Orange & Blue [Import]

Nirvana (U.K. Group) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B0000011WB
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,368 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Orange And Blue

2. Lithium

3. Stone In The Water

4. As Long As I Can See You

5. Lost In Space

6. Busy Man

7. What Are We Gonna Do Now?

8. Do You Dream?

9. My Little Red Book

10. Allison Smith

11. The Face At The Window

12. Our Love Is The Sea

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful rarities collection from the BRITISH Nirvana, May 28, 1999

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This review is from: Orange & Blue (Audio CD)

Contrary to what the other "reviewer" wrote, this is a collection of previously unreleased tracks by the British Nirvana, with their cover of the Seattle Nirvana's "Lithium" thrown in for fun. Some of these tracks have benefitted from 90's "remxing" and the difference between these and the original demo-ish 60's material is somewhat obvious. Worth it for "Do You Dream" alone, but patchy in parts.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is good, February 19, 2006

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LadyStardust (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Orange & Blue (Audio CD)

The British Nirvana were about to sue Kurt Cobain's Nirvana because of the group's name (yes, the British Nirvana came first, face it, if you don't believe it, inform yourself before saying the opposite, Cobain said so, not me), but they got to an agreement and the British Nirvana decided to cover "Lithium" just to prove that everything was ok between the 2 bands. If you like grunge, don't buy it. If you like good oldie style music, I definitively recommend you this album.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Spare parts do not a theme make......., October 12, 2006

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collegemoney - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Orange & Blue (Audio CD)

Folks familiar with the two or three fairly well known Nirvana UK releases will probably be surprised to see so much available from the band in CD form. After "Simon Simopath" and "All of Us," I see they had considerably more output than I knew about. "To Markos III" (see the listing for that CD) received only a very limited release, since the label Metromedia went out of business just as it was headed to US shelves. "Orange and Blue" is a collection of out-takes from the bands' early period. The presentation is uneven, some of the songs are demo-quality, some are well produced. As stated in the liner notes, this material did not see the light of day at the time because it conceptually did not fit their predominate musical style. These songs are a little weightier than their toytown baroque modus, although not extremely so. The interesting thing is this: you will hear music akin to Erasure and Lightning Seeds. I doubt those bands derived their styles from listening to this material, but the accidental parallel is interesting.