Better Unplugged AIC or Nirvana?

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  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    AIC was the better performance. Nirvana's was great, and of course their performance of The Man Who Sold the World was phenomenal, but nothing gives me chills like AIC's Unplugged performance of Nutshell.

    I keep AIC's Unplugged in HEAVY rotation, but only pull out Nirvana once in awhile.

    AIC is the better performance. So that's it...in a nutshell.
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  • bubbamackdaddy69
    bubbamackdaddy69 Posts: 576
    AIC for sure...Nirvana's is good though..real good but AIC's is the best of all time of any band that I've seen..honestly
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Of the two, I prefer Nirvana, but my favorite Unplugged shows (other than Pearl Jam) are Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,003
    I made this thread a while back. here it is with some other opinions:

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=216221
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  • ShE.dREAmS.in.CoLOr
    ShE.dREAmS.in.CoLOr Posts: 341
    I thought nirvana's was excellent, and i'm not a huge nirvana fan, but AIC wins it. great show! :)
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  • DCGARDEN
    DCGARDEN Posts: 515
    The better band was AIC

    The better Un-Plugged was Nirvana's

    The AIC unplugged seemed so programmed and dull to me

    Live had a great unplugged - Too bad that band went to shit
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  • gaz_aic
    gaz_aic Posts: 23
    in my opinion the two of them are way better than pj unplugged set layne just looks a mess in the video the gloves and sunglasses and all black outfit get the impression it wasnt his choice to do this but the delivery of nutshell will never be beat but kurt was supposedly a nervous wreck before their show fearing he would fuk up and his songs would be found out the way they stripped down about a girl just shows genious and where did you sleep last night still sends shivers down my spine in the video wen his eyes just open as he screams so much passion but both are just legendry performances from two of the best bands of the 90's
  • off_the_record
    off_the_record Posts: 843
    wow, i didnt realize so many people liked hearing layne's awful vocals.
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  • mwachsman
    mwachsman Posts: 474
    Aic
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  • GR8Dane
    GR8Dane Posts: 957
    AIC 4 sure!
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  • righteousbabe
    righteousbabe Posts: 662
    They are both awesome but I like the nirvana a little more.
  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    AIC. Got Me Wrong and Down in a Hole! amazing.
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  • evolution man
    evolution man Posts: 22
    I prefer AIC the best. Then the Nirvana. Then PJ. Of course, it's really comparing apples to oranges as far as the set lists go. PJ was still touring the Ten album. Nirvana had 4 albums to choose from. AIC had 5 (including the 2 EP's). A lot of Nirvana's stuff might not have translated to acoustic but that might have been a better show if they tried more material.

    Now if PJ came back on Unplugged NOW, that would be a different story.

    Other Unplugged shows that I thought were great: Aerosmith, Queensryche (Scarborough Fair was bone chilling), Clapton, REM #1.
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    nirvana easy pick.

    the pj show is kinda boring. the highlight of the show, atleast what gets talked about the most is eddies marker stunt. what about the songs?

    aic is cool but it seems to be a 'lets play our hits' show and the string buzz on that show makes it hard for me to listen to it loud cause it just annoys me to no end.

    nirvana was just awesome the fact that there was no smells like teen spirit or lithium. and the whole grunge guests werent pj. yet the show is just classic. aside from some pj boots nirvana unplugged is my favorite commercially released live album.

    i think im gonna listen to nirvana's unplugged now.
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  • Clau_yellowled
    Clau_yellowled Posts: 382
    GR8Dane wrote:
    AIC 4 sure!

    I say the same!! :D

    both great but AIC it's better!!
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  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    off_the_record wrote:
    wow, i didnt realize so many people liked hearing layne's awful vocals.

    lol, come on...I acknowledge that there are a few tracks where it's a bit painful to listen to his vocie straining, but for the most part, Layne has one of the best vocal deliveries in all of rock & roll.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    nobody growls like Layne

    and i mean that in a very loving and admirable way!
  • alice's pearl garden
    alice's pearl garden Posts: 33
    off_the_record wrote:
    wow, i didnt realize so many people liked hearing layne's awful vocals.

    wow...how pathetically ignorant. you truly are a piece of shit
  • amentvedder
    amentvedder Posts: 3,610
    off_the_record wrote:
    wow, i didnt realize so many people liked hearing layne's awful vocals.
    lol i think it sounds like he is gumsy, a person who has no teeth? maybe he didn't have teeth?? Anyway - [size=+2]NIRVANA[/size] anyday
  • comebackwoman
    comebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    Nirvana is my choice
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)

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