Win Nirvana Unplugged DVDs!

1:23 PM GMT 15/11/2007

It’s the connoisseur’s Nirvana performance, the sometimes excruciatingly intimate show they performed for MTV Unplugged on November 18, 1993, and it’s shortly to be available on DVD. And because we’re nice like that, we have 10 copies to give away.

Released in November 1994, seven months after the death of Kurt Cobain, the Unplugged In New York album became an instant monument to the wasted potential of the Nirvana frontman, an indication of the breadth of his talent and the possibilities for his music. The CD version went platinum, and won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

Here’s how MOJO’s Martin Aston reassessed it, when it was deemed the ninth best album of MOJO’s lifetime in 2006 (Mojo 150).

“Brittle and heart bruised, Nirvana’s songs were stripped bare and scratched out on an acoustic guitar. The results were startling: punk thrash replaced with tender, distorted Americana and unexpected cover versions (Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World). Elsewhere, On A Plain's abrasive scrawl became fragile bluegrass, though a pleading cover of Leadbelly’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night? remains this session’s disturbing masterpiece - Kurt Cobain’s howl vocalising a despair previously relieved through grunge catharsis.”

The full Unplugged In New York DVD (Polydor) is set for release on November 19th 2007 and features the complete unedited 66-minute concert in both Dolby Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound, including stage patter and two songs not aired on the original 44-minute broadcast: Oh Me and Something In The Way.

Also included is previously unreleased rehearsal footage of Come As You Are, Polly and Pennyroyal Tea and documentary footage including interviews with Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic.

Here’s a slightly lower-fi version of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? for a memory-jogger

To be in the running for one of 10 copies, mail Editor@mojo4music.com, before November 26, with the answer to the following question... Additional musicians on the Unplugged date included brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood, but which ’80s/’90s band did they lead?

a) Meat Whiplashb) Master Of Puppetsc) Meat Puppets

Don’t forget to include your name, address and a contact number.

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Full-on Terms & Conditions• No prizes can be traded or exchanged for a cash alternative• Closing date for this competition is November 26• All entrants are responsible for including correct contact details• The judges decision is final and no negotiation or debate will be entered into.• All winners will be notified by email.• This competition is open to all UK readers, except employees, associates and their families of Emap and Universal Music.

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 1:23 PM GMT 15/11/2007

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