Nirvana Hormoaning 12" EP Australian Tour ORIG SWIRL
$
301
$ 301
Sold For
Apr 8, 2005
Sold Date
Apr 1, 2005
Start Date
$ 80
Start price
12
Number Of Bids
USA
Country Of Seller
eBay
Auctioned at
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Nirvana- Hormoaning 12" EP: Australian Tour Edition (original Blue/Red Swirl Vinyl!!!) (DGC GEF21711)
Wickedly rare original red & blue swirl vinyl Nirvana Australian Tour EP from 1992.This includes some of Nirvana's scarcest sides with some radio session tracks and 4 great covers (1 Devo song, 1 Wipers song & 2 Vasalines songs).
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN PRESSING!
Tracks are:
Side One 1 Turnaround
2 Aneurysm
3 D-7
Side Two
4 Son of a Gun
5 Even in His Youth
6 Molly's Lips
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.
allmusic.com says of Nirvana:
Prior to Nirvana, alternative music was consigned to specialty sections of record stores and major labels considered it to be, at the very most, a tax write-off. After the band's second album, 1991's Nevermind, nothing was ever quite the same, for better and for worse. Nirvana popularized punk, post-punk, and indie rock, unintentionally bringing it into the American mainstream like no other band before it. While its sound was equal parts Black Sabbath (as learned by fellow Washington underground rockers the Melvins) and Cheap Trick, Nirvana's aesthetics were strictly indie rock. They covered Vaselines songs, they revived new wave cuts by Devo, and leader Kurt Cobain relentlessly pushed his favorite bands — whether it was the art punk of the Raincoats or the country-fried hardcore of the Meat Puppets — as if his favorite records were always more important than his own music. While Nirvana's ideology was indie rock and melodies were pop, the sonic rush of their records and live shows merged the post-industrial white noise with heavy metal grind. And that's what made the group an unprecedented multi-platinum sensation. Jane's Addiction and Soundgarden may have proven to the vast American heavy metal audience that alternative could rock, and the Pixies may have merged pop sensibilities with indie rock white noise, but Nirvana pulled at all together, creating a sound that was both fiery and melodic. Since Nirvana was rooted in the indie aesthetic, but loved pop music, they fought their stardom while courting it, becoming some of the most notorious anti-rock stars in history. The result was a conscious attempt to shed their audience with the abrasive In Utero, which only partially fulfilled the band's goal. But by that point, the fate of the band and Kurt Cobain had been sealed. Suffering from drug addiction and manic depression, Cobain had become destructive and suicidal, though his management and label were able to hide the extent of his problems from the public until April 8, 1994, when he was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Cobain may not have been able to weather Nirvana's success, but the band's legacy stands as one of the most influential in rock & roll history.
Nirvana began playing parties in Olympia, gaining a cult following. During 1987, the band made ten demos with producer Jack Endino, who played the recordings to Jonathan Poneman, one of the founders of the Seattle-based indie label Sub Pop. Poneman signed Nirvana, and in December of 1988, the band released their first single, a cover of Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz." Sub Pop orchestrated an effective marketing scheme, which painted the band as backwoods, logging-town hicks, which irritated Cobain and Novoselic. While "Love Buzz" was fairly well-received, the band's debut album, Bleach, was what began the ball rolling. Recorded for just over 600 dollars and released in the spring of 1989, Bleach slowly became a hit on college radio, due to the group's consistent touring. Though Jason Everman was credited as a second guitarist on the sleeve of Bleach, he didn't appear on the record; he only toured in support of the album before leaving the band at the end of the year to join Soundgarden and then Mindfunk. Bleach sold 35,000 copies and Nirvana became favorites of college radio, the British weekly music press, and Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, and Dinosaur Jr., which was enough to attract the attention of major labels.
Similar Artists Hole Soundgarden Mudhoney The Breeders Everclear Bush Sugar Green River Hüsker Dü PJ Harvey Screaming Trees Dinosaur Jr. Oasis The Jesus Lizard Silverchair Radiohead Urge Overkill 50 Foot Wave Mad Season Big Heavy Stuff Redd Kross
Influenced By Cheap Trick R.E.M. The Vaselines Melvins Sonic Youth Pixies Meat Puppets Black Sabbath The Beatles Wipers The Who Neil Young The Velvet Underground AC/DC The Replacements Butthole Surfers Big Star Flipper Black Flag Devo The Stooges
Followers Hole House of Large Sizes Therapy? Bush Muse Silverchair Everclear Super Deluxe Sleater-Kinney Souls Chopper One Oleander Velour Tocotronic The Flys Thursday Lucid Nation Chris OppermanOzma The Moto-Litas
See Also Sweet 75 Kurt Cobain The Germs Foo Fighters The No W.T.O. Combo Eyes Adrift Jane Scarpantoni Scream
12" EP and cover are MINT, played about 3 times and always kept in a mylar sleeve.
I can accept Money Orders, Checks (Checks take a week to clear) or on-line payment through Western Union www.auctionpayments.com, I don't accept Paypal, sorry. I will ship internationally. Checks require 10 days to clear. Sorry I do not accept Paypal.
Buyer pays shipping (sorry, but Priority and Overseas has gotten expensive):
Media To USA : $2.75
Priority In The US : $5.50
Airmail To Canada: 6.00
Europe/Australia/NZ: $10.00
Asia: $11.50
price rating
