Nirvana Resurrected on DVD: Want a Copy?
Was Nirvana really one of the most influential bands in rock history, or was it the most influential bullet in Kurt Cobain’s skull that posthumously bumped his trio to permanent legend status with no possiblity of a legacy downgrade?
I mean, Nirvana hit it and quit it well before the ascension of the Internets. If Kurt and Dave Grohl and That Other Guy Whose Name Escapes You existed during the irrational exuberance of the late 1990s, you just know that any album produced after 1997 would have drawn out all the cheeky, smartass sassmouths to absolutely thrash and pwn the album and the band, some constructing epic posts on PollyOnLithium.net like “If he thinks his mediocre playing’s worth a shit on this disc, he should just shoot himself in the head right now.”
A strong argument for the greatness of Nirvana hit store shelves this past Tuesday, a digitally remastered DVD release of 1994’s Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! And thanks to the good folks that make possible our Everybody Wins When I Plug Something And In Return They Offer Me Free Shit To Give Away contests, we’re giving away a free copy of this re-issue to one lucky, flannel-wearing fan.
This one’s pretty easy: Nirvana is probably right at the top of many “My Favorite Trio” lists, whether truly deserved or not. So I’d like to know which band you consider to be your favorite musical trio, be it dead or still playing, fictional or real, from bands like Nirvana to jingle specialists like Snap, Crackle & Pop.
All you gots-ta do is tell us which trio you love most and briefly explain why they’re the best ever at what they do or did. The wittier, the better. The contest ends this Sunday night, November 19th, so make yourself heard some time before then, and read on for the movie trailer and list of songs featured on this fantastic DVD…
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A powerful and personal chronicle of the band’s 1991-1992 world tour, and continuing through 1993, the period during which Nirvana became one of the most iconic and important bands in rock music, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! features 15 complete songs plus interviews, behind-the-scenes exploits and excerpts from the group’s home video archives. The original video was completed with great care by band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl after Cobain’s death.
The highlights range from Nirvana’s appearance at a huge stadium show in Brazil (at which Cobain and Grohl dressed in drag) and a stage dive by Cobain in Dallas which ended up in a melee, to their brilliant headline performance at The Reading Festival. There is an iconoclastic bash on “The Jonathan Ross Show” in London; a uniquely ironic rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on England’s famed “Top Of The Pops” TV program and there are guitar-smashings which circle the globe (Seattle, Reading, Honolulu, London, Portland, Brussels, Tacoma and New York on “Saturday Night Live”).
Songs featured on Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Aneurysm
About A Girl
Dive
Love Buzz
Breed
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Negative Creep
Come As You Are
Territorial Pissings
Something In The Way
Lithium
Drain You
Polly
Sliver
On A Plain
Endless Nameless
EXTRAS – Live In Amsterdam:
School
About A Girl
Been A Son
On A Plain
Blew
Two times the “On a Plain,” all for a low, low price? Shit, I’m definitely on that. I wish I could win my own contest here, but I’m guessing that’s how most South American royalty ends up facing a death squad…I guess I’ll buy it.
Nirvana should be releasing more live material - unlike Sublime, they have every right to milk their catalog even if the $ goes Courtney Love
Greatest Musical Trio Ever - Larry, Curly and Moe
Who else has done “238 different versions” of happy birthday just so you could get it personalized. Genius pure genius.
Don’t think your little jabs at Nirvana are going unnoticed here, Ace.
I’m speaking totally ojbectively here, just a man trying to incite provocative debate among an online community of wiseacres.
Apparently it didn’t work. Care to enter the contest, considering the guy getting the free DVD right now says that the Three Stooges are the greatest musical trio ever?
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Trio bands usually suffer from a sort of penis envy. They will never have the lushness of a 4-piece ensemble so they overcompensate with lots of distortion or production value. I’d refer you to Cream, which basically rendered itself irrelevant by pushing it to the edge for their brilliant but brief run, or to Emerson Lake and Palmer, who were musically brilliant but incredibly sappy and far too willing to rely on that prog-rock weirdness.
My favorite does a lot of this stuff too but, once you shed the weirdness layers, they play some of the tightest jazz-ish music around. And if no one has Notes from Underground, the tuba solo at 3:32 of Uncle Chubb is a joy. So right, MMW win for me.
Nirvana was cut from the Cream cloth, but I think Cobain had a lot more left in him. I was a huge Nirvana fan and I have my periodic spurts when I listen to Nevermind or Bleach, but, all in all, it makes me too damn sad. That’s why you got to remove his place setting and wrap his tunafish sandwich in cellophane.
There were only two trios that ever mattered. The first is Peter, Paul, and Mary. If not for them, no John Denver. If not for Denver, no Muppets Christmas. Argument over.
The second trio that mattered was more punk than Nirvana, and filled with more rage. I speak, of course, about The Three Stooges. Moe, Larry, Curly. Even with Shemp sitting in for Curly, they could outplay and outrun any comtemporary trio.
What band has:
- Fuzzy guitars
- Two-foot beards.
- A guy named Beard
- A Kick Ass classic car collection
- Jimi Hendrix’s favorite guitar player
- A song about a whore house that even your grandma knows
Yes, I think ZZ Top could very well be the greatest trio Ever.
This could go on forever. We all want to say Rush or ELP or even Grand Funk, but hands down the one band that nailed the trio essence was The Police. Exquisite albums, original sound, and incredible talent. And they went out at the top of their game. If they had not packed it in after Synchronicity, could you imagine today’s Stink riding his high horse as part of a rock band? Look at him now: a meager and mere shadow of his formerly cool self, happy to be playing shitty lite jazz tunes and demanding that people believe he and his wife still have tantric sex like high schoolers. Christ, if he keeps going, he’ll be Paul McCartney in a few months. It’d be better if he take a career cue from another musician–Kurt Cobain.
And the guy’s name is Gordon! What a tool.
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