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First Draft: Nirvana’s Nevermind

Rarely do albums come out right on the first shot. Labels reject them, bands disown them, and they get added onto after release. Here on First Draft, we take a look at albums that got cut down or remade and see what difference the changes made.

Today’s First Draft concerns the studio sessions, rehearsals, and alternate mixes that went into one of the best-selling albums of all time, Nirvana’s 1991 smash hit Nevermind.

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