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Entitled 'With The Lights Out', the set features three CDs and a DVD, with a rather puzzling 68 previously unreleased tracks across a total of 81. How, exactly, did Geffen keep them under wraps for this long? More importantly, how many of them are going to be horribly shit?
The set spans the band's entire career, from a cover of Led Zeppelin's 'Heartbreaker' recorded in 1987 to Kurt Cobain's solo acoustic work recorded shortly before his death in 1994. Also included is a 60-page booklet with liner notes by Thurston Moore and writer Neil Strauss. The DVD contains a previously unreleased video of the band performing at Krist Novoselic's mother's house in 1988, as well as music promos and other unreleased live performances.
CD 1
01. Heartbreaker
02. Anorexorcist
03. White Lace and Strange
04. Help Me, I'm Hungry
05. Mrs. Butterworth
06. If You Must
07. Pen Cap Chew
08. Downer
09. Floyd The Barber
10. Raunchola
11. Moby Dick
12. Beans
13. Don't Want It All
14. Clean Up Before She Comes
15. Polly (solo)
16. About A Girl
17. Blandest
18. Dive
19. They Hung Him On A Cross
20. Grey Goose
21. Ain't It A Shame
22. Token Eastern Song
23. Even In His Youth
24. Polly
CD 2
01. Opinion
02. Lithium
03. Been A Son
04. Sliver
05. Where Did You Sleep Last Night
06. Pay To Play
07. Here She Comes Now
08. Drain You
09. Aneurysm
10. Smells Like Teen Spirit (demo)
11. Breed
12. Verse Chorus Verse
13. Old Age
14. Endless, Nameless
15. Dumb
16. D-7
17. Oh, The Guilt
18. Curmudgeon
19. Return of the Rat
20. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Butch Vig Mix)
CD 3
01. Rape Me (solo)
02. Rape Me
03. Scentless Apprentice
04. Heart Shaped Box
05. I Hate Myself and Want to Die
06. Milk It
07. Moist Vagina
08. Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow
Through The Strip
09. The Other Improv
10. Serve The Servants
11. Very Ape
12. Pennyroyal Tea
13. Marigold
14. Sappy
15. Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam
16. Do Re Mi
17. You Know You're Right
18. All Apologies
DVD
01. Love Buzz
02. Scoff
03. About A Girl
04. Big Long Now
05. Immigrant Song
06. Spank Thru
07. Hairspray Queen
08. School
09. Mr. Moustache
10. Big Cheese
11. In Bloom
12. Sappy
13. School
14. Love Buzz
15. Pennyroyal Tea
16. Smells like Teen Spirit
17. Territorial Pissings
18. Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam
19. Talk To Me
20. Seasons In The Sun
Expect me to shell out for this and then be greatly disappointed with the shitty quality of the unreleased recordings. Probably.
DiScuss: Excited? Really? If so, why, and if not, why not? Is this a money-making exercise that should have stayed on the drawing board, or is it important that these songs, or versions of existing songs, are released? See the video for In Bloom here.
