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"Sliver" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic. It was first released as a non-album single by the band's then record label, Sub Pop, in the United States in September 1990, and by Tupelo in Britain in January 1991.
A second studio version was recorded by Butch Vig, who later produced the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind, in April 1990 at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin.This version was released twice by the band's then-label, Sub Pop, first as the B-side to the "Sliver" single in September 1990, and then on the compilation album The Grunge Years in June 1991.
Incesticide is a compilation album by the American rock band Nirvana.It consists of their 1990 non-album single "Sliver", B-sides, demos, outtakes, cover versions, and radio broadcast recordings, and as such is not the official follow-up to the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind. [1]
In 1998, a cassette of Nirvana's March 1991 rehearsal featuring the song was given to the Seattle newspaper The Stranger by an "anonymous source," suggesting that the song had originally started as a Nirvana song. When contacted by The Stranger as to the song's authorship, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic confirmed that the song was a Cobain ...
The 2005 Nirvana rarities album Sliver: The Best of the Box [10] included the original "Spank Thru" recording; this is the first and only official release of any recording from Illiteracy Will Prevail. "Downer" was re-recorded by Nirvana in January 1988 during the band's first studio recording session.
The lyric "One more special message to go" referred to the fact that "On a Plain" was the last song on Nevermind that Cobain had to complete lyrics for. [11] Emily Parker of NME described "On a Plain" as "Kurt's most meta moment: a song written about writing a song." [9]
In 2019, Taylor Swift released the upbeat pop song “London Boy.” Five years later, she’s saying “so long” to the city with her new song “So Long London.”
Cobain's relationship with Love, whom he married in February 1992, is believed to have inspired the lyrics of "Heart-Shaped Box". In the 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Cobain told author Michael Azerrad that "Heart-Shaped Box" was written about children with cancer. "Every time I see documentaries about little ...