As 2016 comes to a close, I take this time to reflect on the year that I've had. I won't go too much into detail, but let's just say the second half was way better than the first. I can now drive, I have a job, and I'm starting my Bachelor's in January, also, before the year officially ends, I have a tradition to finish. When the year's about to end, I watch one concert and one comedy special, so I can start the new year in a good mood. I decided on "Nirvana Unplugged" because earlier this year I saw "Montage of Heck" which was a great documentary on Kurt Cobain. This made me want to check out some of their live shows, and I chose the one they're best known for. There's still others like "Live at the Paramount", but I chose this mostly because they played a lot of obscure songs to me. I love that. Hearing the hits is one thing, but hearing songs you don't know can introduce you to new things. Kurt and the gang are fantastic in this, this isn't a rock concert with flashing lights and explosions and stage dives, this is a warts-and-all performance. Kurt's voice is so melancholic, and that added with the instruments and songs is so moving. Kurt truly was an icon for a generation, whether he liked it or not, and you can tell by watching this. "Nirvana Unplugged" is a raw, bare-bones, real performances for the ages, and there's a reason it's one of the most well known acoustic albums.R.I.P. Kurt Cobain

In grunge Pearl Jam had 10, the Stone Temple Pilots had Core, Soundgarden had Superunknown and Nirvana had the classic Nevermind. On 18th November 1993 they recorded an Unplugged video for MTV which became, to my ears anyway, their best - and last – album in 1994.It was just an acoustic concert showcasing some of singer Kurt Cobain's finest downbeat songs and a couple of downbeat covers. What of course made it so poignant was Cobain's apparent suicide 5 months later at 27 years old – MTV (when it used to play music) reflecting the trauma for a generation of kids ran the video every day for months … years! That generation has moved on and succeeding generations are as little moved by Nirvana as by the Beatles, so fast is fashion. It was a very relaxed professional set and showed an unknown side of the band to the world; highlights include About A Girl, Come As You Are, the sublime On A Plain, and of course the gravely enigmatic All Apologies – which became their unwitting epitaph. I wonder how Smells Like Teen Spirit would've sounded? Drummer Grohl moved on afterwards and surprised us all with the consistent success of the Foo Fighters, while bassist Novoselic went into rather desultory but well meaning politics.Not everyone's cup of Pennyroyal tea of course, to me this excellent show sums up a musical era and I still watch/listen to it regularly.

mtv unplugged's best show ever. everyone was wondering about it, though. would nirvana, the leaders of grunge (no matter how much kurt hated it) and one of the loudest, grittiest bands of the 90s, be able to play acoustic? take away the drowning out of drums and guitars?of course.honestly, what can be said about this performance that already hasn't been said? it was amazing to watch. i couldn't be pulled away from the screen and only wished that i could have seen it in person, really been there. but anyway, i loved how nirvana could strip away a lot of the noise that most of their songs are composed of (which i love) and get it down to the simple sound of acoustic guitars and quiet drums (which i love even more). kurt, as always, kept the audience's attention with his growling voice and emotional, and sometimes (most times) painful, looks on his face. i also enjoyed just watching him play his guitar since right now i'm learning how to myself. the surprising part about this show was that you were expecting a lot of their biggest hits to be played, yet about half the time they were doing renditions of songs (very good renditions, i might add). they picked songs from the meatpuppets (who guest appeared), david bowie, and ledbelly. i'm so glad they decided not to do smells like teen spirit. i like the song, but it sounded a lot better without it.favorite parts: rendition on The Man Who Sold The World (one of my favorite songs)ending of Where Did You Sleep Last Night (geez, who didnt get chills?). the voice, the way he looked up at the audience for a split second before he ended the song (as someone on another mtv show said, that was kinda his "i'm done" look), the quiet sigh after that cry (that wasn't supposed to rhyme but i can't think of any other way to put it). it raises the hairs on your neck, i swear.while someone's tuning a guitar: kurt says,"I thought we were a big, rich, rock band. We should have a whole bunch of extra guitars." (audience laughs)solo performance of Pennyroyal Teaat the beginning of The Man Who Sold The World kurt says, "I guarentee you i will screw this song up" and then when he's done he says in a happy, surprised voice "I didn't screw it up, did i?"performance of plateau (i love the sound of his voice when he's trying to hit those notes)None of those were in order. but yeah, basically the show was awesome and anyone who hasn't seen it definately should. even if your not the biggest nirvana fan, you'll enjoy it.i rated it a 10.

Kurt Cobain is my favorite musician, and Nirvana is my favorite band (as one might assume from my e-mail address). Therefore, one may think my review to be biased. But this performance was without a doubt the best done on MTV's Unplugged series, and the best done by the band itself. Kurt's harsh voice draws from you emotion and thought, while the guitars by both he and Pat Smear soothe you. Krist Noveselic does a great job, keeping the deeper tone, which we all love, and Dave Grohl is amazing. The first time--for me anyway--that he has been seen doing backup vocals, especially on All Apologies. Key moments: Kurt's solo take on Pennyroyal Tea, the musical opus at the end of Plateau (a Meatpuppets cover, I think), and the powerful movement in the final verse of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (another cover, but of Ledbelly).