Ho la passione per le b-sides degli artisti che più amo: ho scovato in questo modo, spesso, vere e proprie miniere d'oro. Avevo già scritto dell'enorme (a livello qualitativo e quantitativo) materiale che l'incoscienza dei Blur aveva relegato a semplici lati b quando qualsiasi gruppo sano di cervello ci avrebbe campato su decenni. Non potevano mancare i Nirvana, con i loro singoli, le loro b-sides, le loro rarità estratte da varie pubblicazioni, ufficiali e non.
"With The Lights Out" era un buon cofanetto retrospettivo, forse un pò troppo dispersivo: dai tre dischi e un dvd di materiale pubblicato si poteva tirar fuori senza nessun problema un doppio album, magari a prezzo di un singolo, e sarebbe stato un ottimo "Incesticide 2", e non un "Cash Cow", come Cobain avrebbe voluto chiamare "Incesticide" all'epoca, "oh well, whatever, nevermind".. Quello che volevo sottolineare e ciò che davvero importa, alla fine, sono le emozioni che provo ogni volta che metto su pezzi come "Even In His Youth", "Sappy", "Clean Up Before She Comes", vere e proprie gemme preziose, incomprensibilmente tenute nascoste ai più. C'è il lerciume di "I Hate Myself And I Want To Die" e "Curmudgeon", l'ossessione di "Moist Vagina" e la quiete di "Marigold", unico brano firmato esclusivamente da Grohl del catalogo Nirvana, senza dimenticare le splendide cover di Velvet Underground ("Here She Comes Now"), Wipers ("D-7" e "Return Of The Rat") e Leadbelly, il bluesman amatissimo da Cobain ("Ain't It A Shame", "They Hung Him On A Cross" e "Grey Goose").
E c'è la sua furia da belva ferita, ora lucida ("Taken Eastern Song", "Oh, The Guilt"), ora offuscata ("If You Must"), ora totalmente cieca ("Anorexorcist", "Mrs Butterworth"): sempre e comunque sconvolgente.
Non so cosa avrebbe fatto Cobain con o senza i Nirvana: il famoso progetto con Stipe dei R.E.M.? Un lavoro sulla sperimentazione selvaggia divenendo "quasi psichedelico ma con una struttura più forte"? Un ultimo disco acustico stile "Unplugged In New York"? Poi ascolto la splendida "You Know You're Right", l'ultimo brano inciso, e capisco la totale inutilità di farsi tante domande: la risposta è lì, nell'alternarsi tra quiete e tempesta, nelle urla liberatorie di un autore estremamente vivo e inquieto, nel geniale istinto compositivo di una delle più belle anime che il rock ci abbia mai regalato.
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02 Even in His Youth (03:06)
Even in his youth
Even in his youth
Even in his youth he was nothing
Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean going nowhere
Daddy was ashamed
Daddy was ashamed
Daddy was ashamed he was something
Disgrace the family name
Disgrace the family name
Family name he was something
Read this book, before your though (hard to tell)
I've got nothing left to proove
If I die
Far away
Hope I don't come back to stay
Even in his youth
Even in his youth
Even in his youth he was nothing
Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean
Kept his body clean going nowhere
Daddy was ashamed
Daddy was ashamed
He was ashamed he was nothing
Disgrace the family name
Disgrace the family name
Family name going nowhere
Leave this one, for your though (hard to tell)
I've got nothing left to proove
If I die
Far away
Hope I don't come back to stay
Oh yeah
Read this book, for your through (hard to tell)
I've got nothing left to prove
If I die
Far away
Hope I don't come back again
Ok yeah
Even in his youth
Even in his youth yeah yeah
Even in his youth
Even in his youth yeah yeah
Even in his youth
Yeah yeah
Even in his youth
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
03 Aneurysm (04:50)
Come on over, and do the twist, ah-ha
Over-do it, and have a fit, ah-ha
Love you so much, it makes me sick, ah-ha
Come on over and, do the twist, ah-ha
Beat the outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat the outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat the outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat the outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat the outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat the outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me
Come on over, and do the twist, ah-ha
Over-do it, and have a fit, ah-ha
Love you so much, it makes me sick, ah-ha
Come on over, and shoot the shit, ah-ha
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me (beat it, beat it)
Beat me outta me
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
She keeps it pumpin' straight to my heart
05 Endless, Nameless (06:46)
Silence, here I am.
Here I am, silent.
Bright and clear, it's what I am.
I have died.
Mother,
Mother,
Mother,
Mother.
Death with violence,
Excitement right here.
Died, go to hell.
Here I am right here.
No mas,
No mas,
No mas,
No mas.
Death is what I am.
Go to hell, go to jail,
In back of that crime.
Here I am, take a chance.
Dead!
Die!
13 Curmudgeon (03:01)
I can't hide, no
On the mantle
I'm not sad
Until I'm home
It's the season
I'm all reason
I have seen
All I have grown
Sheared at the seams
Cheat on me
And not seen
At the seams
I'm a lender
I'm a planter
I put something
In the garden
In the handle
On the mantle
I met Santa
I met God
I'm a lady
Can you save me?
It's the sulfur
I have grown
'Tis the season
I'm all reason
I have fleas
So run on home
14 Heart-Shaped Box (04:40)
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar-pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar-pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Your advice
Your advice
16 Marigold (02:37)
He's there in case I want it all
He's there cause I want
He's scared cause I want it all
He's there cause I want
All in all the clock is slow
Six color pictures all in a row
Of a marigold
He's there in case I want it all
He's there cause I want
He's scared cause I want it all
He's there cause I want
All in all the clock is slow
Six color pictures all in a row
Of a marigold
19 Moist Vagina (03:35)
She has a moist vagina
I particularly enjoy the circumference
And the circular walls of her anus
I prefer her to any other
Marijuana
Marijuana
Marijuana
She had a moist vagina
I prefered her to any other
Marijuana (x11)
20 Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (taken from "MTV Unplugged In New York") (05:08)
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