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 | | He and Grohl have chosen so carefully that From the Muddy Banks, unlike a lot of live albums, works as a whole; there isn't one track that sounds as if it were there just for filler, or just for kicks, or because it has an especially flashy guitar solo. |
 | | As far as we can tell from From the Muddy Banks, Nirvana were an astonishing live band: many of the songs here are more blistering, more rough-edged, than their studio counterparts. |
 | | The big danger in scrutinizing a posthumous release like From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah is that we're all tempted to play junior psychoanalyst, looking for clues about what caused Cobain so much suffering. |
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