2023 Charity Shop Purchases #27 Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Back in the 90's Unplugged albums were a thing for a while with artists performing acoustic albums of their best known songs on MTV with them subsequently appearing on CD.
There are a couple on the shelves already namely Neil Young and 10000 Maniacs. Given that Nirvana were probably the biggest band on the planet when this was released in 1994 on DVG and that it was the first thing by the band released (6 months) after Kurt Cobain's death it is hardly surprising that it has sold 6.8 million copies.
14 tracks with 4 songs off Nevermind, 1 from Bleach, 3 from Meat Puppets II and 3 from In Utero along with 3 covers. Being somewhat obtuse I am going to feature the covers.
Kurt was a huge fan of Bellshill band The Vaselines and regularly appeared wearing T-Shirts of them and here they feature the Vaselines' Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam. Hopefully it made them a good few bob.
David Bowie is slightly better known as is his song The Man Who Sold the World.Not as good as the version by Lulu but hey you can't have everything.
Finally they do a credible copy of Leadbelly's Where Did You Sleep Last Night.
On a related theme I was at a record fair where there was a vinyl copy of Bleach going for £100. I don't know if mine is the same pressing but given I bought it in Echo for a couple of quid I'm tempted to find out!
Nirvana -Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam
Thus version of 'The Man Who Sold the World' is one of my favourite covers of all time. Such a wonderful delivery. Great album too. Swc.
ReplyDeleteIt's an excellent album. Some of the versions of the Nirvana originals come across better when played in such an understated way, while the cover versions are all inspired choices.
ReplyDeleteLulu's version was great but then she did have a lot of help from Bowie himself - he and Mick Ronson played on it I remember
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