More often the group does pick its already more subdued material for the task-going for dirges like “Something in the Way,” or the latest album’s two cello-backed ballads, “Dumb” and “All Apologies” (with Lori Goldston stepping in as cellist on those and most other numbers here), over the outright broadsides in the catalogue. “Come as You Are,” not surprisingly, turns out to be as brooding a folk song as it was a punk ballad, the power of its riffing (in tandem with new guitarist Pat Smear) undiminished as the most critically acclaimed band in America turns it down from 11 to about a 5. Kurt Cobain’s gifted songwriting has, of course, almost always had a core pop sensibility that renders its permutation here predictably effective. All that gets overturned is any skepticism that the band’s hooky, impressionistic blasts might not survive the telling translation from shelling down to shhh. February 6, 1994: Nirvana embarks on a tour of Europe.No, no acoustic guitars get smashed in Nirvana’s turn at an “MTV Unplugged” (at 9 tonight) no drum kits are upended.January 7, 1994: Nirvana plays the Seattle Arena. ![]()
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