Love Buzz/Big Cheese

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"Love Buzz" was the first single released by Nirvana in 1988 on Sub Pop Records. This single contained two songs from the debut album Bleach. It was a limited release of only 1000 hand numbered 7"s. Several different counterfeit pressings are also in circulation. Many of these counterfeit copies are printed on coloured vinyl, whereas all the originals were on black vinyl. The single contains "Love Buzz", a cover version with slightly different lyrics than the Shocking Blue original and "Big Cheese" on the B-side. The Bleach album version of Love Buzz was mixed differently and is missing a 10-second sound collage introduction put together by Kurt Cobain. "Love Buzz" was later released on the EP Blew.

In 1989 a review by British music magazine Melody Maker described the Love Buzz single as "Limited edition of 1000; love songs for the psychotically disturbed".

• A "violent" performance of the song can be seen on the 1994 home video Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!. Earlier in the show (not seen on the video), Kurt, drunk, angry and high on cough syrup, smashed the PA system at the club with his guitar, frustrated that it had consistently malfunctioned. (Viewers can see a pallet covering the PA, which was added in case Cobain decided to take a second shot.) Unbeknownst to Cobain, the PA belonged to a friend of the bouncer, who, when Kurt dove into the crowd, decided to exact some revenge. Kurt responded by hitting the bouncer in the head with his guitar, drawing blood.
• A rehearsal from 1988 and another live performance from 1990 can both be found on the DVD with the 2004 box set With the Lights Out.
• In 1995 "Love Buzz" was used in the film Mad Love.

Nirvana

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Discography

Albums and extended plays: Bleach | Blew | Nevermind | Hormoaning | Nevermind: It's An Interview | Incesticide | In Utero | MTV Unplugged in New York | From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah | Nirvana | [[Sliver: The Best of the Box]] Singles: "Love Buzz" | "Sliver" | "Molly's Lips" | "Here She Comes Now" | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | "Come as You Are" | "Lithium" | "On a Plain" | "In Bloom" | "Oh, the Guilt"| "Heart-Shaped Box" | "All Apologies"/"Rape Me" | "Pennyroyal Tea" | "About a Girl (Unplugged)" | "The Man Who Sold the World (Unplugged)" | "Lake of Fire (Unplugged)" | "Aneurysm (live)" | "Drain You (live)" |"You Know You're Right"

Video releases and box sets

''Live! Tonight! Sold Out > Singles | With the Lights Out | Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind''

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