- Music
- 08 Oct 15
There's a bumper 31 tracks for Nirvana fans to feast on
Kurt Cobain's Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings 'solo' album will hit the racks on November 13.
The Deluxe Edition contains 31 tracks that were mostly recorded by the Nirvana man on a domestic cassette machine. They include an 11-minute demo version of one of the last songs he ever wrote, 'Do Re Mi'; a prototype 'Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle'; the previously unreleased 'She Only Lies'; a cover of The Beatles' 'And I Love Her' and the supremely poignant 'Letter To Frances'.
Brett Morgen, the Montage Of Heck documentary director, pieced the companion record together from over 200 hours worth of tapes.
"The morality of putting out unfinished work — I know that is a criticism that will be lobbied against the project," he tells Rolling Stone. "But just like the Bootleg Series furthers your understanding of Bob Dylan's process, I find that Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings furthers not just our understanding of his process but represents yet another angle, another side of Kurt — an artistic outlet that he was not necessarily able to work with in the context of a three-piece band. It's not scraps and discarded, insignificant material. It really is furthering our understanding of one of the most significant artists of our time."
The full track-listing is below.
01 The Yodel Song
02 Been a Son (Early Demo)
03 What More Can I Say
04 1988 Capitol Lake Jam Commercial
05 The Happy Guitar
06 Montage of Kurt
07 Beans
08 Burn the Rain
09 Clean Up Before She Comes (Early Demo)
10 Reverb Experiment
11 Montage of Kurt II
12 Rehash
13 You Can’t Change Me/Burn My Britches/Something in the Way (Early Demo)
14 Scoff (Early Demo)
15 Aberdeen
16 Bright Smile
17 Underground Celebritism
18 Retreat
19 Desire
20 And I Love Her
21 Sea Monkeys
22 Sappy (Early Demo)
23 Letters to Frances
24 Scream
25 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Demo)
26 Kurt Ambiance
27 She Only Lies
28 Kurt Audio Collage
29 Poison's Gone
30 Rhesus Monkey
31 Do Re Mi (Medley)