Disc 1 
01) Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 4:27 
02) Drain You 3:47 
03) Breed 3:17 
04) Serve The Servants 4:12 
05) Heart-Shaped Box 5:05 
06) Sliver 2:38 
07) Dumb 3:12 
08) In Bloom 5:01 
09) Come As You Are 3:42 
10) Lithium 4:23 
11) Pennyroyal Tea 3:45 
12) School 4:36 			play
13) Polly 3:35 
14) Milk It 3:53 
15) Rape Me 2:40 
16) Territorial Pissings 2:24 
17) Smells Like Teen Spirit 5:57 
18) All Apologies 4:24 

Disc 2 
01) Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam 5:41 
02) Something In The Way 3:45 
03) On A Plain 3:34 			play
04) Scentless Apprentice 3:50 
05) Blew 2:44 
06) Demolition 9:00 
07) Heart-Shaped Box (Take 1) 4:54 
08) Heart-Shaped Box (Take 2) 5:50 
09) Rape Me 3:11

Line-Up:
    Bass, Backing Vocals – Krist Novoselic
    Drums – Dave Grohl
    Guitar – Pat Smear
    Vocals, Guitar – Kurt Cobain

Mecca Auditorium - Milwaukee, WI United States 10-26-93 
NBC Studios (Saturday Night Live) - New York, NY United States 09-25-93

Nirvana Bootography Review: This disc would have to be the best recording of the 1993 US tour.... not necessarily the best set list, but easily the among the best any show recordings. This sound on this disc is utterly amazing and could be compared to "Roma." Kiss The Stone has released this show as "Up In Smoke," however, the KTS version lacks "Demolition" and doesn't have any of the cool SNL rehearsal filler (last 3 tracks). This is definitely a disc to pick up.

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01. You Know Youre Right
02. About A Girl
03. Been A Son
04. Sliver					play
05. Smells Like Teen Spirit
06. Come As You Are
07. Lithium
08. In Bloom
09. Heart Shaped Box
10. Pennyroyal Tea
11. Rape Me
12. Dumb					play
13. All Apologies
14. The Man Who Sold The World
15. Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Personnel:
Kurt Cobain – guitar, vocals
Krist Novoselic – bass guitar
Dave Grohl – drums, backing vocals (except on tracks 2, 3 and 4)
Chad Channing – drums on "About a Girl" and "Been a Son"
Dan Peters – drums on "Sliver"
Pat Smear – guitar on unplugged tracks
Lori Goldston – cello on unplugged tracks
Kera Schaley  - cello on "Dumb"

Essentially a greatest-hits collection with one previously unreleased song, "You Know You're Right," and producer Scott Litt's 1994 remix of "Pennyroyal Tea," Nirvana the album is nevertheless a welcome addition to the band's canon. Crisp, elegant liner notes by Rolling Stone writer David Fricke put us squarely in Kurt Cobain's mindset as he entered a Seattle studio in January 1994--a full two days later than expected--to record what would be his final session with Nirvana. The resulting "You Know You're Right" locates Cobain at the apogee of his disenfranchisement with tongue nevertheless planted firmly in cheek. Bawdy, raucous, and venomous, "You Know You're Right" could have been lifted from Nevermind. A mix of tracks from that album ("Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Come as You Are," "Lithium," and "In Bloom") sits opposite stuff from early EPs and the Bleach disc ("About a Girl," "Been a Son," and "Sliver"), plus two from the MTV Unplugged sessions and several more from In Utero. Not the Nirvana treasure chest we hoped for, but solid nonetheless. ---Kim Hughes

International edition of their 2002 collection includes one bonus track, 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night'. 15 tracks in all including the previously unreleased track, 'You Know You're Right'. Geffen.

Nirvana - amerykański zespół grunge'owy, utworzony przez gitarzystę i wokalistę Kurta Cobaina i basistę Krista Novoselica w Aberdeen, w stanie Waszyngton. Przez Nirvanę przetoczyło się wielu perkusistów, jednak najdłużej utrzymał się na tym miejscu dopiero Dave Grohl, który dołączył do grupy w 1990 roku.

Wraz z singlem, pochodzącym z Nevermind, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" wydanym w 1991, Nirvana stała się przedstawicielem nurtu, wywodzącego się z rocka alternatywnego, grunge. Inne zespoły z Seattle (gdzie narodziła się ta muzyka), takie jak Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam czy Soundgarden również zyskały popularność, w rezultacie rock alternatywny stał się dominującym gatunkiem muzyki w radiu i w telewizji w Stanach Zjednoczonych we wczesnej połowie lat dziewięćdziesiątych. Jako frontman Nirvany, Kurt Cobain, został nazwanym tzw. "rzecznikiem pokolenia", natomiast sam zespół stał się "głosem Pokolenia X. Cobain nie był zadowolony z powszechnego uwielbienia Nirvany, więc w 1993 roku zespół wydał antykomercyjną płytę In Utero.

Po śmierci lidera, Nirvana wydawała jeszcze, przez krótki czas albumy, jednak dopiero po ośmiu latach ukazała się niepublikowana wcześniej piosenka You Know You're Right, która została nagrana na demo w styczniu 1994. Od czasu debiutu, zespół sprzedał ponad 50 milionów swoich nośników.

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01. Blew 
02. Floyd The Barber 
03. About A Girl 
04. School 
05. Love Buzz 
06. Paper Cuts 
07. Negative Creep 
08. Scoff 
09. Swap Meet 
10. Mr. Moustache 
11. Sifting 
12. Big Cheese 
13. Downer

Personnel:
    Kurt Cobain – vocals, guitar (credited as "Kurdt Kobain")
    Krist Novoselic – bass (credited as "Chris Novoselic")
    Chad Channing – drums

When Bleach was released in 1989, few could've suspected it would be the album to define the entire decade of the '90s, imminent though it was. The debut album by Nirvana captured a time and place (turn-of-the-decade Seattle), in the form of energetic, propulsive rock'n'roll that seemed a culmination of the ten preceding years. Nirvana were clearly operating under the influence of so much of angry, anti-establishment '80s American underground music; displaying confessed debts to Scratch Acid, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, The Wipers. Their real stroke of genius was to mix such all-out aggression with the high-wire dynamics and unabashed pop licks pitched by contemporary Bostonian bands The Pixies and The Breeders.

Playing a particularly charismatic kind of sludgy, down-tuned garage-rock, Nirvana quickly became the smiling face of the grunge movement, earning the accolades of elder statesman like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and Mudhoney. Issued on Sub Pop when the fledgling label's resources were limited, Bleach became a slow grower, earning a reputation via word-of-mouth and the outfit's intense live shows.

Yet, when Nirvana's second album, Nevermind, went multi-multi-multi-platinum upon its 1991 release, historical hindsight dealt Bleach an unfortunate fate. Now, their pre-major-label record was a minor footnote that, via the success of its successor, went retroactive platinum. It was seen as a kind of rough model, unfinished and unpolished, it having no value unto itself, only as a portent of greater things to come.

20 years later, and this perception couldn't be more off-the-mark. Bleach is, clearly, the better record; even if it isn't the record housing the Seattle trio's generation-defining single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Recorded for a scant $606.17 —a total that would barely match the catering budget on future music-videos— Bleach catches the nascent combo in a kind of unadulterated purity; there no commercial-rock sheen to their sludgy riffing.

Home to the generation-defining anthem "Negative Creep," Nirvana's nasty debut bleeds abhorrent attitude; its ragged, tortured tunes amount to a monument to the monumental angst of infamous frontman Kurt Cobain. The frontman's every sandpaper gasp, every strangulated yelp sounds alive and untamed, the hoarseness of his voice suggesting a lifetime spent screaming in frustration.

Of course, Cobain also had quite an ear for a tune; and cuts like "About a Girl" and "Sifting" display the 'pop' sensibility that would, eventually, take Nirvana from band-with-a-cult-following to band-who-became-globe-conquering. Subsequent Nirvana albums were more widely acclaimed, caused a bigger cultural impact, and were generally more accomplished, but the band's essence was at its most essential on their debut. --- Anthony Carew, About.com Guide

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1. Turnaround     play
2. Aneurysm
3. D-7
4. Son Of A Gun   play
5. Even In His Youth
6. Molly's Lips

Nirvana
* Kurt Cobain – guitar, vocals
* Dave Grohl – drums
* Krist Novoselic – bass guitar

This EP originally was released in Austrailia in early 1992 and later released in Japan (as noted in With the Lights Out boxed set). I bought this in 1994 after the death of Kurt Cobain for 30 dollars and I've always treasured it because it is rarer than the albums and commericial singles. The music itself is good. "Even in His Youth" IS NOT included on With the Lights Out and is only available on the Smells Like Teen Spirit single. Four songs were covers recorded for the BBC ("Turnaround", "D-7", "Son of a Gun" and "Molly's Lips"). Except for "D-7" the other three appear on Incesticide but D-7 is available in the With the Lights Out boxed set. The other two tracks were unreleased on albums. "Aneurysm" appears on incesticide but this version only appears on With the Lights Out and Smells Like Teen Spirt single. The Japanese version includes text in Japanese and a black and white photo. The design is very similar to Nevermind except with more yellow in the water. Basically, with the release of With the Lights Out and Incesticide, the only reason to get this is for an otherwise unattainable version of "Even in His Youth." This is only for major collectors of Nirvana. I'd would give it a 5 as a die-hard Nirvana fan but because it's pricey for its length and 80% of the material is available elsewhere I must give it a 4.

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01.Breed
02.Drain You                             
03.Aneurysm
04.School
05.Sliver
06.In Bloom
07.Come As You Are
08.Lithium
09.About A Girl
10.Tourettes
11.Polly
12.Lounge Act
13.Smells Like Teen Spirit
14.On A Plain
15.Negative Creep
16.Been A Son
17.All Apologies
18.Blew
19.Dumb
20.Stay Away
21.Spank Thru
22.The Money Will Roll Right In
23.D-7
24.Territorial Pissings

Line Up:
    Kurt Cobain - vocals, guitar
    Krist Novoselic - bass guitar
    Dave Grohl - drums
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    Antony Hodgkinson – dancer

Live at the Reading Festival on 30 August 1992

Certain concerts create a legend as soon as the final note ceases to ring. Nirvana's headlining appearance at the 1992 Reading Festival is one of these shows, a concert that arrived at precisely the right moment and stands as testament to a band at the peak of its powers...and right before things started to turn sour within the Nirvana camp. Despite the happy news of the birth of Frances Bean Cobain a mere 12 days before this August 30 festival, rumors swirled around Nirvana right up until the band hit the stage. Kurt Cobain took full advantage of these scurrilous stories, making his entrance in a hospital gown and wheelchair pushed by journalist Everett True. Cobain feebly reached for the microphone to croak out the opening lines of "The Rose," only to collapse onto the stage, milking the drama for a moment before leading Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl through a ferocious "Breed." This impish sense of humor has been obscured over the years, lost under the weight of the band's tragic legacy, along with the fact that Nirvana could actually be fun as well as furious. Live at Reading brings all this roaring back. This is Nirvana's purest blast of rock & roll: there's a boundless, invigorating energy here and, just as importantly, there's a sense of joy to the performances, a joy that bubbles to the surface when Kurt laughs during the intro of "Sliver" but can be heard throughout the show, as the band rushes in tandem, pushing the tempos on "Aneurysm" and "Territorial Pissings," ebbing and flowing as one. Hints of this could be heard on the live comp From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, but this is a complete document of Nirvana in full flight and one of the greatest live rock & roll albums ever. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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01 Aneurysm
02 Drain You
03 School/Sliver
04 About A Girl
05 Come As You Are
06 Lithium
07 Breed
08 Polly
09 Lounge Act
10 In Bloom
11 Love Buzz
12 Smells Like Teen Spirit
13 Jam
14 Negative Creep
15 On A Plain
16 Blew

Live at The Palace, Melbourne, Australia, February 1, 1992.

When Nirvana journeyed to the East in 1992, they were on the verge of achieving celebrityhood - they were not the megastars they were destined (for that short period) to become.

The year that grunge broke would still be a little way off and, for a relatively fresh band, the tour was a way to win new fans - whose minds would be colonised when Smells Like Teen Spirit becomes THE national anthem; expose fans to their songs and repertoire and, probably above all, have fun. That also means that the group could take chances and try new things. Hence, one highlight of the show in Melbourne on February 1, 1992 is the feedback-drenched jam (before Negative Creep) during which Krist Novoselic recites poetry.

On the Australian leg of this tour, apart from Melbourne, Nirvana also played in Adelaide and Sydney. Melbourne was the last stop before the band took a press trip to $ingapore and then they played Tokyo and Osaka. Of the fan recordings that have surfaced of the tour - for example Down Under '92, Legacy, Put The Money Down, Territorial Possession, Sydney 1992, Noizemaker, Live In Japan, Last Concert In Japan and Pissing Factory - two titles stand out for their overall good sound: Mindblower (Melbourne, Feb 1, 1992) and Fire Extinguisher (Tokyo, Feb 19, 1992).

But that has not stopped fans from tinkering with the sound. Recently, a fan who goes by the name of thir13en, remastered the complete Feb 1 concert at The Palace in Melbourne. In the notes to the CD, he said: "The source was typical pre-FM; thin, light and bright. So it got beefed quite a bit and maximized. Sounds big, raucous, the way I think they should sound."

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1. You Know You're Right
2. About A Girl
3. Been A Son      play
4. Sliver
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit
6. Come As You Are
7. Lithium
8. In Bloom
9. Heart-Shaped Box
10. Pennyroyal Tea
11. Rape Me        play
12. Dumb
13. All Apologies
14. The Man Who Sold The World
15. Where Did You Sleep Last Night

Personnel
* Kurt Cobain – guitar, vocals
* Krist Novoselic – bass guitar
* Dave Grohl – drums (except on tracks 2 – 4)
* Chad Channing – drums on "About a Girl" and "Been a Son"
* Dan Peters – drums on "Sliver"
* Pat Smear – guitar on unplugged tracks
* Lori Goldston – cello on unplugged tracks
* Kera Schaley  - cello on "Dumb"

Ignore the legal wrangling, bad blood, feuds, even Kurt Cobain's suicide, behind the release of this long-awaited single-disc anthology of Nirvana's work, simply titled Nirvana, and focus on one simple thing: does it do its job well? Does it capture the essence of the most influential band of the '90s, the most storied band since the Beatles? Does it have all their best songs on one disc? The answer: kinda. The inherent problem with the disc is that it's difficult to compile Nirvana's best material by any chart-based yardstick, the way that the Beatles 1 -- Cobain's widow made no bones about the fact that she wanted this collection patterned after that hit, and to be as successful a catalog item -- did, since they didn't have that many singles, nor did their career need to be condensed like the Rolling Stones' Forty Licks since they only recorded for five years. Nirvana's best tracks -- not necessarily the same thing as Cobain's best songs, although they frequently overlapped -- were buried on album tracks, B-sides, stray singles, so there's no good criteria for why, say, "Dumb" makes the cut and "Aneurysm" doesn't. Even more problematic, Nirvana's three proper albums, along with the rarities compilation Incesticide and the acoustic MTV Unplugged, all have different personalities and sonic characteristics that don't necessarily fit well together, whether it's the gleaming Nevermind, the ragged indie pop band on Incesticide, or the stark despair of In Utero. So, what you wind up with is a record that has all the hits and many of the radio favorites, plus the very good previously unreleased final recording, "You Know You're Right," in a collection that is less than the sum of its parts. At 50 minutes, it's all too easy to concentrate on what's missing: "Something in the Way," "Polly," "Serve the Servants," "Verse Chorus Verse," "Dive," "Negative Creep," "Love Buzz," "Territorial Pissings," "Drain You," "School," "Lake of Fire," "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?," and, most egregiously, the aforementioned "Aneurysm" are all prime candidates to fill out the remainder of the disc. Not all could have fit, but the presence of a few more tracks, along with placing "You Know You're Right" at the end where it belongs, would have made this collection not just stronger, but possibly definitive. As it stands, it feels like a bit of a cheap compromise and a wasted opportunity.--- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Nirvana – album kompilacyjny zespołu Nirvana wydany przez Geffen Records w 2002 roku, 8 lat po śmierci frontmana i wokalisty Kurta Cobaina. Znajdziemy tu czternaście na nowo zremasterowanych utworów - od About A Girl pochodzącego z wydanego przez Sub Pop Bleach, po przepiękne The Man Who Sold The World z repertuaru Davida Bowie, zarejestrowane specjalnie dla MTV Unplugged. Nie zabrakło oczywiście nieśmiertelnego Smells Like Teen Spirit i kompozycji z In Utero - płyty będącej zwalającym z nóg spotkaniem dzikiej energii i melodyjności zespołu Cobaina z realizatorskim geniuszem Steve'a Albiniego. Jednak Nirvana była by jedynie zwykłym składankowym wydawnictwem przeznaczonym dla tych, którzy chcą mieć na jednym krążku spójny i dobrze zmiksowany zbiór "największych przebojów" swych idoli, gdyby nie otwierający płytę, nigdy wcześniej nie opublikowany, znakomity utwór You Know You're Right.

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1. "Spank Thru" 
2. "Heartbreaker" 
3. "Mrs. Butterworth" 
4. "Floyd the Barber" 
5. "Clean Up Before She Comes" 
6. "About a Girl" 
7. "Blandest" 
8. "Ain't It a Shame" 
9. "Sappy" 
10. "Opinion" - 1:35 
11. "Lithium" 
12. "Sliver" 
13. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 
14. "Come as You Are" 
15. "Old Age" 
16. "Oh, the Guilt" 
17. "Rape Me" 
18. "Rape Me" 
19. "Heart-Shaped Box" 
20. "Do Re Mi" 
21. "You Know You're Right" 
22. "All Apologies"

In May 2002, Courtney Love bragged to Rolling Stone: "I have the Holy Grail of rock and roll," referencing the already-legendary box of 109 unreleased Nirvana and Kurt Cobain demos, outtakes, and experiments. "Not all of it's great," she admitted. "On those tapes are everything from shitty collages to some pretty stunning, awe-inspiring acoustic songs to stupid, fucked-up shit." In 2004, just in time for Christmas, bits from Love's infamous cache of cassettes appeared on the With the Lights Out box set, a collection of 61 tracks with a list price of $60-- the supposedly definitive postscript to Kurt Cobain's April 1994 suicide.

Sliver: The Best of the Box is a pared-down version of With the Lights Out, adding three tracks that didn't appear on that set. Without getting too deep into shifty-eyed corporate conspiracy theories (the previously unreleased demos included here are said to be "freshly" unearthed), it's difficult to see Sliver as anything more than a sneaky swindle designed to aggravate Nirvana completists who already own the box set and don't otherwise require another non-self-compiled best-of. But no matter how much slack you're willing to cut Geffen, Sliver reeks of manipulative marketing. Granted, posthumous releases are always delicate ground-- publishing Cobain's private journals, for instance, made plenty of his followers squirm-- but this is excessive.

What's worse, none of Sliver's three new songs are particularly revelatory or dynamic: The long-sought-after rendition of "Spank Thru"-- which, strikingly, has never even been available on bootlegs-- is pure artifact, hinting at an embryonic Nirvana. While diehard fans are no strangers to the song itself (a later version appeared on the legendary Sub Pop 200 compilation, while 1996's From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah-- already the second posthumous Nirvana release-- featured a live cut), Sliver's version appeared on 1985's infamous "Fecal Matter" demo tape, and features a throaty, 18-year-old Cobain on guitar and vocals, backed by the Melvins' Dale Crover on drums and bass. Oddly, the quality of the recording is stellar in contrast to the rest of the album's material, and every vocal tic and nuance is instantly palpable. Still, complete with mid-song coughs and ridiculous electric guitar wrestling, "Spank Thru" was obviously never destined to hit record stores, and while it's an interesting anthropological bit (and a charming ode to jerking off), Sliver's melodramatic unveiling of the track is somewhat insulting to Nirvana's devoted legions.

Sliver also offers a demo of "Come as You Are", supposedly recorded for Butch Vig in 1991 before he began working on Nevermind. Unsurprisingly, it sounds shitty, and nothing new or particularly interesting transpires in its four minutes. The most worthwhile of the three bonus tracks is a 1990 studio demo of "Sappy", a version of which appeared as an unlisted track on the 1993 charity compilation No Alternative. (The song, which had no official title on that disc, was often referred to as "Verse Chorus Verse"-- even now, dissenters wrestle over which version of the song deserves which title). Here, it's studio-quality, and, though slightly more plodding than the No Alternative version, still a great track.

Chances are, most Nirvana fans are hungry for rare and unreleased songs, not scrappy demos of singles or semi-absurd teenage wankery. Still, there is a bit of good news. As plenty of critics and fans agreed in 2004, With the Lights Out was overstuffed, curated without care, and bloated by poorly recorded, destined-for-the-recycling-bin demos and unflattering vocal portraits. Sliver fulfils its promise to cull "The Best of the Box" (see: "Do Re Mi", "Old Age", and a live "Floyd the Barber"), and though it may be irritatingly superfluous, as a collection of B-sides, demos, and outtakes, it lives up to its subtitle. --- Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com

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1 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Edit) 	4:30 	
2 Even In His Youth 	3:06 	
3 Aneurysm 	4:44 	

Bass [Uncredited], Backing Vocals [Uncredited] – Krist Novoselic 
Drums [Uncredited] – Dave Grohl
Guitar [Uncredited], Vocals [Uncredited] – Kurt Cobain 

Nirvana was a hugely influential alternative rock trio responsible for popularizing the Seattle-born "grunge" sound that they helped to pioneer. Fully formed in 1990, guitarist Kurt Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl broke into mainstream music and the consciousness of 'Generation X,' paving the way for bands such as Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgargen to go on to sell tens-of-millions of records.

Yet the attention from the media and fans lavished on the band made de-facto front man Cobain uneasy. He was uncomfortable being the voice of a generation and his indie ethos was challenged by his fame. Grohl and Novoselic were more at ease with the fame phenomenon, but too, they were not perceived as the "voice" of the band. This anxiety and unrealistic industry expectations, along with a troubled personal life and heroin addiction were contributing factors in Cobain's 1994 suicide.

Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic met while attending Aberdeen High in the coastal Washington State logging town of Aberdeen. Though they didn't hit it off immediately, several years later they formed the initial incarnation of Nirvana. While guitarist Cobain and bassist Novoselic had defined their roles, it was difficult to secure the "right" drummer. After a Spinal Tap-esque string of five drummers between 1987 and 1990, the duo finally settled on Grohl after a brief audition late that year.

But it was on-again, off-again drummer Chad Channing who was featured on the groups' first recording. The single Love Buzz was recorded in November 1988 and released by Seattle independent record label Sub Pop.

The following month, the band began recording its debut album, Bleach with local producer Jack Endino. It was highly influenced by the heavy dirge-rock of the Melvins and Mudhoney, 1980s punk rock, and the 1970s heavy metal of Black Sabbath. Originally Bleach only sold 6000 copies upon release, though it was picked up by college radio stations and showed much promise. It has since gone on to sell over four million copies.

Following the release of Bleach in June 1989, Nirvana embarked on its first national tour and in late 1989, the band recorded the Blew EP with producer Steve Fisk.

In April 1990, the band began working with producer Butch Vig at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin on their next studio release. During the sessions, Cobain and Novoselic became disenchanted with Channing's drumming, and Channing expressed frustration at not being actively involved in songwriting. As bootlegs of Nirvana's demos with Vig began to circulate in the music industry and draw attention from major labels, Channing left the band.

That July, the band recorded the single Sliver with Mudhoney drummer Dan Peters. In September 1990, Cobain and Novoselic were introduced to former Scream drummer Dave Grohl, and after a short audition, they knew they’d found their permanent drummer.

Disenchanted with Sub Pop and with the Smart Studios sessions generating interest, Nirvana decided to look for a deal with a major record label, and signed to DGC Records (Geffen) in 1990. The band immediately began recording its first major label album, Nevermind. They were offered a number of producers to choose from, but ultimately held out for Butch Vig, with whom they’d previously worked.

Initially, DGC Records had hoped to sell 250,000 copies of Nevermind, however the album's first single Smells Like Teen Spirit quickly gained momentum, thanks in part to significant airplay of the song's music video on MTV.

As Nirvana toured Europe in late 1991, the band found that the shows were dangerously oversold, and by Christmas 1991, Nevermind was selling 400,000 copies a week in the US. In January 1992, the album displaced Michael Jackson's album Dangerous at No. 1 on the Billboard album charts. It also topped the charts in numerous other countries worldwide. Said to speak for the "Generation X," Cobain was held up as an icon for disaffected teenagers worldwide. The album has gone down in history as one of the greatest and most influential releases in rock music. It is now thought to have sold over 25 million copies.

Citing exhaustion, Nirvana decided not to undertake another U.S. tour in support of Nevermind in 1992, instead opting to make only a handful of performances and headline the Reading Festival in England. Amid rumors about Cobain's health and the possibility the band might break up, Cobain mounted the stage in a wheelchair as a practical joke, but proceeded to get up and join the rest of the band in tearing through an assortment of old and new material. The performance ended up being regarded by the press as one of the most memorable of its career.

DGC had hoped to have a new Nirvana album by the band ready for a late 1992 holiday season release, but since work the follow-up proceeded slowly, the label released the compilation album Incesticide in December 1992. A joint venture between DGC and Sub Pop, Incesticide collected various rare Nirvana recordings and was intended to provide the material for a better price and at better quality than was available via bootleg copies.

1993 found Nirvana attempting the impossible: a follow-up to the universally praised Nevermind. In early 1993 the group chose Steve Albini, who had a reputation as a principled and opinionated individual in the American independent music scene, to record its third album In Utero. While there was speculation that the band chose Albini to record the album due to his underground credentials, the sessions with Albini were productive and notably quick, and the album was recorded and mixed in two weeks for a cost of $25,000.

In Utero debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart in September 1993. Though perhaps not as polished as its predecessor, the album was arguably as good musically. Critics were full of praise for it, and it still stands as one of the finest albums in alternative rock. However, Nevermind had a far greater global and cultural impact and still remains regarded as a more 'important' album.

In the fall of 2003 Nirvana embarked on its first major tour of the United States in two years. For the tour, the band added Pat Smear of the punk rock band The Germs as a second guitarist.

In November 1993, Nirvana, along with Smear, performed for MTV Unplugged. The band decided to stay away from their most recognizable songs, instead opting for more obscure covers.

In early 1994, the band embarked on a European tour. In Rome, on the morning of March 4, Courtney Love, Cobain's wife, found him unconscious in their hotel room and he was rushed to the hospital. A doctor from the hospital told a press conference that Cobain had reacted to a combination of prescription Rohypnol and alcohol. The rest of the tour was canceled, including a planned leg in the UK.

In the ensuing weeks, Cobain's heroin addiction resurfaced. An intervention was organized, and Cobain admitted himself into drug rehabilitation. Yet after less than a week in rehabilitation, Cobain climbed over the wall of the facility and took a plane back to Seattle. A week later, on Friday, April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head at his Seattle home.

His previous actions and suicide note left the impression that he was never fully able to cope with the pressures of international fame or his role as the anti-leader of a generation. Since his death, many fans have speculated that he was in fact murdered, some even speculated by Love, but these notions have never been substantiated.

Several Nirvana albums have been released since Cobain's death. MTV Unplugged in New York debuted at number one on the Billboard charts upon release in November 1994. A few weeks later the group's first full-length video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!, was released. In 1996 DGC finally issued a Nirvana live album, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, which became the third Nirvana release in a row to debut at number one on the Billboard album chart.

Scheduled to be released in September 2001 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the release of Nevermind, Grohl and Novoselic had amassed a collection of Nirvana rarities. However, shortly before the release date, Love filed an injunction to stop the box set's release and sued Grohl and Novoselic, claiming that Cobain's former band mates were hijacking Nirvana's legacy for their own personal interests. What followed was a protracted legal battle over the ownership of Nirvana's music that lasted for more than a year.

Much of the legal wrangling centered on a single unreleased song, "You Know You're Right,” the band's final studio recording. Grohl and Novoselic wanted to include the song on the box set, essentially releasing all of the rarities at one time. Love, however, argued that the song was more important than just a generic "rarity," and should be included on a single-disc greatest hits compilation. They ultimately agreed on the immediate release of a greatest hits package including "You Know You're Right,” titled simply "Nirvana." In turn, Love agreed to donate cassette demos recorded by Cobain for use on the box set.

The compilation album, Nirvana, was released on October 29, 2002. On top of "You Know You're Right", the album contained hit singles from their three studio albums as well as several alternate mixes and recordings of familiar Nirvana songs.

The box set, With the Lights Out, was finally released in November 2004. The release contained a vast array of early Cobain demos, rough rehearsal recordings, and live tracks recorded throughout the band's history. Not to be outdone, a best-of-the-box compilation titled Sliver: The Best of the Box was released in late 2005.

In April 2006, Love announced that she had arranged to sell twenty-five percent of her stake in the Nirvana song catalog in a deal estimated at $50 million. The share of Nirvana's publishing was purchased by Primary Wave Music, which was founded by Larry Mestel, a former CEO of Virgin Records.

After Nirvana, Dave Grohl went on to further success as the frontman for the Foo Fighters and drummer for super-group Them Crooked Vultures with Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. Novoselic has dabbled in various other musical projects, writes a column for The Seattle Weekly newspaper, and has become an opinionated voice involved in local Pacific Northwest politics. ---amazon.com

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1.Dive (Live on Vpro Fm, 1989)	3:50 	
2.Love Buzz (Live on Vpro Fm, 1989)	3:23 	
3.About a Girl (Live on Vpro Fm, 1989)	2:39 	
4.Been a Son (Live on Kaos, 1990)	1:12 	
5.Lithium (Live on Kaos Fm, 1990)	1:49 	
6.Opinion (Live on Kaos Fm, 1990)	1:34 	
7.Here She Comes Now (Live on Vpro Fm, 1991)	5:02 	
8.Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Live on Vpro Fm, 1991)	5:29 

A collection of hard-to-find radio and TV broadcast recordings, this includes 3 tracks from their 1987 KAOS radio session and 5 tracks from Vpro Fm.

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