NIRVANA - HORMOANING EP ORIGINAL Australian release
$
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You are looking at an ORIGINAL copy of the Hormoaning EP by Nirvana, pressed in Australia on red and blue swirl vinyl.
Sleeve: EX
Record: NM
This is the super-rare red and blue swirl vinyl limited Australian pressing of Nirvana's 1992 Tour special release, pressed on the Geffen label. There were only a few hundred pressed and this one has been kept in immaculate condition. You won't find a better copy, and if you are a collector of essential grunge music, you will surely want this record.
allmusic.com says of Hormoaning:
Originally released to promote Nirvana's early 1992 Australian tour (and reissued a month later in Japan for similar purposes, albeit with different cover art), the Hormoaning EP quickly became a much sought-after item to Nirvana fans and collectors alike. Not only was it produced in relatively scarce quantities, but it also gave those who were lucky enough to track down a copy an opportunity to hear an assortment of rare tracks unavailable elsewhere (that is until Incesticide, which contains most of these songs, was released later in the year). Only two originals are featured on Hormoaning — the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" B-side, "Even in His Youth", and the colossal, foreboding "Aneurysm". However, in the same way that MTV Unplugged in New York would later prove, the four cover songs here tell as much about Nirvana as do the originals. Kurt Cobain's wide-ranging influences are acknowledged as if they were one and the same — the group's love of new wave (shown in their take on Devo's "Turnaround") is treated no differently as their nod to Northwest underground punk stalwarts the Wipers ("D-7") or Cobain's beloved Scottish twee pop heroes, the Vaselines ("Son of a Gun" and "Molly's Lips"). Regardless of the availability of most of this material elsewhere, Hormoaning still serves as a revealing entry in the catalog of the most influential rock band of the '90s.
Track listing is as follows:
- Turnaround
- Aneurism
- D-7
- Son Of A Gun
- Even In His Youth
- Molly's Lips
POSTAGE RATES (in US dollars):
- Australia: $8 (Registered)
- Rest of the world, including USA: $15 (Registered Airmail)
I will mail this by Registered Post. I have absorbed some of the postage cost myself to keep the price attractive to bidders.
BUYERS in AUSTRALIA and USA PLEASE NOTE THE POSTAGE RATES ABOVE - THE RATES IN THE PRE-FILLED BOXES ARE INACCURATE FOR YOUR COUNTRY DUE TO EBAY's PRE-SELECTION CRITERIA NOT CATERING FOR SELLERS BASED OUTSIDE THE USA.
On Nov-14-09 at 16:20:42 PST, seller added the following information:ADDITIONAL INFORMATION provided by seller:
I have been informed that there were in fact 4000 of these EPs pressed. This link (below) provides more information (including evidence that this is in fact a genuine copy, not a counterfeit):
http://www.livenirvana.com/digitalnirvana/discography/nirvana/gef21711.html
Additional photo (of Side 1) added. (I had originally uploaded two pics of side 2. Ebay would not let me delete one of them after a bid was placed.)
