Kiss, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Queensryche…on Kurt Cobain’s mixtape!
Brett Morgen’s documentary on Nirvana’s frontman, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, takes its name from what might just be the weirdest mixtape ever. The half-hour audio collage, which a 20-year-old Cobain made in the late 1980s, is a hodgepodge of classic songs, rare novelty records, TV audio, nature sounds, scraps of demo material, and a few disgusting sound effects—it’s Cobain’s talent at its most cacophonous.
Audio Samples Used
Telly Savalas, “The Men in My Little Girl’s Life”
Traditional, “Ring Around the Rosie”
Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer, “The Fishin’ Hole” (The Andy Griffith Show theme)
Olympia Beer commercial
The Hobbit (1977 version)
Saccharine Trust, “Remnants”
Simon & Garfunkel, “The Sounds of Silence”
The Monkees, “The Day We Fall in Love”
Black Sabbath, “Sweet Leaf”
Butthole Surfers, “Eye of the Chicken”
Alan Mills and Joseph Raposo, Curious George Rides a Bike (1970 7-inch record)
Van Halen, “Eruption”
Peter Brown, “Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me”
James Brown, “Hot Pants (Pt 1)”
Cher, “Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves”
Donny Osmond, “Go Away Little Girl”
Bay City Rollers, “Rock and Roll Love Letter”
Traditional, “Star Light, Star Bright”
John Denver, “Rocky Mountain High”
Oscar the Grouch, Bert & Ernie Sing-Along
Dean Martin, “Everybody Loves Somebody”
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
Star Wars audiobook
Kiss, Alive!
Dean Martin, “Little Green Apples”
Eddie Bond, “Buford Pusser Goes Bear Hunting With a Switch”
Sammy Davis Jr., “The Candy Man”
Three Little Pigs (1933)
Iron Butterfly, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”
Traditional, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
The Flintstones
The Troggs, “Wild Thing”
June Foray, Monster Shindig
Jimi Hendrix, “Hey Joe” (Jimi Plays Monterey version)
The Beatles, “Taxman”
The Partridge Family, “I Think I Love You”
News report on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination
Carroll O’Connor and Rob Reiner dialog from All In The Family episode “Judging Books by Covers”
The Barbarians, “Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl”
Butthole Surfers, “The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave”
The Velvet Underground, “New Age”
Queensrÿche, “Queen of the Reich”
Iron Maiden, “Run to the Hills”
Froot Loops commercial
“Cottleston Pie” (lyrics from the book Winnie-the-Pooh)
Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love”
Thor, “2045”
The Jackson 5, “ABC”
Black Flag, “Salt on a Slug”
“Introduction to Manned Mercury Spaceflight” (on a record released with Hasbro’s GI Joe Mercury Space Capsule)
George Michael,“I Want Your Sex”
Queen, “Get Down, Make Love”
Nirvana, “Unidentified Demo”
Source: Wired & Cleopatra Records
