Monday, July 9, 2007

Nirvana - The Complete Radio Sessions


Fantastic bootleg of Nirvana's BBC radio sessions. Poppier and more anarchic than In Utero, but without the airless gloss of Nevermind, these are some of the best takes they ever recorded.

Some of these tracks ended up on Incesticide, but as well as this material, there's a doom-laden downer electric version of 'Something in the Way, two Bleach-era songs (this time without the sludgy production), and a live version of Lithium where Krist taunts Axl Rose over a wailing feedback outro. And there's something about the idea of Nirvana holed up in a studio in my home country, blasting these songs out ten-to-a-penny, that just makes me smile.

1
Love Buzz (3:16)
2
About A Girl (2:39)
3
Polly (2:36)
4
Spank Thru (3:15)
5
Son Of A Gun (2:46)
6
Molly's Lips (1:49)
7
D7 (3:44)
8
Turnaround (2:16)
9
Dumb (2:34)
10
Drain You (4:01)
11
Endless Nameless (8:43)
12
Been A Son (1:53)
13
Polly (1:45)
14
Aneurysm (4:34)
15
Something In The Way (3:19)
16
Here She Comes Now (4:38)
17
Where Did You Sleep Last Night (4:54)
18
Drain You (3:35)
19
Polly (2:29)
20
Territorial Pissings (2:08)
21
Lithium (5:04)

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