Nevermind It's an Interview is the only officially released interview CD of American grunge

Grunge

Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...

 band Nirvana

Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

. Released in limited-edition form worldwide in 1992 by Geffen Records

Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...

, written, produced and engineered at WFNX

WFNX

WFNX is a New England commercial alternative rock radio station. The station began broadcasting on Monday, April 11, 1983. It was one of the first American commercial stations to play alternative rock and has become a leading radio station for breaking new alternative music.WFNX broadcasts on 101.7...

 Boston by Kurt St. Thomas

Kurt St. Thomas

Kurt St. Thomas is an award winning filmmaker, author, and disc jockey. He can currently be heard on the airwaves of 106.7 KROQ in Los Angeles, California....

 and Troy Smith (authors of Nirvana: The Chosen Rejectshttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0312206631, St. Martin's Press, 2004). The original interview sessions were recorded by St. Thomas the night of Nirvana's first appearance on NBC

NBC

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's Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

in 1992. It contains over an hour of audio interview with live and studio recordings. Copies of the CD are rare and have become collectors items. However, the entire CD was included at the end of the iTunes

ITunes

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 version of With the Lights Out

With the Lights Out

With the Lights Out is a box set, containing three CDs and one DVD, of previously rare or unreleased material, including b-sides, demos, rough rehearsal recordings and live recordings, from the American rock band Nirvana. It was released in November 2004...

, Nirvana's posthumous box set. It is listed as:

1. "Nevermind It's an Interview, Pt.1"
2. "Nevermind It's an Interview, Pt.2"
3. "Nevermind It's an Interview, Pt.3"

All songs are incomplete unless otherwise noted. The live versions of "Drain You" and "School" were released on some versions of the "Come as You Are" single. The back cover reads: "Kurt St Thomas, Music director of WFNX, Boston, speaks with Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...

, Krist Novoselic

Krist Novoselic

Krist Anthony Novoselic II is a Croatian-American rock musician, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana. After Nirvana ended, Novoselic formed Sweet 75 and then Eyes Adrift, releasing one album with each band...

 and Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...

 about life in Nirvana, circa 1992."

Track listing

Track 1:

• Breed
• Stay Away
  Stay Away (song)
  "Stay Away" is the 21st single by Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on July 19, 2000. In the same day, Japanese rock band Glay's single "Mermaid" was also released. Although "Stay Away" sold over 504,000 copies in the first week, "Mermaid" debuted at number 1 with the sales of over 525,000...
  
  
• School
• Mr. Moustache
• Sifting
• In Bloom
  In Bloom
  "In Bloom" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. Written by frontman Kurt Cobain, the song addresses people outside of the underground music community who did not understand the band's message....
  
  
• Spank Thru
• Floyd the Barber
• Scoff
• Love Buzz
• About a Girl (live, full)
• Dive
• Sliver
  Sliver (song)
  "Sliver" is a song by American grunge band Nirvana. It was originally released as a non-album single in 1990 by Sub Pop. DGC re-released the song to radio to support the release of the rarities compilation album Incesticide in 1992....
  
  
• Aneurysm
  Aneurysm
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   (live, full)

Track 2:

• Lithium
• Even in His Youth
• Drain You
  Drain You
  "Drain You" is a 1991 song by American grunge band Nirvana and the eighth track from their breakthrough album Nevermind. It is most famous as a B-side on the band's most successful single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". However, a live version recorded in 1991 appeared on the live album From the Muddy...
  
   (live, full)
• Something in the Way
• Come as You Are
• Polly
  Polly
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• In Bloom
  In Bloom
  "In Bloom" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. Written by frontman Kurt Cobain, the song addresses people outside of the underground music community who did not understand the band's message....
  
  
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
  Smells Like Teen Spirit
  "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, Nevermind , released on DGC Records...
  
  
• On a Plain
  On a Plain
  "On a Plain" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. It is the eleventh song on their major label debut, Nevermind .-History:...
  
   (live, full)
• Stay Away
• Endless, Nameless 

Track 3:

• Molly's Lips (live)
• Stain
• School (live, full)
• Big Cheese
• Been a Son
• Territorial Pissings (full)
• Smells Like Teen Spirit (full)

See also

• Nirvana: The Chosen Rejectsl, St Martins Press, 2004
• Nevermind
  Nevermind
  Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records...
  
   (album)
• Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind
  Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind
  Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind is a documentary DVD released by Eagle Vision in March 2005, as part of the Classic Albums series. It features interviews specifically for this release with members of the band and Nevermind album producer Butch Vig about the recording of the album...
  
   (DVD)
• Nirvana discography
  Nirvana discography
  This is the discography of Nirvana, a former Aberdeen, Washington-based alternative rock group, consists of three studio albums, twenty-one singles, three live albums, two extended plays, four compilation albums, and two box sets....
  
  
• Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...