NIRVANA A Season in Hell Part One is a 3 CD bootleg box set made in Italy and released by Banzai Records in 1994. The collection is housed in a square matte finish box which also includes a 7″x7″ booklet with 24 pages of photographs and information about the recordings presented on the set.
Spanning the three-disc, 66-track collection, there are two 1990 shows, several demos, some rare live material, several B-sides, and compilation tracks.
A Season in Hell Part One, CD 1
Tracklist:
- Aneurysm (early version)
- Oh, the Guilt (early version)
- Mr. Moustache
- Pay to Play
- Breed
- Floyd the Barber
- About a Girl
- Verse Chorus Verse
- In Bloom
- Swap Meet
- Been a Son
- Stain
- Blew
- Sappy
- Lithium
- School
- D-7 ( the Wipers cover)
- Here She Comes Now (The Velvet Underground cover)
- Sliver
All tracks from an incomplete audience source recorded live at the Off Ramp Café, Seattle , Washington on November 25, 1990.
NIRVANA: A Season in Hell Part One, CD 2 – 3 cover album
A Season in Hell Part One, CD 2
Tracklist:
- Love Buzz (Shocking Blue cover)
- Floyd the Barber
- Scoff
- Dive
- Spank Thru
- About a Girl
- Sappy
- School
- Breed
- Been a Son
- Stain
- Negative Creep
- Blew
- Beans
- Montage of Heck (short version)
- Spank Thru (from Sub Pop 200)
- About a Girl
- Mr. Moustache (early version)
- Sifting (instrumental version)
- Blew (early version)
- Do You Love Me? (from Hard to Believe – Kiss cover)
- Been a Son
- Stain
- Even in His Youth
Tracks 1-13: From a near complete audience source recorded live at the Town Pump, Vancouver, British Columbia on March 12, 1990, just two months prior to the departure of drummer Chad Channing.
Tracks 14 and 15: Recorded on a 4-track at the Cobain residence, Olympia, Washington in 1988. “Beans” later appeared on With the Lights Out.
Tracks 18-20: Recorded summer 1988 at Reciprocal Recording, Seattle, Washington, with songs that appeared on the “Love Buzz” single.
Track 21: Recorded in 1989, released later in a Kiss Tribute Album Hard to Believe: A Kiss Covers Compilation
Tracks 22-24: Recorded at The Music Source, Seattle, Washington in September 1989. “Been a Son” and “Stain” appeared on the Blew EP. “Even in His Youth” later appeared on With the Lights Out.
NIRVANA A Season in Hell Part One, CD 3
Tracklist:
- Polly
- Help Me I’m Hungry
- Polly
- About a Girl (Sliver b-side)
- Spank Thru (Sliver b-side)
- Molly’s Lips (from The Fluid split single – The Vaselines cover)
- D-7 (from Hormoaning – the Wipers cover)
- Aneurysm (Smells Like Teen Spirit b-side)
- Even in His Youth (Smells Like Teen Spirit b-side)
- Talk to Me
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Something in the Way
- Been a Son
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Territorial Pissings
- Return of the Rat ( the Wipers cover)
- Curmudgeon (Lithium b-side)
- Oh, the Guilt (from The Jesus Lizard split single)
- Sappy (from No Alternative)
- I Hate Myself and Want to Die (from The Beavis & Butt-Head Experience)
- Marigold (Heart-Shaped Box b-side)
- Moist Vagina (All Apologies/Rape Me b-side)
- Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip
Track 1: Recorded at The Music Source, Seattle, Washington in September 1989 and later appeared on With the Lights Out.
Track 2: From a soundboard source recorded live at V4, Vienna, Austria on November 22, 1989.
Tracks 3, 12 and 13: From BBC radio sessions recorded at Maida Vale Studios, London, England in 1989 and 1991. “Been a Son” appeared on Incesticide.
Tracks 4-6: From a soundboard source recorded live at the Pine Street Theatre, Portland, Oregon on February 9, 1990. The complete show would later be released as a bonus to the reissue of Bleach in 2009.
Track 10: From an audience source recorded live at Bloom, Mezzago, Italy on November 17, 1991.
Track 11: Recorded for Top of the Pops at BBC Elstree Centre, Hertfordshire, England on November 28, 1991 and appeared on Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!.
Tracks 14 and 15: Recorded for Saturday Night Live at NBC Studios, New York, New York on January 11, 1992.
Track 23: Appeared as a bonus on non-US pressings of In Utero.
The third disc of this collection is the least significant since the majority of the tracks are taken from b-sides of singles and compilation appearances. The release of With the Lights Out further denotes the importance of this disc, though it does still contain some unreleased material and even had some stolen by Blue Moon Records for its Outcesticide series.
