NIRVANA - Nevermind (30th Anniv. Super Deluxe Remastered Ed.) - 5CD + Blu-ray Box Set

LABEL: Polydor / UMC

CAT NO: 3846188

BARCODE: 0602438461882

CD 1 – Original Album (Remastered) Tracklisting:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. In Bloom
3. Come As You Are
4. Breed
5. Lithium
6. Polly
7. Territorial Pissings
8. Drain You
9. Lounge Act
10. Stay Away
11. On A Plain
12. Something In The Way

CD2 – Live in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Paradiso, November 25, 1991) Tracklisting:

1. Drain You*
2. Aneurysm*
3. School
4. Floyd The Barber*
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit*
6. About A Girl*
7. Polly*
8. Lithium
9. Sliver*
10. Breed*
11. Come As You Are*
12. Been A Son
13. Negative Creep*
14. On A Plain*
15. Blew
16. Love Buzz*
17. Territorial Pissings*

CD3 – Live in Del Mar, California (Pat O’Brien Pavilion, Del Mar Fairgrounds, December 28, 1991) Tracklisting:

1. Drain You
2. Aneurysm
3. School*
4. Floyd The Barber*
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit
6. About A Girl*
7. Polly
8. Sliver
9. Breed*
10. Come As You Are*
11. Lithium*
12 .Territorial Pissings*

CD4 – Live in Melbourne, Australia for triple j (The Palace, St. Kilda, February 1, 1992)* Tracklisting:

1. Aneurysm
2. Drain You
3. School
4. Sliver
5. About A Girl
6. Come As You Are
7. Lithium
8. Breed
9. Polly
10. Lounge Act
11. In Bloom
12. Love Buzz
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. Feedback Jam
15. Negative Creep
16. On A Plain
17. Blew

CD5 – Live in Tokyo, Japan (Nakano Sunplaza, February 19, 1992)* Tracklisting:

1. Negative Creep
2. Been A Son
3. On A Plain
4. Blew
6. 5. Come As You Are
7. Lithium
8. Breed
9. Sliver
10. Drain You
11. About A Girl
12. School
13. Aneurysm
14. Love Buzz
15. Polly
16. Territorial Pissings
17. Smells Like Teen Spirit

Blu-ray – Live in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Paradiso, November 25, 1991)* Tracklisting:

1. Drain You
2. Aneurysm
3. School
4. Floyd The Barber
5. Smells Like Teen Spirit
6. About A Girl
7. Polly
8. Lithium
9. Sliver
10. Breed
11. Come As You Are
12. Been A Son
13. Negative Creep
14. On A Plain
15. Blew
16. Love Buzz
17. Territorial Pissings

NIRVANA – Nevermind
(30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Remastered Edition)

Limited Edition 5CD + Blu-ray Set Box Set
(+ 40-page hardcover book with unreleased photos)

Nevermind 5CD/1 Blu-Ray Super Deluxe Edition contains:

* The newly remastered album from the original analog tapes
+ 4 complete concerts on the Nevermind tour from Amsterdam, Netherlands; Del Mar, California; Melbourne, Australia and Tokyo
+ Blu-ray of the complete and newly remastered in HD Live in Amsterdam concert video
+ 40-page hardcover book with unreleased photos

Nevermind was never meant to change the world, but you can never predict when the Zeitgeist will hit, and Nirvana’s second album turned out to be the place where alternative rock crashed into the mainstream. This wasn’t entirely an accident, either, since Nirvana did sign with a major label, and they did release a record with a shiny surface, no matter how humongous the guitars sounded. Positively glistening with echo and fuzzbox distortion.

This doesn’t discount the record, since it’s not only much harder than any mainstream rock of 1991, its character isn’t on the surface, it’s in the exhilaratingly raw music and haunting songs. Kurt Cobain’s personal problems and subsequent suicide naturally deepen the dark undercurrents, but no matter how much anguish there is on Nevermind, it’s bracing because he exorcizes those demons through his evocative wordplay and mangled screams and because the band has a tremendous, unbridled power that transcends the pain, turning into pure catharsis. And that’s as key to the record’s success as Cobain’s songwriting, since Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl help turn this into music that is gripping, powerful, and even fun and, really, there’s no other way to characterize Territorial Pissings or the surging Breed.

Nevermind is simply a great modern punk record.