SHE KEEPS IT PUMPIN'
STRAIGHT TO MY HEART
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
is a live album
by American rock band
released on
October 1, 1996
by DGC Records.
It features live performances
recorded from
1989 to 1994.
Compiled largely by bassist
Krist Novoselic,
it was released
two years after the
multi-platinum-selling
live album,
MTV Unplugged in New York,
which was the first
Nirvana album to be
released after the suicide
of the band's songwriter,
singer and guitarist,
Kurt Cobain,
in April 1994.
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
was intended to show
the band's heavier side,
in contrast to the acoustic
MTV Unplugged album,
and was originally meant
to be packaged alongside
the MTV Unplugged set
in a double album called
Verse Chorus Verse.
However,
most of what became
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
was eventually recompiled.
The album debuted at number one
on the Billboard 200,
selling nearly 159,000 copies
in its first week of release.
It spent 25 weeks
on the chart and became
the band's sixth platinum album
in the US since 1991.
The album's first
promotional single,
for the song
"Aneurysm",
reached number 11
on the Billboard
Mainstream Rock Tracks chart
and number 13
on its
Modern Rock Tracks chart,
while its music video topped
the charts on
Much Music in Canada.
A second promotional single,
for the song
"Drain You",
charted briefly as well.
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
was ranked ninth best album
of 1996
in Rolling Stone's
1997 critics' poll.
Background
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
was the second
Nirvana album released
following the death
of vocalist and guitarist
Kurt Cobain
in April 1994.
It was compiled primarily
by bassist
Krist Novoselic,
who also wrote the album's
liner notes.
Novoselic and drummer
Dave Grohl
had originally intended
to release a live album
in 1994
to accompany what became
MTV Unplugged in New York
in a two-disc set
originally titled
Verse Chorus Verse
(which had also been a working title
for the band's
final studio album,
In Utero,
as well as the title
of two Nirvana songs).
However,
Novoselic and Grohl
reportedly had a
difficult time
working on the album
so soon after
Cobain's death,
and the album was compiled,
but never mixed.
The original track list
featured several songs
not present on
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
"Serve the Servants",
"Dive",
"Rape Me",
"Sappy"
and
"Territorial Pissings"
and different versions
of the overlapping songs,
other than
"Negative Creep"
and
"Scentless Apprentice".
The album's title refers
to the Wishkah River
in Aberdeen, Washington,
where Cobain claimed to
have spent nights
sleeping under the
Young Street Bridge
as a teenager
(as referenced in the song "Something in the Way",
from Nevermind).
This claim has since
been refuted by Novoselic,
who said,
"He never lived under that bridge.
He hung out there,
but you couldn't live
on those muddy banks,
with the tide
coming up and down.
That was his own revisionism
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