Last week we marked the long-awaited DVD release of Nirvana: MTV Unplugged In New York by asking Q4music users to vote for their favourite song from the legendary acoustic performance. And the clear winner is… All Apologies.
The final track on 1993’s In Utero, All Apologies is inextricably associated with that album’s visceral vocabulary of pain (choking, burning, freezing etc), so it’s interesting to note that the song was actually written in 1990, and therefore pre-dates Nevermind.
Indeed, on closer inspection, the song doesn’t quite fit with the rest of In Utero. Cobain’s incantatory coda, “All in all is all we are”, sounds like the conclusion to a different album entirely. Recalling the beatific mantra, Jai guru de va om, from The Beatles’ Across The Universe, it represents a redemptive post-script to the emotional blood-letting that has gone before.
Watch the immortal Unplugged performance of the song here.
12:59 PM | 19/11/2007
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