"Pay to Play" by Nirvana is an early demo version of "Stay Away", a song that would eventually find its way onto their 1991 breakout album Nevermind.

[1] It was the first new Nirvana song to be released after the death of frontman Kurt Cobain but its inclusion on the compilation album had been agreed to before he died.

[1][3] Although he only managed to get a B+ on the project, Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of Weezer, remarked that the song "sounds cool [and] makes us feel a weird sort of nostalgia for a time in our lives that actually sucked.

Beck submitted "Bogusflow", a "pisstake of 'Even Flow' by Pearl Jam" that decries bands and musicians wanting only to be like Nirvana; the song specifically, though cryptically, mocks Eddie Vedder.

"[1] According to Anna Waronker and Tony Maxwell of that dog., "Grunge Couple" was written as a tribute to both Sonic Youth and Spinal Tap.

[1] "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" by Counting Crows was written by Adam Duritz and David Bryson one night in a hotel room.

Duritz kept humming guitar parts, and Bryson kept coming up with vocal melodies; the two finalized the song at 4 am and recorded a rough version of it on the hotel room's answering machine.

Although the band was not pleased with a majority of the tracks recorded during this time, Jon Auer noted that "Open Every Window" was "a song desperately trying to be positive amid the depression.

The song was later released on a split 7-inch with Eric's Trip covering the band's composition "Laying Blame" on its a-side as a benefit single for the Halifax-based radio station CKDU on Cinnamon Toast Records.

On the last day of recording, however, Blackie Onassis added guitar and vocals to it, which prompted Nash Kato to note that it sounded like "space folk".

[7] Allmusic eventually chose "Pay to Play", "Jamie", "Compilation Blues" and "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" as "picks" from the album.