Kurt Cobain - Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings (2015)

Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings is a compilation of home recordings by Kurt Cobain that were used as the soundtrack to the film Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, released posthumously on November 13, 2015 by Universal Music. The album was released as a standard 13-track album.

The 13-track standard version focuses on the music found on Cobain's personal cassettes.

The original cassette tapes that were used to create Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings were discovered by Brett Morgen when he was approached by Courtney Love and Francis Bean Cobain about making a documentary about Kurt Cobain. 

He discovered over 200 hours of audio cassettes that had never been heard by the public before. 

Of the 108 tapes, Morgen chose to release cassette number 54, entitled Montage of Heck; he used it as the companion album to his documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck.

The tracks on the album are a culmination of covers, original songs, early Nirvana demos, interludes, and spoken word entries recorded by Cobain. 

Some notable demos included are "Scoff", "Been a Son", "You Can’t Change Me / Burn My Britches / Something in the Way", and "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle", whose studio versions all appeared on one of Nirvana's three studio albums, Bleach, Nevermind, and In Utero. Additionally, it features the songs "Sappy", "Clean Up Before She Comes", and "Do Re Mi" which can all be found on the box set With the Lights Out. 

Along with the demos, there are a multitude of previously unreleased songs by Kurt Cobain, including "Burn the Rain", "Rehash", and "Letters to Frances". 

One of the project's most recognized tracks is Cobain's cover of the Beatles' song "And I Love Her". Another very notable track is "Aberdeen", which sees Cobain speak about a suicide attempt in high school.

Track listing

1.  The Yodel Song - 3:35

2.  Been a Son (Early Demo) - 1:20

3.  The Happy Guitar (Instrumental) - 2:12

4.  Clean Up Before She Comes (Early Demo) - 2:34

5.  Reverb Experiment - 2:52

6.  You Can't Change Me/Burn My Britches/Something In The Way (Early Demo) - 4:18

7.  Scoff (Early Demo) - 0:37

8.  Desire - 2:27  

9.  And I Love Her - 2:04  (Lennon–McCartney)

10.  Sappy (Early Demo) - 2:28

11.  Letters to Frances - 2:28

12.  Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Demo) - 4:23

13.  She Only Lies - 2:47

All songs written by Kurt Cobain except where noted. 

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – UMG Recordings, Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – The End Of Music, LLC
• Copyright © – The End Of Music, LLC
• Manufactured By – Universal Music Enterprises
• Distributed By – Universal Music Distribution
• Glass Mastered At – Technicolor, Guadalajara, Mexico – 568171
• Pressed By – Technicolor, Guadalajara, Mexico

Credits

• Written-By – Kurt Cobain (tracks: 1 to 8, 10 to 13), Lennon-McCartney (tracks: 9)

Notes

Released:  Nov 13, 2015

Recorded: 1986–1994 

Genre:  Rock

Style:  Grunge, field recordings, spoken word, sound collage

Length: 33:48

Label - Universal Music Enterprises