Nirvana – Nevermind Sessions

The first sessions that would begin to assemble Nevermind (recorded at the end of the ’90s) reveal something more than what was exposed in the final version of the album. Nirvana never intended to be the voice of complacency and easy lament for the masochistic youth who then began to follow them. There was something visceral, by the way, but also a nihilism that prevented his sound and speech from being an open book of existential readings that would later come.

No one can deny the power of many of Nevermind’s songs but these demos have a dark and emotionally charged look of anxiety, something that Butch Vig’s production took out because it tends to prevent Cobain’s guitar from saturating the song. A friendly disk was preferred to a frontal one; one that could be tamed radially without a problem. What is clear is that the essence of the songs had another vision: future hits like “Lithium” or “Polly” prove it.

Special mention deserves “Here She Comes Now”, one of the best versions ever recorded of a Velvet song and which was never officially released. He deserved it: it’s TREMENDOUS.