Nirvana unplugged album8/28/2023 ![]() Still, the album has also has its share of flaws. "Many of the songs on Bleach are quite good, and at least one – the jangly Beatles-esque anomaly About a Girl – is great. Which isn't to say that they were devoid of original material, since even at this stage Kurt Cobain illustrated signs of his considerable songcraft." ( AllMusic) "Cut for about 600 dollars in Jack Endino's studio over just a matter of days, this captures Nirvana at a formative stage, still indebted to the murk that became known as grunge, yet not quite finding their voice as songwriters. It’s a fucking tough pill to swallow, but it’s all there."įollow-ups Nevermind and In Utero may get all the attention, but Bleach is an overlooked gem. His songwriting was incredibly special, but, because of the way the guitars and the drums were, it’s a hard listen. That was the way Kurt Cobain wrote songs, they all had this real pop sensibility to them. "I remember thinking it all sounded so unbelievably violent," says Frank Carter. It was a total perspective-changer – it definitely ripped a sheet of paper off of my mental notepad." In 2014 Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme told Rolling Stone, “The first time I heard Bleach, I remember turning to my friends and saying, 'We gotta start writing better songs.' Listening to Negative Creep and School and Love Buzz, I thought there were three different singers in the band. Even at Bleach’s rawest, as on the raging, chaotic Negative Creep, the album seethes with confidence, intelligence and star quality, the songwriting already so nuanced and packed with pop hooks that their breakthrough to the mainstream makes perfect sense.
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