Pros: excellent performances delivered with raw emotion; interesting cover choices Cons: none
After three studio albums of aggressive and at times abrasive music, Nirvana stripped away that punk edge for their 1993 MTV Unplugged concert. What remained revealed Nirvana as the true musicians they were. As awesome as their noisy ...
Pros: Emotional, introspective, intelligent and creative... Cons: The posthumous release...
Of all the albums I grew to love and appreciate while in high school, one stand out. No, I’m not talking about Stone Temple Pilots or Alice in Chains. I’m not speaking specifically of Nevermind. Nirvana, in my humble opinion, was at the...
Pros: Nirvana's equivalent of Nebraska, Blood On The Tracks etc. Cons: Let me get back to you on that.
The unplugged album, like the "Grunge explosion", was a hallmark of early 1990s rock and roll. Like the Northwest music movement, it produced a lot of music, yet it only left behind a few truly enduring albums. Eric Clapton's classic Unplugged is ...
This marks the third time I've tried to write a review of Nirvana Unplugged in New York. What makes it so hard to exactly pinpoint the magic and the fear behind this release? Well, for one thing, nearly half of the songs in this performance weren't even ...
Pros: amazing unplugged performance, excellent choice of cover songs Cons: Kurt Cobain's dead, no other unplugged performance has reached the same standard
Welcome to the nineties, or should I say early nineties, where something has changed the state of rock. Nirvana have brought the state of mainstream away from hair metal into grunge, a genre which usually refers to the Seattle scene back in 1991 – ...
On November 18th 1993, the kings of 'grunge' stepped into a small studio filled with fans to perform an acoustic set. The traditionalist would have expected, or wanted, them to play the obvious likes of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Heart Shaped Box. But ...
Pros: Nirvana Live In Your Sitting Room. Cons: The Dying Of The Light.
Who would have ever thought that an album of acoustic Nirvana songs would work. The release of this album in the wake of Kurt Cobain's suicide no doubt boosted sales but it proved without doubt the inherent power of Nirvana's music. It also highlighted...
Pros: Very powerful and emotional, fair level of musicianship. Cons: Cons? You have to be f*cking kidding me!
I wrote in one of my earlier reviews that In Utero is the masterpiece of Nirvana’s body of work (although there’s really not a lot to choose from). Well, after going back and listening to MTV: Unplugged In New York, I may have to admit that I was...
When Kurt Cobain stepped upon the stage to record this album who would have known that it would be his last gift to the world. When Nirvana breached mainstream music in the early 90's it set off a spark that ignighted the world. You can hear that spark...
Pros: Kurt Cobain, just about all the songs, chilling All Apologies song Cons: A couple songs could have been better
When Nirvana agreed to perform all their major hits from their long-lasting collection of grunge albums, many people questioned them. Were they going to be able to pull off songs like About a Girl or All Apologies on acoustics? Nirvana answered that ...
Forget all those conspiracy rumours of how record exec David Geffen wanted him offed because he refused to record again, or how wife Courtney Love hired a hit man to collect on the insurance. If you really want to know the reason why Kurt Cobain died,...
Pros: The performance of a lifetime by the rock legends. Cons: The end of the nirvana...
Nirvana. One word. One band. One man. This is Nirvana’s last album ever recorded, recorded a mere three months before the late, great Kurt Cobain took his life. And really, if he had to leave us so soon, it was with this album. The album is...
Pros: Some undeniable quality in the simplistic songwriting and emotional singing Cons: Simplistic songs which, unlike the studio versions, tend to become boring
Nirvana were the leaders of grunge because their simplistic tunes managed to have all the catchiness of pop tunes which gave them a wide appeal while remaining raw and powerful, meaning the rock faithful were also on their side. From their debut...
Pros: Shows the group in a much better musical setting than their studio setting. Cons: "On A Plain" is a little weak.
Ok, I was a teenager when "Smells like Teen Spirit" exploded on the scene and changed the popular music world forever. I was still into metal even in those days - But I tried. I went out and bought Nevermind, and I didn't like it (Ok, I liked...
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