
The set list for Nirvana’s Unplugged in New York comprises 14 songs:Ĭheck out the pics from the Unplugged set below. Times review of the 2007 DVD release called it deserving “a place on the rock TV history shelf alongside the informal, sit-down section of Elvis Presley’s epic comeback special in 1968.” The guitar that Cobain played in the performance sold for an eye-popping $6 million, setting a new record. It’s ranked on most best live albums lists and the L.A. Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York has achieved its own kind of lore, with most magazine reviews giving it 5 out of 5 stars, or a rating of (at least) 9 out of 10. At the Grammy’s in 1996, the album won for Best Alternative Music Performance, Nirvana’s only Grammy win. The show was directed by Beth McCarthy and first aired on the cable television network MTV on December 14, 1993. It features an acoustic performance taped at Sony Music Studios in New York City on Novemfor the television series MTV Unplugged. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified eight times platinum. MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by the American grunge band Nirvana. The first Nirvana release after the death of Cobain, it debuted at No. 16 of the same year, and nearly seven months after Kurt Cobain died by suicide on April 5 of 1994. 18 of 1993, about 11 months from when it aired on MTV Dec.


It dropped slightly less than a year after it was taped on Nov. Polly (MTV Unplugged) Lyrics: Polly wants a cracker / I think I should get off her first / I think she wants some water / To put out the blow torch / Isnt me, have a seed / Let me clip your dirty. November 1, 1994, MTV Unplugged in New York, featuring the historic Nirvana set, was released in stores.
