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| "Dive" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Song by Nirvana | ||
| From the single Sliver | ||
| Album released | September, 1990 | |
| Recorded | April 1990 at Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin | |
| Genre | Grunge | |
| Song Length | 3 min 55 s | |
| Record label | Sub Pop | |
| Producer | Butch Vig | |
| Track Number | Track 2 | |
"Dive" is a song by the American rock band, Nirvana. It is the b-side on their 1990 single for the song, "Sliver."
History
"Dive" was written by Kurt Cobain in early 1989. The first studio version was recorded in the spring of 1989 by Greg Babior (a founding member of the band Earth) in Olympia, Washington. This version appears on the band's 2004 posthumous box set, With the Lights Out.
The "Sliver" single version was recorded in April 1990 by Butch Vig (who produced the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind, about a year later) in Madison, Wisconsin. It was re-released on the compilation album The Grunge Years in 1991, and again on the band's "odds-and-sods" compilation album Incesticide in 1992.
A live version of "Dive," recorded on January 23, 1993, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, appears on Nirvana's 1994 home video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!.
Trivia
- According to the 2001 Cobain biography Heavier than Heaven by Charles R. Cross, "Dive" is the favorite Nirvana song of Cobain's widow, Courtney Love. Cobain himself was less enthusiastic about the song, dismissing it as "yet another re-write of the heavy string-bend grunge formula" in the 1992 Incesticide press kit.
References
- Cross, Charles. Heavier Than Heaven. Hyperion, 2001. ISBN 0786865059
- LiveNirvana
"Dive (song)"