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20th Anniversary 180g 4LP Ultimate Collector's Edition Features Rare and Previously Unreleased Material! 

  Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 17/500!
Rolling Stone's Number One Album Of the Nineties!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Come As You Are" - Rated 452/500, "In Bloom" - Rated 415/500!  

  On the occasion of Nevermind’s 20th anniversary, Universal releases a 4LP   180-gram vinyl 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition that features the remastered album, the B-sides, the Smart Studio demos, the “boombox”   rehearsals and the BBC sessions.
 
  "No album in recent history had such an overpowering impact on a generation —   a nation of teens suddenly turned punk — and such a catastrophic effect on its   main creator. The weight of success led already troubled singer-guitarist Kurt   Cobain to take his own life in 1994. But his slashing riffs, corrosive singing   and deviously oblique writing, rammed home by the Pixies-via-Zeppelin might of   bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl, put the warrior purity back in   rock & roll." - www.rollingstone.com
 
  Released in September 1991, Nirvana’s sophomore album and major label debut   elevated Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from a critically acclaimed   Aberdeen, Washington, cult band to generational spokesmen who’d unwittingly   created a cultural shift and musical touchstone. Rising to No. 1 the world over   by year’s end and ultimately selling over 30 million copies worldwide, Nevermind   would come to be much more than one of the most successful and influential   albums of its or any era. As the album that returned unaffected rock ‘n’ roll   integrity and passion to the top of the charts, Nevermind would prove a singular   inspiration to fans and musicians alike over the last two decades–and will   undoubtedly do so for generations to come.
 
  "'It's just about people and what they're expected to act like,' Cobain said. 'The lines in the song are really contradictory. They're kind of a rebuttal to each other.' The song [Come As You Are] is driven by a simple riff that Vig goosed with a flanged, subaquatic guitar effect. Cobain apparently lifted it from a 1985 song by U.K. art-metal band Killing Joke, whom Dave Grohl paid back 12 years later by drumming on their 2003 album." - Rolling Stone 

  "'I don't like rednecks, I don't like macho men,' Cobain once said. This track about a guy who 'loves to shoot his gun' would become one of Nirvana's biggest live anthems. It started out as more of a hardcore rant. 'It sounded like a Bad Brains song,' said Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic. Then, 'One day Kurt called me and started singing. It was the 'In Bloom' of Nevermind, more of a pop thing.'" - Rolling Stone 

  Features:
  • 20th Anniversary 4LP Ultimate Collector's Edition
  • Expanded Artwork With Unreleased Photos
  • 180g Heavyweight Vinyl
  • Remastered Original Album And All B-Sides
  • Complete Album Demos - Smart Studio Sessions & Boombox Rehearsals
  • Double Gatefold Jacket that houses all 4 LPs in a book-style attached sleeves!
 
  Selections:
  LP 1 - Side A:
  Original Album
  1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
  2. In Bloom
  3. Come As You Are
  4. Breed
  5. Lithium
  6. Polly

  LP 1 - Side B:
  7. Territorial Pissings
  8. Drain You
  9. Lounge Act
  10. Stay Away
  11. On A Plain
  12. Something In The Way
 
  LP 2 - Side C:
  B-Sides
  1. Even In His Youth
  2. Aneurysm (demo)
  3. Curmudgeon (b-side)
  4. D-7 (1990 Radio Appearance - Live at the BBC)
  5. Been A Son (Live in Seattle / 1991)
  6. School (Live 1991 / Paramount Theatre - edit)

  LP 2 - Side D:
  B-Sides And The Smart Studio Sessions
  7. Drain You (Live at the Paramount / 1991)
  8. Sliver (Live at O'Brien Pavilion, Del Mar, CA/1991)
  9. Polly (Live at O'Brien Pavilion, Del Mar, CA/1991)
  10. In Bloom
  11. Immodium (Breed)
  12. Lithium
 
  LP 3 - Side E:
  The Smart Studio Sessions
  1. Polly
  2. Pay To Play
  3. Here She Comes Now
  4. Dive
  5. Sappy

  LP 3 - Side F:
  Boombox Rehearsals
  6.. Smells Like Teen Spirit
  7. Verse Chorus Verse
  8. Territorial Pissings
  9. Lounge Act
 
  LP 4 - Side G:
  The Boombox Rehearsals
  1. Come As You Are
  2. Old Age
  3.. Something In the Way
  4. On a Plain

  LP 4 - Side H:
  Live At the BBC / 1991
  5. Drain You
  6. Something In the Way