Listen To Kurt Cobain’s Pre-Bleach Mix Tape
Mix tapes are generally associated with rap and hiphop however there is a new mix tape circulating that is very far from rap or hiphop. This mix tape is from Kurt Cobain and was reportedly created a year before the release of Nirvana’s Bleach.
For the Nirvana fans out there let me warn you before you spend the 36 minutes listening to it. This isn’t Nirvana music and if you don’t have the stomach for some pretty out there stuff you just might want to skip it.
What the 4 track recording called Montage of Heck does do is give us a glimpse into a 21 year old Kurt Cobain’s mind and also a look at some of the music he was listening to at the time. We’ve got to assume that Kurt actually had physical copies of all of the stuff on the mix tape because back in 1988 we didn’t have all of the online streaming music sites like we have now.
As I mentioned earlier this is definitely NOT Nirvana and at times becomes a bit disturbing. The title of the tape is ‘Montage of Heck’ and to me that is a perfect name for it. There is a whole heck of a lot of noise and other stuff in the mix. When I say ‘other stuff’ you will know what I mean when you give it a listen…spoiler alert. There is one point in the tape where it sounds like a loop of someone puking their guts out. But hey…art is art and we are talking about Kurt Cobain here.
Another pretty interesting aspect of this tape is the wide range of tastes that Cobain apparently had. You can find everything from snippets from The Andy Griffith Show to The Jackson Five, Butthole Surfers , The Partridge Family and even some Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin. Can you picture a young Kurt sitting around listening to some Dean Martin after he finished watching The Andy Griffith Show?
The full list of tracks is listed below. Enjoy. You can also listen for yourself right here.
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