Nirvana "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah"

This release contains the best of Nirvana's live material recorded between '89 and '94; tracks were culled from hours of recordings in venues ranging from small American clubs to the Reading Festival in England. While the previous live Nirvana album, '94s MTV Unplugged in New York, documented the acoustic side of the band, from the Muddy Banks... provides the counterpoint. Featured tracks include hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Heart Shaped Box" as well as versions of "Aneurysm," "Been a Son," "School" and more. Kurt Cobain's former bandmates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl clearly had an agenda in compiling From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, the second of what will no doubt be a long line of posthumous Nirvana albums. Because of its somber, intense nature, the first post-Cobain release, MTV Unplugged in New York, was largely perceived as music for a wake--an impression reinforced by MTV's constant airings of the special in the days following Cobain's suicide. But that acoust