| Nirvana / Bleach |
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| Album: | Bleach | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Nirvana | Added: | Nov 2009 | |
| Label: | Sub Pop Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-12-20 | Pull Date: | 2010-02-21 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 14 | Feb 7 | Jan 31 | Jan 24 | Jan 17 | Jan 10 | Jan 3 | Dec 27 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 31, 2020: | PWR Alto Power Hour Love Buzz | 4. | Jun 02, 2016: | Interdimensional Radio Molly's Lips | |
| 2. | Apr 24, 2017: | Mixed Nuts About A Girl | 5. | May 11, 2016: | Brownian Motion Negative Creep | |
| 3. | Oct 06, 2016: | The Foun Been A Son | 6. | May 11, 2016: | The Foundation Blew, Been A Son |
| Album Review |
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| Andy Reviewed 2009-12-10 | ||
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Raw, loud grunge rock. Shows off some of the song structures that would come to define the band, but affronts and challenges the listener more than their later records. Lots of down-tuned, hard rock guitar and rough, expressive vocals. Tracks 1-13 are the original album, and 14-25 are recordings from a live show. My picks: 1, 3, 4, 9, 12, 20. FCC: 21. – Andy 1 - Rough but catchy, with growling bass and vocals, hard rock choruses 2 - Loud and anxious, with nice breakdown at end 3 - Clean and poppy while distinctly Nirvana; fantastic, expressive vocal hooks 4 - Driving beat, well-conveyed frustration: "You're in high school again" 5 - Shocking Blue cover; grabbing bass riff and nice guitar interplay 6 - Slower but intense, with screeching guitar opener, screaming vocals, spacey harmonization on choruses 7 - Fast and brutal; bassy, distorted riff and had-it-up-to-here vocals that mostly hover just this side of breaking out into chaos 8 - Hard rock guitar riffs, indignant vocals 9 - Simple, pleading verse structure with loud, cathartic choruses; effecting and mature 10 - Still angry, but has some fun with it; solid rock number 11 - Epic, stripped-down, roughed-up hair metal 12 - Quiet, spooky intro; snarled anti-corporate lyrics with grabbing two-part harmonies on choruses 13 - Very fast and dark, with stretches of unnerving spoken vocals 14 - Band salutes Portland and noodles around with guitar feedback into "School" 15 - More desperation in the vocals, with crisp bass 16 - Pretty similar to the studio version, with a little more vocal intensity 17 - Bass intro, catchy vocals 18 - Faster than studio version, with heavier guitar 19 - Fecal Matter cover; Meat Puppets reminiscent opening and hard-rocking choruses 20 - Vaselines cover, as the band enthusiastically announce; simple, poppy, energetic rock tune 21 - More paced, brooding number; FCC "fuck" 22 - A little faster than studio, with deranged chorus vocals 23 - Significantly sped up, with clean guitar and loud bass; frantic and frustrated 24 - Driving and determined, with catchy, repeated vocal patterns 25 - Fast and heavy, long guitar solo; song goes to about 2:30, followed by what sounds like Cobain doing something bad to his guitar | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Blew | 13. | Downer | |||
| 2. | Floyd The Barber | 14. | Intro | |||
| 3. | About A Girl | 15. | School | |||
| 4. | School | 16. | Floyd The Barber | |||
| 5. | Love Buzz | 17. | Dive | |||
| 6. | Paper Cuts | 18. | Love Buzz | |||
| 7. | Negative Creep | 19. | Spank Thru | |||
| 8. | Scoff | 20. | Molly's Lips | |||
| 9. | Swap Meet | 21. | Sappy | |||
| 10. | Mr. Moustache | 22. | Scoff | |||
| 11. | Sifting | 23. | About A Girl | |||
| 12. | Big Cheese | 24. | Been A Son | |||
| 25. | Blew | |||||