Nirvana - Incesticide (Compilation) (1992)

Nirvana - Incesticide (Compilation) (1992)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "Dive"   3:55

2. "Sliver"   2:16

3. "Stain"   2:40

4. "Been a Son"   1:55

5. "Turnaround"   2:19

6. "Molly's Lips"   1:54

7. "Son of a Gun"   2:48

8. "(New Wave) Polly"   1:48

9. "Beeswax"    2:50

10. "Downer"    1:43

11. "Mexican Seafood"   1:55

12. "Hairspray Queen"   4:13

13. "Aero Zeppelin"   4:41

14. "Big Long Now"    5:03

15. "Aneurysm"   4:35

 

Nirvana Band Members / Musicians

Kurt Cobain – vocals, guitar

Krist Novoselic – bass guitar

Seattle, WA: Reciprocal Recording Studios (January 23, 1988)

Nirvana's first studio demo tape

Songs: "Beeswax," "Downer," "Mexican Seafood," "Hairspray Queen," and "Aero Zeppelin"

Dale Crover – drums

Jack Endino – producer, engineer

Seattle, WA: Reciprocal Recording Studios (December 1988 – January 1989)

The Bleach recording sessions

Song: "Big Long Now"

Chad Channing – drums

Jack Endino – producer, engineer

Seattle, WA: Music Source Studios (September 1989)

The Blew EP recording sessions

Song: "Stain"

Chad Channing – drums

Steve Fisk – producer

Madison, WI: Smart Studios (April 2, 1990 – April 6, 1990)

The sessions for the planned second Sub Pop album.

Song: "Dive"

Chad Channing – drums

Butch Vig – producer

Seattle, WA: Reciprocal Recording Studios (July 11, 1990)

The "Sliver" Sub Pop single session.

Song: "Sliver"

Dan Peters – drums

Jack Endino – producer, engineer

London, England: Maida Vale Studio 3 (October 21, 1990)

The 1990 BBC session for John Peel

Songs: "Turnaround," "Molly's Lips," and "Son of a Gun"

Dave Grohl – drums

Dale Griffin – producer

Mike Engles – engineer

Fred Kay – engineer

London, England: Maida Vale Studio 4 (November 9, 1991)

The 1991 BBC session for Mark Goodier.

Songs: "Been a Son," "(New Wave) Polly," and "Aneurysm"

Dave Grohl – drums

Miti Adhikari – producer

John Taylor – engineer

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.

The album was released on December 14, 1992, in Europe, and December 15, 1992, in the United States. It eventually reached number 39 on the Billboard 200.

Early in 1992, Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop contacted Gary Gersh, who had previously signed Nirvana to DGC Records, to inform him that Sub Pop still had a number of unreleased early Nirvana recordings in their possession. The band had intended to release the material via Sub Pop and cynically called it Cash Cow. However, Sub Pop could not match Geffen's distribution network, and the band felt that getting the material maximum exposure was important. Sub Pop sold the recordings to Geffen for "a six-figure amount" on the condition that the band would create and approve the release of an album by Christmas 1992.

At the time, the majority of the material on Incesticide was circulating within fan communities (albeit in lower quality). It was widely reported in the music press that the band wanted to offer fans a higher-quality alternative. In the book Cobain Unseen, Charles R. Cross writes that Kurt Cobain agreed to the release of this compilation because he was allowed complete control over the album's artwork.

Since the songs were recorded in different sessions and some were recorded when Nirvana did not have a stable formation, the album includes recordings by four different drummers: Chad Channing, Dan Peters, Dale Crover, and Dave Grohl.