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Friday, 16 November 2007

Love Buzz (EP)(Single)(CD)




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Single Description


"Love Buzz" is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue that first appeared on their 1969 album At Home. The song is perhaps best known for the 1988 cover of the song by grunge band Nirvana, which was their debut single on Sub Pop Records and the first single in the Sub Pop Single of the Month club, a marketing gimmick which helped Sub Pop stay temporarily financially solvent. A slightly different version of the song would also appear on Nirvana's debut album, Bleach, along with the single's b-side, "Big Cheese".

The Bleach album version of Love Buzz was mixed slightly differently and is missing a 10-second sound collage introduction put together by Kurt Cobain. "Love Buzz" was later released on the Blew (EP).

In a 1989 review by British music magazine Melody Maker, the Love Buzz single is described as a "Limited edition of 1000; love songs for the psychotically disturbed".

In 1995 "Love Buzz" was used in the film Mad Love.

In 2004 The English band The Prodigy used a sample of the 1969 Shocking Blue track "Love Buzz" in their song Phoenix (appearing on the album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned).

t r a c k l i s t



Side A

1. Love Buzz (w/ cartoon intro)

Side B

1. Big Cheese


Both songs were later released on Bleach, though "Love Buzz" (originally performed by Shocking Blue) was remixed. The cartoon intro is a brief clip taken from one of Cobain's early sound collages, "Montage of Heck."

This was Nirvana's first single, as well as the first item issued to members of the Sub Pop Singles Club. All copies are pressed on black vinyl (45 rpm), though sleeves may vary:

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