Kurt Cobain fans looking to rewind back to the grunge rock days of the '90 are in for one hell of a ride. A strange mixtape that was allegedly created by Cobain before Nirvana's 1989 album Bleach has just surfaced.
Discovered by Dangerous Minds, the mixtape has an experimental sound. The 36-minute mixtape titled Montage of Heck, starts off normally, but gets really weird and great really fast. Most of the tracks feature strange sounds from hell including an exorcism, vomiting, yelling, laughs and other odd sounds. There are also soundbites from songs by The Velvet Underground, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Queen, proving that the then 21-year-old was influenced by these musicians.
"All in all, we sound like the Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath," Cobain said after Nirvana made it big in the early 90s.
It is believed that Cobain created Montage of Heck in 1988 with a 4-track cassette recorder. The soundscape from the Nirvana frontman is hauntingly beautiful, and gives fans access to his strange mind and how he thought about sounds. Because streaming sites didn't exist at the time, 21-year-old Cobain had to have owned copies of all the sounds he samples in the mixtape.
The following is a list of the sound components used to create the mixtape:
"The Men In My Little Girl's Life" by Mike Douglas
"The Sounds of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" by The Beatles
"A Day In The Life" by The Beatles
"Eruption" by Van Halen
"Hot Pants" by James Brown
"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" by Cher
"Go Away Little Girl" by Donny Osmond
"Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver
"Everybody Loves Somebody" by Dean Martin
"The Candy Man" by Sammy Davis, Jr.
"In A Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly
"Wild Thing" by William Shatner
"Taxman" by The Beatles
"I Think I Love You" by The Partridge Family
"Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?" by The Barbarians
"Queen Of The Reich" by Queensryche
"Last Caress/Green Hell" covered by Metallica
"Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin
"Get Down, Make Love" by Queen
"ABC" by The Jackson Five
"I Want Your Sex" by George Michael
"Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden
"Eye Of The Chicken" by Butthole Surfers
"Dance of the Cobra" by Butthole Surfers
"The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" by Butthole Surfers
"New Age" by The Velvet Underground
"Love Buzz" by Shocking Blue
Orchestral music from 200 Motels by Frank Zappa
"Help I'm A Rock" / "It Can't Happen Here" by Frank Zappa
"Call Any Vegetable" by Frank Zappa
"The Day We Fall In Love" by The Monkees
"Sweet Leaf" by Black Sabbath (intro)
Theme from The Andy Griffith Show
Mike Love (of The Beach Boys) talking about "Transcendental Meditation"
Excerpts of Jimi Hendrix speaking at the Monterey Pop Festival
Excerpts of Paul Stanley from KISS' Alive!
Excerpts of Daniel Johnston screaming about Satan
Excerpts from sound effects records
Various children's records (Curious George, Sesame Street, The Flintstones, Star Wars).
Listen to the track in full below and enjoy the ride.
Kurt Cobain's "Montage Of Heck" from SpaceEcho on Vimeo.
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