Drain You

"Drain You"
"Drain You" cover
Song by Nirvana from the album Nevermind and From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Released	1996
Recorded	Del Mar Fairgrounds, CA, December 28, 1991.
Genre	Grunge
Length	3:43
Label	DGC Records
Writer	Kurt Cobain
Producer	Shauna O' Brien, Diane Stata
Nevermind and From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah track listing
"School" (2) "Drain You" (3) "Aneurysm" (4)
Nevermind track listing 12 tracks "Smells Like Teen Spirit" "In Bloom" "Come as You Are" "Breed" "Lithium" "Polly" "Territorial Pissings" "Drain You" "Lounge Act" "Stay Away" "On a Plain" "Something in the Way"

"Drain You" is a 1991 song by American grunge band Nirvana, written by frontman Kurt Cobain. It is the eighth track from their breakthrough album Nevermind. It was also released as a B-side on UK retail editions of the band's most successful single "Smells Like Teen Spirit".^[1] A live version recorded in 1991 appeared on the live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah in 1996 and was released as a promotional single.^[2]

Recording

According to Nevermind producer Butch Vig on the Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind DVD, "Drain You" had more guitar overdubs than any other song on the album: one clean track and five distorted tracks; two tracks of the Mesa Boogie, two tracks of the Fender Bassman, and one that they called the "Super Grunge" track., which was a pedal on the Fender Bassman. 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. The strange noises during the middle section of the song are caused by a rubber duck toy (that happened to end up on the back of Incesticide) Cobain brought into the studio that sound engineer Andy Wallace put through delays and made it sound "trippy". 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 "One baby to another says I'm lucky to have met you"... was particularly important to the interpretation of the song..."^[3]

This song is also in the music video games Rock Band 2 and Rock Band Unplugged.

Release history

Studio versions

Live versions

References

External links

• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics