Nirvana: Live at the Paramount [Blu-ray]

This concert rules. It's cool to see them right after the release of Nevermind. I also love their early stuff too, even the ones that aren't as famous, so I think it's really cool to see them play stuff like "Floyd The Barber." And their cover of The Vaselines' "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam" is really awesome. I just bought it on DVD because I don't have a Blue Ray player, and I don't really care about Blue Ray. DVD's were awesome when they first came out. I don't see anything wrong with them. Plus people say the sound and picture on this concert are out of sync on the Blue Ray version. Oh yeah, and somebody said in their review that their DVD had extras on it. Well, the extras are only on the version that comes with the Super-Deluxe 4-CD + 1-DVD box set. If you buy it seperatly, it doesn't have them. I thought you might want to know that. Anyways, this is an awesome video. If you like Nirvana this is for you. If you don't like Nirvana, why are you looking at this? Leave it for those of us that do. Oh, and it's cool to see an early version of "Rape Me." I almost like it better than the version from In Utero, but I haven't decided. Speaking of which, I hope they release a 20th anniversary thing for In Utero because it's my favorite Nirvana record. And I didn't get the Super-Deluxe one for Nevermind like I wanted to. Anyways This is really cool. It's NIRVANA! Possibly my favorite live band of all time. Welp, you should get it. The video and audio is in sync and the video is good enough. If Blue Ray's really that big of a deal to you, you're not much of a punk rocker anyways. Quit yer whining. Punk's not dead!

A little back-story.....living in the Seattle area I had heard a few nirvana songs off the bleach album but honestly wasn't really that familiar with the band. Many of my in the know friends however, kept hyping the future release of Nevermind and I remember a few attended the record release party. So the day the album came out I stopped by the record store after school and picked up a cassette copy (was 17 at the time).... listening to the album cranked up through my walkman absolutely blew my mind and would be the soundtrack of my life that fall season. I attended this show about a month later and was right up close to the stage. It was an absolutely electric performance and you could just feel it in the air that you were witnessing something special. I was so stoked that this show had a proper full DVD release other than the few teaser clips as seen on live tonight sold out! The sound and picture quality are phenomenal and all the sights and smells all came rushing back like a trip down memory lane. I feel they were at their peak and this was the greatest time to witness Nirvana and be a fan....It was right before they started exploding into the stratosphere and getting overexposed and dare I say becoming cliché. They start to lose that exuberance that makes them so special and future performances seem more labored. This show was partially responsible for my indie punk / underground music scene obsession that would last for years. It represents that moment in time in Washington State where nearly every late teen / 20 something was in the same consciousness and doing the same things - * Going to thrift stores and smelling like patchouli * 100+ mile road trips to see bands you thought mattered at some hole in the wall dive * Hanging out at small indie record stores and scoring that hard to find colored vinyl * Working that bummer job to fund your music collection and hanging out. * Sharing a big dilapidated house with a bunch of your punk friends * Vintage instruments and gear was actually affordable for your dream of being in a band and touring in a broken down van. * Staying up all night at greasy spoon diners with your friends drinking copious amounts of coffee trying to figure out the meaning of it all...(no internet! Actually had physical contact with people instead of virtual!) * The damp, rainy dreary weather....and so forth Kurt Cobain lived all these things himself and had an uncanny ability to transfer that whole vibe that generation X was feeling into musical form. That's what makes Nirvana and particularly this show so iconic.

How did it take me this long to find this album? This will be your new favorite. It's pretty much a greatest hits and recorded in their prime.

I watched this concert film all the time on TV and wanted the physical copy, I love this film.

Out of everything Nirvana, this is by far my favorite. A superb concert, in a great venue. It’s not a giant stage where the bands spread so far apart they can’t interact with each other, and the audience is hundreds of feet away, like the Reading concert. It’s filmed well, and sounds awesome. Fantastic seeing Dave teach those drums whose the boss. Krist with his quips to the audience (no wonder they never gave him his own mic) bouncing up and down, and Kurt belting it all out with feeling, in that terrific raspy voice. Always love the stage “dancers”, and of course the gratuitous instrument destruction at the end! I miss the 90’s!!

I also own a copy of their performance at the Reading Music festival in England. They were both recorded within a year or so of each other but Live at the Paramount they look like they actually enjoyed performing and Reading performance was almost painful to watch as if they were just going through the motions.

I was blessed that I caught sa show 3 months before Kurt's demise .I still know there is no way a heroine addict uses a shotgun for a suicide. Are you kidding ,way too scary for most addicts , because they are actually pussy's and cant take pain well at all , thus the daily drug use.and the rush sets you free. You don;t put a shot gun n your mouth and pull the trigger which was barely reachable and no way he wasn't nodded out and posed that way by some devil. He is totally out and it would not take 5 minutes to set him up , with a loaded shot gun lying on his chest under his chin I think and that's even easier to arrange .He would not have a clue. THINK, Musicpimp Great show awesome filming and a must have for all fans..

This is one of many reasons why i love Live albums. You can hear everything - almost everything atleast but i understand why some bits were omitted. Like Noveselic addressing the fact that the show was being filmed. I'm Only hearing the band not seeing them. Aside from that there is nothing that i can think of other than good things to say about this one. Nirvana in their prime. Before their downward spiral. It's a good thing this has show been documented so well for all to hear.