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Genius Annotation

This song was a random jam that broke out when they were trying to record “Lithium.” Kurt was so frustrated with their lack of progress that he spontaneously started playing this song and Krist and Dave joined in. The lyrics were made up on the fly.

“Endless, Nameless” appeared as a B-side to the “Come as You Are” single. On most pressings, the song was also included on the 1991 album Nevermind as a hidden track, following ten minutes of silence after “Something in the Way” ends.

Kurt broke his guitar in the studio during the recording, which can be heard during the end of the song. He also smashes his guitar after performing this song Live at the Paramount.

An extended jam that often closed concerts, the band recorded the track after the session for ‘Lithium’ went south, [when Kurt] brought said session to a close by smashing the studio’s only left-handed guitar in the middle of the take.

—via Rolling Stone

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Why is the song only a hidden track on the album?
Genius Answer

“Endless, Nameless” was nearly forgotten about during the initial pressings, as audio engineer Howie Weinberg forgot to even put it on the track listing.

Frontman, guitarist, and lead singer Kurt Cobain discovered the lack of the song and demanded to Weinberg that the song was put back onto the album. Unfortunately, the track could not be added back into the normal listing after 20,000 copies of the album had already been distributed and would instead be used as a hidden track.

Weinberg added “Endless, Nameless” back onto the track listing, with a silence lasting ten minutes between the end of the original last song on the album, “Something in the Way”, and the new secret track, “Endless, Nameless”.

Since then, the first 20,000 copies of Nevermind have since then become a rarity and a must-have for Nirvana collectors.

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