Audio CD review:
Nirvana - With The Lights Out

Nirvana - With The Lights Out

Band: Nirvana Title: With The Lights Out Rating: Release Date: 23 November, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Heartbreaker (Live, 1987) 2: Anorexorcist (Radio Performance, 1987) 3: White Lace And Strange (Radio Performance, 1987) 4: Help Me I'm Hungry (Radio Performance, 1987) 5: Mrs. Butterworth 6: If You Must 7: Pen Cap Chew 8: Downer (Live, 1988) 9: Floyd The Barber (Live, 1988) 10: Raunchola/Moby Dick (Live, 1988) 11: Beans (Solo Acoustic, 1988) 12: Don't Want It All 13: Clean Up Before She Comes 14: Polly 15: About A Girl 16: Blandest 17: Dive 18: They Hung Him On A Cross 19: Grey Goose 20: Ain't It A Shame 21: Token Eastern Song 22: Even In His Youth 23: Polly 24: Opinion 25: Lithium 26: Been A Son 27: Sliver 28: Where Did You Sleep Last Night 29: Pay To Play 30: Here She Comes Now 31: Drain You 32: Aneurysm 33: Smells Like Teen Spirit 34: Breed 35: Verse Chorus Verse 36: Old Age 37: Endless, Nameless 38: Dumb 39: D-7 40: Oh The Guilt 41: Curmudgeon 42: Return Of The Rat 43: Smells Like Teen Spirit 44: Rape Me 45: Rape Me 46: Scentless Apprentice 47: Heart Shaped Box 48: I Hate Myself And I Want To Die 49: Milk It 50: M.V. 51: Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip 52: The Other Improv 53: Serve The Servants 54: Very Ape 55: Pennyroyal Tea 56: Marigold 57: Sappy 58: Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam 59: Do Re Mi 60: You Know You're Right 61: All Apologies

Editoral Review 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. 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. 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 .. You can see a complete list of all Nirvana discography, or go back to the Nirvana tabs