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A fantastic singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist that created some of the greatest albums of 60’s and 70’s.Īs far as live concerts go, a Stevie Wonder show isn’t one you want to miss. Stevie Wonder is no doubt a walking legend.
Stevie Wonder – German TV, Musikladen (1974) I tend to be very lenient with videos recorded before 1996. I rate what I consider my favorites based on audio quality and the set list.
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My picks for the best full length live performances on Youtube cover the last four decades. Thanks to these amateur/professional concert videographers, fans can enjoy live sets from bands who may have broken up, singers who have passed away, and present day superstars fighting ticket scalpers.
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As time marched on, these heroes were able to protect, archive and digitize hours of footage. Your hankies should be at the ready.Before most households had VCR’s let alone vi deo sharing platforms like Youtube, there were people who had the foresight to capture the magic of legendary concerts on film.
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NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #4 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.' NME (Magazine) (10/29/94, p.45) - 9 - Excellent Plus - ".this album makes its makers sound legendary. strings of epitaphs delivered in a blistering, electrifying unplugged show." NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.29) - Ranked #27 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums". Mojo (Publisher) (p.64) - Ranked #09 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" - "Brittle and heartbruised, Nirvana's songs were stripped bare and scratched out on an acoustic guitar." Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.51) - Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994" - ".a performance of raw vulnerability that served as the perfect epitaph for poor Kurt Cobain." New York Times (Publisher) (1/5/95, p.C15) - Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums of '94 - ".These songs. And.it becomes clearer than ever just how much Nirvana owed to less feted Americans such as The Sneakers, dBs and Mitch Easter's Let's Active." Alternative Press (1/95, pp.63-64) - ".UNPLUGGED is about as fine a memento mori as anyone could hope for." Melody Maker (10/29/94, p.35) - ".gut-twistingly poignant.a fine and unreservedly recommended album, a melancholy masterpiece." Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #4 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.56) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Rolling Stone (10/1/94, pp.120-121) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ".Nirvana's performance is stirring and occasionally brilliant, electricity be damned.Without the wild blasts ordinarily produced to fire Nirvana's sound, Cobain's love-buzz vocals are the focus." Spin (1/95, p.71) - Highly Recommended - ".UNPLUGGED captures the moment of Nirvana bathing in its own richly deserved light, and though the moment couldn't last, nothing in the music suggests that there was anything inevitable or natural about the next chapter of the story." Entertainment Weekly (11/4/94, pp.70-71) - ".Listening to MTV UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK is an unsettling experience.the ncentrates on the numbed-out chamber-grunge licacy and intimacy of these acoustic re-arrangements hint.where uld have gone." - Rating: A Q (12/99, p.82) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." Q (12/94, p.147) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ".stripped of the noise.the band sounds most moving, possessed of a ragged glory. It's also clear that they could have made even greater music. By the time Nirvana close with a wrenching, spine-chilling version of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," the emotional complexity of Nirvana's music is clear. Every version of their previously recorded songs, with the possible exception of "On a Plain," dramatically improves the original, and the covers reveal more about Cobain than he intended. Instead of relying on the trio's overpowering sonic force, Unplugged concentrates on Kurt Cobain's subtly shaded songwriting and Nirvana's deceptively simple musical power. While it's an album of covers and old songs, it ranks as one of the band's most cohesive records. Sadly, MTV Unplugged stands as Nirvana's last album. UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.
UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK is part of MTV's "Unplugged" series.
Recorded live at Sony Music Studios, New York, New York on November 18, 1993. Additional personnel: Cris Kirkwood (acoustic guitar, bass) Pat Smear, Curt Kirkwood (acoustic guitar) Lori Goldston (cello). Nirvana: Kurt Cobain (vocals, acoustic guitar) Dave Grohl (vocals, bass, drums) Krist Novoselic (guitar, accordion, bass).