flawed diversion from the real action. Released after his suicide in 1994, it was inevitable that the album was greeted with the kind of fervour that in days gone by might have been accorded to the relics of a martyred Saint. For all the hype though, this set fails to get close to the plugged-in bite that was part and parcel of their strength and appeal.
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MTV Unplugged in New York est un album live du groupe de grunge américain Nirvana publié le 1er novembre 1994 en CD par DGC Records, puis le 20 novembre 2007 en DVD. Alors en tournée pour promouvoir In Utero, mais dont les ventes sont plus faibles qu'espérées, le groupe accepte de participer à l'émission MTV Unplugged. Dans une ambiance tendue entre Kurt Cobain et les représentants de la chaîne, ils répètent deux jours avant d'enregistrer en une seule prise l'intégralité du concert le 18 novembre 1993 dans les studios Sony Music de New York. Diffusée le 12 décembre, leur performance permet à leur album studio de franchir la barre du million de copies vendues, mais également de donner un nouveau souffle au programme télévisuel.
Émotionnellement encore touchés par la mort de leur chanteur en avril 1994, Dave Grohl et Krist Novoselic sont incapables de faire un tri dans leurs enregistrements lorsque leur label leur demande de publier un disque réunissant différents morceaux live. Ils choisissent alors de publier l'intégralité de l'émission. L'album se place directement à la première place de nombreux classements de ventes dans le monde entier, dont la France, les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni, récoltant ainsi de nombreux disques de certification. Quintuple disque de platine outre-Atlantique et double disque de platine en France, MTV Unplugged in New York s'écoule à plus de 6,8 millions d'unités, dépassant In Utero et devenant l'album posthume le plus vendu au monde.
User Album Review
Appealing to our sense of romantic nostalgia for a time when music making was about connecting flesh and bone to wood and wire rather than the mains socket, Unplugged has seen many occasions when rock songs stripped of all their sonic frills and amplified heat become reinvented and revelatory. When it works best it tells us something new about both the singer and the song. Neil Young’s Unplugged and his version of “Like A Hurricane” immediately springs to mind.
What do we learn from the gentle stroll-through renditions of “Come As You Are” or “About A Girl” that wasn’t said more successfully on the originals? The muted expression in these campfire run-throughs, as though the band are sensitive about having their playing exposed to the kind of scrutiny the Unplugged format invites, makes them tentative and tepid compared to their fiery forebears. Only “Something In The Way” with added cello gravitas seems to be comfortable in its new arrangement.
With more cutting-edge than a sawmill working double shifts, Nirvana’s clout was always located in their sound as much as the songs themselves, whose essence was utterly defined by their reliance on electricity. As with most of the grunge movement their material is so intrinsically linked to the juice that without it, this stuff has a slightly hollow ring to it.
It’s interesting that they seem to audibly relax and stretch a little when playing other people’s songs”“notably on the Meat Puppets’ lamentation “Oh Me” and The Vaselines’ “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For A Sunbeam.”
Had Cobain lived this set would be viewed as a mildly entertaining but probably flawed diversion from the real action. Released after his suicide in 1994, it was inevitable that the album was greeted with the kind of fervour that in days gone by might have been accorded to the relics of a martyred Saint. For all the hype though, this set fails to get close to the plugged-in bite that was part and parcel of their strength and appeal.
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