With The Lights Out
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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
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 |
