Hear a “Mixtape” Put Together by a Pre-Fame Kurt Cobain

Everyone who knows of Kurt Cobain understands he’s one of the most important figures in music to come out of the last 25 years but not many know of what he did before Nevermind. Back in 1988, before the release of Nirvana’s debut album Bleach, Cobain put together a collage of clips from different songs (and other sounds) with a four-track cassette recorder and called it “Montage Of Heck.”

The mixtape-of-sorts serves as a look into the mind of a young Kurt Cobain and the music in his collection.

Hear the music montage after the jump and see the full list of sound components he used to make it below that.

“Montage of Heck” Mix List:

• “The Men In My Little Girl’s Life” by Mike Douglas
• “The Sounds of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel
• “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” by The Beatles
• “A Day In The Life” by The Beatles
• “Eruption” by Van Halen
• “Hot Pants” by James Brown
• “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” by Cher
• “Go Away Little Girl” by Donny Osmond
• “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver
• “Everybody Loves Somebody” by Dean Martin
• “The Candy Man” by Sammy Davis, Jr.
• “In A Gadda Da Vida” by Iron Butterfly
• “Wild Thing” by William Shatner
• “Taxman” by The Beatles
• “I Think I Love You” by The Partridge Family
• “Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?” by The Barbarians
• “Queen Of The Reich” by Queensryche
• “Last Caress/Green Hell” covered by Metallica
• “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin
• “Get Down, Make Love” by Queen
• “ABC” by The Jackson Five
• “I Want Your Sex” by George Michael
• “Run to the Hills” by Iron Maiden
• “Eye Of The Chicken” by Butthole Surfers
• “Dance of the Cobra” by Butthole Surfers
• “The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave” by Butthole Surfers
• “New Age” by The Velvet Underground
• “Love Buzz” by Shocking Blue
• Orchestral music from 200 Motels by Frank Zappa
• “Help I’m A Rock” / “It Can’t Happen Here” by Frank Zappa
• “Call Any Vegetable” by Frank Zappa
• “The Day We Fall In Love” by The Monkees
• “Sweet Leaf” by Black Sabbath (intro)
• Theme from The Andy Griffith Show
• Mike Love (of The Beach Boys) talking about “Transcendental Meditation”
• Excerpts of Jimi Hendrix speaking at the Monterey Pop Festival
• Excerpts of Paul Stanley from KISS’ Alive!
• Excerpts of Daniel Johnston screaming about Satan
• Excerpts from sound effects records
• Various children’s records (Curious George, Sesame Street, The Flintstones, Star Wars)

(CoS)