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#279 Nirvana, 'MTV Unplugged in New York' (1994)

At ‘MTV Unplugged’ sessions, band were expected to play their biggest hits acoustically. Nirvana preferred to stay away from the hits with Dave Grohl saying “We'd seen the other Unpluggeds and didn't like many of them, because most bands would treat them like rock shows—play their hits like it was Madison Square Garden, except with acoustic guitars.” This set was riddled with covers from artists such as Vaselines, Lead Belly, Meat Puppets and David Bowie.

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