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Bleach is the debut studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on June 15, 1989, by Sub Pop. After the release of their debut single " Love Buzz " on Sub Pop in November 1988, Nirvana rehearsed for two to three weeks in preparation for recording a full-length album.
Nirvana was an American grunge band formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987, with drummer Dave Grohl joining the band in 1990. The band recorded three studio albums ; Bleach , Nevermind and In Utero , with other songs available on live albums , compilations , extended plays (EPs ...
The band released its debut album, Bleach, in 1989 on independent label Sub Pop. After being joined by final drummer Dave Grohl and signing to Geffen Records subsidiary DGC Records , the band released its second studio album, Nevermind , which became one of the best selling alternative albums of the 1990s [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and popularized the Seattle ...
"Negative Creep" has been described as one of the "Sub Popiest" songs the band ever recorded, [6] and "a text book example of Seattle's true grunge sound". [7] The studio version is the only Nirvana recording that employs an extended fade-out while the vocals are still present.
A second studio version was recorded by Endino at Reciprocal in December 1988, and was released on Bleach on June 15, 1989.. The Bleach version of "Blew" was accidentally recorded one step lower than the band had intended, which contributed to what Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad called its "extraordinarily heavy sound". [10]
It was ranked at number 112 on Pitchfork's 2015 list of "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s," with Raymond Cummings calling it a "sharp, perceptive, well-constructed, and almost Beatles-esque" song "that demonstrated a potential beyond grunge's ghetto." [24] In 2019, it was ranked eighth on The Guardian ' s list of "Nirvana's 20 greatest songs". [25]
The Blew edition (pressed on a cobalt blue tape) commemorates the album's opening track and will be limited to 1,989 copies, in honor of its release date. The Tapehead City description of the ...
In 2015, Rolling Stone named "Been a Son" the 23rd best Nirvana song in their "No Apologies: All 102 Nirvana Songs Ranked" list. [14] In 2019, The Guardian ranked it at number 11 on their list of "Nirvana's 20 greatest songs". [15] The A.V. Club ranked it at number 14 on their list of Nirvana's "30 greatest songs" in 2023. [16]