Nirvana

With The Lights Out

An Abomination

Review Score:

(2/10)
When the lights went out on Kurt Cobain, it was truly the end of an era. Nothing can erase the importance Nirvana had on pop culture, and their place near the top of the rock pantheon is secure. But this box set is an abomination. Three discs of alternate takes, demos, doodles, live tracks, etc., never congeal to show us the genius behind the depressive. Instead, they make a case for Cobain's all too fallible humanity. Disc One is nearly unlistenable in its entirety. Disc Two barely passable, and Disc Three the only one anyone need own of the three. And the DVD, important as it might be as a document, is simple bait to get you to fork over your hard-earned cash. Listen, kids, these half-baked cuts aren't going to bring him back. You want to remember him in his full glory, there's plenty out there. But not this lame @#$%.

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