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Love Buzz - Original Issue

NIRVANA Love Buzz (Super rare 1988 US Sub-Pop label 7" vinyl single, also including Big Cheese. This spectacular debut differs from the version featured on the Bleach album in that there is a 10 second 'cartoon' intro. Well known to only be limited to just 1000 copies, this is the real deal, a guaranteed genuine copy which remains in superb condition within its original numbered fold-out picture sleeve. See 'More Info' for further details!)

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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1988 - 36 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 7" vinyl single (7 inch record / 45)
Record Label Sub Pop
Complete Stock List Go to Nirvana (US)
Product Catalogue No SP23
Music Genre Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Grunge
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
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Tracklisting & More Information

A1. Love Buzz (with intro)
B1. Big Cheese

This legendary track was recorded at Reciprocal Studios, Seattle and was produced by Jack Endino & Nirvana.

The picture sleeve photographs were taken by Alice Wheeler with label design by Susanne Sasic.

Love Buzz was originally written by Robby Van Leeuwen of the Dutch Band Shocking Blue

Both songs were later released on Bleach, though 'Love Buzz' was remixed. The cartoon intro is a brief clip taken from one of Cobain's early sound collages entitled 'Montage of Heck.'

This was Nirvana's first single and was also the first item issued to members of the Sub Pop Singles Club. All copies are pressed on black vinyl (45 rpm), though sleeves may vary:

Numbered Sleeves
1000 copies were hand-numbered with a red marker. Matrix etchings and sleeve quality are key features of this item if you are concerned about fakes.

Unnumbered Sleeves
A Sub Pop invoice indicates that 1200 sleeves were made. Considering that 1000 were used for the hand-numbered single, that leaves 200 extras, apparently with a red slash instead of numbers. The extras were given out to those closely involved.

No matter how many records were made and what sleeve they came in (numbered or unnumbered), the vinyl should be exactly the same, including the matrix etchings. This has been corroborated by those that have an unnumbered version. Counterfeit copies do exist with unnumbered sleeves. Those don't have the red marker slash, but it would be very easy to reproduce this feature.

In addition to the Sub Pop crowd getting unnumbered copies, quite a few were shipped overseas. Some were given out as promos, others were sold retail. (It's been said that Australia may have received the most exported copies.)

There are also a few copies of the test pressing and numerous counterfeits.

Kurt Cobains widow Courtney Love is said to own copy number 1

Matrix
All codes are hand-etched, except for Kdisc which is machine stamped.


s i d e a m a t r i x c o d e SP-23-A Why Don't You Trade Those Guitars For Shovels? L-31540 Kdisc


s i d e b m a t r i x c o d e SP-23-B L-31540X Kdisc


7" RECORD  
Recording Artist Nirvana (US)
Product Title Love Buzz - Original Issue
Product Information Nirvana (US) Love Buzz - Original Issue USA 7" vinyl single (7 inch record / 45).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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