Nirvana (album)

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Nirvana

Compilation album by Nirvana
Released	October 29, 2002
Recorded	1988-1994
Genre	Alternative rock, Grunge
Length	49:34
Label	Geffen
Producer(s)	Scott Litt, Butch Vig, Nirvana
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Nirvana chronology
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996)	Nirvana (2002)	With the Lights Out (2004)

For other uses of "Nirvana", see Nirvana (disambiguation).

Nirvana is a "best-of" compilation album from the American grunge band, Nirvana. It was released in October 2002.

1 Significance
2 Lawsuit
3 Miscellanea
4 Track listing
- 4.1 Bonus tracks
5 Album charts
6 Charting singles
7 Credits
8 Sales
9 References

[edit] Significance

Nirvana was the third Nirvana album to be released following the death of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994, and the first to feature studio material. It contains the previously unreleased "You Know You're Right," a song recorded during the band's final studio session on January 30, 1994. The album also includes a brief selection of the band's more popular songs, culled mostly from 1991's Nevermind and 1993's In Utero, but also containing three pre-Nevermind songs and two recorded during the band's MTV Unplugged set in late 1993. Nirvana opened at #3 on the Billboard 200.

[edit] Lawsuit

Nirvana was released following the settlement of a long-standing legal dispute between Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. Much of the dispute centered around "You Know You're Right," which Novoselic and Grohl had wanted to release on a long-delayed Nirvana box set. However, Love blocked the song's release, and sued Novoselic and Grohl over control of Nirvana's legacy.

Love's lawsuit maintained that "You Know You're Right" was a "potential 'hit' of extraordinary artistic and commercial value." [1]She believed that "You Know You're Right" would be "wasted" on a box set, and instead belonged on a single-disc compilation similar to the Beatles' 1. [2] In September 2002, it was announced by the Nirvana camp that the lawsuit had been settled, and that "You Know You're Right" would be released on "Nirvana, a one-CD history of the band." [3] This paved the way for the box set, which was released two years later.

[edit] Miscellanea

Apart from "You Know You're Right," Nirvana contains two tracks which were not commonly available prior to its release: the "Blew" EP version of "Been a Son," recorded two years before the version which appears on Incesticide, and the Scott Litt remix of "Pennyroyal Tea", which had previously appeared only on the censored Wal-Mart and Kmart versions of In Utero and on the recalled "Pennyroyal Tea" single.

Nirvana's liner notes were written by Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who also penned the notes for the Velvet Underground box set, Peel Slowly and See.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Kurt Cobain unless otherwise noted:

"You Know You're Right" – 3:38
"About a Girl" – 2:49
"Been a Son" – 2:23
"Sliver" – 2:14
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) – 5:01
"Come as You Are" – 3:39
"Lithium" – 4:17
"In Bloom" – 4:15
"Heart-Shaped Box" – 4:41
"Pennyroyal Tea" (Scott Litt remix) – 3:38
"Rape Me" – 2:51
"Dumb" – 2:34
"All Apologies (Unplugged)" – 3:47
"The Man Who Sold the World (Unplugged)" (Bowie) – 3:47

[edit] Bonus tracks

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Unplugged)" (Leadbelly) – 5:08 (appears on vinyl and international CD copies only)
"Something in the Way (Unplugged)" – 4:01 (appears on vinyl and Japanese CD copies only)

[edit] Album charts

Year	Album	Chart	Position
2002	Nirvana	Official Australian Albums Chart	No. 1
2002	Nirvana	Official Austrian Albums Chart	No. 1
2002	Nirvana	Official Switzerland Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official Irish Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official Belgium Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official New Zealand Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official Canadian Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Billboard Top 200	No. 3
2002	Nirvana	Official UK Albums Chart	No. 3
2002	Nirvana	Official German Albums Chart	No. 5
2002	Nirvana	Official Norwegian Albums Chart	No. 5
2002	Nirvana	Official Holland Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Denmark Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Italian Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Japanese Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Finland Albums Chart	No. 9
2002	Nirvana	Official Sweden Albums Chart	No. 10
2002	Nirvana	Official Spanish Albums Chart	No. 11
2002	Nirvana	Official Portugal Albums Chart	No. 24
2002	Nirvana	Official Hungarian Albums Chart	No. 106

[edit] Charting singles

Note: You Know You're Right was only released as a promotional single and downloadable single. Retail singles were not released.

Year	Song	Chart	Position
2002	You Know You're Right	Mainstream Rock Tracks (US)	No. 1
2002	You Know You're Right	Modern Rock Tracks (US)	No. 1
2002	You Know You're Right	The Billboard Hot 100 (US)	No. 45
2002	You Know You're Right	Triple J Hottest 100 (Australia)	No. 12
2002	You Know You're Right	Finland Mitä hittiä Charts	No. 45
2002	You Know You're Right	Latvian Airplay Charts	No. 11
2002	You Know You're Right	Polish Airplay Charts	No. 13
2002	You Know You're Right	Bubbling Hot 100 Airplay (US)	No. ?
2002	You Know You're Right	Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (US)	No. ?