On A Plain (track)
by Nirvana
Year: 1994
From the album MTV Unplugged In New York (track #8)
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On A Plain appears on the following album(s) by Nirvana:
- Nevermind (track #11) (1991)
- MTV Unplugged In New York (track #8) (this album) (1994)
- Live At Reading (track #14) (2009)
- Live At The Paramount (track #15) (2019)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 04/10/2026 15:30 |  HoldenM | 9,496 | 91/100 |
| ! | 03/30/2026 19:47 | Foxforce5 | 5,048 | 76/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2025 12:06 |  swed | 3,702 | 88/100 |
| ! | 12/14/2025 17:56 | Johnnyo | 45,052 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/25/2025 08:07 | zsolti | 7,272 | 80/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.8/100, a mean average of 84.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.3.
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Probably the only song of the album, whose studio version I find more enjoyable than this.
Both this and the Nevermind version are pretty good.
This version screwed up one of my favprite Nirvana songs.
Romanelli 06/11/2012 17:16 | #44248
A solid version. Holds up acoustically against the original, heavy studio version.
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