Nirvana

Three discs of unheard live tracks and demos that cover every aspect of the band's career. You get Nirvana's first show, and some acoustic demos with just Kurt and a guitar from their final days. What's most amazing (then, now and forever) is how this uncompromising punk-rock nihilism infiltrated the Top 40 universe.

Excessive? Definitely. But so was everything else about Nirvana. They tried too hard,
screamed too loud, made a mess out of all they touched. Kurt Cobain jammed his tunes with
more emotional intensity than they could hold, blowing his cool at a time when the rock
world was into playing it safe. His band rocked so exuberantly, it made other bands sound
halfway committed. They pushed it too far. They checked out too fast. Excess,... More >