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Music : With the Lights Out

by: Nirvana


Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602498646649 Format: Box set, Enhanced, Import Label: Geffen Manufacturer: Geffen Number Of Discs: 4 Publisher: Geffen Release Date: November 23, 2004 Sales Rank: 3870 Studio: Geffen	Average Rating: List Price: £83.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £69.99 You Save: £14.00 (17%) Prices subject to change.
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
The four discs in With The Lights Outencompass the career of one of those rare bands who genuinely changed things. When Nirvana climbed to number one in 91 with their album Nevermind, they destroyed forever the very concept of 'alternative', ending the rule that edgy and raw music was doomed to mere cultdom.

With The Lights Outlooks at Nirvana's meteoric rise and abrupt implosion with the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain through a glass darkly: the trajectory of underwhelming debut, glossy produced second album which merged punk fury with pretty melodies and third album where they dirtied everything up to prove they hadn't sold out is accurately presented but via demos, radio performances, live versions, B-sides and outtakes, the vast majority previously unreleased. It's part treasure trove (e.g., unreleased worthy "Verse Chorus Verse") and half trainspotter fare (the band jokingly running through Terry Jacks' '70s corn-fest "Seasons In the Sun" on the fourth, DVD, disc).

This is not the place for the uninitiated to start but this set will, for Nirvana fans, be the perfect closure to their glorious, sad career. --Sean Egan

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Simply amazing
For any Nirvana fan, this collection is a must have. It has plenty of rare and unreleased recordings, including demos and rare live tracks, it also has some fascinating videos. It's quite simply amazing, if you're a Nirvana fan you really have to get this! The packaging and liner notes and photos are fantastic too.

I wish I could give it six stars!

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- Nirvana
This set is a great addition to the collection of material for the Nirvana fan. Most of the stuff have been recorded on a home tape recorder so obviously the quality is not great, but the whole point is to hear how Nirvana started out and you notice how the lyrics of the classics were different, before they were changed for the final recordings.

I really love the packaging too with a smart metal front cover, and it has a booklet on the inside.

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- IT IS AS GOOD AS IT COULD POSSIBLY BE
Within a matter of months after Kurt Cobain's suicide in April of 1994, fans started asking for the official release of all the demos, stray songs, alternate takes, and rarities in Nirvana's vaults. Due to various legal disputes between the surviving bandmembers and the Cobain estate, this long-awaited set of unreleased material did not appear until late 2004, when the three-disc, one-DVD box With the Lights Out finally appeared. Not counting the 20-song DVD, the box contains 61 tracks, with nearly ... Read More

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- Something you should own-"WTLO" !!!
"WTLO"-box set is an item that every Nirvana fan should have in his cd collection. I was going nuts waiting the pacage to arive. finaly it was in my hands. I can say I've expected something diferent. 3 audio CDs with rehearsals,demos,radio performances,Kurt's solo-acoustic home-made demos... A lots of that you can find on the internet. But not with the same sound quality! The DVD contains videos from the begining of Nirvana. A rehearsal at (i think it is) Khris's mother's house. Their gigs. The first ... Read More

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- not as good as could have been
as a long time nirvana fan, i am a tad dissapointed. the dvd is the best part- just to see the 1st performance of 'teen spirit'and all the home footage

on the cd's, there are too many badly recorded live acoustic tracks, and the demo versions sound like they have been mixed and mastered by a child!

nice to have them all on cd, but i have had most of these tracks on bootleg tapes since i was 15!

get it for the dvd, the only track on the cd worth bothering with is ... Read More

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