Nirvana - Sliver: The Best of the Box
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Album Review
Release date: 01 November 2005
Nirvana: Sliver: The Best of the Box
Scraping the ground where the barrel used to be
As the old bastard is prone to reminding us, if Grandad hadn’t gone off to do battle with the Hun then we’d all be speaking German now. More worryingly, if Nirvana hadn’t gone to war with soft rock at the dawn of the ’90s, then it’s likely we’d all be sat around sporting poodle perms and Poison T-shirts and listening to noodling guitar solos all day long. Shudder. But...
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- Spank Thru (1985 Fecal Matter Demo)
- Heartbreaker (Live)
- Mrs. Butterworth (rehearsal demo)
- Floyd The Barber (Live)
- Clean Up Before She Comes (home demo)
- About A Girl (Home Demo)
- Blandest (studio demo)
- Ain't It a Shame (studio demo)
- Aint it A Shame (Studio Demo)
- Sappy (1990 Studio Demo)
- Opinion (solo acoustic radio appearance)
- Lithium (solo acoustic radio appearance)
- Sliver (home demo)
- Smells Like Teen Spirit (Home Demo)
- Smells Like Teen Spirit (Boom Box Version)
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Nirvana - Sliver: The Best of the Box: Wikipedia Album Entry
Sliver: The Best of the Box was the fourth Nirvana album to be released following the death of lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994. It contains 19 tracks pulled from the band's 2004 box set, With the Lights Out, as well as three previously unreleased recordings: "Spank Thru," from the 1985 "Fecal Matter" demo, a 1990 studio recording of "Sappy," and a 1991 boombox demo of "Come as You Are." The Fecal Matter version of "Spank Thru" is arguably the most historically significant of the previously unreleased tracks, since it was apparently the recording which convinced Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic to form a band with Cobain. It was also the first song from this demo - long considered to be the "Holy Grail" of unheard Nirvana/Cobain material - to be heard by fans in its entirety.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, the title and cover photograph for Sliver: The Best of the Box were chosen by Frances Bean, the daughter of Cobain and Courtney Love. The cover photograph depicts a cardboard box filled with Nirvana and Cobain tapes, including a copy of the Fecal Matter demo. Some of the tapes have spilled out of the box and are strewn across the floor.
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