| With The Lights Out | 
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Sales Rank: 1659
Category: Music
Artist: Nirvana
Publisher: Geffen Records
Studio: Geffen Records
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Label: Geffen Records
Format: Box Set, Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 5.7 x 1
MPN: 000372700
UPC: 602498646649
EAN: 0602498646649
ASIN: B00065XJ4S
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Heartbreaker - Nirvana, Bonham | | • | Anorexorcist | | • | White Lace and Strange - Nirvana, Bond | | • | Help Me I'm Hungry | | • | Mrs. Butterworth | | • | If You Must | | • | Pen Cap Chew | | • | Downer | | • | Floyd the Barber | | • | Raunchola/Moby Dick | | • | Beans | | • | Don't Want It All | | • | Clean Up Before She Comes | | • | Polly | | • | About a Girl | | • | Blandest | | • | Dive | | • | They Hung Him on a Cross - Nirvana, Ledbetter, Huddie | | • | Grey Goose - Nirvana, Ledbetter, Huddie | | • | Ain't It a Shame - Nirvana, Ledbetter, Huddie | | • | Token Eastern Song | | • | Even in His Youth | | • | Polly |
Disc 2
| • | Opinion | | • | Lithium | | • | Been a Son | | • | Sliver | | • | Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana, Ledbetter, Huddie | | • | Pay to Play | | • | Here She Comes Now - Nirvana, Cale | | • | Drain You | | • | Aneurysm | | • | Smells Like Teen Spirit | | • | Breed | | • | Verse Chorus Verse | | • | Old Age | | • | Endless, Nameless | | • | Dumb | | • | D-7 - Nirvana, Sage | | • | Oh the Guilt | | • | Curmudgeon | | • | Return of the Rat - Nirvana, Sage | | • | Smells Like Teen Spirit |
Disc 3
| • | Rape Me | | • | Rape Me | | • | Scentless Apprentice | | • | Heart Shaped Box | | • | I Hate Myself and Want to Die | | • | Milk It | | • | M.V. | | • | Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip | | • | The Other Improv | | • | Serve the Servants | | • | Very Ape | | • | Pennyroyal Tea | | • | Marigold - Nirvana, Grohl, Dave | | • | Sappy (AKA Verse Chorus Verse) | | • | Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam - Nirvana, Kelly | | • | Do Re Mi | | • | You Know You're Right | | • | All Apologies |
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Album Description
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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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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case looks good November 18, 2008
the audio quality on these tracks is absolute crap....
I've heard demos before... these are worse than demos.
They must have recorded these with a portable cassette player, that, or i'm thankful to god curt cobain died before i could hear him in concert.
Much Better Than Expected November 10, 2008
I anticipated something different and got it. Nice variations on Nirvana standards and stuff that commercial radio would never touch. It makes it sadder that Cobain is gone. In retrospect, he was a real innovator and created a lot of the genre, which shows through in this set.
 Wonderful collection of music November 3, 2008
Nirvana is one of my favorite bands. This is a great collections of songs. I really enjoy listening to this album from the first track to the last without skipping any songs.
Great!! October 29, 2008
I was a little hesitate to buy this mainly because I don't like the idea of buying something after someone has passed away and the money going to that persons estate, namely Courtney Love. But, after much delema I went on with the purchase and I am happy that I did. All of the CD's are great but the DVD is especially awesome, seeing Kurt playing drums on Seasons in the Sun was absolutely hilarious. All in all with the packaging and the pictures it was a great buy and I'll treasure it always.
I was amazed August 24, 2008
I have always been a Nirvana fan from the very beginning but when I bought this collection it was a revealing experience listening to demo songs and rehearsals as it showed me a new side of nirvana and their music. Nirvana fans, buy it!!!
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