Nirvana (album)

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Nirvana
Greatest hits by Nirvana
Released October 29, 2002
Recorded 1988–1994
Genre Grunge
Length 49:38
Label DGC
Producer Steve Albini, Jack Endino, Steve Fisk, Scott Litt, Butch Vig
Professional reviews
Nirvana chronology
Incesticide
(1992)		 Nirvana
(2002)		 With the Lights Out
(2004)

Nirvana is a compilation album from the American grunge band Nirvana, released in October 2002.

Contents

[edit] Significance

  • "All Apologies" (January 1, 1991 Demo w/ guide vocals and tambourine)

http://www.4shared.com/file/88898711/fe540806/La_La_La__All_Apologies__645_k.html

  • "Token Eastern Song" (January 1, 1991 Demo w/ guide vocals)

http://www.4shared.com/file/88113259/52561ad3/Token_Eastern_Song_651_kbps.html

  • "Radio-Friendly Unit Shifter" (January 1, 1991 Demo w/ guide vocals)

http://www.4shared.com/file/88124561/a89895ce/Radio-Friendly_Unit_Shifter_64.html

  • "On a Plain" (January 1, 1991 Demo w/ guide vocals)

http://www.4shared.com/file/89559737/42a45dbf/On_A_Plain__Demo__645_kbps.html

Long-lost November, 25 1991 Songs

Two long-lost radio session songs from NOB Radiostudio (2 Meter Sessie) recorded in the Netherlands on 11/25/91 have recently been re-discovered after nearly two decades. Although an interesting listen, Nozems-A-Gogo DJ, Lotje IJzermans and the studio's sound engineer calls the song (and its later re-attempt) "miserable".[1] The 9:38-minute re-attempt at the unnamed song features drumming from Dave Grohl that will blast your eardrums to hell, so be forewarned.

  • "Unknown Song #1" (NOB Radiostudio)

http://www.4shared.com/file/177700574/5f1e2349/Unknown_1_436_kbps.html

  • "Unknown Song #2" (NOB Radiostudio)

http://www.4shared.com/file/178256778/1e228afa/Unknown_2_192_kbps.html


Cool Demos

  • "Blew" (Demo)

http://www.4shared.com/file/66928598/b5ec651f/Blew__Demo__192_kbps.html

  • Sappy (Demo #5)

http://www.4shared.com/file/178619602/86066b94/Sappy__Demo_5__192_kbps.html

  • D7 (Demo Version)

http://www.4shared.com/file/176367444/5a809e06/D7__Version__192_kbps.html

  • "Ain't It a Shame" (Demo)

http://www.4shared.com/file/178134828/cbd47607/Aint_It_a_Shame_320_kbps.html

  • "I Hatə Myself and I Want to Diə" (Pachyderm Studio Demo)

http://www.4shared.com/file/178194450/c9e48937/I_Hat_Myself_and_I_Want_to_Di_.html Nirvana was the third Nirvana album to be released following the death of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994, and the first to feature studio material. It contains the previously unreleased "You Know You're Right", a song recorded during the band's final studio session from January 1994. The album also includes a selection of the band's more popular songs, pulled mostly from 1991's Nevermind and 1993's In Utero, but also containing three pre-Nevermind songs and two recorded during the band's MTV Unplugged set in late 1993. Nirvana opened at #3 on the Billboard 200. The album sold more than 6 million copies worldwide and by early 2009, it sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S. alone according to Soundscan.

[edit] Lawsuit

Nirvana was released following the settlement of a long-standing legal dispute between Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. Much of the dispute centered around "You Know You're Right", which Novoselic and Grohl had wanted to release on a long-delayed Nirvana box set. However, Love blocked the song's release, and sued Novoselic and Grohl over control of Nirvana's legacy.

Love's lawsuit maintained that "You Know You're Right" was a "potential 'hit' of extraordinary artistic and commercial value."[2] She believed that "You Know You're Right" would be "wasted" on a box set, and instead belonged on a single-disc compilation similar to the Beatles' 1.[3] In September 2002, it was announced by the Nirvana camp that the lawsuit had been settled, and that "You Know You're Right" would be released on "Nirvana, a one-CD history of the band."[4]

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Kurt Cobain unless otherwise noted:

  1. "You Know You're Right" (previously unreleased) – 3:38
  2. "About a Girl" (from Bleach) – 2:49
  3. "Been a Son" (from Blew) – 2:23
  4. "Sliver" (from Incesticide) – 2:14
  5. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (from Nevermind) (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) – 5:01
  6. "Come as You Are" (from Nevermind) – 3:39
  7. "Lithium" (from Nevermind) – 4:17
  8. "In Bloom" (from Nevermind) – 4:15
  9. "Heart-Shaped Box" (from In Utero) – 4:41
  10. "Pennyroyal Tea" (Scott Litt Remix) (from "Pennyroyal Tea" single, original mix on In Utero) – 3:38
  11. "Rape Me" (from In Utero) – 2:51
  12. "Dumb" (from In Utero) – 2:34
  13. "All Apologies" (from MTV Unplugged in New York) – 3:51
  14. "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) (from MTV Unplugged in New York) – 3:47
Bonus tracks
  1. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (Lead Belly) (from MTV Unplugged in New York) – 5:08 (appears on vinyl and international CD copies only)
  2. "Something in the Way" (from MTV Unplugged in New York) – 4:01 (appears on vinyl and Japanese CD copies only)

[edit] Album charts

Year Chart Position
2002 Australian Albums Chart 1[citation needed]
2002 Austrian Albums Chart 1[citation needed]
2002 Switzerland Albums Chart 2[citation needed]
2002 Irish Albums Chart 2[citation needed]
2002 Belgium Albums Chart 2[citation needed]
2002 New Zealand Albums Chart 2[citation needed]
2002 Canadian Albums Chart 2[citation needed]
2002 Billboard 200 3[citation needed]
2002 UK Albums Chart 3[citation needed]
2002 German Albums Chart 5[citation needed]
2002 Norwegian Albums Chart 5[citation needed]
2002 Holland Albums Chart 6[citation needed]
2002 Denmark Albums Chart 6[citation needed]
2002 Italian Albums Chart 6[citation needed]
2002 Japanese Oricon Albums Chart 6[5]
2002 Finland Albums Chart 9[citation needed]
2002 Sweden Albums Chart 10[citation needed]
2002 Spanish Albums Chart 11[citation needed]
2002 Portugal Albums Chart 24[citation needed]
2002 Hungarian Albums Chart 106[citation needed]
Singles

Note: "You Know You're Right" was only released as a promotional and downloadable single. Retail singles were not released.

Year Song Chart Position
2002 "You Know You're Right" Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks (US) 1
2002 "You Know You're Right" Hot Modern Rock Tracks (US) 1
2002 "You Know You're Right" The Billboard Hot 100 (US) 45
2002 "You Know You're Right" Triple J Hottest 100 (Australia) 12
2002 "You Know You're Right" Finland Mitä hittiä Chart 45
2002 "You Know You're Right" Polish Airplay Chart 13

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.livenirvana.com/sessions/
  2. ^ Love Blocks Nirvana Release - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News
  3. ^ A piece of Kurt Cobain
  4. ^ [NFC: The Internet Nirvana Fan Club]
  5. ^ (Japanese) "Oricon Weekly Album Charts for the third week of November 2002". Oricon. http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=2002&month=11&week=3&submit5.x=19&submit5.y=19. Retrieved 2009-10-03. 
Preceded by
One by One by Foo Fighters		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
November 4–10, 2002		 Succeeded by
The Best of 1990–2000 by U2
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