The feedback laden shows and over the top screaming was all fodder for angry male youth, but Cobain’s influences, as stated in numerous magazines, were far from that mark. This was, for me as a fan, what I had been waiting to see. The MTV execs were in a tizzy.īut, as is usually the problem with execs, they couldn’t see the artistry. At the time, only one of the songs performed had been a single, “Come As You Are,” and they played that second. Just over half of the songs in their performance were actually theirs, meaning nearly half were covers. They turned in their setlist and didn’t discuss it. Nirvana changed things up without really notifying the MTV team. For instance, you’d probably see a Modest Mouse Unplugged show today with songs like “Float On” and “Dashboard,” but you wouldn’t see a Jesu Unplugged, not that it would even work. Shows ventured from the obvious (10,000 Maniacs, R.E.M., Neil Young) to the abstract (LL Cool J, Yo! MTV Raps), yet the common themes were establishment and song recognition. After the show began to pick up a fanbase, artists started releasing these performances as albums or EPs.
#NIRVANA MTV UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK DVD SERIES#
The original idea of MTV’s Unplugged series was to have established electric rock acts play their `hits’ acoustically. It’s impossible to deny the fact that Cobain’s death directly influenced sales, but it’s also impossible to deny that this performance is quite possibly the best Nirvana performance ever given, despite of, or even because of its flaws, and easily the best Unplugged show ever aired. Because this was essentially Cobain’s last mass public performance, the album version of unplugged was a huge success. The events surrounding and including Nirvana’s Unplugged performance weigh heavily in this drama, mainly due to the fact that Cobain died a mere five months after recording. As we near the twentieth anniversary of Bleach, one has to wonder if this so-called `mystery’ will either hit a wall or be ever-expanding like the plot of some Pynchonian novel. Yet, the more time that goes by, the more that people seem to give more credence to conspiracy theories, fabrications and conjecture about the death of Kurt Cobain. In other words, there’s been a lot of water under the Ship Canal Bridge. It’s been fourteen years since Nirvana taped their infamous MTV Unplugged performance and thirteen years since the CD of that performance was originally released.
0 kommentar(er)
