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MTV Unplugged in New York

February 20, 2024

MTV Unplugged in New York is the first live album by the American rock band Nirvana, released by DGC Records on November 1, 1994, nearly seven months following the death of Kurt Cobain. The album was part of the cable television series MTV Unplugged and features a mostly acoustic performance. It was recorded at Sony Music Studios in Hell's Kitchen on November 18, 1993.

MTV Unplugged in New York
Live album by
Nirvana
ReleasedNovember 1, 1994 (1994-11-01) (CD/CS) November 20, 2007 (2007-11-20) (DVD)
RecordedNovember 18, 1993 (1993-11-18)
VenueSony Music, New York City
Genre
Length53:50 (CD/CS)
66:28 (DVD)
LabelDGC
Producer
Nirvana chronology
In Utero
(1993) 		MTV Unplugged in New York
(1994) 		Singles
(1995)
Nirvana video chronology
Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind
(2005) 		MTV Unplugged in New York
(2007) 		Live at Reading
(2009)
Singles from MTV Unplugged in New York
  1. "About a Girl"
    Released: October 24, 1994

The show was directed by Beth McCarthy and aired on the cable television network MTV on December 16, 1993. In a break with MTV Unplugged tradition, Nirvana played mainly lesser-known material and covers of songs by the Vaselines, David Bowie, Lead Belly and Meat Puppets. Unlike prior MTV Unplugged performances, which were entirely acoustic, Nirvana used electric amplification and guitar effects during the set. They were joined by rhythm guitarist Pat Smear and cellist Lori Goldston, alongside Meat Puppets members Cris and Curt Kirkwood for some songs.

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 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 as one of the greatest live albums of all time. The performance was released on DVD in 2007.

Background edit

MTV Unplugged began airing on MTV in 1989, with artists performing their hits on acoustic instruments in intimate settings.[2] Nirvana had been in negotiations to appear for some time; Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain finally accepted while touring with the Meat Puppets.[3] Nirvana wanted to do something different from a typical MTV Unplugged performance; according to drummer Dave Grohl, "We'd seen the other Unpluggeds and didn't like many of them, because most bands would treat them like rock shows—play their hits like it was Madison Square Garden, except with acoustic guitars."[4]

The group looked at Mark Lanegan's 1990 album The Winding Sheet, which Cobain had performed on, for inspiration. Among the ideas the band members came up with included covering David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" and inviting members of the Meat Puppets to join them on stage.[5] Still, the prospect of an entirely acoustic show reportedly made Cobain nervous.[3]

Rehearsal edit

Nirvana rehearsed for two days, at SST Rehearsal Facility, in Weehawken, New Jersey.[6] The rehearsals were tense and difficult, with the band running into problems performing various songs. During the sessions, Cobain disagreed with MTV about the performance. Producer Alex Coletti recalled that the network was unhappy with the lack of hit Nirvana songs, and with the choice of the Meat Puppets as guests, saying: "They wanted to hear the 'right' names – Eddie Vedder or Tori Amos or God knows who."[7]

The day before filming, Cobain refused to play, but he appeared at the studio the following afternoon. Cobain was suffering from drug withdrawal and nervousness at the time; one observer said, "There was no joking, no smiles, no fun coming from him ... everyone was more than a little worried about his performance."[3]

Recording edit

Nirvana taped their performance on November 18, 1993, at Sony Studios in New York City. Cobain suggested the stage be decorated with stargazer lilies, black candles, and a crystal chandelier. Coletti asked, "You mean like a funeral?" Cobain replied, "Exactly. Like a funeral."[8]

Nirvana was joined by guitarist Pat Smear and cellist Lori Goldston, who had been touring with them. Despite the show's acoustic premise, Cobain insisted on running his acoustic guitar through his amplifier and effects pedals. Coletti built a fake box in front of the amplifier to disguise it as a monitor wedge. Coletti said, "It was Kurt's security blanket. He was used to hearing this guitar through his Fender. He wanted those effects. You can hear it on 'The Man Who Sold the World'. It's an acoustic guitar, but he's obviously going through an amp."[7]

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]

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]

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

The Nirvana episode of MTV Unplugged was first broadcast in December 1993.[12] It was 45 minutes long and omitted the songs "Something in the Way" and "Oh Me". After Cobain was found dead in April 1994, MTV aired the episode repeatedly.[13] To meet demand for new Nirvana material and to counter bootlegging, in August 1994, DGC announced a double album, Verse Chorus Verse, comprising live performances including the entire MTV Unplugged performance. However, the task of compiling the album was too emotionally difficult for Novoselic and Grohl, so the project was cancelled a week after the announcement;[14] the group opted to release just the Unplugged performance.[15] Scott Litt, who produced the performance, returned to produce the record.[7]

The performance was released on DVD on November 20, 2007.[16] The DVD release featured the entire taping, in 5.1 DTS surround sound, including the two songs ("Something in the Way" and "Oh Me") excluded from the broadcast version. Bonus features consisted of the original broadcast version of the performance, a 1999 MTV special titled Bare Witness: Nirvana Unplugged featuring the recollections of MTV producers and audience members, and five full-band songs taped during the pre-show rehearsal: "Come as You Are", "Polly", "Plateau", "Pennyroyal Tea", and "The Man Who Sold the World".[17]

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [18]
Blender     [19]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA[20]
Entertainment WeeklyA[21]
The Guardian    [22]
NME9/10[23]
Pitchfork9.5/10[24]
Q     [25]
Rolling Stone     [26]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [27]

MTV Unplugged in New York was released on November 1, 1994. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold 310,500 copies, the highest first-week sales of Nirvana's career.[14] By March 1995, the album had outsold In Utero with 6.8 million copies sold.[28]

The album received positive reviews from critics.[29] Tom Hibbert of Q said that as an acoustic ensemble, Nirvana sounded "most moving, possessed of a ragged glory".[25] Rolling Stone writer Barbara O'Dair found the record "stirring and occasionally brilliant" with "spare and gorgeous spots everywhere", highlighting the band's chemistry on "All Apologies" and Cobain's unaccompanied performance of "Pennyroyal Tea".[26] Ben Thompson from Mojo felt that unlike most "unplugged" releases, the format's "colourless, generic aspect" and not seeing the actual performance benefits Nirvana's record because of how intense it seems in light of Cobain's death.[30][clarification needed] In Entertainment Weekly, David Browne felt unsettled listening to it: "Beyond inducing a sense of loss for Cobain himself, Unplugged elicits a feeling of musical loss, too: the delicacy and intimacy of these acoustic rearrangements hint at where Nirvana (or at least Cobain, who was said to be frustrated with the limitations of the band) could have gone."[21]

MTV Unplugged in New York was voted the fourth best album of the year in Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent American critics published by The Village Voice.[31] Robert Christgau, the poll's supervisor, also ranked the album fourth in his own year-end list,[32] deeming it a testament to Cobain's depth of feeling, "sincerity" as a vocalist, and distinction from other sensitive alternative rock types such as Eddie Vedder and Lou Barlow: "The vocal performance he evokes is John Lennon's on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. And he did it in one take."[20]

Retrospective edit

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine said MTV Unplugged in New York was "fearlessly confessional", as it found Nirvana and Cobain "on the verge of discovering a new sound and style".[18] Jason Mendelsohn from PopMatters believed its intimate folk rock quality was radical from Nirvana and Cobain, "as crass of a business move as it was" by their record label.[33] In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), journalist Charles M. Young called it Nirvana's "second masterpiece" after Nevermind, and claimed that Cobain could have "revolutionized folk music the same way he had rock" because of his striking voice; he said his songs worked equally well with "a loud band bashing away behind you" or "with just an acoustic guitar".[27] Maeve McDermott of USA Today called it "an album of transcendent folk rock that glimpsed what could've been the band's next post-grunge era, had frontman Kurt Cobain survived long enough to see its musical leanings through."[34]

In 2007, episode 6 of the BBC's Seven Ages of Rock called the band's performance of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" a surreal requiem for Cobain.[35] A 2013 article by critic Andrew Wallace Chamings in The Atlantic noted the song as one of the greatest live performances of all time, writing:[36]

For the final line, "I would shiver the whole night through," Cobain jumps up an octave, forcing him to strain so far he screams and cracks. He hits the word "shiver" so hard that the band stops, as if a fight broke out at a sitcom wedding. Next he howls the word "whole" and then does something very strange in the brief silence that follows, something that's hard to describe: he opens his piercingly blue eyes so suddenly it feels like someone or something else is looking out under the bleached lank fringe, with a strange clarity.

In 2012, MTV Unplugged in New York was placed at number 313 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[37] The 2020 edition of the list placed it at number 279.[38] Rolling Stone also named it the 95th best album of the 1990s.[39] The readers rated it the 8th best live album of all time.[40] NME placed MTV Unplugged in New York at number 1 on their list of the "50 Greatest Live Albums".[41] Kerrang listed it among the 11 best live albums of all time.[42] In July 2014, Guitar World ranked MTV Unplugged in New York at number 30 in their "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.[43] The same magazine listed it at number 4 on their list of "The 10 Best Live Albums You Must Hear".[44] Far Out magazine also included it at number 4 on their list of the best 20 live albums of all time.[45] In 2020, The Telegraph included it at number 13 on their list of the best live albums of all time.[46] Also in 2020, Planet Rock magazine included the album in their list of "The 100 Greatest Live Albums Ever". The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[47]

Reviewing the MTV Unplugged in New York DVD release in 2007, the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "deserves a place on the rock TV history shelf alongside the informal, sit-down section of Elvis Presley's epic comeback special in 1968".[16] In June 2020, the 1959 Martin D-18E guitar used by Cobain at the Unplugged concert was sold at Julien's Auctions for US$6 million to Peter Freedman of Røde Microphones, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction.[48]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Kurt Cobain except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Original releaseLength
1."About a Girl" Bleach3:37
2."Come as You Are" Nevermind4:13
3."Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" (The Vaselines cover)Eugene Kelly, Frances McKeeDying for It4:37
4."The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie cover)David BowieThe Man Who Sold the World4:20
5."Pennyroyal Tea" In Utero3:40
6."Dumb" In Utero2:53
7."Polly" Nevermind3:16
8."On a Plain" Nevermind3:44
9."Something in the Way" Nevermind4:01
10."Plateau" (Meat Puppets cover)Curt KirkwoodMeat Puppets II3:38
11."Oh Me" (Meat Puppets cover)KirkwoodMeat Puppets II3:26
12."Lake of Fire" (Meat Puppets cover)KirkwoodMeat Puppets II2:55
13."All Apologies" In Utero4:23
14."Where Did You Sleep Last Night"Traditional; arranged by Lead Belly 5:08
Total length:53:50
25th anniversary rehearsal bonus tracks[49]
No.TitleLength
15."Come as You Are"4:45
16."Polly"4:05
17."Plateau"4:40
18."Pennyroyal Tea"4:29
19."The Man Who Sold the World"4:38
Total length:22:37 76:27

Personnel edit

Nirvana

Additional musicians

Production

  • Alex Coletti – production
  • Robert Fisher – art direction, design
  • Scott Litt – production
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Frank Micelotta – photography
  • Jennifer Youngblood-Grohl – photography
  • Nirvana – production

Charts edit

DVD charts edit

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[143] 3× Platinum 180,000^
Australia (ARIA)[144] 5× Platinum 350,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[145] 2× Platinum 100,000*
Belgium (BEA)[146] 3× Platinum 150,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[147] Platinum 250,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[148] 9× Platinum 900,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[149] Gold 24,373[149]
France (SNEP)[150] 2× Platinum 600,000*
Germany (BVMI)[151] Gold 250,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[152]
sales since 2009 		Platinum 50,000‡
Japan (RIAJ)[153] Platinum 200,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[154] Gold 100,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[155] Platinum 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[156] Platinum 15,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[157] Platinum 50,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[158]
Certification for original release 		Platinum 100,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[159]
Separate certification for re-issued version 		Platinum 20,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[160] 2× Platinum 200,000^
Sweden (GLF)[161] Platinum 100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[162] 2× Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[163] 3× Platinum 900,000‡
United States (RIAA)[164] 8× Platinum 8,000,000‡
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[165] 2× Platinum 2,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

DVD release edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[166] Platinum 8,000^
Australia (ARIA)[167] Platinum 15,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[168] Platinum 5,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[169] Platinum 50,000*
United States (RIAA)[170] 7× Platinum 700,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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Bibliography edit

  • Cross, Charles R. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. Hyperion, 2001. ISBN 0-7868-6505-9

External links edit

  • MTV Unplugged in New York (Full Show and Rehearsals) at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
  • MTV Unplugged in New York at IMDb  
  • MTV Unplugged in New York at Discogs (list of releases)

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MTV Unplugged in New York is the first live album by the American rock band Nirvana released by DGC Records on November 1 1994 nearly seven months following the death of Kurt Cobain The album was part of the cable television series MTV Unplugged and features a mostly acoustic performance It was recorded at Sony Music Studios in Hell s Kitchen on November 18 1993 MTV Unplugged in New YorkLive album by NirvanaReleasedNovember 1 1994 1994 11 01 CD CS November 20 2007 2007 11 20 DVD RecordedNovember 18 1993 1993 11 18 VenueSony Music New York CityGenreAlternative rock acoustic rock folk rockLength53 50 CD CS 66 28 DVD LabelDGCProducerAlex ColettiScott LittNirvanaNirvana chronologyIn Utero 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York 1994 Singles 1995 Nirvana video chronologyClassic Albums Nirvana Nevermind 2005 MTV Unplugged in New York 2007 Live at Reading 2009 Singles from MTV Unplugged in New York About a Girl Released October 24 1994The show was directed by Beth McCarthy and aired on the cable television network MTV on December 16 1993 In a break with MTV Unplugged tradition Nirvana played mainly lesser known material and covers of songs by the Vaselines David Bowie Lead Belly and Meat Puppets Unlike prior MTV Unplugged performances which were entirely acoustic Nirvana used electric amplification and guitar effects during the set They were joined by rhythm guitarist Pat Smear and cellist Lori Goldston alongside Meat Puppets members Cris and Curt Kirkwood for some songs 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 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 as one of the greatest live albums of all time The performance was released on DVD in 2007 Contents 1 Background 2 Rehearsal 3 Recording 4 Releases 5 Reception 5 1 Retrospective 6 Track listing 7 Personnel 8 Charts 8 1 Weekly charts 8 2 Year end charts 8 3 Decade end charts 8 4 DVD charts 9 Certifications 9 1 DVD release 10 References 10 1 Bibliography 11 External linksBackground editMTV Unplugged began airing on MTV in 1989 with artists performing their hits on acoustic instruments in intimate settings 2 Nirvana had been in negotiations to appear for some time Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain finally accepted while touring with the Meat Puppets 3 Nirvana wanted to do something different from a typical MTV Unplugged performance according to drummer Dave Grohl We d seen the other Unpluggeds and didn t like many of them because most bands would treat them like rock shows play their hits like it was Madison Square Garden except with acoustic guitars 4 The group looked at Mark Lanegan s 1990 album The Winding Sheet which Cobain had performed on for inspiration Among the ideas the band members came up with included covering David Bowie s The Man Who Sold the World and inviting members of the Meat Puppets to join them on stage 5 Still the prospect of an entirely acoustic show reportedly made Cobain nervous 3 Rehearsal editNirvana rehearsed for two days at SST Rehearsal Facility in Weehawken New Jersey 6 The rehearsals were tense and difficult with the band running into problems performing various songs During the sessions Cobain disagreed with MTV about the performance Producer Alex Coletti recalled that the network was unhappy with the lack of hit Nirvana songs and with the choice of the Meat Puppets as guests saying They wanted to hear the right names Eddie Vedder or Tori Amos or God knows who 7 The day before filming Cobain refused to play but he appeared at the studio the following afternoon Cobain was suffering from drug withdrawal and nervousness at the time one observer said There was no joking no smiles no fun coming from him everyone was more than a little worried about his performance 3 Recording editNirvana taped their performance on November 18 1993 at Sony Studios in New York City Cobain suggested the stage be decorated with stargazer lilies black candles and a crystal chandelier Coletti asked You mean like a funeral Cobain replied Exactly Like a funeral 8 Nirvana was joined by guitarist Pat Smear and cellist Lori Goldston who had been touring with them Despite the show s acoustic premise Cobain insisted on running his acoustic guitar through his amplifier and effects pedals Coletti built a fake box in front of the amplifier to disguise it as a monitor wedge Coletti said It was Kurt s security blanket He was used to hearing this guitar through his Fender He wanted those effects You can hear it on The Man Who Sold the World It s an acoustic guitar but he s obviously going through an amp 7 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 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 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 editThe Nirvana episode of MTV Unplugged was first broadcast in December 1993 12 It was 45 minutes long and omitted the songs Something in the Way and Oh Me After Cobain was found dead in April 1994 MTV aired the episode repeatedly 13 To meet demand for new Nirvana material and to counter bootlegging in August 1994 DGC announced a double album Verse Chorus Verse comprising live performances including the entire MTV Unplugged performance However the task of compiling the album was too emotionally difficult for Novoselic and Grohl so the project was cancelled a week after the announcement 14 the group opted to release just the Unplugged performance 15 Scott Litt who produced the performance returned to produce the record 7 The performance was released on DVD on November 20 2007 16 The DVD release featured the entire taping in 5 1 DTS surround sound including the two songs Something in the Way and Oh Me excluded from the broadcast version Bonus features consisted of the original broadcast version of the performance a 1999 MTV special titled Bare Witness Nirvana Unplugged featuring the recollections of MTV producers and audience members and five full band songs taped during the pre show rehearsal Come as You Are Polly Plateau Pennyroyal Tea and The Man Who Sold the World 17 Reception editProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 18 Blender nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 19 Christgau s Consumer GuideA 20 Entertainment WeeklyA 21 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 22 NME9 10 23 Pitchfork9 5 10 24 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 25 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 26 The Rolling Stone Album Guide nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 27 MTV Unplugged in New York was released on November 1 1994 It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold 310 500 copies the highest first week sales of Nirvana s career 14 By March 1995 the album had outsold In Utero with 6 8 million copies sold 28 The album received positive reviews from critics 29 Tom Hibbert of Q said that as an acoustic ensemble Nirvana sounded most moving possessed of a ragged glory 25 Rolling Stone writer Barbara O Dair found the record stirring and occasionally brilliant with spare and gorgeous spots everywhere highlighting the band s chemistry on All Apologies and Cobain s unaccompanied performance of Pennyroyal Tea 26 Ben Thompson from Mojo felt that unlike most unplugged releases the format s colourless generic aspect and not seeing the actual performance benefits Nirvana s record because of how intense it seems in light of Cobain s death 30 clarification needed In Entertainment Weekly David Browne felt unsettled listening to it Beyond inducing a sense of loss for Cobain himself Unplugged elicits a feeling of musical loss too the delicacy and intimacy of these acoustic rearrangements hint at where Nirvana or at least Cobain who was said to be frustrated with the limitations of the band could have gone 21 MTV Unplugged in New York was voted the fourth best album of the year in Pazz amp Jop an annual poll of prominent American critics published by The Village Voice 31 Robert Christgau the poll s supervisor also ranked the album fourth in his own year end list 32 deeming it a testament to Cobain s depth of feeling sincerity as a vocalist and distinction from other sensitive alternative rock types such as Eddie Vedder and Lou Barlow The vocal performance he evokes is John Lennon s on John Lennon Plastic Ono Band And he did it in one take 20 Retrospective edit In a retrospective review for AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine said MTV Unplugged in New York was fearlessly confessional as it found Nirvana and Cobain on the verge of discovering a new sound and style 18 Jason Mendelsohn from PopMatters believed its intimate folk rock quality was radical from Nirvana and Cobain as crass of a business move as it was by their record label 33 In The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2004 journalist Charles M Young called it Nirvana s second masterpiece after Nevermind and claimed that Cobain could have revolutionized folk music the same way he had rock because of his striking voice he said his songs worked equally well with a loud band bashing away behind you or with just an acoustic guitar 27 Maeve McDermott of USA Today called it an album of transcendent folk rock that glimpsed what could ve been the band s next post grunge era had frontman Kurt Cobain survived long enough to see its musical leanings through 34 In 2007 episode 6 of the BBC s Seven Ages of Rock called the band s performance of Where Did You Sleep Last Night a surreal requiem for Cobain 35 A 2013 article by critic Andrew Wallace Chamings in The Atlantic noted the song as one of the greatest live performances of all time writing 36 For the final line I would shiver the whole night through Cobain jumps up an octave forcing him to strain so far he screams and cracks He hits the word shiver so hard that the band stops as if a fight broke out at a sitcom wedding Next he howls the word whole and then does something very strange in the brief silence that follows something that s hard to describe he opens his piercingly blue eyes so suddenly it feels like someone or something else is looking out under the bleached lank fringe with a strange clarity In 2012 MTV Unplugged in New York was placed at number 313 on Rolling Stone s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 37 The 2020 edition of the list placed it at number 279 38 Rolling Stone also named it the 95th best album of the 1990s 39 The readers rated it the 8th best live album of all time 40 NME placed MTV Unplugged in New York at number 1 on their list of the 50 Greatest Live Albums 41 Kerrang listed it among the 11 best live albums of all time 42 In July 2014 Guitar World ranked MTV Unplugged in New York at number 30 in their Superunknown 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 list 43 The same magazine listed it at number 4 on their list of The 10 Best Live Albums You Must Hear 44 Far Out magazine also included it at number 4 on their list of the best 20 live albums of all time 45 In 2020 The Telegraph included it at number 13 on their list of the best live albums of all time 46 Also in 2020 Planet Rock magazine included the album in their list of The 100 Greatest Live Albums Ever The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 47 Reviewing the MTV Unplugged in New York DVD release in 2007 the Los Angeles Times wrote that it deserves a place on the rock TV history shelf alongside the informal sit down section of Elvis Presley s epic comeback special in 1968 16 In June 2020 the 1959 Martin D 18E guitar used by Cobain at the Unplugged concert was sold at Julien s Auctions for US 6 million to Peter Freedman of Rode Microphones making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction 48 Track listing editAll tracks are written by Kurt Cobain except where notedNo TitleWriter s Original releaseLength1 About a Girl Bleach3 372 Come as You Are Nevermind4 133 Jesus Doesn t Want Me for a Sunbeam The Vaselines cover Eugene Kelly Frances McKeeDying for It4 374 The Man Who Sold the World David Bowie cover David BowieThe Man Who Sold the World4 205 Pennyroyal Tea In Utero3 406 Dumb In Utero2 537 Polly Nevermind3 168 On a Plain Nevermind3 449 Something in the Way Nevermind4 0110 Plateau Meat Puppets cover Curt KirkwoodMeat Puppets II3 3811 Oh Me Meat Puppets cover KirkwoodMeat Puppets II3 2612 Lake of Fire Meat Puppets cover KirkwoodMeat Puppets II2 5513 All Apologies In Utero4 2314 Where Did You Sleep Last Night Traditional arranged by Lead Belly 5 08Total length 53 50 25th anniversary rehearsal bonus tracks 49 No TitleLength15 Come as You Are 4 4516 Polly 4 0517 Plateau 4 4018 Pennyroyal Tea 4 2919 The Man Who Sold the World 4 38Total length 22 37 76 27Personnel editNirvana Kurt Cobain lead vocals electro acoustic guitar 1 9 13 14 Krist Novoselic acoustic bass 1 2 4 6 9 13 14 accordion 3 acoustic rhythm guitar 10 12 Dave Grohl drums 1 2 4 6 14 backing vocals acoustic bass amp percussion 3 Pat Smear acoustic guitar 1 4 6 9 13 14 Additional musicians Lori Goldston cello 3 4 6 9 13 14 Cris Kirkwood acoustic bass backing vocals 10 12 Curt Kirkwood acoustic lead guitar 10 12 Production Alex Coletti production Robert Fisher art direction design Scott Litt production Stephen Marcussen mastering Frank Micelotta photography Jennifer Youngblood Grohl photography Nirvana productionCharts editWeekly charts edit Weekly chart performance MTV Unplugged in New York Chart 1994 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 50 1Australian Alternative Albums ARIA 51 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 52 1Belgian Albums IFPI Belgium 53 1Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 54 3Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 55 6Buenos Aires Albums UPI 56 10Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 57 1Canada Albums The Record 58 59 60 61 1Danish Albums Hitlisten 62 4Dutch Albums Album Top 100 63 2European Top 100 Albums Music amp Media 64 2Finnish Albums The Official Finnish Charts 65 3French Albums SNEP 66 67 1German Albums Offizielle Top 100 68 6Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 69 9Irish Albums IFPI Ireland 70 1Italian Albums Musica e Dischi 71 8Japanese Albums Oricon 72 20New Zealand Albums RMNZ 73 1Norwegian Albums VG lista 74 6Portuguese Albums AFP 70 1Scottish Albums OCC 75 3Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 76 1Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 77 2Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 78 3UK Albums OCC 79 1UK Rock amp Metal Albums OCC 80 1US Billboard 200 81 1Zimbabwean Albums 82 8Chart 2010 PeakpositionGreek Albums IFPI 83 47Chart 2015 PeakpositionUS Top Catalog Albums Billboard 84 1Chart 2016 PeakpositionItalian Albums FIMI 85 61Chart 2019 PeakpositionUS Top Rock Albums Billboard 86 14 Year end charts edit Year end chart performance for MTV Unplugged in New York Chart 1994 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 87 7Austrian Albums O3 Austria 88 23Canadian Albums RPM 89 30Dutch Albums MegaCharts 90 25European Top 100 Albums Music amp Media 91 4French Albums SNEP 92 5New Zealand Albums RMNZ 93 46Spanish Albums AFYVE 94 37Swedish Albums amp Compilations Sverigetopplistan 95 26UK Albums OCC 96 39Chart 1995 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 97 13Austrian Albums O3 Austria 98 15Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 99 14Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 100 8Dutch Albums MegaCharts 101 24Euro Top 100 Albums Music amp Media 102 4French Albums SNEP 103 7German Albums Offizielle Top 100 104 19New Zealand Albums RMNZ 105 17Spanish Albums AFYVE 94 17Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 106 9UK Albums OCC 107 73US Billboard 200 108 13Chart 1996 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 109 48Chart 2002 PositionCanadian Alternative Albums Nielsen SoundScan 110 189Canadian Metal Albums Nielsen SoundScan 111 98Chart 2015 PositionUK Vinyl Albums OCC 112 10Chart 2016 PositionUK Vinyl Albums OCC 113 21Chart 2017 PositionUK Vinyl Albums OCC 114 18Chart 2018 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 115 15UK Vinyl Albums OCC 116 25Chart 2019 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 117 15Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 118 123Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 119 155Portuguese Albums AFP 120 96Chart 2020 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 121 21Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 122 88Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 123 120Croatian Albums Foreign Top 40 124 39UK Vinyl Albums OCC 125 36US Top Rock Albums Billboard 126 85Chart 2021 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 127 7Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 128 94Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 129 131Irish Vinyl Albums IRMA 130 12Portuguese Albums AFP 131 76US Top Rock Albums Billboard 132 71Chart 2022 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 133 23Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 134 170Chart 2023 PositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 135 188Decade end charts edit Chart 2010 2019 PositionUK Vinyl Albums Official Charts Company 136 16 DVD charts edit Chart 2007 PeakpositionAustralian DVD Chart ARIA Charts 137 3Dutch DVD Chart MegaCharts 138 8Norwegian DVD Chart VG lista 139 1UK Music Videos OCC 140 3US Top Music Video Sales Billboard 141 142 6Certifications editRegion Certification Certified units salesArgentina CAPIF 143 3 Platinum 180 000 Australia ARIA 144 5 Platinum 350 000 Austria IFPI Austria 145 2 Platinum 100 000 Belgium BEA 146 3 Platinum 150 000 Brazil Pro Musica Brasil 147 Platinum 250 000 Canada Music Canada 148 9 Platinum 900 000 Finland Musiikkituottajat 149 Gold 24 373 149 France SNEP 150 2 Platinum 600 000 Germany BVMI 151 Gold 250 000 Italy FIMI 152 sales since 2009 Platinum 50 000 Japan RIAJ 153 Platinum 200 000 Mexico AMPROFON 154 Gold 100 000 Netherlands NVPI 155 Platinum 100 000 New Zealand RMNZ 156 Platinum 15 000 Norway IFPI Norway 157 Platinum 50 000 Poland ZPAV 158 Certification for original release Platinum 100 000 Poland ZPAV 159 Separate certification for re issued version Platinum 20 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 160 2 Platinum 200 000 Sweden GLF 161 Platinum 100 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 162 2 Platinum 100 000 United Kingdom BPI 163 3 Platinum 900 000 United States 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