Nevermind It's an Interview

Did You Know?

• In 1996, it was released as part of a limited edition promotional CD box set in Australia for promotion of Nirvana's live album, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, limited to 3,000 copies.
• For a limited time, the entire CD was included at the end of the iTunes version of With the Lights Out, Nirvana's posthumous rarities box set released in 2004.

Original release

Back in 1992, Geffen Records put out a limited-edition CD called Nevermind It's an Interview. It was written, produced, and engineered at WFNX in Boston by Kurt St. Thomas and Troy Smith, who later co-wrote a book about the band. The interview material was recorded on the same night Nirvana first appeared on Saturday Night Live. The disc packs over an hour of conversation, plus live and studio tracks. The idea was to give radio stations around the world an interview to play, since the band was too busy to visit every station. Today, copies are scarce and highly sought after by collectors.

Track listing

All songs are incomplete unless otherwise noted. Track 1 includes "Breed", "Stay Away", "School", "Mr. Moustache", "Sifting", "In Bloom", "Spank Thru", "Floyd the Barber", "Scoff", "Love Buzz", "About a Girl" (live, full - 10/31/91 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA), "Dive", "Sliver", and "Aneurysm" (live, full - 10/31/91 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA). Track 2 includes "Lithium", "Even in His Youth", "Drain You" (live, full - 10/31/91 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA), "Something in the Way", "Come as You Are", "Polly", "In Bloom", "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "On a Plain" (live, full - 10/31/91 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA), "Stay Away", and "Endless, Nameless" (live, full - 10/31/91 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA).

Track 3 includes "Molly's Lips" (live, 02/09/90 - Pine Street Theatre, Portland, OR), "Stain", "School" (live, full - 10/31/91 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA), "Big Cheese", "Been a Son", "Territorial Pissings" (full), and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (full). The live versions of "Drain You" and "School" were released on some versions of the "Come as You Are" single in 1992. The back cover reads: "Kurt St Thomas, Music director of WFNX, Boston, speaks with Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl about life in Nirvana, circa 1992."