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About This Track
“Drain You” is a song by American rock band Nirvana, and the eighth track from the band’s 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind.
According to Nevermind producer Butch Vig on the Classic Albums: Nevermind DVD, “Drain You” had more guitar overdubs than any other song on the album: one clean track and five distorted tracks. Cobain tended to dislike heavily overdubbed songs, and so Vig had to tell Cobain lies, such as that tracks did not record right or were out of tune, in order to get him to do so many takes. Some of the strange noises during the middle section of the song are caused by children’s toys Cobain brought into the studio. In his biography of Kurt Cobain Heavier than Heaven, biographer Charles Cross wrote, “When Kurt was questioned about the song he said he had made a lot of it up on the spot but that the first line…was particularly important to the interpretation of the song…”
On the Nevermind version, Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic tuned their instruments a whole step down. In concert, however, “Drain You” was generally played in whatever tuning the band was using throughout the rest of the concert — generally standard tuning in earlier concerts (prior to the 1992 Pacific Rim tour in support of Nevermind) and half-step-down in later concerts. The song’s verse is based around a conventional chord progression of four power chords B, D#, G#, C#, the riff (F#)- E -C# for the choruses, and a chorus ending of B, A, G#.
According to Nevermind producer Butch Vig on the Classic Albums: Nevermind DVD, “Drain You” had more guitar overdubs than any other song on the album: one clean track and five distorted tracks. Cobain tended to dislike heavily overdubbed songs, and so Vig had to tell Cobain lies, such as that tracks did not record right or were out of tune, in order to get him to do so many takes. Some of the strange noises during the middle section of the song are caused by children’s toys Cobain brought into the studio. In his biography of Kurt Cobain Heavier than Heaven, biographer Charles Cross wrote, “When Kurt was questioned about the song he said he had made a lot of it up on the spot but that the first line…was particularly important to the interpretation of the song…”
On the Nevermind version, Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic tuned their instruments a whole step down. In concert, however, “Drain You” was generally played in whatever tuning the band was using throughout the rest of the concert — generally standard tuning in earlier concerts (prior to the 1992 Pacific Rim tour in support of Nevermind) and half-step-down in later concerts. The song’s verse is based around a conventional chord progression of four power chords B, D#, G#, C#, the riff (F#)- E -C# for the choruses, and a chorus ending of B, A, G#.
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Shouts
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khendri3 wrote:
i love love love this song. i have since i dunno maybe 13 years old. amazing....
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RhythmNgrunge wrote:
This song's about how El Duce assassinated Kurt Cobain, it's all a conspiracy. N.H.K, look it up, they're behind everything, shoving are perfect little society off mother earth's stable tilt of 23.5 degrees. Get invovled by before it's too late.
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kurtnirvanakris wrote:
drain you is so awesome
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Boshwadam wrote:
just watch the version of this from Live at the Paramount in Seattle. end of debate.
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sodr2 wrote:
nostalgic to the max
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justboy2 wrote:
mtv nirvana live n lound best version of this music
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juncopartnerrr wrote:
i love this song so fucking much
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luizprigol wrote:
the 94 french tv version is the best imo
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safimolly wrote:
miss you kurt
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Billo007x wrote:
I like you.
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christles wrote:
One of the few songs I like from Nevermind.
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kurtnirvanakris wrote:
long live the 90s,one of the best years of rock.
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kurtnirvanakris wrote:
i love Nirvana
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kurtnirvanakris wrote:
so romantic
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KurdtXCobain27 wrote:
I don't care what you think, unless it is about me :)
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MorganTheMelody wrote:
I'm lucky to listen to this song <3
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camelfilters- wrote:
i like you
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LawLieTicp wrote:
awsome track
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kcnirva wrote:
Probably my favourite on the album.
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kurtnirvanakris wrote:
one of my favorites
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