Dive (song)
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| “Dive” | ||
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| Song by Nirvana | ||
| Album | The Grunge Years and later Incesticide | |
| Released | September, 1990 as b-side to Sliver single | |
| Recorded | April 1990 at Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Length | 3:55 | |
| Label | Sub Pop | |
| Producer | Butch Vig | |
"Dive" is a song by the American rock band, Nirvana. It first appeared as the b-side on their single for the song, "Sliver" in 1990
[edit] History
"Dive" was written by Kurt Cobain in early 1989. The first studio version was recorded in the spring of 1989 by Greg Babior (a founding member of the band Earth) in Olympia, Washington.
However the first version of "Dive" to be released was the b-side on the "Sliver" single. This version was also included on the compilation album The Grunge Years in 1991, and again on the band's "odds-and-sods" compilation album Incesticide in 1992. This version of the song was recorded in April 1990 by Butch Vig (who later produced the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind) in Madison, Wisconsin.
A live version of "Dive," recorded on January 23, 1993, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, appears on Nirvana's home video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! released in 1994.
The first recording of the song from 1989 was finally released on the band's posthumous rarities box set, With the Lights Out in 2004. This version is notable for being one of only two studio recorded songs featuring guitarist Jason Everman.
[edit] Trivia
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- According to the 2001 Cobain biography Heavier than Heaven by Charles R. Cross, "Dive" is the favorite Nirvana song of Cobain's widow, Courtney Love. Cobain himself was less enthusiastic about the song, dismissing it as "yet another re-write of the heavy string-bend grunge formula" in the 1992 Incesticide press kit.
[edit] References
- Cross, Charles. Heavier Than Heaven. Hyperion, 2001. ISBN 0-7868-6505-9
