“Negative Creep” by Nirvana

"Negative Creep" is the seventh cut on Bleach, Nirvana's debut for Sub Pop in 1989, a sludgy, snarling thing Kurt Cobain wrote in 1988. No demo of it has ever turned up, on an official release or a bootleg.

It came out of the band's third studio session, at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle across December 1988 and January 1989, one of nine songs from those dates that made the album. Jack Endino, who recorded it, remembered Cobain, Krist Novoselic and then-drummer Chad Channing working at speed: they were set on making a full album when Sub Pop had asked for an EP, so the instruments went down in one or two takes and Cobain generally nailed his vocal in one.

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