CASSETTE OF THE DAY - NIRVANA INCESTICIDE

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I love physical media!  LPs, cassettes, CDs, laserdiscs, VHS.  I literally have hundreds of these things and when I last moved I thought to myself, I need to use these everyday if I'm going to keep moving them around with, so every morning on the way to work I have a CD of the day that I pop in my car's CD player (I have a 2019 Honda Fit I bought because it was the last car on the lot that had a CD player!) and a cassette of the day that I listen to on my work break when I walk to the park.  I thought I would be cool to share a little bit about each album, so below is the Wikipedia entry for this one!  Enjoy@

Incesticide is a compilation album by the American rock band Nirvana. It consists of their 1990 non-album single "Sliver", B-sides, demos, outtakes, cover versions, and radio broadcast recordings, and as such is not the official follow-up to the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind.

The album was released on December 14, 1992, in Europe, and December 15, 1992, in the United States. It eventually reached number 39 on the Billboard 200.

Early in 1992, Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop contacted Gary Gersh, who had previously signed Nirvana to DGC Records, to inform him that Sub Pop still had a number of unreleased early Nirvana recordings in their possession.^[2] The band had intended to release the material via Sub Pop and cynically called it Cash Cow. However, Sub Pop could not match Geffen's distribution network, and the band felt that getting the material maximum exposure was important.^[3] Sub Pop sold the recordings to Geffen for "a six-figure amount" on the condition that the band would create and approve the release of an album by Christmas 1992.^[2]

At the time, the majority of the material on Incesticide was circulating within fan communities (albeit in lower quality). It was widely reported in the music press that the band wanted to offer fans a higher-quality alternative. In the book Cobain Unseen, Charles R. Cross writes that Kurt Cobain agreed to the release of this compilation because he was allowed complete control over the album's artwork.

Since the songs were recorded in different sessions and some were recorded when Nirvana did not have a stable formation, the album includes recordings by four different drummers: Chad Channing, Dan Peters, Dale Crover, and Dave Grohl.

·         "Been a Son" was a song originally released on the 1989 Blew EP, the version on Incesticide was recorded in 1991 during a BBC Radio 1 live studio session.

·         "(New Wave) Polly" is a hard rock version of the Nevermind album track, "Polly". The version on Incesticide was recorded in 1991 during a BBC Radio 1 live studio session.

·         "Aneurysm" was a song originally released as a b-side to the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single, the version on Incesticide was recorded two months later during a BBC Radio 1 live studio session

·         "Dive" and "Sliver" were released on the "Sliver" single in 1990. "Dive" was also previously released on The Grunge Years compilation album in 1991.

·         "Stain" was released on the Blew EP in 1989.

·         The three cover songs, "Turnaround" (Devo), "Molly's Lips" and "Son of a Gun" (The Vaselines) were released on the Hormoaning EP in 1992, which was only released in Japan and Australia. All three songs were recorded live in 1990 during a BBC Radio 1 live studio session.

·         "Mexican Seafood" appeared on the 1989 Teriyaki Asthma Volume 1 compilation.

·         "Beeswax" appeared on the 1991 Kill Rock Stars compilation album.

·         "Downer" appears as a bonus track on the CD version of Nirvana's 1989 debut album, Bleach.

The cover art was painted by Cobain,^[4] who is credited as Kurdt Kobain in the liner notes.^[5] The rubber duck seen on the album's back cover belonged to art-designer Robert Fisher. The front cover prominently displays a poppy, hinting at Cobain's struggle with heroin addiction.

The first several pressings of the album contained liner notes written by Cobain, including a statement decrying homophobia, racism and misogyny:^[6]

If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us—leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Versions of the album containing the liner notes by Cobain could be found at record stores as late as 1998. Initial copies in the U.S. and Canada also contained a Parental Advisory label.^[7]