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"About a Girl" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It is the third song on their debut album, Bleach, released in June 1989. Frequently described as one of Cobain's strongest and most melodic early compositions, [1] [2] [3] "About a Girl
Nirvana added an extra guitarist, Pat Smear, for the In Utero tour. In February 1993, Nirvana released "Puss" / "Oh, the Guilt", a split single with the Jesus Lizard, on the independent label Touch & Go. [67] For their third album, Nirvana chose producer Steve Albini, who had a reputation as principled and opinionated in the American indie ...
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 ...
Jason Mark Everman (born October 16, 1967) is an American musician and soldier who played guitar with Nirvana and Mind Funk, and bass in Soundgarden and OLD.He later served tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Army as an Army Ranger and Green Beret.
Cobain had been fascinated by Farmer's life since high school, when he first read the controversial 1978 Farmer biography, Shadowland, by Seattle Post-Intelligencer film critic, William Arnold. According to journalist Gillian G. Garr, Cobain grew to identify "even more with Farmer's story" after his own success with Nirvana, "especially with ...
In 1998, a cassette of Nirvana's March 1991 rehearsal featuring the song was given to the Seattle newspaper The Stranger by an "anonymous source," suggesting that the song had originally started as a Nirvana song. When contacted by The Stranger as to the song's authorship, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic confirmed that the song was a Cobain ...
In 2019, The Guardian placed it at number 16 on their list of "Nirvana's 20 greatest songs". [24] In 2023, Erlewine ranked "Sappy" 20th on his list of Nirvana's "30 best songs" for the A.V. Club, calling it "a song too misshapenly beautiful to easily belong anywhere." [25]
"Scentless Apprentice" was written during a band rehearsal in 1992. Unlike most Nirvana songs, the guitar riff was written by Grohl, rather than Cobain. "It was such a cliché grunge Tad riff that I was reluctant to even jam on it," Cobain told Michael Azerrad, in the 1993 Nirvana biography, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. [3] "But I ...