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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.
The video of "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" was released on the DVD of the band's rarities box set, With the Lights Out, in November 2004, while the video of "Polly" was re-released as a bonus feature on the Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind DVD in March 2005.
Keith Cameron welcomed the compilation's emphasis on the "positive...versions of 'Polly' and 'Breed' from the Lamefest gig at London's Astoria in December 1989, [the night] Nirvana opened for Mudhoney and Tad at a two-thirds empty theatre, [and] served notice that they were the band destined to redirect the gaze of the pop world onto a town ...
The video includes live performances, as well as interview clips, news footage and the band's home movies. [1] The live material is drawn largely from the band's 1991 Nevermind tour, with their shows at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington, on October 31, 1991, and Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on November 25, 1991, featured most prominently.
MTV Unplugged began airing on MTV in 1989, with artists performing their hits on acoustic instruments in intimate settings. [2] Nirvana had been in negotiations to appear for some time; Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain finally accepted while touring with the Meat Puppets. [3]
"(New Wave) Polly" is a hard rock version of the Nevermind album track "Polly". The version on Incesticide was recorded in 1991 during a BBC Radio 1 live studio session. " Aneurysm " was a song originally released as a b-side to the " Smells Like Teen Spirit " single, the version on Incesticide was recorded two months later during a BBC Radio 1 ...
Second to only Kanye West vs. Taylor Swift, the biggest feud in VMAs history occurred between Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Guns N’ Roses' Axl Rose, who represented two polar-opposite worldviews in ...
Chad Channing (born January 31, 1967) is an American musician who is best known as the drummer of the rock band Nirvana from 1988 to 1990, during which time they recorded and released their debut album Bleach; he also appears on "Polly" in the follow-up album Nevermind. He currently sings and plays bass in the band Before Cars.