NIGHTLY NIRVANA

country usa
type radio promo
year 2004 (weeks 1-6) / 2005 (weeks 7-10)
media cdr
label universal / interscope / dgc
codes no codes
matrixes
on cdrs, a code on the metal identifies the production batch, an ink printed code, always different, identifies each copy
pictures
general graphic layout (from week one): back inlay, cd
notes
radio promos for the with the lights out box set. they contain daily installments, five per week.
starting at end of november 2004, when the box was released, the series lasted for ten weeks, until the end of january 2005.
the cds contain 12 tracks, the first five are 'episodes', with interview and music, the remaining seven are the five interviews without music and the intro and outro hooks.
all the 'episodes' are supposedly listenable at the official site www.nirvanabox.com, but only the first five were made available.
custom printed cdrs, back inlay, accompanying cue sheets
related items: with the lights out box set, selections from with the lights out, with the lights out dvd promo trailer

title nightly nirvana week one
pictures back inlay, cd, cue sheets
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tracks episode 1 - smells like teen spirit / kurt: inspiration for name: s.l.t.s. / even in his youth
episode 2 - serve the servants / steve albini: work ethic / rape me (live at SNL)
episode 3 - sliver / krist novoselic: exposing the underground / oh me (unplugged)
episode 4 - on a plain /butch vig: hearing nirvana's first record / about a girl
episode 5 - heart shaped box / full band: absurdeness of bands like extreme / spank thru

title nightly nirvana week two
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tracks episode 6 - lithium (acoustic) / charles cross: kurt was a songwriting genius / aneurysm
episode 7 - dumb / kurt: how I write lyrics / you know you're right
episode 8 - in bloom / butch vig: hooking up with sub pop... then nirvana / immodium (breed)
smart 04/90 recording session (unreleased)
episode 9 - verse chorus verse / kurt: selling out / polly (live rome 22/02/94) (unreleased)
episode 10 - stay away / steve albini: people latching onto kurt / pennyroyal tea

title nightly nirvana week three
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tracks episode 11 - drain you / butch vig, the importance of chris and dave / marigold
episode 12 - come as you are / kurt: right album, right time / verse chorus verse (outtake, 1991)
episode 13 - love buzz / charles cross: cobain wanted fame / I hate myself and want to die
episode 14 - jesus don't want me for a sunbeam (live electric, from the with the lights out box set dvd) / kurt: opinion of all apologies "unplugged" / all apologies (unplugged)
episode 15 - something in the way / john poneman: I knew two different kurt cobains / seasons in the sun (from the with the lights out box set dvd)

title nightly nirvana week four
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tracks episode 16 - negative creep / kurt - writing songs for bleach / downer
episode 17 - ain't it a shame / jack endino: the jury explanation / where did you sleep last night (unplugged)
episode 18 - lounge act / butch vig: kurt's mood swings / old age
episode 19 - lithium (from vma's) / krist: tossing the bass at the vma's / territorial pissing
episode 20 - breed / jack endino: dave grohl was too loud / milk it

title nightly nirvana week five
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tracks episode 21 - school / jack endino: frances bean on rape me / rape me (demo)
episode 22 - dive / charles cross: kurt's icon status / the man who sold the world (unplugged)
episode 23 - been a son (live) / kurt: stage diving / aneurysm (live)
episode 24 - pay to play (demo) / butch vig: nevermind touched a nerve / come as you are (unpl.)
episode 25 - opinion / jack endino: last second tapes on box set / token eastern song

title nightly nirvana week six
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tracks episode 26 - all apologies / steve albini: his opinion of nirvana going into recording / frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle
episode 27 - heart shaped box (demo, 93) / jerry cantrell on kurt cobain / something in the way (unplugged)
episode 28 - aero zeppelin / krist: we thought teen spirit was a pixies rip off / smells like teen spirit ( butch vig mix)
episode 29 - turnaround / dave grohl: you know you're right / you know you're right (demo)
episode 30 - pennyroyal tea (previously unrel. 1993) / jack endino: more nirvana music out there / curmudgeon

title nightly nirvana week seven
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tracks episode 31 - dumb (radio appearance 91) / jack endino: no hits on the box set / return of the rat
episode 32 - oh the guilt / kurt on choosing the hsb video director / heart shaped box (live)
episode 33 - molly's lips / charles cross: kurt was a troubled guy / tourette's
episode 34 - lake of fire (unplugged) / jack endino on do re mi / do re mi
episode 35 - breed (live) / butch vig on the legacy of nevermind / d7

title nightly nirvana week eight
pictures cue sheets (on the second page, aneurysm is wrongly listed in place of jesus...)
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tracks episode 36 - plateau (unplugged) / charles cross: kurt was a troubled guy / jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam (rehearsal demo, 1994)
episode 37 - mexican seafood / jack endino: nirvana's first recording session / if you must
episode 38 - about a girl (unplugged) / butch vig: favourite song on nevermind / smells like teen spirit (live)
episode 39 - come as you are / kurt: nevermind was recorded perfectly / lithium (live from reading festival, unreleased on audio cd, the video is available on live! tonight! sold out!!)
episode 40 - here she comes now / jack endino: they hung him on a cross / they hung him on a cross

title nightly nirvana week nine
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tracks episode 41 - on a plain / krist: nevermind is a rite of passage record / polly (live)
episode 42 - sappy / jack endino: making of a box set / where did you sleep last night (solo acoustic 1989)
episode 43 - son of a gun / henry rollins: on nirvana and kurt / radio friendly unit shifter
episode 44 - old age / butch vig: early nevermind recordings / dive
episode 45 - sliver / kurt: where did he get the content for some lyrics / mv

title nightly nirvana week ten
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tracks episode 46 - hairspray queen / butch vig: kurt's mood swings / scentless apprentice
episode 47 - serve the servants / kurt: old school dinosaurs needed to be weeded out / the man who sold the world (unplugged)
episode 48 - even in his youth / charles cross: the underdog winning / been a son
episode 49 - very ape / jon poneman: seattle sound at the timey / negative creep
episode 50 - all apologies (solo acoustic) / jack endino: everything is not on the box set / endless nameless