Nirvana - Incesticide (1992)

Side A:
1. Token Eastern Song
2. Even in His Youth
3. Been a Son
4. (New Wave) Polly
5. Aneurysm
6. Return of the Rat (Wipers Cover)
7. D-7 (Wipers Cover)

Side B:
8. Molly's Lips (The Vaselines Cover)
9. Son of a Gun (The Vaselines Cover)
10. Turn Around (Devo Cover)
11. Do You Love Me? (Kiss Cover)
12. They Hung Him on a Cross (Lead Belly Cover)
13. Grey Goose (Lead Belly Cover)
14. Ain't It a Shame? (Lead Belly Cover)
15. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Lead Belly Cover)

An internet blogger known for reconstructing famously unreleased albums once did a project where he did "a reconstruction of the unreleased 1990 Nirvana album Sheep, which is essentially the precursor to what would eventually be released as Nevermind in 1991." It made me wonder what it would have been like if Nirvana had still released it in 1992 but without material included on Sheep and Ashamed to Be Human. 

I knew for a fact it'll include "D-7" (the only song from the Japanese and Australia-release only Hormoaning EP that wasn't rereleased on Incesticide besides "Even in His Youth"; that song was released on my version of Nevermind, along with "Aneurysm", which was released on Incesticide but in a version exclusive to the album and thus different than the version released on my version of Nevermind) and "Do You Love Me?" (from the 1992 album, Hard to Believe: Kiss Covers Compilation; it was recorded in 1989 and totally sounds like it should've been on Incesticide since it was full of covers anyway.) 

But don't think that all the songs that were on the original Incesticide won't be on the new version. There are some songs that Sheep and Ashamed to Be Human haven't taken yet: the covers and the alternate versions of already existing songs exclusive to Incesticide like "Aneurysm". In fact, it'll probably include a lot more covers, these ones being from With the Lights Out, and a lot more other stuff from With the Lights Out. "Ain't It a Shame?", "Grey Goose", & "They Hung Him on a Cross" came from a band called The Jury, which was a side project by Nirvana and another band called Screaming Trees which did four Lead Belly covers in two days of recording sessions in August 1989. The fourth song that they also did was "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?", but while officially released, wasn't included on WTLO. I didn't mean to put all the covers together. There were just so many damn covers.

"Stain" was originally featured on Incesticide but is now on Sheep. But there are other songs from that session that we can put on here, like "Token Eastern Song" and the demo to "Even in His Youth", which interestingly was gonna be put on the "Blew" EP, but was unfinished at the time and missed the deadline, so it was put on the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single as a B-side instead, along with Aneurysm. Also from these sessions were versions of "Been a Son" and "Polly", but other versions of it were already on Incesticide. Kurt once had an idea for an album called "Nirvana Sings Songs of Devo, Wipers, Vaselines, and Nirvana". This is basically that except for the addition of Lead Belly and Kiss.  

Less than a minute less than the original Incesticide? The length makes it feel like it's more of a real album now! I'm on a roll today! But doesn't seem like I have anything else to do. With The Lights On is kind of like an alternate universe version of With the Lights Out, and if you take away all the tracks from WTLO that were used to make Ashamed to Be Human, Sheep, Nevermind, and this, they only amount to a disc and a half. I can't do anything with half a disc. And even less from With The Lights On was used. So what I did was take the exclusives from the two With the Lights On best-ofs and used those to make alternate discs 1 and 2 of With the Lights Out. Now With the Lights On has no more best-ofs.