Tracklist Hide Credits
| 1 |
About A Girl
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
3:38 | ||
| 2 |
Come As You Are
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
4:14 | ||
| 3 |
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam
Written-By – Eugene Kelly, Frances McKee |
4:37 | ||
| 4 |
The Man Who Sold The World
Written-By – David Bowie |
4:21 | ||
| 5 |
Pennyroyal Tea
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
3:41 | ||
| 6 |
Dumb
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
2:53 | ||
| 7 |
Polly
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
3:16 | ||
| 8 |
On A Plain
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
3:45 | ||
| 9 |
Something In The Way
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
4:01 | ||
| 10 |
Plateau
Written-By – Meat Puppets |
3:39 | ||
| 11 |
Oh Me
Written-By – Meat Puppets |
3:26 | ||
| 12 |
Lake Of Fire
Written-By – Meat Puppets |
2:56 | ||
| 13 |
All Apologies
Written-By – Kurt Cobain |
4:23 | ||
| 14 |
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Written-By – Huddie Ledbetter |
5:06 |
Credits
- Accordion – Krist Novoselic (tracks: 3)
- Art Direction, Design – Robert Fisher (4)
- Backing Vocals – Cris Kirkwood (tracks: 10, 12), Dave Grohl
- Bass Guitar – Cris Kirkwood (tracks: 12), Dave Grohl (tracks: 3), Krist Novoselic (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 11, 13, 14)
- Cello – Lori Goldston (tracks: 3, 4, 6 to 9, 13, 14)
- Directed By – Beth McCarthy
- Drums – Dave Grohl
- Executive Producer – Joel Stillerman
- Guitar – Cris Kirkwood (tracks: 10, 11), Krist Novoselic (tracks: 10 to 12), Kurt Cobain, Pat Smear
- Mastered By – Stephen Marcussen
- Other [Mtv Unplugged Series Created By] – Bob Small, Jim Burns
- Photography By – Frank Micelotta, Jennifer Youngblood-Grohl*
- Producer [Mtv] – Alex Coletti
- Producer [Sound] – Nirvana, Scott Litt
- Vocals – Kurt Cobain
Notes
Mixed at Louie's Clubhouse (NYC, USA).
Recorded live for MTV at Sony Studios (NYX, USA) on November 18, 1993.
Mastered at Precision Mastering (Los Angeles, USA).
Track 3 is a cover of a Vaselines, The song.
Track 4 is a cover of a David Bowie song.
Tracks 10 to 12 are covers of Meat Puppets songs, which first appeared on their Meat Puppets II album.
Track 14 is a cover of a Leadbelly song.
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is incorrectly credited to Leadbelly as it is a "Traditional' song that was arranged by Leadbelly.
Credits here are as shown on the release.
© ℗ 1994 Geffen Records, Inc.
Other Versions (Showing 5 of 54) View All
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTV Unplugged In New York (LP, Pic) | El Disco Es Cultura | GED 24727P | UK | 1994 | ||
| MTV Unplugged In New York (CD, Album) | Geffen Records | SGCD 24727 | Canada | 1994 | ||
| MTV Unplugged In New York (LP, Album, 180) | Original Recordings Group (2), Universal Music Special Markets | ORG 034, B0012764-01 | US | 2009 | ||
| MTV Unplugged In New York (CD, Album) | DGC | DGCSD 24727 | Canada | 1994 | ||
| MTV Unplugged In New York (CD, Album) | Geffen Records | GED 24727 | Spain | 1994 |
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Nirvana - Incesticide (CD, Comp)
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Reviews & Discussion
nicholasvanorton
Mar 28, 2012
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What is that "limited" release of the 26th march 2012 ?
What is that "limited" release of the 26th march 2012 ?
In all honesty, i don't remember anything that's even half gut-wrenching as this album. I can listen to separate songs from this one, but its extremely hard to sit through it in all of its entirety. Whatever adds emotional weight to all of this is the fact that it was one of the last efforts by Nirvana. But even leaving that aside, most of the songs are incredibly sad, whether its covers (Jesus Doesn't Me For A Sunbeam, Man Who Sold The World, Oh Me, Lake Of Fire, Where Did You Sleep Last Night) or original songs performed in acoustic versions (About A Girl, On A Plain and the fact that quiet wisely, Smells Like Teen Spirit was nowhere to be found). Probably one of those albums that stays with you for years.
A lot of hype was built around the unplugged event, not that anyone would expect that Nirvana would bang out special acoustic versions of their big hits (mainly speaking about "smells like teen spirit") as it would have been slightly impossible. "Come as you are" was the only of nirvana's commercial hits that was played and it was a wise move, i think Kurt & Nirvana never intended this to be yet another unplugged show, it would be something to remember and it was.
The big standout for me is the David Bowie cover "the man who sold the world", this is to date on of my favourite covers ever recorded and the sadness & emotion encapsuled in the track is overwhelming.
The big standout for me is the David Bowie cover "the man who sold the world", this is to date on of my favourite covers ever recorded and the sadness & emotion encapsuled in the track is overwhelming.
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The whole album is a satisfying listen. My favourite is "Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam". It's another cover of a Vaselines song, Kurt's much loved band. It's a testament to Kurt Cobain that he makes this sound better than the original as he does on the brilliant Vaselines covers on "Incesticide". That's my opinion of course.
The two songs taken from "Nevermind", "Come As You Are" and "Polly" are also superior to the original studio versions in my opinion. Less polished and more genuine in emotion, they just have more resonance in acoustic form.
For all the sadness and melancholy contained in the music here, Kurt is also an engaging host between songs. We get a glimpse at his reknowned sense of humour although this has always been evident in his songwriting to me. Kurt was not all about angst but also full of self-deprecating humour.
Overall a revelatory listen and proof that Nirvana were a highly talented group of musicians and Kurt was and is a true icon of our generation. R.I.P. Dude