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Team B Side selects, in the Live Album category...





Track listing

1. "About a Girl" (Kurt Cobain) – 3:37
2. "Come as You Are" (Cobain) – 4:13
3. "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" (Eugene Kelly, Frances McKee) – 4:37
4. "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) – 4:20
5. "Pennyroyal Tea" (Cobain) – 3:40
6. "Dumb" (Cobain) – 2:52
7. "Polly" (Cobain) – 3:16
8. "On a Plain" (Cobain) – 3:44
9. "Something in the Way" (Cobain) – 4:01
10. "Plateau" (Curt Kirkwood) – 3:37
11. "Oh Me" (Kirkwood) – 3:26
12. "Lake of Fire" (Kirkwood) – 2:56
13. "All Apologies" (Cobain) – 4:23
14. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (Traditional, Arranged by Lead Belly) – 5:08

I'd write a whole fluff piece about this album, but all you have to do is listen to "Lake Of Fire", and "Something In The Way", and you will understand why I picked this album first.

I never considered Kurt Cobain to be a great singer, but the emotion, the pain, the grit he brought to every song made it easy to overlook. His voice told the story, regardless if you could make out the words.

The concept of this album was different than most MTV Unplugged discs, as only "Come As You Are" and argueably "All Apologies", were commercial hits for Nirvana, while most other bands took the Unplugged experience to just play their hits by way of acoustic. "About A Girl" hit the charts after the CD's release, a slowed down, mythodical version of it's former self.

This was also the first album to be released after Cobain's death. (Recorded: November '93, Aired: December '93, Cobain's Death: April '94, CD Released: November '94)

Haunting, yet one of the most perfect albums I've ever listend to.

"Something In The Way"


"Lake Of Fire"