Nirvana – Bleach

Defective first batch missing two songs; Blew and Love Buzz. Though they do not appear on the cassette, these tracks are still credited on Side A. Most were destroyed but a small number were saved and handed out. They were not distributed with a J-card as those were reused for the next, non-defective batch.

As was previously posted on Jack Endino's website (http://www.endino.com/):
"In 1989, after Bleach had come out on vinyl, Sub Pop licensed two of the songs to Tupelo in England for the Blew EP. Two other songs recorded by Steve Fisk were added for this UK-only 4-song EP, now prized by collectors. But... to do this, S>P had to have someone (not me!) splice the two songs 'Blew' and 'Love Buzz' OUT of the master reels for the Bleach album. Somewhat later... S>P decided it would be worth it to make cassettes of Bleach, so they sent the Bleach master tapes off to the plant... forgetting that those two songs were elsewhere. The cassettes came back, short two songs; and the mistake was discovered to be S>P's, so the company had to, uh, eat them. They gave away a bunch and the rest went into the garbage. Bruce (Pavitt) gave me a shoebox full of them with the thought that I could re-use them down at the studio. They make great answering-machine cassettes too. It's just a black lo-bias cassette with the songs (even the two missing ones) listed in that 'Nirvana' typeface, however there are no boxes (those were reused)."