From '' Los Straitjackets / Southern Culture On The Skids – Smells Like Teen Spirit / Come As You Are ''
Label: Spinout Records – SPIN 019
Format: Vinyl, 7\", Split
Country: US
Released: 2009
Tracklist
A Los Straitjackets - Smells Like Teen Spirit
B Southern Culture On The Skids - Come As You Are / Lucifer Sam
Later included in their ''The Kudzu Ranch'' album.
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Come As You Are
\"Come as You Are\" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by frontman Kurt Cobain and released as the second single from the band's second studio album Nevermind in 1992.
It was the band's second American Top 40 hit, and second UK top 10 hit, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number nine on the UK Singles Chart.
The music video for \"Come as You Are\" was directed by Kevin Kerslake, who drew inspiration for it from the cover artwork of Nevermind.
Origin and recording
\"Come as You Are\" was one of the few new songs Nirvana recorded onto the rehearsal tape the group sent to producer Butch Vig prior to the recording of Nevermind in 1991.
The group recorded the song with Vig during album sessions at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, in early 1991.
Cobain recorded his guitar solo in two takes, as well as three takes of vocals, of which the first was used.
Vig then asked Cobain to double track his vocals throughout the entire song.
During the harmony overdub session, Cobain accidentally sang the phrase \"And I don't have a gun\" too early, appearing the fourth time he sings the word \"memoria\" after the guitar solo.
He decided to keep the mistake in the final recording. Vig sampled Cobain singing \"memoria\" from the middle of the song and placed it in the background of the song near the end twice.
In popular culture
In 2005, a sign was put up in Aberdeen, Washington, Cobain's hometown, that reads \"Welcome to Aberdeen: Come As You Are\" as a tribute to Cobain.
Covers
James Brown
Little Roy
Evan Peters did a cover of this song on American Horror Story: Freak Show in the episode Test of Strength
'Witches of East End' featured a cover by Masha for the first season's promos.
The Vibrators
Caetano Veloso
Charlie Hunter
The second episode of the television show Defiance ends with a cover of \"Come as You Are\" by Civil Twilight.
Adel Tawil references \"Come as You Are\" in his song Lieder.
Popek
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Lucifer Sam
\"Lucifer Sam\" is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, featured on their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Music and lyrics
The song is built around a descending riff, with the dominant instrument being composer Syd Barrett's electric guitar, fed through an echo machine; the resultant sound has been likened to a \"sinister\" Duane Eddy.
This is augmented by bowed bass and increasingly agitated organ and percussion effects.
Though the lyric frequently refers to Lucifer Sam as a cat, some speculation has arisen as to whether this was in fact 1960s slang (\"a hip cat\") for a man, real or imagined, in some type of relationship with Barrett's then-girlfriend, Jenny Spires (referred to in the song as \"Jennifer Gentle\").
However, Sam was simply Barrett's domestic feline; the track was originally called \"Percy the Rat Catcher\" during the recording sessions, which took place during April -- June 1967.
Live and cover versions
\"Lucifer Sam\" was only performed live by Pink Floyd in 1967 and featured as an encore during many performances, mostly notably at the Games for May concert.
Cover versions
Lightning Seeds covered the song as a B-side, and it appeared on their 2006 best of collection.
The track has also been covered by:
the Black Crowes,
Electric Hellfire Club,
The Minders,
The Flaming Lips,
The Three O'Clock,
Jay Farrar,
Love and Rockets,
Voivod,
Shockabilly,
The Sadies,
MGMT,
Spirits in the Sky,
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
and Cat's Eyes.
