Nirvana - With The Lights Out
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Artist: NirvanaBrand: Music CD
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Music Label: Geffen Records
Product features:
- Disc 1
- 1.Heartbreaker [Live] - 2:59
- 2.Anorexorcist - 2:44
- 3.White Lace and Strange - 2:09
- 4.Help Me I'm Hungry - 2:41
Music CD 1
- Heartbreaker [Live][#]
- Anorexorcist [#]
- White Lace and Strange [#]
- Help Me I'm Hungry [#]
- Mrs. Butterworth [#]
- If You Must [#][Demo Version]
- Pen Cap Chew [#][Demo Version]
- Downer [Live][#]
- Floyd the Barber [Live][#]
- Raunchola/Moby Dick [Live][#]
- Beans [Acoustic][#]
- Don't Want It All [Acoustic][#]
- Clean up Before She Comes [Acoustic][#]
- Polly [Acoustic][#]
- About a Girl [Acoustic][#]
- Blandest [#][Demo Version]
- Dive [#][Demo Version]
- They Hung Him on a Cross [#][Demo Version]
- Grey Goose [#][Demo Version]
- Ain't It a Shame [#][Demo Version]
- Token Eastern Song [#][Demo Version]
- Even in His Youth [#][Demo Version]
- Polly [#][Demo Version]
- Opinion [Acoustic][#]
- Lithium [Acoustic][#]
- Been a Son [Acoustic][#]
- Sliver [Acoustic][#]
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night? [Acoustic][#]
- Pay to Play [Demo Version]
- Here She Comes Now [Demo Version]
- Drain You [#][Demo Version]
- Aneurysm [Demo Version]
- Smells Like Teen Spirit [#][Demo Version]
- Breed [Rough Mix][#]
- Verse Chorus Verse [#][Outtake]
- Old Age [#][Outtake]
- Endless, Nameless [#]
- Dumb [#]
- D-7 [#]
- Oh, the Guilt
- Curmudgeon
- Return of the Rat [Outtake]
- Smells Like Teen Spirit [Butch Vig Mix]
- Rape Me [Acoustic][#]
- Rape Me [#][Demo Version]
- Scentless Apprentice [#][Demo Version]
- Heart Shaped Box [#][Demo Version]
- I Hate Myself and Want to Die
- Milk It [#][Demo Version]
- M.V. [#][Demo Version]
- Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip
- The Other Improv [#][Demo Version]
- Serve the Servants [Acoustic][#]
- Very Ape [Acoustic][#]
- Pennyroyal Tea [Acoustic][#]
- Marigold
- Sappy [AKA Verse Chorus Verse] [#]
- Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam [#][Demo Version]
- Do Re Mi [Acoustic][#]
- You Know You're Right [Acoustic][#]
- All Apologies [Acoustic][#]
Free Music Notes for With The Lights Out
Free Music Review: Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
Hit: 5 Stars
After many years of waiting, Nirvana fans have what Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, at one time refered too as "the Holy Grail Of Rock Music." That has turned out to be absolutly no understatement. This 4 disc compilation (3 CD's + 1 DVD) is a must for any rock fan. With rare demo's, solo Cobain recordings, a few live tracks, some late 80's radio perfomances, and a few B-side's thrown in also. Whether you've been a Nirvana fan for years, or are just beginning to appreciate the music of this wonderful band, you will get everything in this package. It's not all polished, it's not all perfect, it's raw. It's rock. It's Nirvana.
Most compelling on this album is disc 3. Which hosts at least 3 unreleased demo's that Cobain made just previous to a concert tour in early 1994, which ended with him in a coma in Rome. Following his release from the hospital in Rome, within weeks, the enevitable happened. Cobain swallowed a shot-gun shell in the home he shared with his wife and child. Resulting in his tragic death and a brutal punch in the gut to music as we new it.
Included with these 1994 demo's is the much talked about song: "Do Re Mi," which can clearly show some of Cobain's influence from the poppy Beatles, which he adored through his whole life. The track begins with what seems like someone banging against a wall, perhaps a suitcase, or maybe just a box, to simulate the drums that aren't present. The vocals are pristine. Serious. Haunting. The acoustic guitar that Cobain plays reflects his not so perfect, but yet delicate guitar skills. At the end of the track, if you listen carefully, you can hear the entushiastic voice of Cobain's wife, Courtney Cobain, telling him: "That Was GREAT!"
The album then goes into an acoustic version of "You Know Your Right" which was only played live once under the title, "On The Mountain," and recorded on a cold afternoon at Lange Studios in what is said to be 1 take. The lyrics are very different then the one's fans heard on the studio version that was released in the fall of 2002. The vocals are far from perfect. At times you can nearly feel the pain Cobain muct have felt as he strained his voice. His lyrics are extremly haunting, considering the suicide that followed, including the line: "I Could Never Die Again/I Won't Loose Another Friend/She Will See Another Me/When I'm Through........" The vocals then become hard to understand. Maybe on purpose. As a part of the mystery. To hide his secrets. His pain. His love.
The most hard to listen to track has to be the electric demo of "Rape Me." Which begins with the shrill cries of a 2 month old Frances Bean Cobain. On her fathers lap in the studio, he holds her up to the mic, he passes her off, maybe, to his wife perhaps, and the intro begins. The cries of the child overlapping the vocals of a man she'd never really know. During the second refrain they return. Louder and even harder to listen to. Father & child crying out together. In the angst of a child who wants her bottle, maybe just a diaper change. In the angst of a man who just wanted to disappear.
There's also some funny tracks though. Including "Mrs. Butterworth" on disc 1. Where Cobain goes on a tirade about Ply Wood, Burlap, & Seashells. Only to end his story of a beach trip with the ever sarcastic: "But I'm still sleeping on that P*ss stained mattress," before ripping back into the song.
The DVD features rare performences & private band footage. Including a 1988 rehersal taped @ the home of bassist Krist Noveselic's mother. The Sub Pop video of Neverminds "In Bloom." The debut performence of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and a rare look inside the studio with the band as they record "Season's In The Sun" in Rio de Jeniro, Brazil. This performance includes a rare mix-up of the band lin-up. Cobain trading in his guitar for his first insturment, the drums. Drummer Dave Grohl (also of the Foo Fighters) moves outta the drummers seat to pick-up a bass. Krist Noveselic, takes off the weight of his bass for an all white Fender Strat. The music is at it's best. What we loved. What we lost. Cobain has freshly dyed brown hair. Wearing a ratty old sweater. His boyish giggle can be heard through his vocals towards the end of the song. A rare smile spreading across his face. It's an emotional final farewell from an epic part of musical history. As Cobain sings: "Goodbye Papa It's Hard To Die/When All The Birds Are Singing In The Sky." You just have to wonder.
Why couldn't something as simple as a bird save him?
With The Lights Out Poster
The box set spans Nirvana's entire career, from a recording of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" at the band's first show in 1987 to solo acoustic performances from singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain in 1994. With The Lights Out features a 60-page color booklet with rare photos and liner notes by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and writer Neil Strauss. The three CDs, arranged largely chronologically contains home and rehearsal demos, including for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (whose lyric "With the lights out" provides the set's title), "Rape Me," "Heart Shaped Box" and a trio penned by legendary bluesman Leadbelly. Heard in the 12 previously unreleased solo acoustic tracks are such gems as "All Apologies," "Lithium" and "Sliver." Six previously unreleased radio performances range from "Anorexorcist" in 1987 to "Dumb" in 1991 (two years before it was on 1993's In Utero). Along with the remaining debuts are a handful of earlier issued, though rare, b-sides and demos as well as the original Butch Vig mix of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Highlighted on the With The Lights Out DVD is a previously unreleased video of nine songs performed in 1988 at bassist Krist Novoselic's mother's house in Aberdeen, Washington; the rare "In Bloom" Sub Pop music video, and 10 never-before-seen live performances. Noteworthy among them are debut renditions of "Pennyroyal Tea", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" both from early 1991. Also premiering is an unlikely performance of Jacques Brel and Rod McKuen's "Seasons In The Sun" shot at a Rio de Janeiro studio.Nirvana may have been the biggest thing in the music world in the early '90s, but the trio maintained an uncommon devotion to core fans who knew them when they were still sleeping in a van. Fending off the adoration of punk-rock dabblers in the media and their audience while simultaneously welcoming stalwart underground-music supporters, Kurt Cobain did things on his own terms--until it all came crashing down. A decade after Cobain's 1994 suicide and the band's demise, With the Lights Out remains true to the ethos that defined the band and the alt-rock revolution that rose and fell with them.
Eschewing the standard hits-sprinkled-with-rarities mix, this lovingly compiled three-CD, one-DVD collection is made up almost entirely of previously unreleased selections. The handful of previously heard tracks are obscurities along the lines of the group's cover of "Here She Comes Now," recorded for a 1990 indie-rock tribute to the Velvet Underground. But it's not the B-sides and compilation oddities that define this idiosyncratic set; rather, its spirit is captured in the bedroom demos, radio performances, and sloppy amateur video recordings that catch Cobain and cohorts developing from just another punk- and metal-inspired bunch of grunge rockers pounding away in the bass player's mom's living room into a band that defined an era. --Steven Stolder
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