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Bleach (Album) (Music)
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Bleach is the debut studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released in 1989. It is their only album released under Sub Pop, and their only album with Chad Channing on drums before he was replaced by Dave Grohl.Following the release of the band's debut single "Love Buzz" on the label in November 1988, Bleach was recorded following two to three weeks of rehearsals for just over 600 dollars. According to retrospectives from frontman Kurt Cobain, pressures from Sub Pop plagued the album's production.The label insisted that the band create music in line with the popular grunge sound of the time, which contributed in part to the album's negative and bleak tone, with self-loathing, pessimism, alienation, and resentment running through many of its lyrics, which Cobain claims he largely wrote the night before recording while he was "pissed off". Additionally, the album's release was delayed for months on end as a result of its head Bruce Pavitt demanding that it be completely resequenced and the label needing to find sufficient funds.While critics took kindly to Bleach, it didn't make much of an impact upon release, selling only 40,000 copies in North America. That would change after the smash success of Nevermind in 1991; when Bleach was subsequently reissued in 1992, it peaked at #89 on the Billboard 200. The album would become one of the best-selling independently-released albums, being certified Platinum by the RIAA in 1995.Bleach is best known for the fan favourites "About a Girl", "School" and "Negative Creep".The album has nothing to do with the identically-named manga created by Tite Kubo or its associated works. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_105a31ad | type |
Fade Out | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_105a31ad | comment |
Fade Out: "Negative Creep" is the only Nirvana song that fades out. The rest all suddenly end. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_1e584efa | type |
Cruel and Unusual Death | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_1e584efa | comment |
Cruel and Unusual Death/Dangerously Close Shave: In "Floyd the Barber" the protagonist (identified as Kurt himself in the first verse) is put in the barber chair and cut to death. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_1f37a427 | type |
Face on the Cover | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_1f37a427 | comment |
Face on the Cover: Subverted; the cover shows the band members performing, but their faces can't be seen because their long hairs cover them up. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_1f60add | type |
Locked in the Dungeon | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_1f60add | comment |
Locked in the Dungeon: "Paper Cuts", where the protagonist is trapped in some kind of darkened confinement where "food is pushed through the door". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_2277bf3f | type |
Alternative Metal | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_2277bf3f | comment |
Alternative Metal: Contains enough metallic elements to qualify for this trope unlike Nirvana's later records. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_3bc3f899 | type |
Doom Metal | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_3bc3f899 | comment |
Sludge Metal: Widely considered to be Nirvana's most "metallic" album due to their strong influence from The Melvins. At the time of this album's release, "grunge" and "sludge" were virtually indistinguishable and wouldn't fully diverge until grunge went mainstream on Nirvana's next album. Most evident on tracks like “Floyd the Barber”, "Negative Creep”, "Blew”, and "Paper Cuts”. "Negative Creep" also qualifies lyrically due to its nihilistic and aggressively dark lyrics. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_5ade32d1 | type |
Metal Scream | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_5ade32d1 | comment |
Metal Scream: Prominent in many of the lyrics. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_6053dc28 | type |
Record Producer | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_6053dc28 | comment |
Record Producer: Jack Endino. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_6112fb53 | type |
Obsession Song | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_6112fb53 | comment |
Obsession Song: "Love Buzz". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_66379327 | type |
The Girl Who Fits This Slipper | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_66379327 | comment |
The Girl Who Fits This Slipper: "About a Girl" | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_67784113 | type |
Non-Appearing Title | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_67784113 | comment |
Non-Appearing Title: Though the word "bleach" would turn up in the song "Come As You Are" on their next album Nevermind. Several of the song titles as well, including "Scoff", "Sifting", "Paper Cuts" and "Downer". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_6f77ef8e | type |
Anti-Love Song | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_6f77ef8e | comment |
Anti-Love Song: "About a Girl". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_74e34bb | type |
Singer Namedrop | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_74e34bb | comment |
Singer Namedrop: "Paper Cuts" drops the band's name six times in a row in the middle of the song. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_7cd98af5 | type |
Potty Failure | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_7cd98af5 | comment |
Potty Failure: From "Sifting". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_963e36bd | type |
Boarding School of Horrors | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_963e36bd | comment |
Boarding School of Horrors: "School" | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | type |
One-Man Song | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | comment |
One-Man Song: "Mr. Moustache", "Floyd the Barber". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_a70f9aba | type |
Accentuate the Negative | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_a70f9aba | comment |
Accentuate the Negative: It's not a happy record, to say the least, but the bleakest and most disturbing song must be "Negative Creep", where Cobain screams top of his head off about what we assume to be some very young girl on drugs. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: "Mr. Moustache", a criticism against machoism. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_b5c56995 | type |
Corrupt the Cutie | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_b5c56995 | comment |
Corrupt the Cutie: "Floyd the Barber", in which the nice and friendly cast character from The Andy Griffith Show turns out to be a vicious murderer, along with Barney Fife, Aunt Bee and little Opie, and possibly even Andy Taylor himself.note It's debated whether Kurt sings "I die smothered in Aunt Bee's muff" or "Andy's clutch" "Negative Creep" in which Cobain repeats the line "I'm a negative creep and I'm stoned. Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_bef25af8 | type |
Circle of Shame | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_bef25af8 | comment |
Circle of Shame: The topic of shame is prominent in "Blew" and "Floyd The Barber". In "Mr. Moustache" Cobain also sings: "Yes, I eat cow, I am not proud". | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_c4b74656 | type |
One-Woman Song | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_c4b74656 | comment |
One-Woman Song: "About a Girl", which Cobain wrote about his then girlfriend. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: "Floyd the Barber" is named after a character from the The Andy Griffith Show. In the song Floyd, Barney Fife, Opie and Aunt Bee apparently take turns cutting Kurt up, whereupon he dies. On the vinyl version, the A side label◊ is based on the label design of Verve Records, a jazz company that also signed rock performers such as The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa. The B side label◊ has a diagram of the circles of Hell from The Divine Comedy. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_c9597a03 | type |
Self-Deprecation | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: In "Floyd the Barber" a man is cut to death by a barber and Cobain identifies this person as himself in the very first line of the song. "Negative Creep" is sung from a first person perspective. And in "Blew" he lampshades all of this with the line: In 1993, before Nirvana played "About a Girl" as the first track on MTV Unplugged in New York, Kurt says this: | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_cff53786 | type |
Cover Version | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_cff53786 | comment |
Cover Version: "Love Buzz", a cover of the 1969 hit by the Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, who are better known for the song "Venus". | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_d028ca10 | comment |
Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white. | |
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One-Word Title | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title: "Bleach", "Scoff", "Blew", "School", "Sifting", "Downer" | |
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Last Chorus Slow-Down | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_d5c79ce4 | comment |
Last Chorus Slow-Down: "Scoff" and "Swap Meet" both slow down near the end. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_dde7da12 | type |
Come to Gawk | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_dde7da12 | comment |
Come to Gawk: "Paper Cuts" | |
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Broken Record | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_e085feeb | comment |
Broken Record: "School", in which Cobain just repeats the lines: "Won't you believe it is just my luck? No recess!!" over and over. These are the only lyrics apart from: "You're in high school again." "Negative Creep": "I'm a negative creep and I'm stoned. Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more." Near the end of "Blew", the phrase "You could do anything" is repeated eight times. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_e18675e6 | type |
Word Salad Lyrics | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_e18675e6 | comment |
Word Salad Lyrics: "Downer", which is just Kurt mumbling nonsensical words at random. Many other lyrics are quite incomprehensible too. | |
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Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_e91cc721 | type |
In the Style of | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_e91cc721 | comment |
In the Style of: "About a Girl" is Kurt Cobain's attempt at writing an early Beatles song. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_ea454c4a | comment |
Surprisingly Gentle Song:"About A Girl" is a light alternative rock song on an album that otherwise consists of grunge and sludge metal fusions. | |
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