The Disclosure Series January 1995. India. New Delhi. I was in a local music store with my Dad. We were somewhere upstairs because I remember climbing up steep narrow steps and turning left to arrive in a not‐too‐wide walking area adjacent to the racks of music. My Dad started talking to the store owner/clerk/manager, reading out loud a mental list of Indian CDs he wanted. While he did that I was browsing the English music cassettes. I looked through several times because my Dad was taking his time bargaining with the guy, and selected a couple of albums: Nirvana's Unplugged in New York, and REM's Monster. When we were about to walk out empty‐handed (because the guy wasn't giving my Dad the deal he wanted), I quite innocently blurted out "But Dad, they're so much cheaper here than back home [meaning Canada]!" My Dad laughed, the guy smiled, and we ended up buying some music from him. Later in the day we went to Le Meridien to have lunch with a friend of my Dad's, where they had a good laugh over my naiveté. I loved this album. It was one of those that grew on me. I didn't know Nirvana much other than what I'd heard on the radio, and coming from Indian music I was always more focused on vocals, which isn't the strong point of much of rock music. But still, music is music, and this album is a modern rock classic. I remember a nice girl from middle school, Lindsey, who told me (quite emphatically) that she loved The man who sold the world. I hadn't heard the song when she told me so I made a point of listening to it. I was disappointed upon first listen just because of how serious she had been in her admission, but it has since become my favorite song on the album. By the way, while my Dad got CDs, the albums I got were on good ol' cassette, in the fat molded plastic cases that I've only seen in India (unlike the glass‐like transparent thin plastic ones that are more common here). I still remember the cassette. I liked the cassette; it was durable, and it was (is) actually capable of sound quality better than CD. It's just not as convenient to skip tracks and program and all that business.
Other songs I love on the album are Something in the way and Plateau.