I'm 20 all over again...

YES YES YES YES YES!

I just got my copy today. On disc 1, track 4...Help Me I'm Hungry. So fucking great man, just hearing Kurt (Krist?) yell "I don't know how to play it!" on the opening of "Heartbreaker" then launching into the song is so exciting.

I've been pumped about this since it was announced last month. Christmas comes early this year...

And apparently, there's gonna be more Nirvana releases in the future. Live stuff primarily, I think...still, I'm pumped.



Best band ever. God damn am I happy....

anyone hear of the Chingy/Nirvana colab coming out next spring? its going to be HOT.

It's funny you say that, because by coincidence Nirvana and Chingy are the only two artists I talk about at school. Nirvana, I speak about because of the box...Chingy, I pretend to like as a joke. I fool a lot of people, but man, I can't help it. Chingy balls for real.

In the meantime...Disc 1, Track 15. Highlights so far:

Help Me I'm Hungry (cool improvisational song they jammed on a lot of the time, this is apparently a crappy version, but still cool)
White Lace and Strange (cool cover)
Mrs. Butterworth (AWESOME chorus, and hilarious spoken word)
Clean Up Before She Comes (nice)
Blandest (a little annoying, but very cool...should've been on Bleach)

I can't wait to get this as well. I love me some Nirvana!

Finally done watching/listening to the whole thing. Here are my highlights, excluding the ones I already mentioned...

The Jury tapes (Ain't It A Shame in particular)
Opinion (great song, poor performance)
Lithium (nice acoustic version, but the chorus is a bit off-key)
Verse Chorus Verse (amazing outtake, too bad it has scratch vocals)
Old Age (ditto)
Rio demos (generally cool stuff, but Gallons shouldn't have been on there)
1993 solo acoustic In Utero songs
Sappy (previously available, but still a great song that needed a fair, upfront release)
Do Re Mi (even less than a month before his death, Cobain was writing classics...blew my expectations away for the box single-handedly)
You Know You're Right solo acoustic 1994 (very interesting different version, Cobain sounds very frail)
All Apologies undated (great ending)

As for the DVD, I like it for the most part. The 1989 rehearsal was cool (and brings to light just how great of a drummer Chad Channing really is), it's great to see Jason Everman play second guitar on Big Cheese, the 1989 random tour footage is great, and the early live Sappy is very interesting. While I would've rather had another live video, the Sub Pop In Bloom music video is pretty cool to have. School with Danny Peters drumming is amazing, as is the first performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit (at least from a historical standpoint), and Jesus Doesn't Want Me from Halloween 1991 looks really cool and professional. Talk to Me is a great song (sadly never studio-ized), and the Seasons in the Sun video is absolutely beautiful. The rest of the footage is pretty blah, though...but the bonus footage on the menus is awesome. Oh, by the way, at the end of the credits, hit enter and you'll get bonus footage of Dave Grohl screwing around outside with a huge cymbal...pretty funny.

Anyway, Jack Endino predicts the next Nirvana releases will be a bunch of soundboard bootlegs of shows a la Pearl Jam's insane collection of shows officially released...I sure hope so. More DVDs would be nice too. But Courtney Love's manager or whatever said that the next big release will be a "best of the box" a few years down the road. WTF? Why would I want a CD with stuff that's already on the box? She'll probably tack on an extra unreleased song or so to attract the superfans like me into wasting money on it again...

A CD of solo Cobain demos would be nice, as once was promised. Apparently there are a lot of other songs on that Do Re Mi tape reel, and I'd love to hear them...

i'm buying it this weekend.......i'll whip out the credit card for this.....

Oh yeah, Peace Frog, didn't Kurt Cobain buy you tacos or something insane like that? What's the story with that??

That's such a good subject for conversation. "Kurt Cobain bought me tacos."

Yes he did... many moons ago. I also got to hold Frances while he tied his shoes.

Living a dream, Peace Frog, you're living a dream...

It's gotta be one of my top 5 experiences...

How'd you meet him? Were you interviewing him or something?

Is anyone else here astounded by the beauty of "Do Re Mi"? It was recorded in MARCH of 1994, by the way, so it was about two or three weeks before his death. Makes me proud that the guy was still writing great songs - perhaps some of his best - up until the very end. I find it funny, also, how someone at the end of the song says, "That is fresh, dude!" (Dylan Carson, maybe?)

everyone owes eric e. a big thank you

Thanks Eric. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of that version of "Do Re Mi" you, Kurt, and Pat Smear recorded, would you? Now that must be something...

I wonder what Nirvana release is next. Courtney's attorney says something about a "best-of-the-box" a few years down the road, which would be pretty pointless...

duh, he does

I think Estrada spells his name with a "k", genius.

suck my "k"

Now, I'm pretty sure that is spelled with a "c".

And... no thanks.

could someone ask me real questions to ask eric?

I'd be way too intimidated for that. I'm still thinking of questions for Carl to ask Matt Meeks. I wish I knew some celebrities!

Peace Frog, I'm also quite interested on how u met Kurt.

I think everyone is bored with that story... you may be able to find a rehash on the board somewhere... if not, I 'spose I could spin the yarn for you youngsters again if prodded enough.

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