Nirvana - Love Buzz b/w Big Cheese (1988 US) | Seattle Grunge | Full 45 Rip

The ten seconds at the front of this record do not exist anywhere else. Kurt Cobain spliced them together out of children's records, and they came off when the song went on Bleach. Sub Pop SP 23, November 1988. Nirvana's first record, and the first thing the Sub Pop Singles Club ever sent out. A thousand sleeves were hand numbered in red pen and this is number 373. Twelve hundred sleeves were made in all, so the other two hundred got a red slash instead of a number, and some of those went out as promos. Cut at Reciprocal Studios in Seattle in the summer of 1988 with Jack Endino. Kurdt Kobain on vocals and guitar, Chris Novoselic on bass, Chad Channing on drums, spelled the way the sleeve spells them. The sleeve credits the band as co-producers alongside Endino. The label credits Endino alone. The A side runout is etched "Why don't you trade those guitars for shovels?" Love Buzz is a Shocking Blue cover, written by Robby van Leeuwen, who played the sitar on the 1969 original from a Dutch album called At Home. B ig Cheese is Cobain's. He told Michael Azerrad in Come As You Are that it was about Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop: "I was expressing all the pressures that I felt from him at the time because he was being so judgemental about what we were recording." Three women made everything you can see on this record. Susanne Sasic drew the label. Lisa Orth did the jacket, and went on to design the cover of Bleach. Alice Wheeler took the photographs. Sub Pop had incorporated that April and nearly went under inside a month. Bruce Pavitt said they almost went bankrupt after a month. The Singles Club was the fix: subscribers paid up front and got a record in the post every month. This was the first one, and by 1990 the club had two thousand subscribers. Sounds made it single of the week, which was the first time a British magazine mentioned the band at all. Everett True wrote in Melody Maker that Nirvana are beauty incarnate. 0:00 Needle drop 0:08 Love Buzz 3:48 Flipping it over 4:17 Big Cheese 🎧 Rare 45rpm Vinyl Rips - promo singles and obscure 7-inches: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pZAodT9-v-Lehtz7BPAlxi 🎧 Full Vinyl Rips - rare psych and rock LPs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn 🔴 Live Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:30am PT, one record from my collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9qEwJJg-w9RXM0MsbSk5H3F 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #Nirvana #SubPop #RareVinyl #45RPM #VinylCollector