Downer (song)

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"Downer"
Song by Nirvana
from the album Bleach
Released	June 15, 1989
Recorded	January 23, 1988 at Reciprocal Recordings in Seattle, Washington
Genre	Grunge
Length	1:42
Label	Sub Pop
Writer(s)	Kurt Cobain
Producer(s)	Jack Endino
Bleach track listing
Big Cheese (12)	"Downer" (13)

"Downer" is a song written by Kurt Cobain for his band Fecal Matter. It was later performed and recorded by Cobain's band Nirvana. It was first featured on the CD American versions of their debut album Bleach. The same version was used on the "odds-and-sods" compilation album Incesticide which was released in 1992.

[edit] Other versions

A live version is found in the 2004 box set With the Lights Out. This song is described in Kurt Cobain's biography, Heavier Than Heaven, as Cobain's attempt of describing the sorry state of human existence, and that this is shown most in the lines "hand out lobotomies, to save little families".

[edit] Trivia

• This song is one of the three Fecal Matter songs that were later performed by Nirvana live, the others being "Anorexorcist"and "Spank Thru".

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