Ranked #1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and voted as “Nirvana’s #1 Greatest Moment” by fans in an NME poll, Nirvana’s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the UK’s Reading Festival is one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock n roll.
While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until 2 years later on In Utero: "All Apologies,” “Dumb,” and in its first ever public performance, “Tourette's." The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and first single “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-‘80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound – “The Money Will Roll Right In” by Fang and “D-7” by The Wipers. [hereisnirvana.com]
1-the rose (intro) 00:00
2-Breed 01:30
3-Drain You 04:40
4-Aneurysm 08:35
5-School 13:10
6-Sliver 16:22
7-In Bloom 18:37
8-Come As You Are 23:10
9-Lithium 26:45
10-About a Girl 31:57
11-Tourette's 35:05
12-Polly 37:01
13-Lounge Act 39:50
14-more than feeling (cover) 42:50
15-Smells Like Teen Spirit 43:28
16-On a Plain 48:45
17-Negative Creep 51:44
18-Been a Son 54:40
19-All Apologies 58:00
20-Blew 01:01:30
21-Dumb 01:06:52
22-Stay Away 01:09:37
23-Spank Thru 01:13:08
24-Love Buzz 01:16:14
25-smoke on the water (cover) 01:20:10
26-The Money Will Roll Right In 01:21:11
27-D-7 01:23:25
28-Territorial Pissings 01:27:10
29-the star spangled banner 01:29:28
6 Comments
flechettesays...Oh MAN! I LOVE YOU for posting this set. <3 <3
Duckman33says...I have this whole concert in HD Tivo file format recorded from the Palladium HD music channel. Been trying to find a good converter so I could post this to youtube or burn to DVD. Anyone have any suggestions?
alien_conceptsays...*quality
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antonyesays...*promote
siftbotsays...Invocations (promote) cannot be called by antonye because antonye is not privileged - sorry.
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