Album · 1994
MTV Unplugged in New York
by Nirvana
MTV Unplugged in New York is a 1994 grunge album by Nirvana. It runs 14 tracks across 54 minutes on DGC. It won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.2/5 from 798 ratings.
Grunge · Folk Rock · Alternative Rock
#10 in Best albums of 1994 · #6 in Best grunge albums
Your rating
- 4.2 /5
- 798 ratings
- 93 /100
- 6 critics
- 14
- Tracks
- 54 min
- Runtime
- 114 bpm
- Tempo
- D# minor
- Key
Ratings
798 ratings · avg 4.2
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Reviews
1 review
- 4.5
Nirvana unplugged chose vulnerability over hits: Meat Puppets covers, Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World," and Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" delivered with a scream Cobain barely survives. Five months later it became an elegy. As intimate as live albums get, and as final.
33 people have played it start to finish
Critics
6 publications
- Music Week5/5
- The Guardian4/4
- Christgaus Consumer GuideA
- Entertainment WeeklyA
- NME9/10
- Rolling Stone4/5
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MTV Unplugged in New York album cover
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The MTV Unplugged in New York cover was photographed by Frank Micelotta and Jennifer Youngblood-Grohl and art-directed by Robert Fisher. Riffiter listeners rate it 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings.
- Photography
- Frank Micelotta, Jennifer Youngblood-Grohl
- Art direction
- Robert Fisher
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Tracklist
14 tracks · 54 min
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top 5 · 10 rated tracks
According to Riffiter listeners, the best track on MTV Unplugged in New York is All Apologies — rated 4.7/5 by 6 listeners.
Awards
1 win · via Wikidata
- 1996Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music AlbumAll winners →
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About
MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by the American grunge band Nirvana. It features an acoustic performance taped at Sony Music Studios in New York City on November 18, 1993 for the television series MTV Unplugged. The show was directed by Beth McCarthy and first aired on the cable television network MTV on December 14, 1993. As opposed to traditional practice on the television series, Nirvana played a setlist composed of mainly lesser-known material and cover versions of songs by The Vaselines, David Bowie, Meat Puppets (during which they were joined by two members of the group onstage) and Lead Belly. MTV Unplugged in New York was the first Nirvana album released in the wake of the April 1994 suicide of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and has become the group's most successful posthumous release, selling five million copies in America by 1997. It also won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album in 1996. The performance was released on DVD in 2007.
In brief
- Is MTV Unplugged in New York good?
- Riffiter listeners rate MTV Unplugged in New York 4.2/5 from 798 ratings.
- What is the highest-rated track on MTV Unplugged in New York?
- All Apologies, rated 4.7/5 by 6 listeners on Riffiter.
- When was MTV Unplugged in New York released?
- MTV Unplugged in New York was released in 1994 on DGC.
- How many tracks are on MTV Unplugged in New York?
- MTV Unplugged in New York has 14 tracks, with a runtime of 54 minutes.
- What genre is MTV Unplugged in New York?
- MTV Unplugged in New York is catalogued under Grunge, Folk Rock, Alternative Rock.
- What BPM is MTV Unplugged in New York?
- MTV Unplugged in New York runs at a median tempo of 114 BPM across its tracks, most often in D# minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to MTV Unplugged in New York?
- Listeners of MTV Unplugged in New York also rate Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins, Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ten by Pearl Jam.
- Who produced MTV Unplugged in New York?
- MTV Unplugged in New York was produced by Nirvana, Scott Litt and Steve Albini. Nirvana produced 2 of them.
- Who wrote the songs on MTV Unplugged in New York?
- Kurt Cobain wrote 1 of the 14 tracks on MTV Unplugged in New York.
MTV Unplugged in New York at a glance
- Label
- DGC Records
- Recorded at
- Sony Music Studios
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Credits
- Produced by
- Written by
- Mixed by
- Played by
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Cris KirkwoodCurt Kirkwood- Vocals by
Lineage
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Lives on in
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All ApologiesTORREScovered byAll Apologies
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