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Nirvana es un álbum recopilatorio de la banda estadounidense de género grunge Nirvana, lanzado el 29 de octubre de 2002.
Nirvana es el tercer lanzamiento de la banda desde la muerte del cantante y guitarrista Kurt Cobain en abril de 1994, y además el primero en contener material inédito de estudio. El álbum contiene la canción inédita "You Know You're Right," grabada durante la última sesión de estudio de la banda el 30 de enero de 1994 en los estudios de Robert Lang en Seattle, así como una selección de las canciones más populares de la banda, principalmente seleccionadas de los álbumes Nevermind e In Utero, pero también 4 canciones previas a Nevermind, y 2 canciones de la presentación de la banda en MTV Unplugged a finales de 1993. Nirvana abrió en el número 3 de Billboard 200, pero recibió críticas por parte de seguidores antiguos de la banda por ser muy corto y omitir canciones clave. A pesar de las quejas de los fans, se considera muy buen disco por su contenido.
Nirvana fue lanzado después de una larga batalla legal entre la viuda de Cobain, Courtney Love y los restantes dos miembros de la banda, Krist Novoselic y Dave Grohl. Buena parte de la disputa se centró en "You Know You're Right," que Novoselic y Grohl querían lanzar en un box set (que sería lanzado 2 años más tarde bajó el nombre de 'With The Lights Out'), pero que Love consideró tener potencial comercial, y que debía ser colocado en un álbum de Grandes Éxitos.
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"Things have never been so swell, I have never felt so well..."
Roll up, roll up. Welcome to Nirvana's Greatest Hits, you know the band that changed the face of modern rock music. All your favourites are here, and there's a new track too ("You Know You're Right"), conveniently placed in pole position.
Their debut Bleach is criminally under-represented, with only "About A Girl" making an appearance.Then we get "Been A Son" and "Sliver" from the interim sessions prior to Nevermind, before coming across most of the first side of that classic album ("Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are", "Lithium" and "In Bloom" all storming songs which remind the listener exactly why Nirvana broke the alt-rock mould).
The next section comprises a selection from Nirvana's swan song, In Utero."Heart Shaped Box", "Pennyroyal Tea" and "Rape Me" are still wonderful, visceral songs, but it's "All Apologies" which really tugs at the heartstrings.We finish up with two numbers from the MTV Unplugged session -covers of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" and Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World".The latter makes for particularly difficult listening in retrospect, with Cobain's tortured voice insisting that "we never lost control".Less than six months later he committed suicide.
Of course, the main reason most Nirvana fans will buy this record is the only new track on the album, "You Know You're Right". While the initial impact of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is almost impossible to eclipse (remember where you were the first time you heard that intro and those chords?), for most aficionados of the Seattle Trio it was a veritable shiver-down-the-spine moment when "You Know You're Right" first came on the radio.A rave from the grave.A poignant reminder of what might have been. An almost unbearable sense of bathos.Listening to a dead man snarling out his last gasp of righteous sarcasm.
Who these barbed lyrics are directed towards is a matter of debate.The fact that the remaining members of Nirvana have been locked in litigation with Cobain's widow regarding the release of a box set of both old and unreleased material for over two years may be neither here nor there. One can only wonder what the notoriously cynical and anti-corporate Kurt would have made of it all.
"I am married...buried...All we are is all we are"
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