LIVE NIRVANA BOOTOGRAPHY: Live On Air (v2)

Label: No Label
Catalog Number:  Unknown
Recorded performance:  04-17-87 - KAOS Olympia Community Radio - Olympia, WA United States
Recorded performance:  01-11-92 - NBC Studios (Saturday Night Live) - New York, NY United States

Disc 1 Runtime:  44:34 / 13 Tracks
Matrix: unknown

Additional Artwork


Disc 1
01) Rape Me 2:41
02) Smells Like Teen Spirit 4:59
03) Territorial Pissings 2:47
04) Heart Shaped Box 4:45
05) Love Buzz 4:03
06) Floyd The Barber 2:34
07) Downer 2:26
08) Mexican Seafood 2:25
09) White Lace And Strange 2:06
10) Spank Thru 3:10
11) Anorexorcist 3:09
12) Hairspray Queen 4:55
13) Pen Cap Chew 4:31
Live On Air

Live Nirvana Bootography Rating: C 

Live Nirvana Bootography Review:
Well it made sense to amalgamate the 2 very short discs of the original pressing into one DVD with the 4/17/87 tracks as Audio tracks, but the quality of the 1/11/92 SNL show is still very poor.

This disc first surfaced around June 2008.
Some British DVD production companies seem to have found a loophole in the law that allows them to produce "Legal Bootlegs" similar to the shortlived situation in Australia that occurred around 1994 with the unauthorised live cd's and these DVD's are now cropping up in normal high street record shops in the UK. the DVD has a square blue "Nirvana Broadcasting live" logo in the bottom right corner of the picture throughout and songwriting credits are superimposed on the screen at the the start of the song as required by the law. Rape Me is in very good quality, likely ripped from the offical official SNL DVD. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Territorial Pissings" are from a very generated tape and badly encoded with lots of digital artefacts on sound and vision and overall quality on a par with a VCD.
The final track "Heart Shaped Box" is slightly worse quality than "Rape Me" but no where near as bad as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Territorial Pissings"

The first Bar of "Rape Me" has been cut, presumably to disguise the origin of the footage (The Official SNL DVD.


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