Nirvana :: Better Nevermind (Well...Whatever Version) & Better In Utero (1993 Steve Albini Mixes)

Nirvana :: Nevermind...Well, Whatever Version

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit        (Live on Top of the Pops - 28 November 1991)
2. In Bloom                              (Smart Mix)
3. Come As You Are                (Devonshire Mix)
4. Breed                                    (Devonshire Mix)
5. Lithium                                 (Smart Mix)
6. Polly                                     (Smart Mix)
7. Territorial Pissings               (Devonshire Mix)
8. Drain You                             (BBC John Peel Session)
9. Lounge Act                           (Devonshire Mix)
10. Pay to Play                         (Stray Away Original Version - Smart Mix)
11. On a Plain                           (Devonshire Mix)
12. Something in the Way        (Devonshire Mix)
13. Endless, Nameless             (BBC John Peel Session)

 

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30 years of Nevermind, and they are still finding ways to make it sound worse. This year's Super Deluxe 30th anniversary reissue gets yet another reslickening and glossifying in the remastering laboratories for optimal consumer enjoyment. Take a scroll through Spotify and you'll see that there are way more versions of Nirvana albums than there needs to be. But there's an interesting story as to why this is the case and why mixing actually matters.

 

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The infamous 1985 Nirvana demos :: Fecal Matter - Illiteracy will Prevail

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Long thought to no longer exist, the holy grail for Nirvana fans was the 1985 demo tape for a project Kurt Cobain called Fecal Matter. There were a couple of fakes that famously circulated around the internet, but this version is a legitimate recording. There are files out there that have been edited and remastered by amateur engineers, which is mostly what can be found on youtube. So, this version is intended to preserve the initial, unedited leak.

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