From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Live album by Nirvana
Released	October 1, 1996 (1996-10-01)
Recorded	1989–1994
Genre	Grunge alternative rock
Length	53:55
Label	DGC
Producer	Shauna O' Brien, Diane Stata
Nirvana chronology
Singles (1995) From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) Nirvana (2002)

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah is a live album by American rock band Nirvana, released on October 1, 1996 by DGC Records. It features live performances recorded from 1989 to 1994.

Compiled largely by bassist Krist Novoselic, it was released two years after the multi-platinum-selling live album, MTV Unplugged in New York, which was the first Nirvana album to be released after the suicide of the band's songwriter, singer and guitarist, Kurt Cobain, in April 1994. From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah was intended to show the band's heavier side, in contrast to the acoustic MTV Unplugged album, and was originally meant to be packaged alongside the MTV Unplugged set in a double album called Verse Chorus Verse, although most of what became From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah was eventually recompiled.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling nearly 159,000 copies in its first week of release.^[1] It spent 25 weeks on the chart and became the band's sixth platinum album in the US since 1991.^[2] The album's first promotional single, for the song "Aneurysm," reached number 11 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 13 on its Modern Rock Tracks chart, while its music video topped the charts on Much Music in Canada. A second promotional single, for the song "Drain You," charted briefly as well.

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah was ranked ninth best album of 1996 in Rolling Stone's 1997 critics' poll.^[3]