Unreleased Nirvana Due
"Sliver" compilation to feature three more tracks from the archives

Three previously unreleased Nirvana songs will surface November 1st when Geffen/Universal issue Sliver, a compilation of Nirvana rarities and demos. The twenty-two-track CD will be rounded out with material from With the Lights Out, the Nirvana box set released last November.

Sliver marks the first time Frances Bean Cobain, the thirteen-year-old daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and rocker Courtney Love, has taken an active role in her father's legacy. "We're pulling Frances into the family business," Love told Rolling Stone.

In addition to helping select the title, Frances Bean also played a role in choosing the cover image. "Courtney and I involve Frances in Nirvana/Kurt decisions whenever we can," says Peter Asher, who manages Love and the Cobain estate. "She's very perceptive and has cool ideas."

With the Lights Out was delayed for several years due to legal battles between Love and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, but there were no such troubles with Sliver.


JOLIE LASH
(Posted wrz 20, 2005)

"We're pulling Frances into the family business," Love told Rolling Stone.

tracklist?

MikeMatronik said:

That just sounds really awful, sorry.

yeah, it sounds a bit shady to me, too.

Anxiety said:

I still hope she and Lourdes form a band someday.

GangstaFam said:

with Bertie!!!!

MikeMatronik said:

That just sounds really awful, sorry.

MikeMatronik said:

did anyone else see frances in the teen people article? or one of them teen mags..


she inherited all the :unique" facial features from both her parents..poor child.

IstenSzek said:

And Lourdes can be their version of Mayte

sosgemini said:

She looks like lost 4th member of Hanson

There is some unreleased stuff from their last recording session. I think that's when they did You Know You're Right. In the liner notes to With The Lights Out, it says they did like 8 songs that day.

Still, three new songs and the rest coming from WTLO doesn't excite me that much. WTLO was great to listen to once (and really only from a historical perspective), then I just made a redux of the best stuff (most of which had already been released). The DVD sucked except for maybe two songs.

andyman91 said:

if this new thing has some of the better WTLO tracks on it, i might end up getting it...i bought the box set and then sold it right back. i think it was just me being weird, but i felt it was some kinda bottom-of-the-barrel, exploit-the-fans marketing crap. i did the same thing - burned the tracks i liked, then got rid of it. a single disc seems a lot more manageable to me.

Anxiety said:

It makes a pretty good single disc, but three were a bit much for all but die hard fans (and maybe a bit much for them, too). It really is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Even the Beatles Anthology was better recordings than most of the Nirvana stuff. And the best of the WTLO stuff was the b-sides/rarities which had already been released!