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Nirvana’s “Bleach” Returns as 20th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue

8/14/09, 2:26 pm EST


To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Bleach, Sub Pop Records will reissue the band’s 1989 debut album with as an expanded CD/double vinyl collection on November 3rd. Additionally, the reissued Bleach will feature an unreleased bonus live album called Live at Pine Street Theatre, recorded at the Portland, Oregon venue on February 9th, 1990. Both Bleach and the Pine Street show have been digitally remastered from the original tapes by Jack Endino, who produced Nirvana’s debut LP.

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Pre-orders will soon be available at the Sub Pop, the home of Nirvana before the band made the major label jump to DGC for the legendary Nevermind. Bleach remains one of Sub Pop’s few platinum albums. Like the original run of Bleach on vinyl, the first-run of the reissued double-LPs will be printed on white vinyl. Also, the songs “Big Cheese” and “Downer” will feature on vinyl for the first time after being excised from the original LP release. Both the CD and the LP will be accompanied with a booklet looking back at the classic debut along with never-before-seen photographs of Kurdt Kobain and Chris Novoselic, as they called themselves in the album’s liner notes, along with pre-Grohl drummer Chad Channing. Read our recent interview with Channing here.)

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As for Pine Street concert, half of Bleach is represented, along with Incesticide’s “Dive,” “Molly’s Lips” and “Been A Son,” a performance of “Spank Thru” from the Sub Pop 200 comp and a early live version of “Sappy,” or “Verve Chorus Verse” as it was called when it appeared as a secret song on 1993’s No Alternative benefit disc. Get the track list for the Bleach: Deluxe Edition below:

Bleach: Deluxe Edition
1. Blew
2. Floyd the Barber
3. About a Girl
4. School
5. Love Buzz
6. Paper Cuts
7. Negative Creep
8. Scoff
9. Swap Meet
10. Mr. Moustache
11. Sifting
12. Big Cheese
13. Downer

Live at Pine Street Theatre
1. Intro
2. School
3. Floyd the Barber
4. Dive
5. Love Buzz
6. Spank Thru
7. Molly’s Lips
8. Sappy
9. Scoff
10. About a Girl
11. Been a Son
12. Blew

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bodA | 8/14/2009, 3:49 pm EST

fuckintastic!!!!!

Chris | 8/14/2009, 8:51 pm EST

Can’t wait for this!!! Hope to own that baby on vinyl!!

carleon | 8/14/2009, 9:04 pm EST

to bad I refuse to buy anything
that makes courtney a dime

Cheesecrop | 8/14/2009, 10:12 pm EST

Pretty cool.

fishfingers | 8/15/2009, 2:06 pm EST

Its Pretty Scary…..

nirvana-tributo.net | 8/15/2009, 9:25 pm EST

can wait! its pretty scary.

Cool | 8/15/2009, 11:51 pm EST

Awesome can’t wait till they do this for Nevermind

RazzTheKid | 8/16/2009, 1:45 pm EST

This is one of Nirvana’s most underrated works. Buy this album on vinyl for $10…it sounds fucking amazing.

SATAN | 8/16/2009, 6:51 pm EST

fishfingers , nice reference!

Dean Wien | 8/17/2009, 11:00 am EST

Why does everyone forget about the song that Nirvana covered on a Kiss tribute record entitled “Do You Love Me?” It was on a small label, and I haven’t seen it on the box set or any reissues. It’s like a lost track of Nirvana. I’m pretty sure that was the track they covered. Would love to see that on some kind of reissue of Nirvana.

Thomas | 8/18/2009, 4:07 am EST

They should release a 100 CD/LP Box with all SONGS!

$$$$

The Sponge | 8/18/2009, 7:41 am EST

Yeah I think that KISS tribute album was called Hard To Believe, good luck finding that these days.

brainalishi | 8/18/2009, 11:21 am EST

i mean for a drunken lark that KISS cover is cool but its not something that is gonna move anyone to do anything but laugh a couple times. i have it and havent heard it for years. the melvins cover of god of thunder on that disc though is awesome.

boozer | 8/23/2009, 11:41 pm EST

If you can find any of the outcesticide bootleg cd’s anymore, and i think theres 4 or 5 of them, its all the unreleased demos including the kiss cover and a cover of velvet undergrounds “Here she comes now”.

Schmokes | 9/16/2009, 1:22 pm EST

The Pine Street Theatre show is a real ASS-KICKER. BE SURE TO BUY THIS!!!

Sui | 10/2/2009, 2:22 pm EST

fucking hot!!!

sean | 10/14/2009, 1:41 pm EST

holy shit im so happy that sappy is on the live disk!

francis farmer | 10/17/2009, 7:06 pm EST

The kiss song “do you love me” as far as i know is on the first outcesticide……its deff on one of them….there was 6 of them released…..must get them back out again

Jon | 10/31/2009, 2:10 am EST

Yea I can see why People wouldnt want to give Courtney any money. but what about Frances. I would definitely not open that man’s diary. Ive got mixed feelings about that whole deal. Im looking forward to the vinyl.

J | 11/2/2009, 12:45 am EST

I think that is awesome, however, you should proofread your article…I believe is was labeled “Verse Chorus Verse” not “Verve Chorus Verse” as you have stated in your article.

Nirvana!! | 11/4/2009, 12:34 am EST

buying this today cuz!!!

Rhys | 11/20/2009, 6:14 pm EST

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…

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