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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Geffen Records
Salesrank: 10105
Released: November 7, 2006 |
| Our Price: $8.85 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color DVD Live NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Originally conceived by Kurt Cobain, LIVE! TONIGHT! SOLD OUT! is a video document of Nirvana's rise from a scruffy trio from the Pacific Northwest into one of the most iconic and important bands in the history of rock music.
Combining live material from their `91-'92 "Nevermind" tour, LIVE! TONIGHT! SOLD OUT! has long been the "holy grail" for Nirvana fans... and one that has never been available on DVD until now. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, a world of Nirvana fans will be able to experience color-corrected and digitally remastered live performances of songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Lithium," "Breed," "Drain You" and "Aneurysm" - mixed into loads of interview footage from across the world - all as originally viewed through the eyes of Kurt Cobain himself. In addition to the complete original program, several previously unreleased performances are included as bonus DVD extras.
Features the songs:
Aneurysm
About A Girl
Dive
Love Buzz
Breed
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Negative Creep
Come As You Are
Territorial Pissings
Something In The Way
Lithium
Drain You
Polly
Sliver
On A Plain
Endless Nameless
EXTRAS - Live In Amsterdam:
School
About A Girl
Been A Son
On A Plain
Blew
Description of Nirvana - Live! Tonight! Sold Out!:
With Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl could've shaped this material into a sappy tribute. On the contrary, as they state in the opening inter-title, "Though circumstances did not allow for the piece to be completed by those who forged its original vision, great care was taken to maintain the integrity and intent of the original edit." Consequently, viewers get a warts and all glimpse of Nirvana as they were, both in concert and off-stage. Live! isn't just a reminder that the Northwest trio was a great band, but that they knew how to have a good time, regardless as to the demons eating away at their frontman. This means Cobain performing in a negligee, clad in a garish gown for MTV's Headbanger's Ball, and stumbling through Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion." Other numbers stem from Bleach and Nevermind, with locations ranging from Seattle to Rio de Janeiro (the five bonus selections are from Amsterdam). In most cases, songs incorporate footage from different shows. Highlights include "Dive," "Territorial Pissings," and an out-of-control "Love Buzz," during which Cobain is attacked by a bouncer--and fights back. The "lowlights" are a screechy version of "Come as You Are" and purposefully sluggish "Smells like Teen Spirit." By this point, the hit had became a burden and the threesome weren't about to pretend otherwise. As Grohl puts it, "For a lot of people, it's like the only Nirvana song, and that's upsetting." This long-awaited DVD reissue features color correction and digitally re-mastering. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Nirvana - Live! Tonight! Sold Out! Reviews:
DVD compilation of Nirvana Live. 
2009-10-09 - If you were expecting a complete Live Concert performance on DVD, this isn't it. Instead you get, clips, interviews, and highlights of several performances, all done before the In Utero record came out. Some parts contain better quality footage, than other parts.
Nirvana's hitless wonder 
2009-10-04 - For a band that arguably had just two big hits, these people are pretty selfish. Selfish
enough to deprive the fans of their two biggest hits a decent live version of their
two biggest hits.
Who but a fan of those songs would pay $20 for a DVD, only
to receive the slap in the face of not one, but TWO parody versions of Smells Like
Teen Spirit in it, a third parody of Come As You Are, and no further reference
to those songs?
What gives? The video is supposed to be a live documentation of
the phenomenon that took Nirvana to the stratosphere of fame, yet it pointedly
IGNORES the two songs that drove the entire thing. Worse, it denigrates them.
One live version of Smells Like Teen Spirit included here features the charming
gesture of Cobain opening the beginning bars of their biggest hit, the crowd roaring
in recognition, and then Cobain suddenly trailing
off and refusing to play the rest of the song, with Krist announcing "We're gonna skip
that one."
The other live version of Smells Like Teen Spirit included here is
a parody version that Cobain taped live for a television show in England, where he deliberately garbles the
words and mocks the song throughout, with the band jumping around in protest that they
had to play along to a recording of the music. Some respect for fans of the original song here,
many who probably paid their $20 to see Nirvana's biggest song played live.
Then the mocking version of 'Come As You ARe', the only version of it included on the DVD, where Cobain also garbles this song while singing with the voice of a brain damaged drug addict with Downs Syndrome.
This was Nirvana's second biggest hit, yet only this horrible version was chosen to be on a live compilation of their greatest hits? Why? To punish those who enjoyed their work? Why? To prove how sophisticated Kurt Cobain is?
What the point of this 'punishing' of Nirvana fans who liked these two songs is, is beyond me.
This live video project was conceived and compiled according to the wishes and directives of Kurt Cobain,
and was not completed until after his death. Krist and Dave cannot be faulted for leaving the project
in the format that Cobain himself planned, so the question remains as to why Cobain hated these two songs enough to go to such lengths as to not only denigrate them, but insist that the denigrations be shoved
in the faces of fans who would care to buy the DVD? Why?
Ardent fans will insist that this was just to
be 'original' and show the world snippets of some of the truly unconventional and unexpected moments
of the band. To those ardent worshippers, I ask the question. If that were the goal, why is it necessary
to include the full length versions of such 'moments', to the entire exclusion of any decent full length
version of both those songs? Sure, I agree that the band's eccentricities are part of their story, and
snippets or outtakes could be included in such a project. It could even have been put in the DVD extras.
But FULL LENGTH parodies, and NO REAL VERSIONS of their two biggest hits in a live greatest hits compilation ?
It defies explanation.
Maybe some day the world will know the real reason that Kurt Cobain hated those two songs.
Wanna see why Nirvana own Pearl Sham 
2009-08-24 - This DVD is awesome and show why Nirvana were the best grunge band ever and one the best bands ever in general.
Waste of Money
2009-04-20 - The video and audio quality of this DVD stinks. If you're a die hard Nirvana fan, buy it, otherwise, don't waste your money. Apparently, the producers had only one mission, "get rich with as little effort as possible." It appears that they simply found any footage of the band, regardless of the quality, stuck it on a DVD, without any editing, and then threw it on the market for public consumption. There are few decent recordings but just as many horrible takes, several of which the band intentionally sabotages. Big disappointment.
OK 
2008-02-10 - I was a little disappointed in the video quality of most of these performances..I'm guessing they were almost bootlegs in a sense.
