Live at Reading

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Nirvana’s Legendary, Internationally Acclaimed Reading 1992 Concert Finally Available on a Pristine-Sounding Authorized Vinyl Version

Ranked #1 inKerrangmagazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and voted as “Nirvana’s #1 Greatest Moment” by fans in anNMEpoll,Nirvana‘s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at theUK’s Reading Festivalis one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll. Now,fans finallycan own a pristine copy of that entire performance complete with remastered audio.

While the shows centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entireNevermindtracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldnt be released untila yearlater onIn Utero: “All Apologies, Dumb, and, in its first ever public performance, Tourettes.” The career-spanning set list also reached back to the bands 1989Sub Popdebut album,Bleach, for Blew, About A Girl, School, Negative Creep, and the band’s first single Love Buzz, and even further back for Spank Thru.

Other songs from theReadingset would appear in studio form on theIncesticidecompilation later in the year: Aneurysm, Been A Son, and Sliver.Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formativeNirvanasound: The Money Will Roll Right In by Fangand D-7 by The Wipers.

Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didnt see it then it was something you pretended you saw.–Kerrang,October 2003

The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up Cobains ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise.–Rolling Stone,October 1992

1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. Tourette’s
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. The Money Will Roll Right In
23. D-7
24. Territorial Pissings