News 15 Oct 2015

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

By Justyn Barnes

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 Beatles’ And 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.

Super Deluxe Edition

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Deluxe Edition

2LP Deluxe Edition

Single CD Edition

CD and 2LP vinyl deluxe edition

The Yodel Song
Been a Son (Early Demo)
What More Can I Say
1988 Capitol Lake Jam Commercia
The Happy Guitar
Montage of Kurt
Beans
Burn the Rain
Clean Up Before She Comes (Early Demo)
Reverb Experiment
Montage of Kurt II
Rehash
You Can’t Change Me/Burn My Britches/Something in the Way (Early Demo)
Scoff (Early Demo)
Aberdeen
Bright Smile
Underground Celebritism
Retreat
Desire
And I Love Her
Sea Monkeys
Sappy (Early Demo)
Letters to Frances
Scream
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Demo)
Kurt Ambiance
She Only Lies
Kurt Audio Collage
Poison’s Gone
Rhesus Monkey
Do Re Mi (Medley)

CD standard edition

The Yodel Song
Been a Son (Early Demo)
The Happy Guitar
Clean Up Before She Comes (Early Demo)
Reverb Experiment
You Can’t Change Me/Burn My Britches/Something in the Way (Early Demo)
Scoff (Early Demo)
Desire
And I Love Her
Sappy (Early Demo)
Letters to Frances
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Demo)
She Only Lies

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