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unissued tracks
The release of With the Lights Out has
made this page mostly redundant so I've killed a lot of this content
and replaced it with tracks cruelly missed off of the recent boxed
set. Remember kids, you can get all of this stuff from edonkey
or Limewire.
Do
You Love Me? (download
not ready yet) People
have spoke of this kiss cover from 1990 as being semi-sincere.
Actually, I don't know if they have or not, if they have, I don't
agree. I think it's a
total
piss take. Kurt was so focused
on his vision of how the music industry should be and his disdain
for the sexist ‘old dinosaurs’ and 'cock-rockers'
who in his eyes don't express anything artistically through their
music. This is apparent in his
mocking through-out the song and especially in the outro. It's
hilarious. Musically, it's worth noting how much Kurt can really
adopt the
rock-star sound in his voice with the greatest of ease. Krist's
base playing is a lot better then Gene Simmon's original but
his
singing (his singing debut on record?) is a bit annoying but otherwise
it's a good example of that rare funny
side to Nirvana.
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Spank Thru
(download
- not ready yet) A live version of this choon surfaced
on the 1996 posthumous live album Wishka with an accompanying
sleeve note claiming it to be
the first Nirvana song. There were brilliant takes of this recorded
during the Bleach sessions but for some reason never
made the album
but appeared officially on other non-Nirvana releases. It's in
essence a straight-ahead rock song which starts in a simple sounding
sing-along
stylee before exploding into a heavy-riffing scream-fest. The scream
which joins the first part of the song to last literally makes
the
hair on my back stand on end - there's no song on Bleach which
does this. Why this wasn't included on the record or on incesticide
I
don't know. It was a firm live favorite as well.
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Talk
to Me (download
- not ready yet) It's
not known if there's a studio version
of this track in existence. The version on With the Lights Out
is bollocks and is taken from a camcorder. The live recording of
this kicking about long before then is also bollocks which is a
shame because it's a Nirvana song like no other. It's extremely
poppy
sounding and make me, yes, ME want
to get on top of this table and dance my ass clean off. Great drums
too. Out of them all I'd love to hear a Nevermind-sounding
mix of this one.
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Come
as you are (download
- not ready yet) This is from the Amsterdam show and
featured on the official video Live Tonite Sold Out until the solo
when it fades to the cheeky face of Jonathan Wanker Ross. This
of course is the Murdered Come as you Are; it appears as though
Kurt is having a break down on stage and the rest of the band -
ever the professionals - carry on as usual without so much as
a twitch. I read Kurt's explanation of this in his journals 'When
your guitar is out of tune, sing out of tune' which kinda ruined
my take on this, of course that was back in my 'it's cool to have
issues' days. I've included the full track on this (which has only
relatively recently surfaced) as it gets even funnier after the
solo when Kurt augments the song by repeating 'no I don't have
a gun' about an extra 10 times.
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Nobody
knows I'm new wave (download
- not ready yet) This is from the infamous Buenos
Aires gig of '92 and boy oh boy is it an odd listening experience.
Here's an excerpt:
God, I'm shit
I'll shit anywhere
and now I choose to
shit on your face
and I'm... right!
and God, oh God
oh why, why hell?
I must say
I'm new wave!
I'm new wave!
I'm new wave!
aaaaaaah!!!
I think this track was made up there and then possibly loosely
based on some half-baked riff. The idea undoubtedly was: piss off
the crowd.
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You know you're
right (download
- not ready yet) After the long
wait we were finally allowed to hear this 'best ever Nirvana
song' when
it
was released
on
the
Greatest
Hits record. So what does it sound like? afterall, shortly before
Kurt's death he spoke about how 'In Utero was the closing chapter
of the Nirvana formula' and how he wanted to be blunt and bold
and 'really different'. 'If it alienates people, then that's
too bad'.
Well? 'What exactly is 'You know you're right'? Courtney Hole
kept banging on about how this song is the key the universe
and beyond
... ad nauseum. It's a fairly lame Nirvana b-side. It has the same
old rope use of dynamics. it has a bit of a bone-headed chord
structure
which actually sounds a lot like Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar.
Kurt's singing sounds pretty awful. The song isn't far off sucking.
Sorry. Curmudgeon, Oh the Guilt and I Hate
Myself and I Want to Die are
much better songs ... in my opinion.
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