Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

An absolute must see for fans of Nirvana and the grunge music scene of the early 90's. This is an extremely well made video documentary and as such has value outside this fan base.

Most of the footage is edited from live performances, studio chat shows and MTV type interviews at around the time their smash hit 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' captured a new generation and stormed to the top of the US Billboard Singles chart, ousting Michael Jackson from #1.

The video is cut in such a way as to emphasise the glossy commercialism associated with their success and the irony the band felt as an 'alternative' rock group promoted to a 'mainstream' audience. The title captures this irony perfectly.

Grunge - a small slice of life, the essence of which is captured here on video. Should not be forgotten. 10/10

The period that the film covers was the peak of great Nirvana performances: the middle years when the band was now very musically tight and filled with the excitement of the small social revolution that the early 1990's was bubbling with. They were the most popular band in the world and the performances reflected all the excitement, confusion and passionate fury that came out of being propelled into the mass media.

A few personal highlights are the wonderfully cathartic destruction of "Endless Nameless" and the overwhelming meloncholly of the pumped electric version of "Something in the Way."

If you liked the footage of this film I recommend "The Year Punk Broke" which is a similar documentary of a Sonic Youth tour with a beautiful version of Nirvana (before the disillusionment of fame, etc)opening up for them all across Europe right on the edge of Nirvana's breakthough to the world wide fame. Cobain is giddy and playing better than ever in this footage which is a rare treat to Nirvana fans...the giddiness that is. Plus Sonic Youth is forever fantastic.

"my whole existence is for your amusement and that is why i'm here with you...today i found my nirvana"

-nirvana, BLEACH, "paper cuts"

Nirvana, my favorite band put this together during the summers of 1991 and 1992. This video shows different songs from various concerts per- formed by the band. The great songs highlight this video. It is one of my favorite musicals, and is highly recommended for fans of the band.

This movie shows the best (before "In Utero" tour) of Nirvana, the crazy stageshows and the best stage- and instrument-destructions, that Nirvana and especially Kurt Cobain were the best in the world at!

The movie has real good speed and the cuts are real good.....and of course this "musicdocumentary" is one of the best, because nirvana is my favourite band!!

9/10

I first got this video at blockbuster two years ago. It has Nirvana playing live and hanging out, its real cool. If you listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit it has different lyrics. Its a real find to be able to see them in concert on your TV its the closest you can get to the real thing.