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Kurt Cobain / Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings / Deluxe Editions

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To complement the blu-ray/DVD release of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck documentary, Universal Music will next month offer a companion soundtrack of previously unreleased raw home recordings that shine a light on Cobain’s creative process…

The material on Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings has been selected by the documentary’s writer-director Brett Morgen from over 200 hours of Cobain’s early recordings on 108 cassette tapes and, in Morgen’s words, it “unfolds like a concept album”. Indeed, it features everything from spoken-word pieces and audio experiments to early demos of Nirvana songs such as Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle and Sappy and Cobain’s private cover version of The BeatlesAnd I Love Her.

“I curated the album to create a feeling that the listener was sitting in Kurt’s apartment in Olympia, Washington, in the late Eighties, and bearing witness to his creation,” Morgen told Rolling Stone magazine. “I’m a filmmaker so there is a cinematic quality to it.”

Morgen pre-empts potential criticism for putting out unfinished work, comparing the album to Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series and saying: “It’s not just scraps of discarded, insignificant material. It really is furthering our understanding of one of the most significant artists of our time.”

The Home Recordings will be issued as a 13-track standard edition CD or 31-track deluxe CD which is also available on 2LP vinyl. And for those who want the documentary film and soundtrack and more in one package, there’s the Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Super Deluxe Edition which includes:

  • • Full-length feature film with 48 minutes of bonus interviews on Blu-ray and DVD
  • • 31-track deluxe soundtrack on CD and cassette
  • 160-page hardback book with extended interviews and images from the Cobain archive
  • • Puzzle with collectable storage container, movie posters, postcard and bookmark

All editions of Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings are released on 13 November 2015 with the exception of the 2LP vinyl deluxe edition which follows on 4 December.

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Super Deluxe Edition

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Deluxe Edition

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2LP Deluxe Edition

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Single CD Edition

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CD and 2LP vinyl deluxe edition

  1. The Yodel Song
  2. Been a Son (Early Demo)
  3. What More Can I Say
  4. 1988 Capitol Lake Jam Commercia
  5. The Happy Guitar
  6. Montage of Kurt
  7. Beans
  8. Burn the Rain
  9. Clean Up Before She Comes (Early Demo)
  10. Reverb Experiment
  11. Montage of Kurt II
  12. Rehash
  13. You Can’t Change Me/Burn My Britches/Something in the Way (Early Demo)
  14. Scoff (Early Demo)
  15. Aberdeen
  16. Bright Smile
  17. Underground Celebritism
  18. Retreat
  19. Desire
  20. And I Love Her
  21. Sea Monkeys
  22. Sappy (Early Demo)
  23. Letters to Frances
  24. Scream
  25. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Demo)
  26. Kurt Ambiance
  27. She Only Lies
  28. Kurt Audio Collage
  29. Poison’s Gone
  30. Rhesus Monkey
  31. Do Re Mi (Medley)

CD standard edition

  1. The Yodel Song
  2. Been a Son (Early Demo)
  3. The Happy Guitar
  4. Clean Up Before She Comes (Early Demo)
  5. Reverb Experiment
  6. You Can’t Change Me/Burn My Britches/Something in the Way (Early Demo)
  7. Scoff (Early Demo)
  8. Desire
  9. And I Love Her
  10. Sappy (Early Demo)
  11. Letters to Frances
  12. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Demo)
  13. She Only Lies

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