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Love Buzz

"Love Buzz"
Song by Shocking Blue
from the album At Home
Released 1969
Genre Acid rock, psychedelic rock
Length 3:40
Label Pink Elephant
Songwriter(s) Robbie van Leeuwen
At Home track listing
"Poor Boy"
(7)
"Love Buzz"
(8)
"The Butterfly and I"
(9)
"Love Buzz"
Nirvana-Lovebuzzcover.jpg
Single by Nirvana
from the album Bleach
B-side "Big Cheese"
Released November 1988
Format 7"
Recorded June–September 1988 at Reciprocal Recordings in Seattle, Washington
Genre Grunge
Length 3:35
Label Sub Pop
Songwriter(s) Robbie van Leeuwen
Producer(s) Jack Endino
Nirvana singles chronology
"Love Buzz"
(1988)
"Blew"
(1989)
"Love Buzz"
(1988)
"Blew"
(1989)
Bleach track listing
Audio sample

"Love Buzz" is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue. It was written by Robbie van Leeuwen and first released on the group's 1969 album, At Home. The song was later covered by Nirvana, who released it as their debut single in 1988.

American rock band Nirvana recorded a cover version of the song for its 1988 début single, released on Sub Pop in the USA.

It was the first single in the Sub Pop Singles club and was limited to 1000 numbered copies. A Sub Pop invoice indicates that 1200 sleeves were made. The other 200 having a red slash instead of a number.

It was made single of the week in Sounds by John Robb, which was the first mention of the band in the UK press.

In a 1989 review for British music magazine Melody Maker, Everett True wrote, "Nirvana are beauty incarnate. A relentless two-chord garage beat which lays down some serious foundations for a sheer monster of a guitar to howl over. The volume control ain't been built yet which can do justice to this three-piece!" True also made "Love Buzz" joint-US Single of the Week. True also described Nirvana's "Love Buzz" single as a "Limited edition of 1,000; love songs for the psychotically disturbed".

A slightly different mix of the song would also appear on Nirvana's début album, Bleach. This version is missing a 10-second sound collage introduction put together by Kurt Cobain. "Love Buzz" was later released on Nirvana's Blew EP in the UK in December 1989. This was the song's first release in the UK after having been substituted by "Big Cheese" on the British release of the Bleach album.

An intense, violent performance of the song, recorded in Dallas, Texas, can be seen on Nirvana's 1994 home video Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!, with another 1990 performance from Olympia on With the Lights Out, and another performance from 1991 on Live at the Paramount.


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