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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Geffen Records
Salesrank: 7749
Released: November 23, 2004 |
| Our Price: $36.75 |
| Used Price: $14.19 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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With The Lights Out Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Heartbreaker [Live][#]
2. Anorexorcist [#]
3. White Lace and Strange [#]
4. Help Me I'm Hungry [#]
5. Mrs. Butterworth [#]
6. If You Must [#][Demo Version]
7. Pen Cap Chew [#][Demo Version]
8. Downer [Live][#]
9. Floyd the Barber [Live][#]
10. Raunchola/Moby Dick [Live][#]
11. Beans [Acoustic][#]
12. Don't Want It All [Acoustic][#]
13. Clean Up Before She Comes [Acoustic][#]
14. Polly [Acoustic][#]
15. About a Girl [Acoustic][#]
16. Blandest [#][Demo Version]
17. Dive [#][Demo Version]
18. They Hung Him on a Cross [#][Demo Version]
19. Grey Goose [#][Demo Version]
20. Ain't It a Shame [#][Demo Version]
21. Token Eastern Song [#][Demo Version]
22. Even in His Youth [#][Demo Version]
23. Polly [#][Demo Version]
Disc 2:
1. Opinion [Acoustic][#]
2. Lithium [Acoustic][#]
3. Been a Son [Acoustic][#]
4. Sliver [Acoustic][#]
5. Where Did You Sleep Last Night [Acoustic][#]
6. Pay to Play [Demo Version]
7. Here She Comes Now [Demo Version]
8. Drain You [#][Demo Version]
9. Aneurysm [Demo Version]
10. Smells Like Teen Spirit [#][Demo Version]
11. Breed [Rough Mix][#]
12. Verse Chorus Verse [#][Outtake]
13. Old Age [#][Outtake]
14. Endless, Nameless [#]
15. Dumb [#]
16. D-7 [#]
17. Oh the Guilt
18. Curmudgeon
19. Return of the Rat [Outtake]
20. Smells Like Teen Spirit [Butch Vig Mix]
Disc 3:
1. Rape Me [Acoustic][#]
2. Rape Me [#][Demo Version]
3. Scentless Apprentice [#][Demo Version]
4. Heart Shaped Box [#][Demo Version]
5. I Hate Myself and Want to Die
6. Milk It [#][Demo Version]
7. M.V. [#][Demo Version]
8. Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip
9. Other Improv [#][Demo Version]
10. Serve the Servants [Acoustic][#]
11. Very Ape [Acoustic][#]
12. Pennyroyal Tea [Acoustic][#]
13. Marigold
14. Sappy (AKA Verse Chorus Verse) [#]
15. Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam [#][Demo Version]
16. Do Re Mi [Acoustic][#]
17. You Know You're Right [Acoustic][#]
18. All Apologies [Acoustic][#]
Editorial Review:
The box set spans Nirvana's entire career, from a recording of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" at the band's first show in 1987 to solo acoustic performances from singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain in 1994. With The Lights Out features a 60-page color booklet with rare photos and liner notes by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and writer Neil Strauss. The three CDs, arranged largely chronologically contains home and rehearsal demos, including for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (whose lyric "With the lights out" provides the set's title), "Rape Me," "Heart Shaped Box" and a trio penned by legendary bluesman Leadbelly. Heard in the 12 previously unreleased solo acoustic tracks are such gems as "All Apologies," "Lithium" and "Sliver." Six previously unreleased radio performances range from "Anorexorcist" in 1987 to "Dumb" in 1991 (two years before it was on 1993's In Utero). Along with the remaining debuts are a handful of earlier issued, though rare, b-sides and demos as well as the original Butch Vig mix of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Highlighted on the With The Lights Out DVD is a previously unreleased video of nine songs performed in 1988 at bassist Krist Novoselic's mother's house in Aberdeen, Washington; the rare "In Bloom" Sub Pop music video, and 10 never-before-seen live performances. Noteworthy among them are debut renditions of "Pennyroyal Tea", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" both from early 1991. Also premiering is an unlikely performance of Jacques Brel and Rod McKuen's "Seasons In The Sun" shot at a Rio de Janeiro studio.
Description of With The Lights Out:
Nirvana may have been the biggest thing in the music world in the early '90s, but the trio maintained an uncommon devotion to core fans who knew them when they were still sleeping in a van. Fending off the adoration of punk-rock dabblers in the media and their audience while simultaneously welcoming stalwart underground-music supporters, Kurt Cobain did things on his own terms--until it all came crashing down. A decade after Cobain's 1994 suicide and the band's demise, With the Lights Out remains true to the ethos that defined the band and the alt-rock revolution that rose and fell with them.
Eschewing the standard hits-sprinkled-with-rarities mix, this lovingly compiled three-CD, one-DVD collection is made up almost entirely of previously unreleased selections. The handful of previously heard tracks are obscurities along the lines of the group's cover of "Here She Comes Now," recorded for a 1990 indie-rock tribute to the Velvet Underground. But it's not the B-sides and compilation oddities that define this idiosyncratic set; rather, its spirit is captured in the bedroom demos, radio performances, and sloppy amateur video recordings that catch Cobain and cohorts developing from just another punk- and metal-inspired bunch of grunge rockers pounding away in the bass player's mom's living room into a band that defined an era. --Steven Stolder
With The Lights Out Reviews:
Far from essential 
2009-10-20 - I love Nirvana. Music off this set NEVER (ok, extremely rarely) gets listened to. Buy it if you love Nirvana and are a completist only - else, pretty much everything else. Could be a good gift for someone if they are fully into em and have everything else though.
With the lights out box set. 
2009-09-28 - The price is somewhat high, considering that the sound quality is lacking on certain tracks, but you do get to hear rare tracks, that you probably never heard before, demos, acoustic versions of songs, on three CD's, along with one DVD, of basically home video footage, shot before the band started touring, later you see some stage performances, in better quality video, but they should have included all the videos, for that price.
good stuff 
2009-09-21 - Well, this was a good buy, I'm a huge Nirvana fan so I had to buy this. It has alot of songs I haven't heard and some I have. Its raw stuff here and I like that! Nothing really polished here. The DVD was really cool the best thing about the DVD was "Jesus dosent want me for a sunbeam". 3 CD's here with a bunch of good stuff! Some filler crap I don't like but still awesome none the less. The book was really cool its got a bunch of photos and stuff and some info on all the stuff in the CD/DVD. It's expensive but worth every dollar I got it for $40 bucks.
A must-have for any Nirvana fan
2009-04-26 - I bought this box set as soon as it came out and it was definitely worth it.
asfd
2009-04-02 - Great album, all the extra stuff you need to complete your nirvana collection. BUY IT NOW
