Nirvana -With The Lights Out (Audio CD - Nov 23, 2004) [ Box set - Collectible]

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.

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TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1
1 Heartbreaker Live / previously unreleased 2:59
2 Anorexorcist previously unreleased 2:44
3 White Lace and Strange previously unreleased 2:09
4 Help Me I'm Hungry previously unreleased 2:41
5 Mrs. Butterworth previously unreleased 4:05
6 If You Must previously unreleased / Demo Version 4:01
7 Pen Cap Chew previously unreleased / Demo Version 3:02
8 Downer Live / previously unreleased 1:43
9 Floyd the Barber Live / previously unreleased 2:33
10 Raunchola/Moby Dick Live / previously unreleased 6:24
11 Beans previously unreleased / Acoustic 1:32
12 Don't Want It All previously unreleased / Acoustic 2:26
13 Clean Up Before She Comes previously unreleased / Acoustic 3:12
14 Polly previously unreleased / Acoustic 2:30
15 About a Girl previously unreleased / Acoustic 2:44
16 Blandest previously unreleased / Demo Version 3:56
17 Dive previously unreleased / Demo Version 4:50
18 They Hung Him on a Cross previously unreleased / Demo Version 1:57
19 Grey Goose previously unreleased / Demo Version 4:36
20 Ain't It a Shame previously unreleased / Demo Version 2:01
21 Token Eastern Song previously unreleased / Demo Version 3:21
22 Even in His Youth previously unreleased / Demo Version 3:12
23 Polly previously unreleased / Demo Version 2:36

Disc 2
1 Opinion previously unreleased / Acoustic 1:34
2 Lithium previously unreleased / Acoustic 1:49
3 Been a Son previously unreleased / Acoustic 1:12
4 Sliver previously unreleased / Acoustic 2:09
5 Where Did You Sleep Last Night? previously unreleased / Acoustic 2:31
6 Pay to Play Demo Version 3:29
7 Here She Comes Now Demo Version 5:01
8 Drain You previously unreleased / Demo Version 2:38
9 Aneurysm Demo Version 4:47
10 Smells Like Teen Spirit previously unreleased / Demo Version 5:40
11 Breed previously unreleased / Rough Mix 3:07
12 Verse Chorus Verse previously unreleased / Outtake 3:18
13 Old Age previously unreleased / Outtake 4:20
14 Endless, Nameless previously unreleased 8:48
15 Dumb previously unreleased 2:3
16 D-7 previously unreleased 3:46
17 Oh, the Guilt 3:25
18 Curmudgeon 3:03
19 Return of the Rat Outtake 3:09
20 Smells Like Teen Spirit Butch Vig Mix 4:59

Disc 3
1 Rape Me previously unreleased / Acoustic 3:23
2 Rape Me previously unreleased / Demo Version 3:01
3 Scentless Apprentice previously unreleased / Demo Version 9:32
4 Heart Shaped Box previously unreleased / Demo Version 5:31
5 I Hate Myself and Want to Die 4:03
6 Milk It previously unreleased / Demo Version 4:34
7 M.V. previously unreleased / Demo Version 1:56
8 Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip 7:34
9 The Other Improv previously unreleased / Demo Version 6:24
10 Serve the Servants previously unreleased / Acoustic 1:36
11 Very Ape previously unreleased / Acoustic 1:52
12 Pennyroyal Tea previously unreleased / Acoustic 3:30
13 Marigold 2:34
14 Sappy previously unreleased / AKA Verse Chorus Verse 3:26
15 Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam previously unreleased / Demo Version 3:57
16 Do Re Mi previously unreleased / Acoustic 4:24
17 You Know You're Right previously unreleased / Acoustic 2:30
18 All Apologies previously unreleased / Acoustic 3:33

Disc 4
1 Love Buzz DVD
2 Scoff DVD
3 About a Girl DVD
4 Big Long Now DVD
5 Immigrant Song DVD
6 Spank Thru DVD
7 Hairspray Queen DVD
8 School DVD
9 Mr. Moustache DVD
10 Big Cheese DVD
11 In Bloom DVD
12 Sappy DVD
13 School DVD
14 Love Buzz DVD
15 Pennyroyal Tea DVD
16 Smells Like Teen Spirit DVD
17 Territorial Pissings DVD
18 Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam DVD
19 Talk to Me DVD
20 Seasons in the Sun DVD