Bleach

Even 15 years after Kurt Cobain's death, the live DVD isn't the only release from the Nirvana camp. The band's Sub Pop debut, Bleach, was recently reissued for its 20th anniversary, along with a complete recording of a 1990 gig in...

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...performance. As Cobain had guessed, most audience members probably weren't aware that the solemn track was from the band's 1989 debut, "Bleach." Unlike Nirvana's more polished, alternative-leaning breakthrough, 1991's "Nevermind," the sludgy...

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...Novoselic and Kurt Cobain. The Nirvana Era By the time Grohl joined Nirvana, the grunge pioneers had already released their first record Bleach and burned through a couple of drummers. He first began recording with the band as they...

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BUFFED UP: Bleach is a diamond in the rough. It is, quite possibly, the cheapest album ever made in the era of modern rock. Bleach, Nirvana's official debut album, was recorded at Reciprocal Recording Studios in Seattle in a total of 30...

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...in the Way' gets an airing, this is a 25 song set, without Butch Vig on hand to lacquer everything into oblivion. The best bits of Bleach and Incesticide buzz and growl freely amidst a bristling sea of roughed up Nevermind material, an...

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...Cobain was no stranger himself to challenging accepted notions of cool. When it first emerged 20 years ago, Nirvana's debut album, Bleach, represented an equally heretical notion to some indie aesthetes: Flipper-grade sludge-punk molded...

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...out of shape by punk-metal noise and a much darker take on gender relations than the young Lennon or McCartney had. In 1989, Nirvana's Bleach (reissued this month) didn't make much of a splash at the time. But with hindsight, the album shows...

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Originally published Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:02 AM Sub Pop's reissue of 'Bleach' is pure, brilliant Nirvana A review of the reissue of Nirvana's 1989 debut album, 'Bleach." Reviewer Jonathan Zwickel says it's "as seething and...

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...explode until the release of "Nevermind'' in 1991, members of the Seattle music scene considered "Bleach'' to be a breakout hit, simply because it allowed Nirvana to tour the country. "To us at the time, the idea of them being as...

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...Nevermind, but before that album took over MTV (and the world), Sub Pop released the now-classic Bleach. On Nov. 3 the label reissues 1989's Bleach along with a 1990 Nirvana show recorded in Portland, Ore. Seattle Weekly has posted an...

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