Album · 1994
MTV Unplugged in New York
by Nirvana
MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana (1994) is rated 4.3/5 from 5 ratings on Riffiter.
#11 in Best albums of 1994 · #4 in Best grunge albums
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- 4.3 /5
- 5 ratings
- 14
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- 54 min
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5 ratings · avg 4.3
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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.
Tracklist
14 tracks · 54 min
Ranked by listeners
4 rated tracks
According to Riffiter listeners, the best track on MTV Unplugged in New York is Where Did You Sleep Last Night? — rated 5.0/5 by 1 listener.
Awards
1 win · via Wikidata
- 1996Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music AlbumAll winners →
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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 4.3/5 from 5 ratings.
- What is the highest-rated track on MTV Unplugged in New York?
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, rated 5.0/5 by 1 listener 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, Rock.