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“Drain You”
Song by Nirvana
Album	Nevermind
Released	September 24, 1991
Recorded	May/June 1991 at Sound City, Van Nuys and Devonshire, North Hollywood
Genre	Grunge
Length	3:43
Label	DGC Records
Producer	Butch Vig
Nevermind track listing
"Territorial Pissings" (7) “Drain You” (8) "Lounge Act" (9 From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah track listing "School" (2) "Drain You" (3) "Aneurysm" (4) )

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According to Nevermind producer Butch Vig on the Classic Albums: Nevermind DVD, "Drain You" had more guitar overdubs than any other song on the album: one clean track and five distorted tracks. Cobain tended to dislike heavily overdubbed songs, and so Vig had to tell Cobain lies, such as that tracks did not record right or were out of tune, in order to get him to do so many takes. Some of the strange noises during the middle section of the song are caused by children's toys Cobain brought into the studio. In his biography of Kurt Cobain Heavier than Heaven, biographer Charles Cross wrote, "When Kurt was questioned about the song {Drain You} he said he had made a lot of it up on the spot but that the first line... was particularly important to the interpretation of the song..."^[1] Butch Vig (born Bryan David Vigorson, August 2, 1957 in Viroqua, Wisconsin) is both a record producer and the drummer of the popular rock band Garbage. ... Overdubbing is a technique used by recording studios to add a supplementary recorded sound to a previously taped musical recording. ... Heavier Than Heaven is the name of a 2001 biography of musician Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the grunge rock band Nirvana. ...

On the Nevermind version, Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic tuned their instruments a whole step down. In concert, however, "Drain You" was generally played in whatever tuning the band was using throughout the rest of the concert — generally standard tuning in earlier concerts (prior to the 1992 Pacific Rim tour in support of Nevermind) and half-step-down in later concerts. The song's verse is based around a conventional chord progression of four power chords B, D#, G#, C#, the riff (F#)- E -C# for the choruses, and a chorus ending of B, A, G#. Deon Rexroat of Anberlin. ... Krist Anthony Novoselić II (born May 16, 1965) is an American rock musician best known as the bassist for Nirvana. ... Wikibooks Guitar has a page on the topic of Tuning the Guitar Guitar tuning is any of several techniques of pitch adjustment on the individual strings of a guitar in order to achieve a prescribed arrangement of notes from the open (unfretted) strings. ... In music, a power chord is an interval which serves the diatonic function of a major or minor chord. ...

Aiden performed a cover of the song on Kerrang!'s Higher Voltage!: Another Brief History of Rock CD. This article is about the rock band. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

Other versions

• A studio version was recorded on September 3, 1991 at Maida Vale Studios for BBC's John Peel session, however it remains unreleased and can only be found on bootlegs or in trader's circles.
• A live version from October 1991 appears as a b-side on the Come as You Are single from 1992.
• A live performance from November 1991 appeared on the 1994 VHS home video Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!.
• A live version from December 1991 appeared on the 1996 live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, of which promo singles were released for radio play in the US.
• A demo version of the song appears on the 2004 Box Set With the Lights Out with Dale Crover on drums and Dave Grohl on bass comprising a short-lived trio entitled "The Retards." The demo included a short intro of the trio pretending to be mentally challenged and introducing themselves, but this was omitted in the official release.

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