Nirvana: The Mix-Tape

Even though Nirvana is one of my all-time favorite bands, it had been a while since I binged on their music. The 20th Anniversary release of In Utero changed that. 

Listening to those songs again, as well as various b-sides, remixes, and live tracks, dropped me back into the heart of the '90s, long before conversations about Nirvana sounded like revered summations of Abraham Lincoln's presidency and images of the band were generically doomed to hang in guitar megastores and music-themed restaurant chains.

Yes, back in the Alternative 1990's we were aware of the band's greatness and importance, but besides being greatly important and/or importantly great, time has seemingly forgotten that Nirvana was a scrappy-garage-feminist-punk band with a deviously hilarious sense of humor.

To capture this essence of the band, I decided to do what I would've done as a teenager growing up in the dual-cassette-deck era: Make a mix-tape! 

For those too young to experience it or those who may have forgotten, I'm hoping this mix (and it is a mix, not to be confused with a "playlist") will reignite the feeling of what is was like when Nirvana was alive, sticking their thumb in the face of music convention, and joyously making feedback-drenched anthems that quickly outgrew their garage.

-Juiceman

(SPOILER: If you're not caught up on Breaking Bad skip over 34:00-36:00.)