Dive (song)

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"Dive"

Song by Nirvana
from the album The Grunge Years and later Incesticide
Released	September, 1990 as b-side to Sliver single
Recorded	April 1990 at Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin
Genre	Grunge
Length	3:55
Label	Sub Pop
Producer(s)	Butch Vig

"Dive" is a song by the American rock band, Nirvana. It first appeared as the b-side on their single for the song, "Sliver" in 1990

[edit] 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.

However the first version of "Dive" to be released was the b-side on the "Sliver" single. This version was also included on the compilation album The Grunge Years in 1991, and again on the band's "odds-and-sods" compilation album Incesticide in 1992. This version of the song was recorded in April 1990 by Butch Vig (who later produced the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind) in Madison, Wisconsin.

A live version of "Dive," recorded on January 23, 1993, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, appears on Nirvana's home video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! released in 1994.

The original version of Dive, recorded in 1989 was finally released on the band's posthumous rareties box set, With the Lights Out in 2004.

[edit] 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.