Nirvana's Legendary, Internationally Acclaimed Reading 1992 Concert Finally Available on a Pristine-Sounding Authorized Vinyl Version

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. Now, fans finally can own a pristine copy of that entire performance complete with remastered audio.

While the shows centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldnt be released until a year later on In Utero: "All Apologies, Dumb, and, in its first ever public performance, Tourettes." The career-spanning set list also reached back to the bands 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for Blew, About A Girl, School, Negative Creep, and the band's first single Love Buzz, and even further back 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.

Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didnt see it then it was something you pretended you saw. - Kerrang, October 2003

The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up Cobains ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise. - Rolling Stone, October 1992

Review

A1 Breed
A2 Drain You
A3 Aneurysm
A4 School
A5 Sliver
A6 In Bloom
B1 Come As You Are
B2 Lithium
B3 About A Girl
B4 Tourette'S
B5 Polly
B6 Lounge Act
C1 Smells Like Teen Spirit
C2 On A Plain
C3 Negative Creep
C4 Been A Son
C5 All Apologies
C6 Blew
D1 Dumb
D2 Stay Away
D3 Spank Thru
D4 The Money Will Roll Right In
D5 D-7
D6 Territorial Pissings