Audio CD review:
Nirvana - Singles

Nirvana - Singles

Band: Nirvana Title: Singles Rating: Release Date: 30 June, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Smells Like Teen Spirit [Edit] 2: Even in His Youth 3: Aneurysm 4: Come as You Are [LP Version] 5: Endless, Nameless 6: School 7: Drain You [Live] 8: In Bloom [LP Version] 9: Sliver [Live] 10: Polly [Live] 11: Lithium [LP Version] 12: Been a Son [Live] 13: Curmudgeon 14: Heart Shaped Box [LP Version] 15: Milk It [LP Version] 16: Marigold 17: All Apologies [LP Version] 18: Rape Me [LP Version] - Kurt Cobain 19: Moist Vagina [#] - Kurt Cobain

Customer Reviews Good but Incomplete: Love Buzz (Bleach) 2. All great singles but the perfect box set would be including a copy of all of Nirvanas's singles as follows: 1. Blew (Bleach) 3. Molly's Lips 4. Sliver 5. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind) 6. Come As You Are( Nevermind) 7. Lithium (Nevermind) 8. In Bloom (Nevermind) 9. Oh, the Guilt 10. Heart-Shaped Box (In Utero) 11. All Apologies (In Utero) 12. Pennyroyal Tea (In Utero) 13. About A Girl (Unplugged In New York) All of the above were singles once comercially available to buy in the shops. I know it only supposed to be singles from 'Nevermind' and 'In Utero' albums but the third single from 'In Utero', 'Pennyroyal Tea' was not even included. Those which havn't been included are the ones most people want as a result you have to pay rediculous prices for them because they are no longer made and have become very rare. For example you can now expect to pay no less than £500. 00 for a copy of the Pennyroyal Tea or Love Buzz singles, high demand, no supply. This could have been avoided if included on the Box. . Best band with the worst marketing (here anyway) The only song that has been difficult to track down is the awesome demo version of "Aneurysm" on the Teen Spirit single, which they are now releasing on the new box set. First off for that money you can buy all of the major releases and pick up most of the rest of the material on a well-crafted bootleg. The single set is almost as bad an example of branding and repackaging as Nirvana's 2002 album aptly titled. . . Nirvana; Kurt is spinning in his grave. Maybe if they included ALL of the singles it would be a better gem, but save your money for the new box set, kids. I've seen the track list and it shot up to number one on my Christmas list. By the way Kurt didn't kill himself, so bugger off with all the selfish talk. 'Who did?' you may ask. . . I don't know, but I think Courtney does. Peace. Does anybody know that this box set even exists? In comparison to Neverminds 500-something after 13 years then thats pretty bad. Well, I know a few people do, because there were a few reviews here, but it has a mere 45,000-something sales rank. Even Incesticide and Bleach have better sales-ranks. . . and those didn't even go platinum, well actually Incesticide eventually did. Okay, more people should know about this besides Nirvana die-hards, its a very good compilation. . . but it ISNT great. The reason why this isn't great is, alongside the very high price of $60+ this also has only six singles. I know all the singles are awesome but in total Nirvana made approximately nine singles from Bleach, Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero and Unplugged. Only the singles off of Nevermind and In Utero appear here. The singles that are missing are 'Love Buzz' (off Bleach, buy it at most Nirvana fansites), 'Sliver' (off Incesticide', buy it at almost all Nirvana fansites) and 'About a Girl' (off Unplugged, buy it at a store near you). These are not the most important singles but they still belong in the box set. Right, now with that out of the way I can focus on the qualities of the box set. Well for one all of the popular singles are here, they are 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Come as You Are', 'Lithium', 'In Bloom', 'Heart-Shaped Box' and 'Rape Me/All Apologies'. Another thing is that almost every song here is good. That includes even the b-sides, especially on the In Utero singles. If you dont have $60 you can always buy this for about $30 or even less on ebay. And another thing, you have to respect Nirvana for single-handedly destroying horrendous pop bands like Bon Jovi and Poison and bringing other great bands to the mainstream like Soundgarden and Pearl Jam (Alice in Chains too). Even if you hate the crap-punk and the nu-hell metal (much like I do) thats out today then remember: IT WASNT NIRVANAS FAULT! IT WAS KORN AND BLINK 182, WHO SUCK! Just keep in mind that this is for die-hards ONLY, unless you love Nirvana then you will just say to yourself "this wasn't worth $60+". But I still love this as I am a die-hard. . You can see a complete list of all Nirvana discography, or go back to the Nirvana tabs