Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

This is a very “Nirvana” thing to do.  When given the opportunity to play live across America on the high rating Unplugged show what did they do?  Did they play their biggest hit?  No, they did not.  Did they choose a crowd friendly set?  No, they did not. 

They played a bunch of album tracks, a whole lot of covers (half of which were by a band called the Meat Puppets – no I’d never heard of them either) and generally tried to be as contrary as possible.

Having said that, all of these things work in the album’s favour.  It’s actually a really great representation of what Nirvana is.  I still find it strange that Nirvana never had a number one album in Australia while Kurt was alive.  This album is a fitting epitaph.