| Nirvana / Sliver: The Best Of The Box |
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| Album: | Sliver: The Best Of The Box | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Nirvana | Added: | Apr 2006 | |
| Label: | Dgc | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-04-23 | Pull Date: | 2006-06-25 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 25 | Jun 18 | Jun 4 | May 21 | May 14 | May 7 | Apr 30 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 04, 2009: | Forever 27 Sappy (1990 Studio Demo) | 4. | Jul 16, 2007: | Summer ducks 2 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Boom Box Version) | |
| 2. | Aug 29, 2009: | Scatterbrain Radio Oh The Guilt | 5. | Apr 27, 2007: | Living Souls About A Girl (Home Demo) | |
| 3. | Feb 20, 2008: | Brownian Motion Floyd The Barber (Live) | 6. | Jun 23, 2006: | Under the Radar Rape Me (Home Demo) |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2006-04-19 | ||
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“Demos” (four track, cassette, etc), obscure live recordings, tracing back to 1985 roots of Nirvana all the way up to rudimentary sketches of In Utero tunes, up to their very last song. Some are unreleased songs that were plenty fine in the studio that didn’t make the record (for good reason), others are fascinating peeks into the rough edges around Cobain’s mind, several sound like Curt alone in his room with a tape recorder and an old acoustic. Like most posthumous releases of “obscurities” (or crappy “Directors’ Cuts”) this paltry play to line the pockets of David Geffen employees and Courtney Loves pharmacists’ would have Kurt laughing and rolling his eyes in his grave. 1) very lowfi 1985 version of a Bleach song, the vocals are pitiful if fascinating, yikes 2) Nirvana playing Zep’s Heartbreaker, sounds like every high school party I went to in the late 70’s 3) FCCs (too bad) 4) live, good take on fundamental Bleach song/sound 5) 4 track song heretofore ever heard, mellow guitar and several vocal tracks, a dumb little ode to junkidom 6) Enter the Nevermind era: 4 track guitar/vocal version of About a Girl is quite nice if only in a ghostly creepy manner 7) metal damage, Bleach, says “home demo” but the quality is full band and decent 8) hilarious side of Nirvana you’ve never heard before: a hillbilly cowpunk song, probably a sidewise poke at the rednecks that tortured all those rocker kids in Aberdeen 9) one of the better older songs, a nice cut 10) solo acoustic radio appearance, angsty folk 11) solo acoustic radio cut of Lithium, wow, nice 12) home low fi, solo acoustic of Sliver (“gran’ma take me home”) 13) very low-fi early home-recorded cut of Smells Like, lyrics are incomplete but the soul and desperation is ratcheted up a notch, wow 14) Come As You Are, “boom box version”, sounds like a living room, nice 15) a “Nevermind Outtake”, mellower, weaker stuff than what made the record 16) heavy as fuck, worthy of Bleach 17) Rape Me, home solo acoustic 4 track quality 18) “band demo” or Rape Me features a crying tiny baby here and there, creepy (Francis Bean? most likely), very close to what ended up on In Utero 19) studio demo, Heart Shaped Box, incomplete lyrics, incomplete arrangement 20) low fi acoustic guitar, solo, near melancholy pop 21) very low fi, more tape dropouts, dark demo of something that may have become greatness, pensive Nirvana 22) acoustic solo take on All Apologies, incomplete lyrics, nice | ||
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