There were a few bumps along the way - such as a kerfuffle when it was reported that Nirvana bowed to record company pressure to remix tracks on their new album, thus making them "sellouts" ( the band insisted they alone decided what changes needed to be made ) - but '93 ended up being one of Nirvana’s most productive years. So there was much ground to make up in 1993.īut Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl rose to the challenge. Nirvana retreated for most of the year, only playing about a month’s worth of shows and delaying work on a follow up album. The Seattle grunge pioneers achieved international fame when their major label debut, Nevermind, topped the charts and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 34th GRAMMY Awards.īut the band (and lead singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in particular) quickly became overwhelmed by their unexpected success. Coleīy most measures, 1992 was a massive year for Nirvana. Watch Lamar's full acceptance speech above, and check back at every Friday for more GRAMMY Rewind episodes.ġ0 Essential Facts To Know About GRAMMY-Winning Rapper J. Lamar has since won Best Rap Album two more times, taking home the golden gramophone in 2018 for his blockbuster LP DAMN., and in 2023 for his bold fifth album, Mr. He also won Best Music Video for the remix of Taylor Swift 's "Bad Blood." To Pimp a Butterfly singles "Alright" and "These Walls" earned Lamar three more GRAMMYs that night, the former winning Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song and the latter taking Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (the song features Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat ). "We'd never forget that: Taking these kids out of the projects, out of Compton, and putting them right here on this stage, to be the best that they can be," Lamar - a Compton native himself - continued, leading into an impassioned conclusion spotlighting some of the cornerstone rap albums that came before To Pimp a Butterfly. Lamar specifically praised Top Dawg's CEO, Anthony Tiffith, for finding and developing raw talent that might not otherwise get the chance to pursue their musical dreams. He also extended his love and gratitude to his fiancée, Whitney Alford, and shouted out his Top Dawg Entertainment labelmates. Ric Ocasek Made Everything Cool-Including Himself he was really happy with it," MTV Unplugged producer Alex Coletti said. "Retroactively, postscript, it became his funeral for his fans and for the audience, but in that moment he was very switched on. The performance also become meaningful to fans because it was taped months before Cobain's death. "Musically they took a lot of chances I think, song choices they took a lot of chances." In an interview with MTV News, MTV Unplugged director of the time Beth McCarthy-Miller said Cobain took a lot of chances on the show. The performance was released as a 14-track live album in 1994 and has become a classic for its rawness-frontman Kurt Cobain forces an awkward smile at one point and reportedly asked producers not to edit it out because his manager had told him he needed to smile more-and for bold setlist choices-the performance does not include the band's major hit at the time "Smells like Teen Spirit," but includes lesser-known songs and a few covers at a time in which the network felt the show needed the "hit" to be played. The album, MTV Unplugged In New York, reissue is a double-LP featuring five rehearsal performances, previously only featured in the DVD release, according to Pitchfork. Grunge rock legends Nirvana's epic 1993 performance for MTV Unplugged, an acoustic performance series from the Viacom network, is getting a vinyl reissue.
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