![]() And when Cobain sighs before the opening song, About a Girl, while staring in to the middle distance with something like terror in his eyes, it's hard not to think of the words he later wrote in a far from metaphorical suicide note: "The fact is, I can't fool you, any one of you".īut there was a lighter side to Cobain, too. The stage set certainly seems pregnant with meaning: dressed with black candles and white lilies, it couldn't look more like a funeral. It also supports both sides of the you-could-tell-something-was-wrong / it-was-just-a-good-gig argument. Many people will be familiar with this performance from the album, but even so this 66-minute unedited footage (including Something in the Way and Oh Me, which were cut from the original broadcast) makes fascinating viewing. But until now it has never been available as a video or DVD (bootlegs notwithstanding). When it was released seven months after Cobain took his own life, Nirvana: Unplugged in New York sold over 5m copies in America alone, topped the album charts in seven countries, and went on to win a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. Others reckon it to be an interesting and eclectic example of the Unplugged format, but that any deeper meaning is the product of myth-making and hindsight. ![]() Some people consider it to be Kurt Cobain, the tortured genius, stripping both his songs, and himself, to the bone in a brilliant, painfully raw performance that amounts to a kind of suicide note. ![]()
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