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With The Lights Out Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Everything I expected, no surprises like I'd hoped
Comment: Per the title, this was everything I expected, but I was really hoping for a few surprises.. I think the most enjoyable part of the whole set was the booklet that came with it, it had a history of Nirvana and I learned a few new things about the band. I pretty much bought it because 1) It was on sale and 2) I got my first car in 10 years that had a CD player in it.

I think anyone that actually buys it will think it's well worth it. If it wasn't for the booklet though, I probably would have given it 3 stars. I don't know why I didn't enjoy it more but the music seemed like it was either the same old stuff or something I didn't really care for.

Also Dave and the Foo Fighters were on Top Chef the other day :)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Nirvana fan's nirvana
Comment: There really is no need for a rating between 2 and 4 stars on this set. It's probably safe to say that you are either going to love it or hate it.....it's a 1 or a 5 and nothing in between.

If you like all the pretty songs and could care less what it all means, then this set is not what you are looking for. This set is everything but radio friendly, and was clearly designed for some other purpose than shifting units. Go out and buy the greatest hits CD, or just pick up the studio albums.

If you are a fan, then this set is Nirvana nirvana.

In Nirvana nirvana you take the good and the bad. The good is that it's incredibly powerful music by an incredible artist. The bad is that it's powerful music coming from a very negative place. Just look at the way Cobain went out, and you'll know why the pain in the music never comes out forced. The theme here is depressing and if it ever sounds optimistic, then you are hearing what's called cynicism. That's Nirvana nirvana for you, but then...only fans are going to like this anyway.

A lot of the music on here won't be new to fans. Much of it has been available (with far more clicks and hiss) for many, many years on the bootleg label. You still want to own this though, because of how good a job they did cleaning it up. Take 'Here She Comes Now', an incredible Velvet Underground cover where the bootleg had decent audio overall, even with the audible *CLICK* of a tape player at the start, etc. The cleaned up version in this set sounds near pristine - no click, no hiss, just a powerful cover. Other tracks fair better or worse, overall, but do incredibly well given what they were working with. Clearly, a lot of effort went into cleaning things up, and it payed off.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: case looks good
Comment: the audio quality on these tracks is absolute crap....

I've heard demos before... these are worse than demos.

They must have recorded these with a portable cassette player, that, or i'm thankful to god curt cobain died before i could hear him in concert.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Much Better Than Expected
Comment: I anticipated something different and got it. Nice variations on Nirvana standards and stuff that commercial radio would never touch. It makes it sadder that Cobain is gone. In retrospect, he was a real innovator and created a lot of the genre, which shows through in this set.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful collection of music
Comment: Nirvana is one of my favorite bands. This is a great collections of songs. I really enjoy listening to this album from the first track to the last without skipping any songs.

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