Nirvana-MTV Unplugged In New York (1994)

 


Artist: Nirvana

Title: MTV Unplugged In New York

Label: DGC

Format: CD

Catalog Number: DGCD-24727

Year of Release: 1994

Country and Year of Edition: US 1994 DADC

Sell Price: $6.95

Sell Date: 7/6/26

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 6/29/26 VG/NM $4.23

Low: $1.48

Median: $5.00

Average: $4.79

High: $8.25

Current low price: $2.00 VG/NM

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 18

Have/Want: 448/352

Where Sold: Saco, ME

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go: No 

Nirvana's live MTV Unplugged record, like Meat Puppets II which has three songs the band covers here in a row, is something I never want to actually listen to compared to the rest of the catalog.  I feel like giving this a B- is a bit of bullshit, it probably is an A record objectively on some standard and Kurt certainly made the Vaseline's "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" and Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World" his own in impressive fashion.    That he only manages to do this for 1 of 3 Meat Puppets songs ("Lake Of Fire'") is another conversation despite Curt Kirkwood himself joining the band for guitar on his songs.  That is still a better than half conversion rate.  Good for Curt to keep "Up On The Sun" out of Kurt's bag and leave something to himself.

In terms of hits, Teen Spirit was left off the set list, "Come As You Are" made the cut early.  Quieter side closers like "Polly," "Something In The Way" and "All Apologies" were the main songs of the show that kicked off with "About A Girl" from Bleach.

I couldn't think of an other artist except for maybe Clapton where the MTV Unplugged series made such an impact on an artists catalog in terms of combined aesthetics and commercialism.  Of his generation I can remember Alice In Chains doing one, I can't remember off the top of my head if Pearl Jam (they did) or Soundgarden (they didn't) did.  Dylan & Young put out ones that I bought, played once or twice and filed away, though Bob did a good closing "With God On Our Side." 

Still bringing Leadbelly "In The Pines" to the masses for his closer a few years after Mark Lanegan did a good cover of it a few years before was a masters touch in addition to the more modern influences that the millions that bought this still don't know to this day. The timeline on this is a crazy whirlwind.  Recorded November 1993, Kurt's suicide in April 1994 and this live release in November 1994.  After Nevermind, this posthumous release is the next biggest seller hitting the 8 million mark in 2020 after the first 5 went through 1997.  That's quite a bit of involuntary listens for an album I bet wouldn't be packaged this way if Kurt had his say.

But if it was good enough for Bob and Neil...

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)

Nevermind (1991)

Incesticide (1992)

In Utero (1993)

Sweet 75-Sweet 75 (1997)

Various Artists-No Alternative  (1993)

Hole-Live Through This (1994)

Neil Young-Unplugged (1993)

Bob Dylan-Good As I Been To You (1992)



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