Live After Death.

Live After Death.

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (Audio CD)

Customer Review

What times ...
It was 1996. I was 7 years old and the only thing at that time out of my speakers was (from a cassette recorder), children's radio plays were in no way rock music. I was playing a lot and had no major concerns. My musical knowledge that I had then built up on the songs you in passing times on the radio heard without really take care, which is why my music also did not care. However, my elder sister was at the time in the middle of puberty, corresponding behaviors they had developed, for example, very listening to loud music. So it happened that one day out of the room next to me loud noise boomed over. It sounded strange, bawling, bassy and ... well, surprisingly well. Because I liked the crash sometime properly, I decided my sister time to pay a visit. As I was used to at the time flew me a friendly "Get out of my room" counter (on pubertärisch means something like "Hello dearest brother, what can I do for you?"). I asked them about the music they heard so. They only said: "Nirvana The singer of which is already dead 've Read that to have been the best guitarists in the world...". Impressed, I asked her to lend me the CD, however, since my tape recorder precisely that format could not play, it took me a part of the CD on tape (which I still have today). From then on, nothing was as before. Nirvana's "The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" ran up and down for me. I had to learn that it was a live performance and there were studio recordings of this band. The genre called my sister in general "Rock" (although I did not understand what should have got to do the with rocks). Years later gave me my sister for Christmas even the "Nevermind" (for which I am grateful to her still), but with its smooth polished sound I was initially not ready. Too much I liked the rough dirty harsh sound of this band live. For me were, and still are, the broken smoky garage freaks that true Nirvana, which embodied the grunge and some not so a Popgroup.
Meanwhile, some years have come and gone. I'm (at least somewhat) grown up and have now experienced many things and heard a lot of music and much past forgotten. But this live album of Nirvana, which it triggered in me and what I experienced this I will not forget. At alive I feel when Kurt Cobain "School" strikes what is undoubtedly also because the whole band much more enthusiastic and joyful sounds live than on all its studio boards, which are characterized by a certain melancholy. Cobain's voice also comes across much better and most pieces are played faster I do not see it as a disadvantage. Even the production is partly dull and dirty disturb not. Who cares who has understood with all due respect, neither Grunge, Punk still rock n 'roll. I still find fascinating the fact that Nirvana could generally reflect their songs much better than in the studio. As an example, since times "Aneurysm" called, in the studio "nice," Live "Stunning !!!", just like "Spank Thru" (Nirvana's first song ever). Children, this is rock n 'roll!
Overall you get from every era Nirvana offered what and you can hear it pretty clearly. All songs from Nevermind-phase sound a bit smoother mixed while all Bleach Songs feature * CKT come across rough. Of course special listening experience represent the In Utero songs because the band at the time with a second guitarist (Pat Smear) was at the start. Nirvana with two guitarists blow one, best expresses itself in the "Heart Shaped Box", which I still think this version of the most successful interpretation. Incredibly this atmosphere! Sadly, it is still when exactly focuses on Kurt's guitar, because you will hear how much the drug addiction at the time had influenced his guitar playing. All big hits are present, which could not start better with "School" ends with the opener Nirvana's first album "Blew". And somehow the true positive. Each end is the beginning of something new. And that's the point of this disc. Where "Unplugged" still represented a kind of requiem for Cobain, true "Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" happy and optimistic. You just feel alive. Whether it was in the sense of Cobain no one will probably be able to say, but in the sense of rock and roll is definitely.