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Dutchcharts.nl – Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved May 8, 2016. Italian album certifications – Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved March 26, 2018. The set ended with a performance of the traditional " Where Did You Sleep Last Night", following the arrangement of blues musician Lead Belly, whom Cobain described before the song as "his favorite performer ever". Mark Lanegan had covered this song previously on The Winding Sheet (1990) with Cobain on guitar. After the band finished, Cobain argued with the show's producers, who wanted an encore. Cobain refused because he felt he could not top the performance of that song. [11] Releases [ edit ] French album certifications – Nirvana – Unplugged in N.Y." (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.Unlike many artists who appeared on the show, Nirvana filmed the entire performance of 14 songs in a single take. [9] It included one song from their debut Bleach (1989), four from their second album Nevermind (1991), three from the recently released In Utero, and six covers. [8] As In Utero's " All Apologies" had not yet been released as a single, the only contemporary hit the band performed was the Nevermind single " Come as You Are". [9] Chamings, Andrew Wallace (December 12, 2013). "Nirvana's Tense, Brilliant Unplugged in New York, 20 Years Later". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017 . Retrieved March 8, 2017. MTV Unplugged was released after plans to release the performance as part of a live double-album compilation titled Verse Chorus Verse were abandoned. It was the first Nirvana release after lead singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain's death seven months earlier. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and was certified 8x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2020. [1] It won the Best Alternative Music Performance at the 1996 Grammy Awards, making it Nirvana's only Grammy Award win, and has since been ranked one of the greatest live albums of all time. The performance was released as a DVD in 2007. a b "LOS 50 TÍTULOS CON MAYORES VENTAS EN LAS LISTAS DE VENTAS DE AFYVE EN 1994/1995" (PDF) (in Spanish). Anuarios SGAE. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 18, 2012 . Retrieved May 31, 2023. Dimery, Robert, ed. (2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.

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The setlist, submitted to MTV without concession or explanation, contained six covers and no hits other than “Come As You Are,” a point of contention so contentious that Cobain was still threatening to cancel the performance a day before it taped. (“He did it just to get us worked up,” Finnerty said. “He enjoyed that power.”) Three of the six covers were originally by then-tourmates the Meat Puppets, an Arizona band that, like Nirvana, ventured to create a world that collapsed the distance between brilliant and dumb, ordinary observation—“the sun is gone, but I have a light”—and cosmic insight. The performances are creaky, intimate, eerily temperate for a band known to explode. On first hearing their cover of Leadbelly’s “In the Pines” (here titled, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”), Neil Young reportedly compared Cobain’s voice to a werewolf’s: neither dead nor undead, but beyond. I get it. Unplugged makes me feel like Nirvana could fill my body with arrows and I would still keep walking. Cris and Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets joined to perform three of their songs with Nirvana. "Kurt purposely wanted the Meat Puppets songs to be a struggle for him vocally," remarked Coletti. "So instead of finding a key he could sing them in comfortably, he chose to strain." [10] a b Gaar, Gillian G. (February 14, 1997). "Verse Chorus Verse: The Recording History of Nirvana". Goldmine.Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Nirvana; 'Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved March 28, 2023. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York DVD". dutchcharts.nl. MegaCharts. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020 . Retrieved January 26, 2019.