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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / New box set is Nirvana for Cobain fans |
 | | Of course, as disc 1 begins, it's hard to imagine this is the band that would someday create such classics as ''Polly" and ''All Apologies." The earliest recording here is also Nirvana's first public performance in 1987 -- so early, in fact, the band didn't even have a name. |
 | | Recorded at a house party in Raymond, Wash., it features Cobain, Novoselic, and then-drummer Aaron Burckhard playing a ragged cover of Led Zeppelin's ''Heartbreaker." (Until Grohl joined the band in 1990, Cobain and Novoselic went through drummers faster than Spinal Tap.) |
 | | From its inception, Nirvana was devoted to playing ''heavy rock with punk overtones," as Cobain is quoted as saying in the liner notes, and songs such as ''Anorexorcist" -- Cobain loved playing with words -- and ''Pen Cap Chew" are all blistering bombast. |
| www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/11/23/new_box_set_is_nirvana_for_cobain_fans (569 words) |
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