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Live at Reading [Live]

NirvanaAudio CD
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Nirvana were formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990.

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  • Audio CD (November 3, 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live
  • Label: Geffen Records
  • ASIN: B002MRROKI
  • In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,200 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. Tourette's
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
See all 25 tracks on this disc

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"Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn't see it then it was something you pretended you saw." -- Kerrang (October 2003)

"The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up... Cobain's ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise." -- Rolling Stone (October 29, 1992)

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2009 release of this historic live performance by the Alt-Rock/Grunge legends. While the show's centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn't be released until two years later on In Utero: 'All Apologies', 'Dumb' and, in its first ever public performance, 'Tourette's'. The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band's 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach and even further back to the mid-'80s for 'Spank Thru'. Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands (Fang and The Wipers) that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound.

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160 of 170 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Love & Hate November 3, 2009
Format:Audio CD
Being a long time, die hard Nirvana fan since I was a kid in the early 1990's, and going to my local record den and finding the latest imports and bootlegs by my favorite band, I procured this very concert probably a dozen years ago. I always thought this to be a great performance, with high energy, a great set list, and that "something" that keeps you putting in your illicit buy again and again. Having said that, I was pretty thrilled to learn that the 8/30/92 Nirvana show at the Reading Festival was being officially released. I picked up the cd this morning, along with the 20th anniversary edition of Bleach's release, the DVD was "still in the back and hasn't been put out yet" - so says the couldn't-care-less salesman at my local Wal*Mart.

On the way to work, I popped in the Reading CD and was overly pleased with the improvement on the sound quality from bootleg copies of this show that have been circulating for years. - I was, however, totally irritated with the general production of this performance for it's release, and by that, I mean this; they took out a lot of the between-song talking, and goofing around, which is, in part, what made a Nirvana concert a Nirvana concert. Now, before everyone starts blasting me, I understand that some of it had to be deleted for continuity, space on the CD, etc, etc.. But how do you edit out the band mocking themselves by turning the intro of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' into a jam on Boston's 'More Than A Feeling' with Krist singing (poorly)? Or when Kurt announces that the next song is for his then 12-day-old-daughter, and his wife, and proceeds to ask the crowd to yell 'Courtney We Love You!" - That song was 'All Apologies'. Now we all know that no one likes Courtney Love, but that was a moment, that accurately reflects the vibe of the times in Nirvana's history, and should have been left in. Like Courtney, or hate her, it was a pretty touching moment, and a rare thing for Kurt to do at a concert.

Another that that drove me absolutely up a wall about this CD is the insertion of fake crowd cheering at the beginning of every song, and it sounds like the same canned sound clip of the crowd cheering is used in a good portion of the songs in the set. This is especially annoying, and almost comical to hear by the end of the disc. It really takes away from the experience, especially after listening to the bootleg version for so long, whose quality was not nearly as good, but at least it was real, and raw. To put this all in a nutshell, The show was epic enough on it's own, don't mess with it.
Anyone even a little familiar with the time line of Nirvana's music knows that songs like 'All Apologies', "School", "Sliver", and "Been a Son" were virtually unknown songs in 1992, so hearing an erupting cheer when they start playing 'Been a Son' sounds totally ridiculous. At least to me.. Maybe I'm being overly critical, but it's really annoying, and like I said earlier, comical to listen to by half way into the show.

Stick to the DVD, people. All the "little things" are in there that give this show it's charm in the first place, and yes, the stuff that was deleted from the CD.. but the same annoying addition of fake crowd cheering is on both the CD and the DVD.. Oh well..

-Phiber Optik
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62 of 73 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Nirvana great; Amazon box is a rip-off November 11, 2009
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This review is NOT for the Nirvana content, it's for the Amazon offer.

I love Amazon. I've been paying the light bills on the joint for years. BUT, this Amazon exclusive box set is a rip-off.

Combined CD/DVD of Nirvana Live at Reading costs $25. This Amazon box(with the same CD/DVD set)is $36. For the extra $11, you get a flimsy box with "Nirvana" stamped on the side, and a small poster. If that's worth $10-12 more to you, go for it. But you could get an entire other CD plaus the Nirvana CD/DVD for the same $36.

Just not worth it, Amazon; try harder next time...
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86 of 106 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Blog this, kids November 3, 2009
Format:Audio CD
Gather round, kids, put away your diaries, log off Twitter for five minutes as I tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was this band who were so sickeningly heavy, so on point, so ridiculously furious and DARK, so in-your-face righteous that they shredded everything in sight. Including the bands that had the unfortunate opportunity to open for them, knowing there was no chance to come close. This album sorta introduces you to what they were capable of, especially the last third of it, where the songs get rampagingly ugly and downright MEAN, starting with a caustic version of "All Apologies", sounding nothing like any version you've heard before. The end of their short career may have shown an even darker side, incapable of even pulling it together long enough to really move, but this set is as close to their peak as you can get, a concert for the ages that is almost laughable when you look at the mind-numbingly BAD bands they played the same festival with, as shown on the inside cover (Charlatans? Curve? Buffalo Tom? The frickin' WONDER STUFF?) See, kids, even bands of their time couldn't hang. So you shouldn't feel all THAT embarrassed that My Chemical Romance, Vampire Weekend, and Deerhoof make noise that sounds like a blender by comparison.

I know, it's rough. I'm getting all generational on you, and that's not fair. As if it wasn't bad enough that they decided to play "On A Plain", "Negative Creep" and "Been A Son" back-to-back-to-back, which is reason enough to buy twenty copies of this and give it to all your friends. If that doesn't convince you of the unfortunateness of your losing the genetic lottery and ending up only reading about this band, then let's rub it all the way in by playing the version of "Aneurysm" here, which basically destroys the version from "Muddy Banks Of the Wishkah", a version I used to think was the best Nirvana recorded moment, a great version which PALES in comparison to the one here, which could kill whole forests. I would also like to draw your attention to the version of "Stay Away", which I plan on playing 7,000 times in a row tonight as I run around my yard revving up a chainsaw. Or how about the version of "School", which you need to be screaming at the top of your lungs next Monday in Algebra as you throw furniture around your classrooms and frighten your overpaid, ignorant teachers out of their similarly unenlightened stupor. Some things never change.

You can call me a snob for rubbing your collective noses in the fact that this band had no equal, and I was lucky enough to witness something like this for the brief moment it was around. But I'm not really a snob, because I have hope, someday, that at least ONE of you could rise up and at least make an EFFORT to sound this mighty, this completely insanely GOOD so we can all sit back in amazement. But I doubt it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Great set of songs
Great set of songs but my son recommends getting the cassette of it for a warmer sound. He said the vinyl was very thin.
Published 16 days ago by Jennifer A. Tuck
5.0 out of 5 stars The Bomb
As for Nirvana live performances this is it. All fans wish that there were a whole lot more high-quality live concert performances out there but such is not the case. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bialetti
5.0 out of 5 stars You can listen to it in your car and scream the lyrics to passers by
After watching the DVD, what more of a perfect CD is there than this one? Watch the DVD and then listen to the music. Non-stop Nirvana all the time.
Published 3 months ago by Starving Artist
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing!!!
I have been buying rare Nirvana albums for about 14 years now. I have over 35 Nirvana CD's. Most of which are very rare live performances and albums released in other countries. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Josh Meyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
An absolutely unbelievably fantastic band at the height of its power. The CD version misses some stuff - the "More Than a Feeling" intro to SLTS really should not have been edited... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Brookdale Boy
5.0 out of 5 stars A fuzzy memory revisited...
I have to say I'm impressed by the quality of review writing so I hope to emulate even if mine is a tad shorter...
I was there... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dreadaz
5.0 out of 5 stars The real deal
If you want to learn why Nirvana was so popular in the 90's, and still today, look no further than this album. There's little cleanup, no track mixing, no filtering. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Jestep
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Love it!!!! Thanks for offering free shipping for pre-orders! I bought one for myself, and one to give as a birthday gift. We both love ours!
Published on January 29, 2011 by Toya Davis
2.0 out of 5 stars Heavily Edited
This sounds good, if you like heavily compressed audio and fake, added-in applause and cheers. This release is heavily edited, with things like the band talking in between songs,... Read more
Published on September 29, 2010 by Max Klingensmith
1.0 out of 5 stars Sucks.
Another lame, depressing, boring, grunge epic.... This band may have shaped the 90's but it that something you really wanna be proud of.....garbage. Read more
Published on May 14, 2010 by Deimos
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What's so exclusive about Amazon's Nirvana Live at Reading?
In answer to everyone who has wondered why they would pay $10.00 extra for the case and poster: You would pay it if you are a serious collector of Nirvana paraphernalia as am I. That's why there are collector's 2-disc editions of pretty much every DVD that comes out these days. Some people are... Read more
Oct 31, 2009 by Jereny S. Tackett |  See all 7 posts
missing track?????
This disappoints me, so even if it's a bad performance, it should be a complete performance, not a "we didn't like it" or "it's not as good as we hoped" situation, like a recent rerelease of some old concerts. I read somewhere that a couple classic live DVDs have done the... Read more
Nov 8, 2009 by Kris "Music Geek" |  See all 3 posts
Keepcase or jewelbox
Double dvd case which stacks the cd and dvd on top of each other and fits into a DVD sized slip case. I am disappointed with with packaging and wish they had just attached the normal cd release with this set.
Nov 4, 2009 by Spiderbite |  See all 3 posts
Why is this NOT #1 on Amazon?
I agree i was looking up them crooked vultures and saw it there. Wow i am excited. Lets see if we can make it number 1 by tomorrow?
Nov 2, 2009 by Matthew S. Wagner |  See all 4 posts
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