Due to various legal disputes between the surviving bandmembers and the Cobain estate, this long-awaited set of unreleased material did not appear until late 2004, when the three-disc, one-DVD box With the Lights Out finally appeared. Within a matter of months after Kurt Cobain's suicide in April of 1994, fans started asking for the official release of all the demos, stray songs, alternate takes, and rarities in Nirvana's vaults. Convenience comes easy with us, so we’ve provided an online playlist to consult as you read our own personal liner notes.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. (We think it’s even better than 2005’s Sliver: The Best of the Box.) To make it special, we gave it a title ( Aurora Borealis) and attempted to sequence it like a Nirvana album – aka, capitalizing on the whole “loud, soft, loud” thing. This week, in light of all the Nirvana-related hoopla out there, Consequence of Sound dove into the proverbial boxes and assembled a mixtape of the B-sides and demos fans oughta hear.
Because of this, there’s so much to pick and choose from.
It’s almost as if Kurt Cobain never left a four-track recorder or a boombox for five years. Granted, there will always be Nirvana-related items in the pipeline, whether it’s more live recordings or DVD releases or reissues, but it’s highly unlikely you’ll feel the same sense of awe and wonder as you did, say, in 2002 when “You Know You’re Right” hit the radio airwaves or in November ’04 when you first spun “Do Re Mi” or “Beans”.įortunately, there are plenty of demos to lose yourself in. Some might feel it’s time to “let go,” others may opt to keep relistening to what’s out there. Sure, there’s always a proper release of the oft-discussed Fecal Matter demo tape, but really, that’s not much.
If you were one of the material-starved fans in the fall of 2004 that ponied up 60-something bucks for With the Lights Out, the then long-gestating box set project, you probably already came to the conclusion that there’s nothing really left to salvage. Three albums, one B-sides compilation, several live efforts: That’s Nirvana in a nutshell.
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