Nirvana

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Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 49:10

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A thirty year veteran rock and pop culture historian, Dave Thompson is the author of over 100 books, including biographies of David Bowie, Nirvana, Cream and Pa...more »

11.16.10
A beginner's guide to Nirvana
2002 | Label: DGC

A single disc compilation released at Courtney Love's insistence, as a suitable showcase for the previously unreleased "You Know You're Right" (a "potential 'hit' of extraordinary artistic and commercial value," she said), Nirvana served up 16 songs, drawn in the main from Nevermind, In Utero and Unplugged, but bolstered by a track apiece from Bleach, Incesticide and the Blew EP. As such, it is very much a beginner's guide to the band, heavy on the hits and offering only a passing glance at the rougher extremes of the Nirvana catalog. But it never pretended to be anything else and nobody could conceive a better introduction to the group than this.

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Great Collection

beaglesayarf

I like Nirvana, but not in strong doses (Yeah, I'm old, what's your point?) But this is a nice slice of history, how a band of 3 guys can take so many captive for a truly great ride! Cobain, like Morrison, or Joplin can take good players and create a chemistry that is truly a defining moment!

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Great Collection

beaglesayarf

I like Nirvana, but not in strong doses (Yeah, I'm old, what's your point?) But this is a nice slice of history, how a band of 3 guys can take so many captive for a truly great ride! Cobain, like Morrison, or Joplin can take good players and create a chemistry that is truly a defining moment!

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The Thing Is...

KrisWright

...all this music is probably better digested on the original albums. It's not like Nirvana has an enormous or hit-and-miss catalog to sift through. Pretty much everything they recorded is essential listening. So this is one of those Greatest Hits packages where there's not really any reason for it to exist, apart from making "You Know You're Right" available for the first time. I say download that track and then buy the rest of Nirvana's albums in full. Pretty obvious.

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The long-awaited single-disc anthology of Nirvana’s work, simply titled Nirvana, has all the hits and many of the radio favorites, plus the very good previously unreleased final recording, “You Know You’re Right.” – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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