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"Polly" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It is the sixth song on their second album Nevermind , released by DGC Records in September 1991. The song was written about the abduction, rape, and torture of a 14-year-old girl returning home from a punk rock concert in Tacoma, Washington in 1987.
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 ...
Describing the tour in his 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, American music journalist Michael Azerrad wrote that "No one was happy about Nirvana playing second fiddle to the Peppers, but they had already committed to it during the chaos of the American tour. At any rate, Nirvana stole the show."
Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show is a hallowed chapter of Kurt Cobain’s history – it almost never happened ... reaching into the gristle of songs such as “Polly”, “Something in the Way ...
A mother parrot in a cage is teaching her three children to say, "Polly want a cracker." The first two kids, Patrick and Patricia, do so after some effort, but Peter boldly refuses, pointing at a framed photo of his dad he states, "I don't want a cracker! I wanna be a sailor, like me pop."
This version was initially released as a music video only, on the Sub Pop Video Network Volume 1 VHS compilation. "In Bloom" was released as Nevermind's fourth and final single in November 1992 and generated heavy American airplay, reaching number 5 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, despite never being released as a physical single in the United ...
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Nirvana is a greatest hits album [2] [1] by the American rock band Nirvana, released on October 29, 2002. It was the third Nirvana album released following the death of lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain in 1994. The album includes songs from Nirvana's three studio albums, Bleach, Nevermind, and In Utero, and the live album MTV Unplugged in ...