Sliver: The Best of the Box

Release date: 1 Nov 2005
Running length: 25 tracks
Running time: 84:27

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Spank Thru (1985 Fecal Matter Demo)	3:44	16,040
2	Heartbreaker (Live)	2:58	23,369
3	Mrs. Butterworth (rehearsal demo)	4:04	13,510
4	Floyd The Barber (Live)	2:32	49,817
5	Clean Up Before She Comes (home demo)	3:12	15,782
6	About A Girl (Home Demo)	2:43	19,220
7	Blandest (studio demo)	3:56	18,309
8	Ain't It a Shame (studio demo)	2:03	9,851
8	Aint it A Shame (Studio Demo)	2:03	14,723
9	Sappy (1990 Studio Demo)	3:32	22,637
10	Opinion (solo acoustic radio appearance)	1:35	15,629
11	Lithium (solo acoustic radio appearance)	1:49	17,169
12	Sliver (home demo)	2:10	19,194
13	Smells Like Teen Spirit (Home Demo)	5:40	10,451
13	Smells Like Teen Spirit (Boom Box Version)	5:40	7,180
14	Come As You Are (Boom Box Version)	4:09	17,173
15	Old Age (Nevermind Outtake)	4:19	20,536
16	Oh The Guilt (B-Side)	3:24	1,282
17	Rape Me (Home Demo)	3:23	18,404
18	Rape Me (band demo)	3:03	18,983
19	Heart Shaped Box (band demo)	5:33	16,467
20	Do Re Mi (Home Demo)	4:23	17,803
21	You Know You're Right (Home Dem	2:30	10,633
21	You Know You're Right (Home Demo)	2:29	9,794
22	All Apologies (Home Demo)	3:33	18,223

About this album

Sliver: The Best of the Box was the fourth Nirvana album to be released following the death of lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994. It contains 19 tracks pulled from the band’s 2004 box set, With the Lights Out, as well as three previously unreleased recordings: “Spank Thru,” from the 1985 Fecal Matter demo, a 1990 studio recording of “Sappy,” and a 1991 boombox demo of “

Come as You Are.” The Fecal Matter version of “Spank Thru” is arguably the most historically significant of the previously unreleased tracks, since it was apparently the recording which convinced Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic to form a band with Cobain.