Drain You

Drain You is a 1991 song by American grunge band Nirvana and the eighth track from their breakthrough album Nevermind. It is most famous as a B-side on (most editions of) the band's most successful single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", however, a live version (from the 1996 live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah) was later released as a US-only promotional single in its own right. 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..."... Mehr