Nirvana Recording Sessions and Song List
Version
Big Long Now
? = Unsure * = Unreleased
Pre-Nirvana Songs - Aunt Mary Tape, Fecal Matter, Ed Fred Ted, Pencapchew,
Stiff Woodies, Throat Oasters, Bliss ...
- ?*Monage of Heck
- ?*Raunchola
- ?*Run Rabbit Run
- ?*Anorexorcist
- ?*Sex Bomb - (Flipper cover)
- ?*Immigrant Song (Led Zep cover),
1986 Fecal Matter demo
- *Sound of Dentage
- *Bambi Slaughter
- *Laminated Effect
- *Downer (instrumental)
- *plus 3 others
April '87 Evergreen College, The Skid Row demo, KAOS Radio show
- *Love Buzz
- *Floyd the Barber
- *Downer
- *Mexican Seafood
- *Spank Thru
- *Hairspray Queen
- *plus 3 others
January 23, 1988 Reciprocal Studios Produced by Jack Endino (with Dale Crover)
- Floyd The Barber [Bleach]
- Paper Cuts [Bleach]
- Hairspray Queen [Incesticide]
- Beeswax [Incesticide]
- Aero Zeppelin [Incesticide]
- Mexican Seafood [Incesticide]
- ? Big Long Now [Incesticide]
- *If You Must
- *Downer (diff ver)
- *Spank Thru (diff ver)
- *Pen Cap Chew
June 11, 1988 Reciprocal Studios
- Love Buzz [Bleach]
- Big Cheese [Bleach]
- Spank Thru [Sub Pop 200]
- *Blandest
- ? Plus 2 others
December 1988 Reciprocal Studios Produced by Jack Endino
- ?*Sifting Jam
- ?*Blew (different lyrics)
- *Blandest
- *Floyd The Barber (unused)
- *Papercuts (unused)
- Downer [Bleach]
- Blew [Bleach]
- About A Girl [Bleach]
- School [Bleach]
- Negative Creep [Bleach]
- Scoff [Bleach]
- Swap Meet [Bleach]
- Mr. Moustache [Bleach]
- Sifting [Bleach]
January 1989 4 Track Recording Sessions
- Beans
- Cracker
- Sad
- Seed
January 1989 Barnyard Session
- Polly (Electric)
- Spectre (aka Misery Loves Company)
- Sappy (Verse Chorus Verse) (acoustic)
June 1989 Evergreen State Session (With Jason Everman)
- Do You Love Me [Hard to Believe - A Tribute to Kiss]
- *Dive (1st)
August 1989 Sessions for Mark Lanegran's The Winding Sheet album
- *Ain t It A Shame
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night
- Down In The Dark
September 1989 Blew EP Sessions
- Been A Son [Blew EP]
- Stain [Blew EP]
- * Polly (Electric)
- *Even In His Youth (1st)
- *Token Middle Eastern Song
October 1989 Peel Session
- *Love Buzz
- *About A Girl
- *Polly
- *Spank Thru
February 1990
- *Opinion
- *Born In A Junkyard
May 1990
- *D-7
April '90 Smart Studio, Madison WI. Produced by Butch Vig - Nevermind Demos
- Dive [Sliver Single]
- *Lithium
- *In Bloom
- *Breed (Immodium)
- Stay Away (Pay To Play) [DGC Rarities Vol 1]
- *Verse Chorus Verse (Sappy)
- ? Polly [Nevermind]
July 11, 1990 Demo w/ Butch Vig (with Dan Peters of Mudhoney)
- Sliver [Sliver Single]
October 1990 - John Peel Session
- Turnaround [Incesticide]
- Molly's Lips [Incesticide]
- Dementia 7 [Lithium single - UK]
- Son Of A Gun [Incesticide]
1990, Laundry Room Recording
- Here She Comes Now [Between Heaven and Hell - Tribute to VU]
January 1, 1991 Music Source Sessions
- Aneurysm [Smells Like Teen Spirit Single]
- Even In His Youth [Smells Like Teen Spirit Single]
May - June 1991
- *Rape Me
- *Dumb
- *Pennyroyal Tea
- *Something in the Way (Electric)
- *Endless, Nameless (different version)
- Smells Like Teen Spirit [Nevermind]
- In Bloom [Nevermind]
- Come As You Are [Nevermind]
- Breed [Nevermind]
- Lithium [Nevermind]
- Territorial Pissings [Nevermind]
- Drain You [Nevermind]
- Lounge Act [Nevermind]
- Stay Away [Nevermind]
- On A Plain [Nevermind]
- Something In The Way [Nevermind]
- Endless, Nameless [Nevermind]
November 13, 1991, Mark Goodier Radio 1 session
- Been A Son [Incesticide]
- New Wave Polly [Incesticide]
- Aneurysm [Incesticide]
- *Something In The Way
November 25, 1991 - Dutch Radio Studios
- *Here She Comes Now
- *Where Did You Sleep Last Night
- *Crisco
- ?*Return of the Rat
November 1991 BBC Studios Top of the Pops
- *Smells Like Teen Spirit (Gothic Version)
November 1991 Peel Session
- *Dumb
- *Drain You
- *Endless Nameless
December 1991 BBC Studios Jonathan Ross Show
- *Territorial Pissings
January 10, 1992 MTV Studios
- Drain You
- Territorial Pissings
- On A Plain
January 11, 1992 NBC Studios Saturday Night Live
- *Smells Like Teen Spirit
- *Territorial Pissings
April 1992 Laundry Room session
- Oh, The Guilt [split with Jesus Lizard]
- Curmudgeon [Lithium single]
- Return Of The Rat [Tribute to Greg Sage and the Wipers]
September 1992 - MTV Video Awards
- ? New Poopy - Played during the practices before the MTV video music awards.
- Rape Me (Intro)
- Lithium
November 1992, Living Room session
- Guitar part for Burroughs 'The priest they called him'
March 1993 Pachyderm Studios Produced by Steve Albini
- I Hate Myself and Want To Die [Beavis & Butthead]
- Marigold [HSB single]
- MV (Moist Vagina) [Rape Me single]
- Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip [HSB Promo]
- tourette's
- Serve The Servants
- Rape Me
- All Apologies
- Milk It
- Heart-Shaped Box
- Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
- Very Ape
- Pennyroyal Tea
- Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
- Scentless Apprentice
- Dumb
Summer 1993, Laundry Room session
- Verse-Chorus-Verse [No Alternative]
September 25, 1993 NBC Studios Saturday Night Live
- *Heart Shaped Box
- *Rape Me
November 18, 1993 NYC MTV Unplugged
- About A Girl
- Come As You Are
- Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
- Dumb
- Man Who Sold The World
- Pennyroyal Tea
- On A Plain
- Something In The Way
- Plateau
- Oh, Me
- Lake Of Fire
- All Apologies
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night
March 1994 Sessions with Pat Smear
- ???
Sessions With Michael Stipe
- ???
Live Recordings
(and some dates of when played)
- *Donuts - NY Coliseum Show 11/15/93
- *Money Will Roll Right In - Reading Festival 8/30/92 with Mudhoney.
- *Rio - Duran Duran cover, Chris & Dave only
- *Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks cover are from Sao Paulo, Brazil concert.
- *On The Mountain - Chicago 10/23/93 and 10/25/93.
- *Formaldehyde - Dallas, 10/11/91
- *In His Room - Soundcheck, Hollywood Paladium, 8/17/90
- *Help Me, I m Hungry - Melkweg, Amsterdam, 5/11/89
- *Talk To Me
Unknown
- *Hummingbirds From Hell - (Nirvana/ Melvins Song)
- *Bikini twilight
- *Jealousy
- *Dead
- *The Dodge
- *Faggot Wimps
- *I'm Thinking
- *Leave Me Alone
- *Loser
- *Our Little Song
- *Punk Theme
- *Rock Whore
- *Slut
- *Something
- *2 Bass Kid
- *Virtuos Pagons
Thanks to: Jason Hetlebridle, Liz Ellison & Dave Grant (emellison@delphi.com), Jeff McRae
(jmcrae@oswego.oswego.edu), Greg (greg@america.net).
Big Long Now
