at way
if you find a song title you don't recognize on a bootleg, you can look for
it here, and hopefully find the correct song title. I hope you enjoy this guide!
The following list will, in most cases, not list tiny few-second jams the band made
during a live show - even if they were jamming on a song by a popular artist.
Some of the songs listed below have not been released officially. In that case,
the song might be available on a bootleg, but it is not guaranteed. In fact, some
of these songs have not surfaced on any recordings. Even if they have, it is not
possible to list exactly where to find these songs - and that is by no means the
purpose of this guide. The main purpose is to simply list Nirvana's songs and not
provide specific details about them (including which bootlegs they might appear on).
If you have a song title that you didn't find on this list, make sure to use the
"Find" or "Search" feature of your browser/editor, and search for the title first.
If you found a "rare" Nirvana song on the net, go to the NFC FAQ for more info and
to verify whether this track is on our list of fakes (it will more than likely be!)
Not all the fakes (mostly from file-sharing) are listed here. Look in the NFC FAQ.
Again: The main purpose of this guide is to merely list the titles of all Nirvana's
songs, and the false titles they have been given by bootleggers and other traders.
It is not a guide for detailed information about the rare songs. The rarities are
only described very briefly in this guide, some in more detail. Guides with more
details on some of these songs should be available on other Nirvana web sites.
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A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 1+2 (By the band Earth with Kurt on guitar. From an EP called "Extra-Capsular Extraction", released 10/91)
About A Girl / About A Queer
Adorn / Lemon Song / White, Lace and Strange / Laminated Effect / White Lace and Strange (From the 04/17/87 KAOS Radio show. Thunder and Roses cover, off the T&R album "King of the Black Sunrise." This song is on the box set)
Aero Zeppelin / Zero Zeppelin
Ain't It A Shame (Kurt on lead vocals with Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel. Recorded in Seattle 8/89, released on box set)
All Along The Watchtower (Kurt apparently covered the guitar riff from this song, originally by Bob Dylan. This was rumored to be the jam on LTSO but it's not)
All Apologies / What Else Could I Be / Mary / All Progressive / La La La
All You Need Is Love (Beatles cover. Krist sings a blurb at 1/20/90 in between songs)
Alone + Easy Target (Nirvana sound check jam in Europe 91')
Anarchy in the UK (Sex Pistols cover, supposedly Kurt with Mudhoney 10/04/92)
Aneurysm / Aneurism / Come On Over / Any Rithm / Come On Over and Do The Twist
Anorexorcist / Run, Rabbit, Run / Raunchola / Suicide Samurai (Performed 04/17/87 and 01/23/88. Real title is "Anorexorcist." "Run, Rabbit, Run" is a different song, as is "Raunchola")
Another One Bites The Dust (Queen Cover, jammed on 10/10/91 in Cleveland, OH)
Anywhere But Here / Determined (With Kurt, Courtney, Kristen Pfaff and Patty. From Rio 1/93. The 'wav' file of this song is fake)
Asking For It / Live Through This / Ask For It (Hole with Kurt on backing vocals, 1993. Available on Outcesticide V and the Love Buzz bootleg)
Asshole / Loser / Why I'm Here (Some people have been claiming that Kurt is singing on this track. He is NOT. Original artist unknown)
At A Crawl (Performed live once. Date unknown)
Baba O' Riley (Who cover, performed 12/07/91)
Bad Moon Rising (See Note #1)
Bambi Slaughter / Bambi Kill / Bambie Kill (From a 1988 demo. Also recorded for the FMD. Available on Outcesticide IV. Apparently Dale Crover noted that 'Bambi Kill' was not the correct title of this song. Real title unknown)
Barney vs. Slash (a short jam from beginning of the 10/31/93 Akron, OH show)
Bass Solo / Instrumental Improvisation (Performed at various shows, i.e. at 10/30/92)
Beans / Beans & Wine (There are three edits of the song; some include an intro with someone saying "I don't like you - I'm gonna beat you up")
Been a son / She Should, Been A Son / In The Sun / She Should Have Been A Son
Beeswax / Bees' Wax
Big Cheese / Big Chief / Make Me
Big long now / Blind / Can We Show Our Faces?
Big Me (Jan 94' demo. Written by Dave Grohl and later recorded by his band, Foo Fighters)
Bikini Twilight (Kurt played guitar on this track with the band Go Team. Released 7/89)
Black and White Blues / Black, White and The Blues / Black and White Blues / Vendettagainst (Appears on Outcesticide IV, Rape of the Vaults. A diff. song is also called Vendettagainst. Jammed briefly on 02/14/90 in San Francisco, CA)
Blandest / Saviour / Situation Change
Blew / Blue / Shame / Coxxyx ('Coxxyx' is supposedly the title of early versions of Blew)
Breed / Immodium / Imodium / Bleed / She said (Known as "Imodium" before the release of Nevermind. Name was changed to avoid lawsuit)
Butterflies (Jan 94' demo)
Buzz cut / The Landlord part 1 / Montage of Heck / What's The Meaning? / Escalator to hell (Early intro for Love Buzz, available on the 'Love Buzz' 7" single. Also see "Montage of Heck")
Call It What You Want (According to BMI this is a hip-hop song, briefly sampling Teen Spirit)
Candy (a Fluid song that appeared on the Candy/Molly's Lips split single)
Castration (Mentioned in the 'Come As You Are' book. Possibly another name for "On A Plain")
Change (fake)
Chris w/acoustic (Jan 94' demo)
Clean Up Before She Comes / Clean It Up Before She Comes / Dusty Town
Closure / Drum solo / Finale (From 02/22/94 Rome, Italy)
Cocaine Girl (Fake! This is not Nirvana)
Color Pictures of Marigold / Marigold / I Want It All (Dave's original version of Marigold, available on Dave Grohl's "Pocketwatch" demo)
Come as you are / CAYA
Come on Death / Help Me, Death Jam (Live in New York, NY on 9/28/91. Consists of a mix between 'Endless, Nameless', 'RFUS' and 'Help Me I'm Hungry')
Cobwebs and Strange (Who cover performed briefly 11/7/93)
Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin cover. Performed by Krist and the Foo Fighters on 8/29/97)
Coroner (Fake. Consists of various samples from the Bleach album mixed together)
Crisco / Rock Whore (From the 11/30/91 Glasgow show. Real title is unknown)
Curmudgeon
D-7 / Dee seven / Straight As An Arrow / Dementia 7 (Wipers cover)
Dance / Dance '93 (Most likely a cover of 80's band Men Without Hats "Safety Dance." Not sure when Nirvana did it, if ever)
Dave Solo (In Utero outtake)
Dave With Echo Plex (Jan 94' demo)
Dave's Meat Song (Recorded in Rio 01/93)
Dave's Techno Jam (Dave on drums while shouting "TECHNO TECHNO!" from 10/30/92)
Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin cover 11/26/89 in Mezzago, Italy)
Dive / Guide / Down With Me
Divine and Bright (Earth song with Kurt on background guitar and vocals. Released in 2001)
Do Re Mi / Dough Ray and Me / Me and My IV / Doctor and Me (One version of this song was recorded March 1994 in Kurt's basement. The box set version was recorded around the same time. As many as three versions exist)
Do You Love Me? (Kiss cover from Outcesticide I and the 'Hard to Believe' Kiss tribute album)
Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult cover. A brief jam from the 02/25/94 Milan, Italy show)
Don't Want It All (See "Misery Loves Company")
Donuts / Do Nuts (Legend cover. Performed 10/27/90, 11/13/93 and 11/14/93 with Billy Childish, Everett True and Pat Smear on vocals, respectively)
Down In The Dark (Kurt on backing vocals with Mark Lanegan, available on Lanegan's 'Winding Sheet' album released 5/90. Recorded in Seattle 12/89)
Downer / Donner
Drain You / Drain Your Aneurysm / Draw You
Dream On (Aerosmith cover. Performed briefly live in Phoenix, AZ 10/18/93)
Dumb / Just Happy / Ain't Over / Womb
Endless, Nameless / Guitar Demolition / 13:54 / Sorry ma'am / Summer / Secret / Destruction ("Hidden" track on Nevermind. Performed live many times)
Escape (fake)
Even Flow (Pearl Jam cover. At 6/27/92 Turko, Finland, Kurt chants "Even Flow" a couple of times during SLTS to mock Pearl Jam for canceling their performance at the same festival)
Even In His Youth (from the 'Hormoaning' EP, SLTS single and box set)
Exhausted (Jan 94' demo)
February Stars (Jan 94' demo)
Floyd The Barber / Freud The Barber / Shy
Formaldehyde / Bullshit Jam / Possibilities / Carmen Fantasy Jam / Theme from Carmen / Habanera (Cover of the theme from the classical opera "Carmen". Performed 1/23/93, 10/14/91 and 10/19/91)
Fountain Soda / Drown Soda (See Note #2)
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle / FFWHHROS / Francis Farmer
Freebird / Sweet Jam (Lynyrd Skynyrd Cover at MTV Unplugged)
French Abortion (Jan 94' demo)
Frizzle / Frazzle (fake)
Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip / Devalued American Dollar Purchase Incentive Track (Last song on European versions of In Utero and on box set)
Get Together / Het together (Krist's intro for Territorial pissings. Cover of The Youngbloods)
Going Blind (Kiss cover, supposedly played with the Melvins)
Grey Goose (Leadbelly cover. From August '89 sessions with Kurt and Mark Lanegan, on box set)
Gypsies, Tramps, And Thieves (Cher Cover. Pre-Nirvana with Krist on vocals. Surfaced by Rasmus Holmen in 1998)
Hairspray Queen / Disco Goddess / Disco Queen / Midnight
Half and Half (fake)
Half The Man I Used To Be (Fake. This is in fact a song by Stone Temple Pilots called "Creep". For some reason it has been mislabeled as Nirvana. It is not!)
Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin cover performed at the '87 party and in Miami, FL 11/27/93)
Heart-Shaped Box / Wait / Heart Shaped Coffin / Haight
Hello Kitty (From Kurt's joke side band, Nighty Nite, with Courtney Love and Patty Schemel. Hasn't surfaced. Possibly recorded 1/93)
Help Me, I'm Hungry / Nevermind / Help / Help Me (Performed live several times including 11/5/89)
Here She Comes Now / Made Outta Wood (Velvet Underground cover released on the tribute album "Heaven and Hell Volume 1")
High On The Hog / Alcohol (TAD with Kurt on vocals 11/26/89)
How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin Cover played at the '87 party)
Hummingbirds From Hell (Some say this song is by the 60's Nirvana, which is likely)
I Am Gross (By Stinky Puffs, Krist and Dave played on this song)
I Died A Swords Man (might be another name for 'Suicide Samurai' - probably fake)
I Feel Fine (Beatles cover performed in Minneapolis 10/14/91)
I Hate Myself and Want To Die / Classics / 2 Bass Kid / Here I Am / I Hate Myself and I Want To Die (From 'The Beavis and Butthead Experience' compilation)
I Love You Anyway (Stinky Puffs with Krist and Dave from July 1994)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover performed 12/03/89 in London and 11/15/93 in New York. See Note #5)
If I Gave My Heart To You / If I Gave You My Heart / If I Fell / If I Fell In Love With You (Beatles cover, 1/20/90 in Tacoma, WA)
If You Must / The Extreme / I Can Live / I Can't Live / Token Middle Eastern Song / Token Eastern Song ('Token Eastern Song' is the name of a completely different song; both released on box set)
I'm A Boy (Who cover. Krist jammed on it briefly during the 11/22/89 show)
I'm A Vegetarian (Jam played 10/02/91 in Washington DC. It's short, but Chris is pretty funny as he sings it. He ends it by saying "Kurt Cobain" about 10 times. The actual song is a cover of Devo's "Satisfaction")
Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin cover. Performed at 12/21/88 in Hoquiam, WA)
Immodium / Imodium (Early name for "Breed". See "Breed" for more info)
In Bloom / Knows Not What It Means / He Knows Not What It Means / Not What It Means
In His Hands / In His Room / Without A Shape / Verse Chorus Verse (See Note #6)
Intro (Track 1 from Wishkah. Kurt did this intro at several early shows)
It's Closing Soon / Closing soon / Closing Time / Drunk in Rio (Courtney Love and Kurt. Real title is one of the last two mentioned. Recorded in Rio 01/93)
Ivy League (Kurt solo, unreleased, mentioned by Courtney in 2001)
Jam (10/26/92 Word Of Mouth Studios)
Jam After Dinner (Jan 94' demo)
Jam With Kurt (Jan 94' demo)
Jealousy / Isebella / Possibilities / Personalities (Viletones cover from 1/23/93)
Jeremy (jam of the Pearl Jam song)
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam / Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam / Jesus Wants Me / Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam (Covered by Eugene Kelly & Francis McKee of The Vaselines. Originally from an old Christian song. Real title is the last one mentioned. Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam is a mislabel by Geffen/DGC)
Junkyard / Happy hour / Happy tour / Born In A Junkyard / Token Eastern Song ("Token Eastern Song" is the correct title of this song, better known as "Junkyard" by bootleggers. Performed on 9/13/89 and other shows. Recorded in the studio '89 and appears on the box set)
Justify (fake)
Kids Of America (Kim Wilde cover. Apparently performed at the un-surfaced 1/16/93 show)
Lake Of Fire (Meat Puppets cover)
Laminated Effect (This song was probably done under the band name Fecal Matter. A recording is not available. If you find this one online, it's FAKE or mislabeled!)
Lemonade Nation (From Kurt's joke side band, Nighty Nite, with Courtney Love and Patty Schemel. Hasn't surfaced. Recorded 01/93)
Lithium / Lythium / Broken Mirrors / Lithilm / I'm Not Gonna Crack
Loser (TAD with Kurt on guitar. Instrumental song from 11/26/89. This is NOT the song that has been on file-sharing programs)
Lounge act / Tell me
Love Buzz / Love Box / Drugs / Love Bug (Shocking Blue cover)
Love Gun / Love Gunn (Krist & Dave jammed on this Kiss cover, 09/16/91)
Lullaby (In Utero out take)
Macho Man (Village People cover, sung by Dave in the middle of Love Buzz 11/25/91)
Marigold / I Want It All / She Said / Colour Pictures Of A Marigold (Dave on drums and vocals. From the Heart-Shaped Box single)
Meltdown (Alternate name for either Scentless Apprentice or Serve the Servants. A bootleg also carries this title)
Mexican Seafood / Dirty Digger / Mexican Seawood
Midnight (fake)
Midnight Macaroni (This is really Beck's song "Mutherfuker")
Milk it / Test me / Milk cow / Milking It / Avant Garde / Milk Made ('Milk Made' is listed at BMI's site, but is actually 'Milk It'. Both have the same registration number as well)
Misery Loves Company (on the box set under the name "Don't Want It All" / The Extreme ("If You Must" is also called this sometimes) / Spectre / Maiden Circle / Look For Company / Unexpected / Sad / Seed ("Sad" and "Seed" are "Sappy" and "Don't Want It All", respectively)
Miss World (With Kurt, Courtney, Kristen and Patty. Recorded in Rio 01/93)
Moby Dick / Moby Dick Jam (Led Zeppelin cover, from the end of the 01/23/88 show)
Moist Vagina / MV / Marijuana / Smelly Vagina / Moiste Vagina / Mary Jane / 4:20 (From the All Apologies single)
Molly's Lips / Mummy's Home / She Says / Polly's Lips (Vaselines cover)
Montage of Heck Part 1+2 / The Landlord Part 1+2 / Montage of Heck (Full version surfaced by Rasmus Holmen in 1998)
More Than A Feeling (Boston cover 8/30/92, right before SLTS)
Morphine (possibly a brief jam or song mislabel)
Mr. Moustache / MM
Mrs. Butterworth (January 1988 rehearsal, two other untitled songs were also recorded that day)
Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel original. Nirvana/Kurt never did this song. It is a fake, spread through file-sharing services. It is NOT Kurt at Mari Earl's house!)
My Best Friend's Girl / My Best Friends Girlfriend (Cars cover. Performed 03/1/94 Germany)
My Sharona (Knack cover performed 02/16/94 Rennes)
Negative Creep / Hate Me, Never Retreat / Daddy's Little Girl / Negative Creed
New Beat/In Cars (Jan 94' demo)
New Wave Groove (Jan 94' demo)
Nobody Knows I'm New Wave (Performed at the beginning of the 10/30/92 show)
No Quarter / Quarter (unsurfaced Led Zeppelin cover, performed by Nirvana in Seattle 08/06/93)
Noise / The End Of Music - End Of Concert / Endless, Nameless / Demolition / Destruction / Improvisation / Come on Death (See "Endless, Nameless")
Noise Bleed / The Landlord part 2 (Also see "Montage of Heck" and "Buzz Cut")
Oh, Me (Meat Puppets cover)
Oh, The Guilt / It Takes Time / It Takes A Time (From Jesus Lizard split single, released 4/92)
Old Age (Kurt wrote this song and gave it to Courtney and she added her own lyrics. It was recorded just before and during the Nevermind sessions and surfaced on the box set. There are at least three versions of this song by Kurt/Nirvana)
On A Plain / On A Plane / Plane
On A Mountain / You Got No Right / Auto Pilot / I'm A Mountain / All Apologies / You Know You're Right / I Know Your Right / Know Your Rights / You've Got No Right (Real title is 'You Know You're Right' - performed on 10/23/93 and recorded 1/94 [released 10/2002]. Covered by Hole in 1995 during MTV Unplugged as "You've Got No Right")
Ouroboros Is Broken (By the band "Earth". Features Kurt on guitar from an EP called "Extra-Capsular Extraction")
Opinion / Opinions (Kurt acoustic solo performance from KAOS radio 1990. The "heavy" version of this song is not Nirvana, but a cover by a band called Slow Driver Down)
Paper Cuts
Pay To Play / Make It Big (Early version of "Stay Away" with alt. lyrics. See "Stay Away")
Pen Cap Chew / Rise (Recorded on 1/23/88. Played live on 04/17/87 and a couple of other shows)
Pennyroyal Tea / Tired / I'm So tired / Household Drugs / Designer Drugs / China Tea
Phone conversation with Krist and Jon Poneman (From the 'Sliver' 7" single)
Pipeline (Jammed in Mezzago, Italy 11/26/89)
Plateau (Meat Puppets cover)
Play That Funky Music / Thank You (Cover of Sly and the Family Stone called 'Thank You'. Jam from Los Angeles, CA 05/29/91)
Polly / Cracker [1989 acoustic version] / Final flight / Punk Rock Polly / Polly (New Wave) [Incesticide version] / Hollywood Smokes [Polly live 01/23/93]
Purple Rain (Foo Fighters and Krist, performed on 8/29/97)
Puss (Not a Nirvana song. It is in fact the first song on the Jesus Lizard split single with Nirvana's "Oh The Guilt." Performed by The Jesus Lizard)
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter / Radio Friends / Four Month Media Blackout / My Sharona (Was mixed into RFUS on 2/14/94) / Nine Month Media Blackout
Ramble On (Led Zeppelin cover. Done in Miami, FL on 11/27/93)
Rape Me / Break Me / Wreck Me / Waif Me (As printed on censored versions of In Utero)
Raunchola / Run, Rabbit, Run (See Note #4)
Red Dress / The Dodge (Jad Fair cover from 10/30/92. It's just Dave saying "AEO" a couple of times)
Return Of The Rat (Wipers cover)
Rio / She Dances In The Sand (Duran Duran cover performed at un-surfaced 01/16/93 Sгo Paulo show)
Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin cover. Very short jam with Krist singing "Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time", before the Carmen jam. Live in Rio de Janeiro, 1/23/93)
Rocked By Rape (This track consists of some segments from CBS news, supplemented by some weird music in the background. It is NOT Nirvana. It was mislabeled on purpose)
Run To The Hills (Iron Maiden cover. Part of this was played at the 02/22/94 show)
Run, Rabbit, Run (Smack cover. See Note #3 and "Raunchola")
Sacrifice (Performed by Krist & Buzz Osbourne as "Melvana", 01/15/92)
Sappy / Verse Chorus Verse / No Alternate (misspelling of "No Alternative") / Make You Happy / Happy / Happy Hour / Everything and Nothing / Another Rule / Laundry Room / The Rocker / Sad [1989 acoustic version] / VCV / Mistero / The Grasshopper (See Note #7)
Scentless Apprentice / Away / Out Of Face / Chuck Chuck Fo Fuck
School / No Recess / You're In High School Again / Maniac
Scoff / In My Eyes
Scratch It Out / Scatch It Out (Kurt on guitar with the band "Go Team". From 7/89)
Seaside Suicide / Suicide Samurai (Mari Earl, Kurt's aunt, mentioned this song. A recording of it has not surfaced. A 1:54 minute fake version is circulating)
Seasons In The Sun (Terry Jacks cover. Performed at the un-surfaced 01/16/93 Sгo Paulo and 08/6/93 Seattle shows. Done during the 01/93 Rio Demo and appears on the box set DVD)
Serve The Servants / Sundown
Sex Bomb (Un-surfaced Flipper cover. Nirvana did a 30-40 minute version at a party in '87)
Sifting
Skid Mark (Jan 94' demo)
Sky Pup (Melvins song that Kurt plays guitar on. On the "Houdini" album by the Melvins, released 9/93. Recorded in San Francisco, CA 12/92)
Sliver / Silver / Take Me Home / Never Take Me Home / Grandma Take Me Home
Small Town / Hometown (John Mellencamp cover. Not sure when it was performed, if ever)
Smells Like Teen Spirit / Teen Gothic / The Hit / Teen Spirit / SLTS
Smells Like Nirvana (This is Weird Al's parody of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit)
Smells Like Today (fake)
Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple Cover, jammed at the 02/22/94 show)
Something In The Way / Something In The May
Son Of A Gun (Vaselines cover)
Song in D (Probably an early name for All Apologies. Butch Vig mentioned this song being rehearsed during the Nevermind sessions at Sound City studios)
Sorry Yesterday (Fake. Is actually "Smells Like Teen Spirit" played backwards)
Sounds Of Distortion (The end of the Live & Loud 12/13/93 show)
Spank Thru / Spank Through / Freedom Of Choice / Make It Big / Heartbreak / Speaks Through / Love Is A Drag (On the 'Sub-Pop-200' compilation)
Speed Racer Theme (Supposedly sung backstage once)
Spread Eagle Beagle / Spread Eagle / Spread Eagle Witch (Melvins song that Kurt helped produce and played extra percussion on. On the "Houdini" album by the Melvins, released 9/93. Recorded in San Francisco, CA 12/92)
Stain / The Same
Star Spangled Banner (08/30/92 Reading jam)
Stay Away / Star Away / Pay to Play ("Pay to Play" is an early version with alt. lyrics)
Stinking Of You (unreleased Kurt and Courtney song)
Stojim Na Kantunu / Standing on the corner (Cover of the Croatian band Рavoli -- The Devils. Performed at the 2/27/94 show)
Suicide Samurai (See "Anorexorcist")
Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 cover, Reading, England 8/23/91. Dave jammed on the drum-intro of this song several times)
Swap Meet / White Trash
Sweet Emotion jam (Aerosmith cover)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover, performed briefly on 01/20/90 and MTV Unplugged's uncut version)
Talk To Me (Performed live on 11/16/91, 11/23/91, 11/26/91 and 10/04/92. The 92' version appears on the box set DVD)
Territorial Pissings / TP / The Punk Rock Song
The End (Doors cover performed on 11/23/91)
The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie cover)
The Money Will Roll Right In / Sit and Grin (Fang cover. Played in Reading, England on 08/30/92)
The Other Improv (Recorded in Rio, In Utero demo session)
The Pill / Pill (This song is mentioned on various sites for tabs. It's mislabeled and NOT Nirvana. Actually "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath)
The Priest They Called Him / Silent Night (Kurt plays background guitar on this "story" by William Burroughs)
The Rose (Bette Midler cover, performed briefly 08/30/92 by Kurt)
The Son (Kurt solo, unreleased, mentioned by Courtney in 2001)
The Void (Raincoats cover believed to have been played by Kurt backstage on acoustic guitar)
They Hung Him On A Cross (Leadbelly cover)
Thrash Tune (Dave instrumental, Jan 94' demo)
To All The Girls I've Loved Before (cover sung by Kurt 06/27/92)
Token Eastern Song (See "Junkyard")
Tourette's / tourette's / Downtown / The Eagle Has Landed / Fineprint / New Poopie (The Eagle Has Landed is an early version of this song, with alt. lyrics. New Poopie is listed at BMI's site, but is actually an early name for tourette's)
Trophy (cover, Germany 11/13/89)
Turnaround / Pretty Scary (Devo cover)
TV Eye (Iggy Pop cover, San Diego 08/19/90)
Twilight Zone (Jam from the famous TV show 11/08/89)
Twister (From Kurt's joke side band, Nighty Nite, with Courtney Love and Patty Schemel. Hasn't surfaced. Recorded 01/93)
Unknown - v1 (Manchester Academy, 12/04/91. Dave on vocals. Real title is unknown. Seems to be the same song below)
Unknown - v2 (Supposedly played at the Melvins house, 8/90. A short 2 minute jam. Real title is unknown. Could be entitled "Punk Song" or "Teenage Wasteland")
Vendettagainst / Vendettagainst '88 / Scoff(?) (It's been known for years that there's a Nirvana song with this title or that it's an early name for an already known Nirvana song. Some have thought Black and White Blues, Help Me I'm Hungry, or Scoff were this. Many fakes have surfaced. Appeared in early set lists)
Venus In Furs (Melvins recording on the Nirvana "Here She Comes Now" split single)
Verse Chorus Verse (See Note #6)
Very Ape / Into The Fire - Into The Dirt / Into The Dirt / Punky New Wave Number
Violet (supposedly recorded with Courtney, date unknown)
Walk, Don't Run (Viletones cover from 11/08/89, 11/13/89 and 12/01/89)
Way Of The World (Performed by Krist & Buzz Osbourne as "Melvana", 01/15/92)
We Wanna Be Free (11/22/89 from movie "Easy Rider")
We Will Rock You (Queen cover, jammed VERY briefly by Krist on 2/19/92 in Tokyo, Japan and 1/16/93 with Kurt changing the lyrics to "We Will Fuck You")
What's Up (4-Non Blondes cover sung briefly on 10/18/93 in Arizona)
Where Did You Sleep Last Night / Black Girl / My Girl / In The Pines (Leadbelly cover)
White Boy Funk Sucks (Short Krist jam 10/31/91)
White Lace and Strange (See "Adorn")
Wild Thing Jam (Troggs cover jammed on 4/17/91)
Yellow Submarine (Beatles lyrics sung by Krist 06/27/92)
Yes, She Is My Skinhead (Unrest song. Never performed by Nirvana)
You Know You're Right / You've Got No Right (See "On A Mountain")
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Fecal Matter Demo (unsurfaced):
Sound Of Dentage (3:29)
Commercials (1:15)
Bambi Slaughter (3:33)
Made Not Born (Laminated Effect?)(2:17)
Unknown #1 (2:36)
Unknown #2 (3:55)
Unknown #3 (2:05)
Unknown #4 (8:54)
Unknown #5 (4:48)
Spank Thru (3:49)
Unknown #6 (1:28)
Buffy's Pregnant (4:15)
Unknown #7 (2:21)
Downer (3:04)
Unknown #8 (1:39)
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* = Unconfirmed Nirvana jams/mislabels
*1994
*Blossom (Possibly In Bloom)
*Dead Is Dead
*Death Here It Is Again
*Dissimulate
*Distorted Moon
*Fun's Monday
*Garbage Man (Possible version of the Hole song)
*Hydroplane
*I'm Thinking
*Jilted Again
*Leave Me Alone
*Monster Mash Jam
*Nicotine
*Our Little Song
*Punk Theme
*Scarf
*Slut
*Smile and Die
*Special (Possibly Endless Nameless)
*Talksong
*The Bastard
*Ups and Downs
*Vegetables (Possibly Clean Up Before She Comes)
*Virtuous Pagons
*Yearspew
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Note #1:
Bad Moon Rising: a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival,
performed at early 1987 and 1988 shows. It appears on a set list
in 'Come As You Are'. Performed under the band name "The Sellouts".
Unfortunately a recording of Nirvana doing this song is unsurfaced.
Though, apparently the song was jammed at 11/9/89 after 'Swap Meet'
Note #2:
Fountain Soda: before "Muddy Banks" was released, there was rumor
that a new Nirvana double-CD set was going to come out under the title
"Cookie", and this was to be a song on it. From Brian; "It had been heard
that one song from Hole's unplugged show was one of three (I might be off
on the number) Kurt wrote/recorded in the last days before his death. The
rumor that this song was also done by Nirvana was based solely on conjecture
as to which Hole song it was."
Note #3:
Run, Rabbit, Run: This song was played at 12/21/88 Hoquiam, WA and should
indeed be the Smack cover. It was most likely only performed live this one time.
Note #4:
Raunchola: This song was played at the 01/23/88 Tacoma, WA show. Also called
'Run, Rabbit, Run' by bootleggers. Run, Rabbit, Run - a Smack Cover - was really
performed at 12/21/88 and is not this song; the song that was performed during
the end of 01/23/88 is called Raunchola on the box set. The song is followed by a
cover of the Led Zeppelin classic "Moby Dick," finishing off the show, which also
appears on the box set.
Note #5:
I Wanna Be Your Dog: Nirvana covered this song by the Stooges. Tyler and Eric noted
that 'Confusion Is Sex' has nothing to do with "I Wanna Be Your Dog", however this
Sonic Youth CD does contain a cover of that Stooges song in the end of 'Freezer Burn'.
Note #6:
In His Hands/Verse Chorus Verse: After months of debates and arguments, it should have
been established that this song - performed at the 4/17/91, 11/25/90 and 8/17/90 shows -
is in fact called "Verse Chorus Verse". This title is printed on an authentic set list for
4/17/91 and the title was confirmed by Krist to be the one of this song. This song
is usually mislabeled as "In His Hands" or "In His Room" on commercial bootlegs.
Note #7:
Sappy: This song is available on the "No Alternative" compilation and was recorded a
couple of times in the studio. It was also performed live many times. Some believe it
changed name to "Verse Chorus Verse" at some point, but this is unlikely considering
that the song - mentioned above - already uses this title. The song has been given
a host of different names as you can see in the list above. However, Krist Novoselic
confirmed that "Sappy" was the correct name of the song from the "No Alternative" CD.
The 2004 boxset also confirms the real name of this song as "Sappy."
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Nirvana made various alternate versions of their songs. Many bands covered
their songs or have written tributes. Most of Nirvana members have also
played in other groups. Obviously songs produced by those groups are not
listed here. If you didn't find the song you were looking for on this list,
please e-mail me at the following e-mail address: webmaster@nirvanaclub.com.
If you use this document on your own web page, please leave it as it were
originally, or e-mail me if you wish to make changes or inquire about
something related to the song list.
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Nirvana played some of the songs & jams above, using the following band names:
Fecal Matter
Brown Cow / Brown Towel
Stiff Woodies
The Sellouts
Skid Row
Ted, Ed, Fred
Bliss
Throat Oyster
Pen Cap Chew
Windowpane
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Dave Labentowicz, Gnopi@aol.com, Christian Pedersen, Joe Hubbard, DRuMa,
Chad Channing, Gayle Rogers, Eric San Juan, Rui Magalhгes and others.
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