Nirvana - D7Album: With The Lights Out [2004]
within a matter of months after kurt cobain's suicide in april of 1994, fans started asking for the official release of all the demos, stray songs, alternate takes, and rarities in nirvana's vaults. due to various legal disputes between the surviving bandmembers and the cobain estate, this long-awaited set of unreleased material did not appear until late 2004, when the three-disc, one-DVD box "with the lights out" finally appeared. not counting the 20-song DVD, the box contains 61 tracks, with nearly two-thirds of this material seeing its first official release on this set (the remaining songs are b-sides, one-off singles, and compilation contributions that didn't make it to the compilation "incesticide", or appeared after its 1992 release). as the liner notes indicate, this hardly contains all of the unreleased material, but it certainly contains all of the noteworthy unreleased material. for listeners who are less dedicated, this set may not be quite as compelling as it initially seems. listening to archival material like this, whether it's on an official release or a bootleg, is a bit of a chore, since it not only doesn't have the flow of a proper album, but the selections are chosen for historical reasons and therefore are interesting as curiosities as much as they are as full-fledged pieces of music. and that's the case here - while there is much good music here, there isn't much that adds to nirvana's legacy, nor is there much that's revelatory. to be sure, the demos are interesting, as are some of the big b-sides that albums made albums like "sappy", "verse chorus verse", and "d7". enjoy.
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