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"Drain You" is a song by American rock band
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, written by vocalist and guitarist, Kurt Cobain. It is the eighth track on their second album, ''
Nevermind ''Nevermind'' is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991, by DGC Records. It was Nirvana's first release on a major label and the first to feature drummer Dave Grohl. Produced by Butch Vig, '' ...
'', released in September 1991. The song was released as a
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in late 1991, and also appeared as a b-side on UK retail editions of the first single from that album, "
Smells Like Teen Spirit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, ''Nevermind'' (1991), released on DGC Records. The unexpected success of the song propelled ''Neve ...
". A live version, recorded on December 28, 1991 at
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in
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, was released as the second promotional single from the live compilation, '' From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah'', in 1996. This version peaked at number 44 on the ''
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'' US Alternative Top 50 chart.


Origin and recording


Early history

Originally titled "Formula," "Drain You" was written in 1990. The song was first recorded in the spring of 1991, when Cobain and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl visited Melvins drummer Dale Crover and his then-girlfriend Debbi Shane in
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, on their way to record what became ''Nevermind'' in Van Nuys. During their visit, the four recorded several songs on a four track, including "Drain You," under the band name, the Retards. "At the time, Kurt was into starting bands with everybody," Shane recalled, "so we went to the practice space my band Dumbhead shared with the Melvins, and formed the Retards for two days." According to Shane, the band worked on songs by all four members, with one person recording, and Cobain eventually "announced he had a song, which wasn't a Nirvana song because it didn't have a drum part. When Dale started playing drums, he was like, 'Wow, we have a drum part.'" The instrumental interlude was also developed during this session, which Shane says changed the song's character "from metal to a more Sonic Youth noise thing. With the song's structure now in place, the band brought it to the ''Nevermind'' recording sessions at
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in May 1991.


''Nevermind''

According to ''Neverminds producer
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in the 2005 '' Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind'' DVD, "Drain You" featured more guitar
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than any other song on the album: one clean track and five distorted tracks, two using a
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amp, two using a
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amp, and one that they called the "super grunge" track, using a pedal on the Fender Bassman. Due to Cobain's reluctance to double track his vocals, Vig says he often falsely claimed that certain parts were not recorded correctly or were out of tune, and needed to be recorded again. Cobain recorded three vocal takes, with all three takes being used throughout the recording. The sounds during the song's interlude were made by Cobain in a variety of ways, including using his squeaky mouse and rubber duck toys (the latter of which later appeared on the back cover of the band's 1992 compilation, '' Incesticide'') that he brought into the studio. Sound engineer Andy Wallace added delay to these sounds to complete the effect.


Post-''Nevermind''

On September 3, 1991, the band recorded a version during a
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session for the
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in
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. The full session, which also featured versions of the ''Nevermind'' hidden track " Endless, Nameless" and then-unreleased " Dumb", was produced by Dale Griffin, was first broadcast on November 3, 1991.. This version of "Drain You" was posthumously released on the 20th anniversary "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe" versions of ''Nevermind'' in September 2011. In March 1992, a live version, recorded at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington on October 31, 1991, appeared as a b-side on the second single from ''Nevermind'', for the song " Come as You Are". A live version, featuring
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on second guitar, was recorded for the television show ''Nulle Part Ailleurs'' in
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, France on February 4, 1994. During the song's interlude, Cobain's guitar cut out completely, which led to him throwing it to the floor and finishing the song on vocals only. The final live performance of "Drain You" was at Nirvana's last concert, on March 1, 1994 at Terminal Einz in
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, Germany.


Composition


Music

"Drain You" is an
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song that runs for a duration of three minutes and forty-three seconds. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by
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, it is written in the
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of
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, with a moderately fast rock
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of 134
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. The song is composed in the
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of A major, while Kurt Cobain's
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spans two octaves and five
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, from the low-note of F#4 to the high-note of B6. The song follows a basic sequence of A5–C#5–F#5–B5 in the verses and alternates between the chords of D5 and B5 during the refrain as its
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. The tight musical arrangement begins with Cobain strumming his
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unaccompanied while singing, "One baby to another says I'm lucky to have met you." After the song's opening lines, there is an arrival of loud
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alongside a thunderous combination of drums and bass.


Lyrics

In the 1993 Nirvana biography '' Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana'', Michael Azerrad described "Drain You" as "a love song, or rather a song about love," in which the babies in the lyrics "represent two people reduced to a state of perfect innocence by their love." Cobain told Azerrad that the lyrics made him think of "two
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kids who are in the same hospital bed." The song's imagery predicted the medical themes that would feature heavily in the lyrics of Nirvana's following album, ''
In Utero ''In Utero'' is the third and final studio album by American rock band Nirvana. It was released on September 21, 1993, by DGC Records. After breaking into the mainstream with their second album, ''Nevermind'' (1991), Nirvana hired Steve Albin ...
''. According to the 2001 Cobain biography ''
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'' by Charles Cross, "Drain You" was one of "a half dozen...memorable songs" Cobain wrote following his break-up with American musician,
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, in November 1990. Cross described the lyric, "It is now my duty to completely drain you," as "both an acknowledgement of the power
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had over obainand an indictment."


Release and reception

According to a February 1997 '' Goldmine'' article by American journalist Gillian G. Gaar, "Drain You" was originally planned as the second single from ''Nevermind''. A promotional single was released in late 1991, but the song "never really was played" on the radio, according to DGC's director of publicity Jim Merlis, possibly because it was overshadowed by the popularity of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." "Come As You Are" was released as the album's second commercial single instead in March 1992. Cobain cited "Drain You" as one of his favorite compositions, telling
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in a 1993 ''
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'' interview that he thought it was as good, if not better, than "Smells Like Teen Spirit." "I love the lyrics, and I never get tired of playing it," he said. "Maybe if it was as big as 'Teen Spirit', I wouldn’t like it as much."


Legacy

In 2016, '' Billboard''s William Goodman wrote that "Drain You" was "perhaps the Nevermind tune with the poppiest, most tightly-wound songcraft," and that "in another context, it could be translated to any number of genres -- but on Nevermind, it's perfection." In 2013, "Drain You" was voted fifth in '' Rolling Stone's'' reader's poll of the top 10 Nirvana songs. In 2015, it was ranked ninth in ''Rolling Stone's'' ''No Apologies: All 102 Nirvana Songs Ranked'' list. In 2019, ''
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'' ranked it ninth on their list of ''Nirvana's 20 greatest songs''. In 2017, to mark what would have been Kurt Cobain's 50th birthday, the
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released a list of the top 20 most played Nirvana songs on TV and radio in the U.K., and "Drain You" was number 11. The song's title was used for a chapter in ''Shakey: Neil Young's Biography'', a 2002 biography of Canadian rock musician
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, by
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. The chapter focused on Young's reaction to Cobain's suicide, and included an anecdote of Young enjoying a video of Nirvana performing the song at an unnamed concert. The ''Nevermind'' version of "Drain You" appears in the video games '' Rock Band 2'' and ''
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''. On April 24, 2020, the song was performed by American musician
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as part of his 15-song Nirvana tribute concert, which was livestreamed on
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and raised over $4 million for the
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.


Del Mar Fairgrounds version

A live version, recorded on December 28, 1991 at
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in
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, appeared on the live compilation '' From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah'', released in October 1996. It was released as the second
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from the album, peaking at number 44 on the US Alternative Top 50 chart which was published by ''
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'', a sister publication to '' Billboard''. This version was the 11th most played song of 1997 on Boston's
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. A live version of "Drain You" recorded by MTV on December 13, 1993, at Pier 48 in
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for the '' Live and Loud'' concert was released as a
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on MTV2 in the US in November 1996 for promotion of the ''From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah'' album, even though it is a different version that appears on the album. The video was also played on '' Rage'', ''
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'' and ARC in Australia. * * There is no known footage of the Del Mar Fairgrounds version.


Charts


Accolades


Other releases

*The demo recorded with Crover on drums in San Francisco in the spring of 1991 was released on the Nirvana box set, ''
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'', in November 2004. *An alternate mix of the ''Nevermind'' version appeared on the 20th anniversary "Super Deluxe" version of ''Nevermind'', which featured a disc of Vig's early "Devonshire" mixes. *The full Paramount concert, including "Drain You," was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on '' Live at the Paramount'' in September 2011. *A live version, recorded at the Paradiso in
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on November 25, 1991, appeared on the live video ''
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'', released in November 1994. The full show was released on CD and Blu-Ray on the 30th anniversary "Super Deluxe" version of ''Nevermind'' in November 2021. *Three other live versions of "Drain You" appeared on the 30th anniversary "Super Deluxe" version of ''Nevermind''. In addition to the complete Del Mar Fairgrounds show, the release contained the band's full performances at
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in Melbourne, Australia on February 2, 1992, and the
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in
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on February 19, 1992, both of which also featured versions of the song. *A live version, from the band's appearance at the 1992
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in Reading on August 30, 1992, appeared on ''
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'', released on CD and DVD in November 2009. *A live version, recorded for MTV at Pier 48 in Seattle on December 13, 1993, was released on the live video, '' Live and Loud'', in September 2013. An edited version of the concert, including "Drain You," was first aired on MTV on December 31, 1993. *The band's performance of the song on ''Nulle Part Ailleurs'' in Paris on February 4, 1994, as well as the final live version, recorded at Terminal Einz in Munich on March 1, 1994, both appeared as bonus material on the ''Live and Loud'' DVD.


Cover versions

A cover version of "Drain You" was performed by Portland indie folk band
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. The cover was release as on
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as double-A-sided 7-inch single, alongside " Bonnet of Briars." The single premiered online by ''
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'', which called the cover "moving." "Drain You" was covered by Cincinnati
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band
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. Regarding the song, bassist Daisy Caplan stated, "Right away I knew 'Drain You' would be best for us. We’re more of a vocally oriented band than anything else, and the melody line lets us showcase that." Admitting that it would've been intimidating to perform one of Nirvana's big hit singles, he claims five minutes after choosing the song, the band was "getting drunk and jamming out on it."  Their cover was included on the 2011 tribute album, ''
Newermind ''Newermind: A Tribute to Nirvana'' is a 2011 celebratory tribute album, created by Spin (magazine), SPIN Magazine, for the 20th anniversary of Nirvana (band), Nirvana's album ''Nevermind''. The bands that covered each song on the album were inspi ...
'', created in celebration of the 20th anniversary the band's breakthrough album.


References


External links

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