I can't tell you how many times I listened to this as a kid. I was pretty crushed by his suicide, it was a dark time for all of us kids that identified with their music. It may seem silly to hear that now, but when you are seventeen years old, playing in bands covering Nirvana tunes because you feel like the lyrics speak to you, and suddenly your favorite songwriter of your "era" kills himself. Damn... it was intense. I didn't realize that the Unplugged show was only 4 months prior to his suicide. It didn't seem so close at the time, but then months are like years when you're seventeen. I liked this bit:Writers like to speculate about the mediocre music he would have inevitably gone on to produce as a middle-aged grunger, but to describe Cobain as a grunge musician is like calling John Lennon an icon of Merseybeat, and whatever would have transpired it wouldn’t have changed one single note of this performance.
True enough.