#From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Nirvana - Blew

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Nirvana - Drain You 1991

"Drain You" is a song by American rockband Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist, Kurt Cobain. The song was released as a promotional single in late 1991 for their second album, Nevermind (1991), and also appeared as a b-side on UK retail editions of the first single from that album, "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

A live version, recorded on December 28, 1991, at Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, California, was released as the second promotional single from the live compilation, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, in 1996. This version peaked at number 44 on the Radio & Records US Alternative Top 50 chart. Another live version of the song, recorded by MTV at the band's Live and Loud performance on December 13, 1993, at Pier 48 in Seattle, was released as a music video on MTV2 in November 1996, to support the release of the From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah album, even though it was a different version that actually appeared on the album. No known footage exists of the Del Mar Fairgrounds performance.

Cobain cited "Drain You" as one of his favorite compositions, telling David Fricke in a 1993 Rolling Stone interview that he thought it was as good, if not better, than "Smells Like Teen Spirit". "I love the lyrics, and I never get tired of playing it," he said. "Maybe if it was as big as 'Teen Spirit', I wouldn’t like it as much." The song appears in the video games Rock Band 2 and Rock Band Unplugged.

"Drain You" received a total of 74,1% yes votes! Previous Nirvana polls: #118 "The Man Who Sold the World".

[lee-sanghyeok]

Garments worn by BOYNEXTDOOR in "One and Only" MV

A. SAINT MICHAEL Denim Tears Holy Grail Hoodie ($800)

B. GREEN SYNDROME Vintage Crack Trucker Cap (modified / sold out)

C. Vintage Nirvana 1996 From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah T-Shirt (thrifted)

D. MARTINE ROSE Blue & White Twist Football T-shirt (sold out)

E. DICKIES Water Repellent Duck Hooded Shirt Jacket (CAD$85)

F. DIESEL Striped shirt with logo embroidery (sold out)

G. SUPREME x TAKASHI MURAKAMI COVID-19 Relief Fund T-Shirt (sold out)

H. 1017 ALYX 9SM Cotton Tartan Long-Sleeve Shirt (€982)

I. H&M x SESAME STREET Cookie Monster Jeans (sold out)

J. DENIM TEARS 1619 Pan African Flag Sweater Natural (sold out)

K. CACTUS PLANT FLEA MARKET Born Again Hooded Sweatshirt (sold out)

L. ACNE STUDIOS Padded Vest (sold out)

M. GYAKU SOU Patchwork Denim Shorts (¥24,800 / €152)

N. ALPHA INDUSTRIES × MADE IN USA Bomber Jacket (sold out)

O. Vintage Pink Floyd Versailles '88 T-shirt (thrifted)

[cyrdaeb2]

This song imagines that in 1990, Nirvana decide to stay with Sub Pop for their second album, 'Sheep'. They have already recorded one batch of songs with producer Butch Vig at Smart Studios and return to finish off the album. 'Opinion' which debuted as a solo acoustic performance on the KAOS (FM) radio show has now been recorded as a full band version.

I created this version as a long time Nirvana fan who would have loved to hear a studio recording on this song. I used a combination of Nirvana rarities cover band To Boddah and Steve Welsh's amazing covers as the basis of the instrumental. I cannot urge you enough to check out the rest of their work on Youtube.

I used AI to recreate Kurt's vocal and I also used AI to create backing harmonies by Dave (in this timeline Dave would still have joined Nirvana as it was inevitable by this point).

While ideally I would liked to have worked on the instrumental myself recreating period appropriate amps and voice models, I decided not to let perfect be the enemy of good. I layered the drums with a Steve Albini sampled drum kit, which while not true to the 1990 timeframe I felt was close enough.

I used reverb impulse responses from Smart Studio and copied the EQ curve from the original Smart Studio sessions to help get a little bit closer.

Overall I aimed for a sound between the Smart Studio Sessions and the Devonshire mixes of Nevermind, leaning towards the latter as I believe that's where the overall sound would have went.

The album cover is an unused design from 'Muddy Banks of the Wishkah' by their legendary long term art director Robert Fisher (whose incredible work chronicling his time with Nirvana can be found on Instagram as 'nirvanabucket'.

While it is doubtful that Nirvana and Robert Fisher would ever have met had they not signed to Geffen (meaning that Sub Pop art director Lisa Orth would have likely still been designing their covers), his work is such an integral part of Nirvana's visual identity that I decided to bend the timeline a bit to include him.

[lessoneislessthannow]

"I'll slit your neck with a razorblade"

"I'm leaving, and I'm never coming back"

"What the fuck asshole why did you blow up my phone so many times?" "Cause I was outside your house waiting for you... sorry I'm pretty used to getting blown off" "YEAH well I thought about it..."

"You can't and don't carry me, not physically, mentally, or financially"

"Shut the fuck up bitch"

I know better than to allow anyone to speak to me that way. I have self-esteem, and I'm not the one being an asshole

... next thing you know, you're in the middle of Aberdeen at three in the morning questioning why you're even helping someone who seems to care about you but doesn't have an ounce of respect for you, nor your feelings, nor your time...

But you still care, because you see stuck, somewhere, they're is still a soul inside them...

So you let them in

Feed them

Harbor them

Care for them

... Narcan them.

The cycle repeats OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN

THIS OPIOID CRISIS IS SOMETHING I NEVER BEGAN TO COMPREHEND, until day 2 I moved to Washington

... the 49th worst state for substance abuse and addiction treatment

This is why I moved here ; I feel compelled to make a change, but there needs to be a line drawn between my life and the purpose of my work... except it is EVERYWHERE

You can't even begin to imagine, from the rich to the poor... it's literally harder to bum a cigarette in this state than to score some meth or herion

On the plus side

I was questioning ... just how much my addictive personality was going to influence me

So purposely, I moved between safety and absolute poverty; as a way to motivate myself never to go back to the way I used to be

I've been around it so much in "safety"

I don't even want it

I have no craving

I have no fixing.

I'm not 10+6 anymore

I've got a future

I want more

You'll never find me washed up on the muddy banks of the WISHKAH or the ocean shore

But as a population

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WASHINGTON

DO MORE

Do it now

This is some of the worst poverty and addiction I've ever seen and your government has no better solution than to bus the "junkies," veterans, and immigrants to TENT CITIES right below the overpasses surrounded by IMMENSE beauty

[strangledeggs]

Tell me what to listen to next!

I'm stealing an idea from someone else on here to help me catch up on a backlog of music I have lying around that I haven't yet listened to. Up above, you'll see 50 albums, 25 in each list. The lists are as follows:

List 1:

Adele - 30 Les Amazones d'Afrique - Amazones Power The Chills - Brave Words CMAT - Crazymad, For Me Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart Dusty Springfield - The Very Best Of Dusty Springfield FU-Schnickens - Nervous Breakdown Generation Bass Presents Transnational Dubstep [compilation] Gil Scott-Heron - It's Your World Girls Against Boys - House Of GvsB Kool AD - 63 Louis Armstrong - Ambassador Satch Mach-Hommy - Dollar Menu 4 Mase - Harlem World Meat Puppets - Huevos Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah Pylon - Chomp Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step Terry Allen - Bottom Of The World Thelonious Monk - The Complete London Collection Tyler Childers - Rustin' In The Rain UB40 - Labour Of Love The Velvet Underground - Another View Willowz - Talk In Circles

List 2:

Bell Orchestre - Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light Carly Pearce - Hummingbird Clem Snide - End Of Love Earth, Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes Elliott Murphy - Aquashow Gasolin' - Gasolin' Helen Reddy - Helen Reddy Kirby Heard - Mama's Biscuits Lifesavas - Spirit In Stone Lori McKenna - 1988 Marshal Crenshaw - #447 Muddy Waters - King Bee New Wave Dance Music From South Africa [compilation] NRBQ - NRBQ L'Orchestre National Mauritanien - Ahl Nana Randy Newman - Randy Newman Ray Wylie Hubbard - Co-Starring Too Ruby Braff And Ellis Larkins - Calling Berlin Vol. 1 Sacred Soul Of North Carolina [compilation] Skip James - Blues From The Delta Swamp Dogg - Gag A Maggot Tabu Ley Rochereau - Man From Kinshasa Unholy Modal Rounders - Unholier Than Thou: 7/7/77 Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle Yo-Yo Ma - Classic Yo-Yo

You can help me out here by replying to this post picking one album from each of the lists, which I will then listen to at some point in...hopefully the next month? Maybe two? Sorry, my listening schedule for new stuff is slow recently because of work. But a few notes here:

a) First, obviously you must pick two albums (again, one from each list) and you can't pick something somebody else has already picked.

b) As I listen to these albums (I tend to go in alphabetical order on a running list I have), I will post short impressions of them here (I may or may not add a letter grade, we'll see how I'm feeling by the time I get around to it).

c) Pretty much all of these albums were reviewed (or at least recommended) in some way by the critic Robert Christgau, so part of my impressions will involve noting whether I agree or disagree with him on his assessment.

I'm honestly not sure if I have enough followers here for this to work, so it might get cross-posted to a Facebook group I'm in where people are more likely to respond. I'll reblog after a while with an update on what's chosen, and it will close after I get a lineup of about 10-20 albums (or after like a week or two, if no one's responding).

And yes, I am aware that these are eccentric lists.

[uniquetyphoonmiracle]

Me gustaría ir a visitar el PUENTE donde paso alguna noche Kurt COBAIN de nIrVANa que inspiro SOMETHING IN THE WAY la última pista visible del cd NEVERMIND [para mi el último disco que supuso alguna Revolución musical o cultural como fue el GRUNGE que lidero o expandio] pues luego oculta como 13 esta ENDLESS, NAMELESS..hasta la PORTADA ES LA POLLA con ese bebé sumergido al que quieren pescar con un PUTO DOLAR en un GANCHO y donde destaca su POLLA..así como su CONTRA_PORTADA un extraño collage que dijo COBAIN que contenía fotos médicas de mujeres muertas fotografiadas desde la VAGINA que coleccionaba y hasta dijo que se podía ver al grupo KISS [=BESO] jaja..

..a ver si sigue la pintada de Pus$$y COCK jaja..

Creo que ese puente es el sitio más significativo [que dio título al directo From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah]..donde estuvo Kurt COBAIN junto al parque del RETIRO de MADRID donde se fotografio bajo la Estatua ecuestre de ALFONSO XII en lo alto de un hemiciclo junto al ESTANQUE así como ofreció un Cigarrillo junto a la Estatua Ecuestre del General MARTINEZ CAMPOS restaurador de la MONARQUIA BORBONICA

[greensparty]

Nirvana Boston: Part 5 - Axis

This year marks 35 years since the release of Nirvana’s debut album Bleach and it also marks 30 years since the passing of Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain. In honor of one of my Top 3 Favorite Musicians of All Time, I’m doing a multi-part series Nirvana Boston, in which I look at all of the concerts Nirvana did in Boston. Part 1 looked at their July 1989 show at Green Street Station, Part 2 looked at their April 1990 show at Man Ray, Part 3 looked at their April 1990 show at MIT and Part 4 looked at their Sept. 1991 show at Axis as part of the WFNX Birthday Bash.

The 5th and final installment looks at their second Axis show. The night before on Sept. 23, 1991 they took part in WFNX's Birthday Bash show at Axis. When a fan mentioned that he couldn’t attend the WFNX show because he wasn’t 18, the band decided to do a last minute show the next day at Axis that would be all-ages. Everyone talks about the WFNX show, but this encore show the next day flies under the radar.

September 24, 1991: Axis (Boston, MA)

show flyer

This is a very significant date in Nirvana history because September 24, 1991 is when their major label debut Nevermind was released. There was a significant buzz about this album leading up to the release. WFNX had been early supporters and invited them to play their Birthday Bash on September 23. They happen to have no shows scheduled on September 24 before they played in Rhode Island on September 25. Adding an additional show at Axis the next day to be all-ages was a last minute decision and it was pre-internet too, so it was all word-of-mouth for fans to get there the day it was announced. Earlier in the day, the band did an interview on WZBC, Boston College's radio station. During their interview, they played some tracks from Nevermind and gave away tickets to this newly announced show. Here is that college radio interview:

The night before, Boston rockers Bullet LaVolta played on the same bill as Nirvana at the WFNX Birthday Bash at Axis. Their drummer Todd Philips returned to Axis the next day. "I cut out early the night before because I had a lot of friends in town and I knew I'd be catching them the next day". He was just as impressed the second day. WFNX DJ Duane Bruce returned the next day as well. He says "I was smart enough to get into the DJ booth, which was elevated. There wasn't any duties I had, no one introducing them. It was a much less pressured show. Every cool kid from Framingham, MA to Nashua, NH was there, that started a band later." This was an all-ages show at 5PM, so there was less emphasis on alcohol sales at the bar of Axis, although soft drinks were available. Bruce looked at it as a pay-it-forward moment for Cobain where he had wished he could've seen Kiss for $5 in an all-ages show and now he could do it for kids.

setlist

For the show itself, they a lot of the same songs they did the night before, a mix of Bleach and Nevermind highlights, but this show also included some surprises like "Dive", "Territorial Pissings", "Pennyroyal Tea" (later a hit on In Utero), and best of all, a cover of The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" but in the style of the Devo cover. Kind of a cool six-degress sort of thing that Devo's later day drummer Josh Freese (he joined Devo in 1996) joined Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band Foo Fighters in 2023 and when I saw them at Boston Calling shortly after he joined, they went into a medley of songs by bands Freese was in, including Devo's "Whip It". But I digress.

Here is the audio recording from YouTube:

This unfortunately was the last show Nirvana did in Boston. This series is specific to Boston shows, but it is worth noting that the band did return to the state of Massachusetts two more times: During the In Utero Tour they played Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, MA on November 10, 1993 (the recording of "Sliver" from that show later appeared on the live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah) and on November 12, 1993 they played the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg, MA (where I went to college a few years later).

This concludes the Nirvana Boston multi-part series, one of my favorite endeavors with this blog! I want to thank all of the participants who shared their memories of Nirvana's shows in the area with me for this series. While the band only visited Boston a handful of times it is very clear that the city embraced them and Boston radio stations like WFNX had a lot to do with their trajectory.

[rockmusicassoc]

In The Rock 10/19/1996: Nirvana hit number one on the Album Chart for the fourth and final time with their live album, ‘From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah’, which tops the chart for one week. #Nirvana #RockHonorRoll

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Nirvana - School

[gianlucacrugnola]

Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

Wishkah è il nome del fiume di Aberdeen (Washington) lungo le quali rive bazzicava l’adolescente Kurt Cobain, passando, stando ai suoi racconti, notti insonni sotto lo Young Street Bridge e sfiorandone le rive fangose. Da qui lo spunto colto da Krist Novoselic per intitolare il secondo album pubblicato postumo dalla Geffen Records, una raccolta contenente il meglio disponibile delle esibizioni…

[tonytomeo]

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah

Well, . . . it is not exactly on the muddy banks. Kurt Cobain was here. So was I. That is how I got this picture of this English holly in this awkward situation within Kurt Cobain Memorial Park, on the muddy banks of the Wishkah River. I wrote about other pictures from there at my other presently discontinued blog, ‘Felton League’, a bit more than a year and a half ago. This particular picture…

[bleedingspiral]

Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah

[lyrasky]

Nirvana【Drain You】和訳 解説 歪めた純愛 Distorted Pure Love

Nirvana【Drain You】和訳解説 歪めた純愛 Distorted Pure Love #kurtcobain #nirvana #drainyou #nevermind #davegrohl #kristnovoselic #ニルヴァーナ #butchvig #fromthemuddybanksofthewishkah #sonicyouth #MichaelAzerrad #Melvins #TobiVail #DaleCrover #BikiniKill #comeasyou #DebbiShane #Olympia #grungerock

Kurtの命日は、彼のお誕生日と同じようにLyraにとってはKurt Cobainを偲ぶ日。 毎年この日は、Nirvanaの曲を和訳解説して、毎度、Kurtの素晴らしさ、やばさ、優しさ、自分勝���さに触れ、死んだはずなのに隣で話してるかのような錯覚に陥る。親しげに話しかけて来るKurtは、少年のようだし、笑顔が魅力的。そして、たまに老人のように憔悴し切っている。 「彼が今、生きていたら？」 皆んな同じ問いにぶつかりイマジンする。あり得ない話なのにね？ ただリアルに声が、歌詞が、ギターが胸に今も「こんなに」突き刺さるのだから、生きていても糞まみれだろうと輝いていたと信じてる。 信じてるのよ、Kurt。だからお休み。 もう痛いことも痛いことをする者もいないよ。 今日はKurtのお気に入りの曲を選んだよ。又あの笑顔が蘇る。 (more…)

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Music Collection Update #2

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) on Vinyl

While browsing a record store I came across this gem of a record which was released on October 1st of 1996, and features live performances from the band from 1989 up to 1994. The vinyl version of this collective record comes in a double LP format, and a fourth side full of exclusive content. This record includes live performances of songs such as Been a Son, Smells like Teen Spirit, Negative Creep, Silver and Lithium, and a 1989 version of Polly. The records name itself was named after a river that runs through the late legend Kurt Cobain’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. Personally I loved the record front to the back, the performances included on the record are some of my favourite live performances from Nirvana. A must listen!

~Big (bigtopesuicida)

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Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Released: October 1, 1996 Labels: DGC, Geffen