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Nirvana recorded a version of "Dumb" for the BBC at Maida Vale Studios, England, in September 1991, two years before the song's official release on In Utero. "Dumb" was written by Cobain in the summer of 1990, as the band began to move away from the heavier grunge sound of their debut album, Bleach, towards more openly melodic, pop-influenced material. [5]
It is also one of the few Nirvana songs to directly reference drug use. A live version, recorded on December 28, 1991, at Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, California , was released as the first promotional single from the live compilation From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah in November 1996.
In 2023, Stephen Thomas Erlewine ranked it fifth on the A.V. Club's "Essential Nirvana: Their 30 greatest songs, ranked" list. [40] According to Nielsen Music's year-end report for 2019, "Lithium" was the tenth most-played song of the decade on mainstream rock radio with 123,000 spins. All of the songs in the top 10 were from the 1990s. [41]
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 ...
When Nirvana did finally arrive that afternoon, with a drug-shaky Cobain sipping on a large mug of tea and insisting – despite the studio’s tight security – on heading outside to greet the ...
A notable alternate performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" occurred on BBC's Top of the Pops in 1991, during which the band refused to mime to the pre-recorded backing track and Cobain deliberately sang the whole song an octave lower and altered numerous lyrics in the song (for example, "Load up on guns, bring your friends" became "Load up on ...
A similar phenomenon occurs when a band skillfully covers another artist; ultimately, it comes down to fabricating the illusion that the song was […] Nirvana’s 10 Best Cover Songs Skip to main ...
Majesty (song) Make tha Trap Say Aye; Mama (Loves a Crackhead) Mary Jane's Last Dance; Mask Off; Master of Puppets (song) Medicate (Gabbie Hanna song) Million Miles an Hour; Minnie the Moocher; Molly (Lil Pump song) Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain) Monkey (song) Monkey Man (Rolling Stones song) Monkey on My Back; Moonlight Mile (song) Mother's ...