Song List

FULL LIST OF ALL NIRVANA SONGS:

This list includes pretty much everything Nirvana did:
Covers, instrumentals, demos, jams, intros, rehearsals and live performances.
Some of these 'songs' are just names after something the band has said
on stage. For example when Dave said "We practiced last night" - then it
could end up as a song called "Practice" on some CDs...
Note: The song is written by it's most "popular title", and the name after
the / is what the song has been called on bootlegs and more.
Version 8.6
Last updated: February 4 - 1998

A beauracratic desire for revenge parts 1 & 2(By the band "Earth" with Kurt on Guitar)
About a girl / Queer!
Adorn / Adore (the unnamed song on the KAOS radio show)
Aero zeppelin / Zero Zeppelin
Ain't it a shame (Kurt on lead vocals with Mark Lanegan)
All along the watchtower (Kurt did a cover of the guitar riff from this song)
All apologies / What else could I be / Mary / All Progressive
All you need is love (Beatles cover, Chris sings a blurb of this at the 1/20/90 show between songs as Kurt tunes his guitar)
Aneurysm / Aneurism / Come on over / Any Rithm
Anorexorcist
Another One Bites The Dust(Queen Cover, played 10/02/91)
Anywhere But Here/Determined(with Kurt, Courtney, Kristen and Patty)
Asking for it (Hole with Kurt on back vocals)
Baba O' Riley (The Who cover)
Bad moon rising (a cover of Creedence Clear Water Revival, performed at early 1987 and 1988 shows. It appears on a setlist in Come As You Are.)
Barney vs. Slash (Just a jam)
Bass solo (Jam from a concert)
Beans / Beans & Wine
Been a son / She should, been a son / In the sun
Beeswax
Big cheese / Big Chief
Big long now / Blind / Can we show our faces?
Bikini Twilight (Kurt played together with the band "Go team")
Black & White blues / Black, White and The Blues
Blandest / Saviour
Blew / Blue / Shame (Perhaps also called "Coxxyx")
Bloody Blood (?)
Breed / Immodium
Buzz Cut / What's the meaning? (Early intro for LOVE BUZZ - see "The Landlord" for more details)
Castration(from the Come As You Are Book, might be a song Geffen has locked away)
Clean up before she comes
Closure / Drum solo
Color pictures of Marigold (Dave's original version of Marigold)
Come as you are
Communication Breakdown
Courtney Love Eulogy
Coxxyx (Blew EP, demo)
Crisco
Curmudgeon
D-7 / Dee seven / Straight as an arrow / Dementia 7 (Written by "The Wipers")
Dance / Dance '93 (Recorded in the summer of '93 - Session where Kurt was drunk)
Dave's Techno Jam (David Grohl playing some 'techno jam' on his drums and saying "ME GUSTA TECHNO!!!")
Dazed and confused / Jam (Led Zeppelin cover)
Dive / Guide / Down with me
Do you love me? (Kiss cover song)
Donuts (The Legend cover - Pat Smear is on vocals)
Dough, Ray , And me / Me and my IV / Doctor and Me (This song might have been rehearsed at Laundry Room Sessions in March 94' - It is unknown)
Down in the dark (Kurt on back vocals with Mark Lanegan)
Downer / Donner
Drain you / Drain your aneurysm (!) / Draw you
Dream on (Aerosmith cover, performed live in Phoenix, AZ on 10/18/93)
Drugs
Dumb / Just happy / Ain't over / Womb
Endless, Nameless / Guitar Demolition / 13:54 / Sorry ma'am / Summer
Even in his youth
Every single grape (Just talk - Backstage from the "1991: The year punk broke" video)
Floyd the barber / Freud the barber
Fountain Soda (Before "Muddy Banks" was released, there was rumor that a new Nirvana double-CD set was going to come out under the title "Cookie", and this was to be a song on it. Courtney Love and her band Hole have done this song, under the title "Drown Soda". Nirvana supposedly recorded this during the January 1994 sessions.)
Formaldehyde / Bullshit Jam
Frances farmer will have her revenge on Seattle
Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd Cover)
Frizzle / Frazzle (Kurt solo from January 27-29 1994)
Gallons of rubbing alcohol flow through the strip / Devalued American Dollar Purchase Incentive Track (This is what the sticker on the cover reads) - Last song on import versions of "In Utero")
Get together / Het together (Krist's intro-solo for Territorial pissings, by The Youngbloods)
Going Blind (Kiss cover with the Melvins)
Grey Goose (From August '89 sessions)
Gypsies, Tramps, And Thieves (pre-Nirvana with Krist on vocals)
Hairspray queen / Disco Goddess / Disco Queen / Midnight
Happy hour / Happy tour / Token Eastern song (This is apparently an instrumental version of "Junkyard")
HeartBreaker (Led Zeppelin cover)
Heart-shaped box / Wait / Heart Shaped Coffin / Haight
Hello Kitty (From Kurt's joke side band, Nighty Nite, with Courtney Love and Patty Schemel)
Help me, I'm hungry / Nevermind / Help / Help me
Help me, Death Jam (Live in New York, NY on 9/28/91)
Here I am
Here she comes now (Velvet underground cover)
High on the Hog / Alcohol (TAD cover)
Hometown (John Mellencamp cover)
How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin cover, played at an '87 show)
Hummingbirds from Hell (Nirvana & the Melvins)
I can live (Demo from '90 - Is on one of the fake Outcesticide 6's)
I died a swords man (Might be another name for 'Suicide Samurai')
I feel fine (Beatles cover)
I hate myself and want to die / Classics / 2 Bass kid
I'm a Vegetarian (This jam was played 10/2/91 in Washington D.C. It's short, but Chris is pretty funny as he sings it. He ends it by saying "Kurt Cobain" about 10 times.)
Intro (The one from 'Wishkah)
I wanna be your dog (Stooges cover)
If I Gave My Heart To You/If I Fell (The Beatles cover, played 1/20/90 in Tacoma, WA)
If you must / The Extreme
Immigrant song (Led Zeppelin cover)
In Bloom / Knows Not What It Means / He Knows Not What It Means
In his hands / In his room / Without A Shape
If I gave you my heart (Beatles cover, Krist sings it in the 1/20/90 show)
It's closing soon / Closing soon / Drunk in Rio (with Courtney Love)
Jealousy / Jelousy / Jealous / Isebella / Personalities
Jeremy Jam (Pearl Jam cover I guess..)
Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam / Jesus don't want me / Jesus wants me / Jesus wants me for a sunbeam (Written by Eugene Kelly & Francis McKee of The Vaselines)
Junkyard / Born in a junkyard
Krist Novoselic Eulogy
Lake of fire (Meat Puppets cover)
Lemonade Nation (From Kurt's joke side band, Nighty Nite, with Courtney Love and Patty Schemel)
Lithium / Lythium / Broken Mirrors / Lithilm
Loser
Lounge act / Tell me
Love buzz / Love Box / Love Bug (Written by Robby Van Leeuwen, performed by Shocking Blue)
Love gun (Krist & Dave - Kiss cover)
Macho Man (Just a short jam where one of the band members say "Macho, Macho man")
Marigold / I want it all / She Said (Dave on vocals)
Meltdown
Mexican seafood / Dirty Digger / Mexican Seawood
Midnight Macaroni (This song is fake, it's actually Beck's song "Motherfucker")
Milk it / Test me / Milk cow / Milking It / Avant Garde
Misery loves company / The Extreme / Spectre / Maiden Circle / Sad / Look For Company / Unexpected
Miss World (with Kurt, Courtney, Kristen and Patty)
Moby dick / Moby dick jam (Led Zeppelin cover)
Moist Vagina / MV / Marijuana / Smelly Vagina / Moiste Vagina
Molly's lips / Mummy's home / Polly's Lips (The Vaselines cover)
Montage of heck part 1+2 / The Landlord part 1+2
Buzz cut / The Landlord part 1 (Original intro to "Love Buzz" but got ditched, cuz it was too long)
Noise Bleed / The Landlord part 2 (Original intro to "Love Buzz" but got ditched, cuz it was too long)
More than a feeling (Boston cover)
Morphine (Jam)
Moving In Stereo (End of My Best Friend's Girl)
Mr. Moustache
My Best Friend's Girl (The Cars cover)
My Sharona (The Knack cover)
Negative creep / Hate me, Never Retreat
No Quarter (Led Zeppelin cover)
Noise / The end of music (end of concert) / (Endless, Nameless) / Demolition /
Destruction / Improvisation / Come on Death
Noise Bleed
Oh, me (Meat Puppets cover)
Oh, the guilt / It takes a time
Old age (A song hole covered during their unplugged. Kurt wrote this song and gave it to Courtney. It might have been recorded during the Nevermind sessions, it is unknown)
On a plain
On the mountain / You got no right / AutoPilot
Opinion
Ouroboros is broken (By the band "Earth" with Kurt on Guitar)
Paper cuts
Pay to play / Make it big (demo version of "Stay Away" with alt. lyrics)
Pen cap chew / Rise
Pennyroyal Tea / Tired / I'm so tired / Household drugs / China Tea
Phone conversation with Krist and Jon Poneman (From "Sliver" single)
Plateau (Meat Puppets cover)
Play that funky music /Thank You (Wild Cherry cover)
Polly / Cracker / Seed / Final flight / Hollywood Smokes (Polly inspired by the 'Cigarette version' )
Purple Rain(Prince cover)
Radio Friendly unit shifter / Radio friends / My Sharona / Four Month Media Blackout
Rape me / Break me / Wreck me / Waif me
Raunchola (Sometimes called "Run, Rabbit, Run!" but there's a different sounding song called this too)
Return of the rat (Written by "The Wipers")
Rio (Duran Duran cover)
Rock Whore / Crisco / Demolition
Run to the hills (Iron Maiden Cover. Part of this was played at the 2/22/94 show)
Run, Rabbit, Run / Anorexorcist (Smack cover)
Sacrifice (Krist & Buzz Osbourne)
Scentless apprentice / Away / Out of face
School
Scoff
Scratch It Out (Kurt w/ Go Team)
Seasons in the sun (Terry Jacks cover)
Serve the servants / Sundown
Sex bomb (Flipper cover)
She Dances In The Sand (1/16/93 Sao Paulo)
Sifting
Silent night (Probably just "The priest they called him")
Sky Pup (Melvins song that Kurt plays guitar on)
Sliver / Silver / Take me home / Never take me home
Smells like teen spirit / Teen Gothic / The hit / Teen Spirit / SLTS
Smoke on the water (Deep Purple Cover, jammed at the 2/22/94 show)
Something in the way / Something in the May
Son of a gun (The Vaselines cover)
Sounds of distortion (The end of the Live & Loud show)
Spank Through / Spanks Thru / Freedom of choice / Make it big / Heartbreak / Speaks Through / Love is a drag
Spread Eagle Beagle (Melvins song that Kurt helped produce and played extra percussion on)
Spread Eagle Witch (Outtake of Spread Eagle Beagle)
Stain
Star Spangled Banner (Jam)
Stay away ("Nevermind" version) / Star away
Sunshine of your Love
Swap meet
Sweet emotion jam (Aerosmith cover)
Sweet home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
Sweet Jam (Early '94 acoustic jam - Probably "Sweet Emotion" jam)
Talk to me
Territorial Pissings
The Dodge (Jam)
The end (The Doors cover)
The man who sold the world (David Bowie cover)
The money will roll right in (Fang cover)
The 'Priest' they called him (Kurt plays background guitar on this"story"by William Borroughs Who died in Aug. '97)
The Rose (Bette Midler song ?)
Token Middle Eastern song (Believed to be an Instrumental version of Junkyard)
Tourette's / Downtown / The eagle has landed / Fineprint / New Poopy
Turnaround / Pretty scary (Devo cover)
Twilight Zone (Jam from the famous TV show)
Twister (possibly a Nighty Nite song, with Schemel and Love of Hole and Kurt)
Vendettagainst / Vendettagainst 88'
Verse chorus verse / Sappy / Everything and nothing / Another rule / The Rocker / Seed / Happy / VCV / Mistero / The Grasshopper
Very ape / Into the fire - into the dirt / Into the dirt / Punky New Wave Number
Viking Guillotine (???)
Violet (With Courtney Love)
Yellow Submarine (Beatles cover)
Walk Don't Run
Way of the world (Krist & Buzz Osbourne)
We will rock you (Queen cover, Performed live on 2/19/92 in Tokyo, Japan)
What's Up (4 non Blondes cover played 10/18/93 in Arizona)
Where did you sleep last night / Black Girl / My Girl / In the pines (Written by Huddie Ledbetter of Leadbelly)
White Boy Funk Sucks (Just a short jam)
White Lace and strange (Cover of the Thunder and Roses obscure 1970s hit.Chris sings this song. Played '87 -'88.)
Wild Thing Jam (Troggs cover)
Yes she is my skinhead / She is my skinhead - Yes, she is my skinhead (Unrest cover - Might never have been performed)

THE FECAL MATTER DEMO: [1985/86]
Sound of Dentage
Bambi Slaughter / Bambi Kill / Bambie Kill
Laminated Effect
Buffy's Pregnant
Spank Thru
Downer (instrumental)
Suicide Samurai / Seaside Suicide
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* = Not confirmed
* 1994
* Ain't over
* Bliss (This is probably not a song, but just one of Nirvana's pre-band names)
* Blossom (Possibly In Bloom)
* Call it what you want
* Dead
* Dead is dead (Probably the same as 'dead')
* Death here it is again
* Determine
* Dissimulate
* Distorted Moon
* Fun's Monday
* Garbage man song
* Hydroplane
* I'm Thinking
* Jilted again
* Leave me alone
* Milk made (Possibly "milk it")
* Monster Mash Jam
* Nicotine
* No Alternate (Possibly Verse Chorus Verse)
* Our little song
* Pogo (Also some talk stuff..)
* Practice (Probably when Dave says "We practiced last night")
* Punk theme
* Ramble on jam
* Scarf
* Slut
* Smile and Die
* Song in 'D' (?)
* Special
* Star jam
* Stiff Woodies (This is probably not a song, but just one of Nirvana's pre-band names)
* Talksong
* Ted-ed-fred (This is probably not a song, but just one of Nirvana's pre-band names)
* The bastard
* Throat Oysters (This is probably not a song, but just one of Nirvana's pre-band names)
* Ups and Downs
* Vegetables
* Virtuous Pagons
* Yearspew
Nirvana has also made demo versions, Live versions, "acoustic" versions, Mix versions, even elevator music versions of some of the songs. Even some of the songs above were only played live, and the live version is then listed above. Other bands have also covered some of the songs. Remember that some of the Nirvana members have also played in other groups. If you didn't find the song you were looking for on this list, please
e-mail me (Here) and I'll add it promptly.

Nirvana played some of the songs above, under the following band names:
Fecal Matter
Brown Cow
Stiff Woodies
The Sellouts
Skid Row
Ted, Ed, Fred
Bliss
Throat Oyster
Pen Cap Chew
Windowpane
Nighty Nite
Melvana

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