Nirvana "Bleach"

Negative Creep, though it's been ages

― nostormo, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

what is the best shit on bleach
"Gimme back my alcohol" or "cigarettes close to the heart"

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

"bleach" is better than "pump" by aerosmith. i will kill you.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:48 (8 months ago) Permalink

I thought it was 'gimme back my butthole'

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:22 (8 months ago) Permalink

My guess is "Negative Creep" walks this, but I voted for "Swap Meet".

― cwkiii, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

the only Nirvana album I ever listen to anymore, since it's the only one that doesn't feel suffocatingly depressing/humorless/suicidal.

voted About a Girl

― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

I vote 'paper cuts'

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

What a disturbing and ponderous song.

"the lady whom I have maternal love for / cannot look me in the eyes / but I see hers and they are blue / and they cock and twitch and masturbate"

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

There's a song on Bleach that nods at this but I would like to see these themes elaborated on more:

"I'm going to go to the beach and I'm gonna collect some shells and driftwood
And then I'm gonna take the shells and driftwood and glue them onto the plywood and burlap
And sell 'em for lots of money
People will be paying top dollar for my kids new used new toys and clothing"

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

― queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

shit i meant this version, can a moderator being delete the above?^:

― queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

School is pretty often my favourite Nirvana-song. Got my vote.

― Mule, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

shit, School..can i change my vote?

― nostormo, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

swap meet has some cool math rock upbeat/downbeat fakeout intro.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

"School" is my knee-jerk response but I should probably re-listen before voting.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

Paper Cuts!

― how's life, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

i would get so bent out of shape if a new band called a song "School"

― jjjdoom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

school vs negative creep, went for school

― the dilettante escape plan (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

school vs neg, went for crepe

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

negative creep. goofy and angry and a great riff.

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:55 (8 months ago) Permalink

love buzz is superb as well, maybe im not counting it 'cos its a cover.

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:56 (8 months ago) Permalink

i thought 'no recess' was 'no braincells' for a while

― the dilettante escape plan (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:09 (8 months ago) Permalink

school

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

"School" or "Negative Creep" i guess. don't really care for this album, Chad Channing is lame.

― some dude, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

Can't even decide, it's all great

― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

"School" and "Neg Creep" both great--"how few lyrics are necessary?"......but gonna go "Swap Meet" for the pathos and the chorus

― theStalePrince, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 02:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

Oh I haven't listened to this album in forever. Looking at the list of songs it's more than just "the baby-steps test-run that came before Nevermind". There are some bonafide classics in here, although it's slightly front-loaded AFAICT. I voted for School but maybe need to listen to it with adult ears.

― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:09 (8 months ago) Permalink

We always heard it as "Gimme back my Albert Hall"

― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:10 (8 months ago) Permalink

School.

What a great record.

― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

Blew is also great.

― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

i'd read that weird al was an early nirvana fan -- i wonder what his favorite song off this album is, and what food-based parodies leap into his mind.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

No recess!

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

about a roll
i need a cheesy spread / i do with unleavened bread

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:10 (8 months ago) Permalink

"About a Girl"

― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

We always heard it as "Gimme back my Albert Hall"

I hear "Gimme back my autoharp."

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

or "Gimme back my mohawk"

― cock chirea, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

"negative creep" is my favorite Nirvana song.

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 30 August 2012 11:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

Paper Cuts

― tropical storm mysac (crüt), Thursday, 30 August 2012 16:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

although it's slightly front-loaded AFAICT

"Sifting" is the only non-classic on this album IMO

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:03 (8 months ago) Permalink

gimme back my oval heart

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:04 (8 months ago) Permalink

Tough one. Probably Swap Meet.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 30 August 2012 22:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

"Keep the bitterness close to the heart."

more recently i've heard this as "keep the internets close to the heart"

― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2012 22:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

"Keeps his cigarettes close to his hard hat"

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 13:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

negative creep

<3

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 31 August 2012 13:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'M A NEGATIVE CREEP AND I'M STONED!

― wise men farting over you (snoball), Friday, 31 August 2012 13:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

Scoff and Mr Moustache are both brilliant, I'll be sad if they're overlooked.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 31 August 2012 14:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

Definitely Cobain's weirdest/creepiest songs on this record.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 31 August 2012 14:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

Is "Downer" not on this album? Probably would've voted for it, went with School instead.

― slagterm, Friday, 31 August 2012 14:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

probably voting "blew"

i always played incesticide more than this, though it's great too obv

― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 August 2012 14:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

i always thought Blandest was on here too...

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 14:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'm listening to this in full for the first time in years, and I can't decide. This is a fucking great record.

― emil.y, Friday, 31 August 2012 15:09 (8 months ago) Permalink

Some days its my favourite.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

Downer is definitely on my copy of this album. Wanted to vote for that. Guess I'll go with negative creep instead.

― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

it's my favorite, the only nirvana album i really love

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

neg creep

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 31 August 2012 17:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

"Downer" and "Big Cheese" on the 1992 CD release but not the 1989 vinyl release

― some dude, Friday, 31 August 2012 17:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

My favourite and the first one I bought, in my 1990 SubPop infatuation. My copy didn't have "Love Buzz", I think it was a Dutch pressing or something.

Voted "Scoff"

― aerosmith suck because their corporate rock that sucks (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

xpost "Big Cheese" was on my vinyl in place of "Love Buzz"

― aerosmith suck because their corporate rock that sucks (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 31 August 2012 18:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

i must'ev bought the cd before 92? cuz im p sure downer & big cheese werent on it

― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

yeah the were added as bonus tracks after "nevermind" came out

― billstevejim, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:05 (8 months ago) Permalink

Okay wow I'm actually listening to this for the first time in years, maybe a decade. Wow wow wow! So not the precursor to nevermind I once saw it as. It's furious, catchy, just fucking brilliant. Hate to be that guy, but there hasn't been a band like them since.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 18:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

Every moment is a hook. this is as accessible as anything they ever did but I always saw it as a slightly abrasive 'difficult' album when I was younger.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 18:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

School vs Love Buzz vs Negative Creep

― dmr, Friday, 31 August 2012 21:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

yes I eat cow, I am not proud

― dmr, Friday, 31 August 2012 21:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

The back half of the album holds up pretty well imo. I don't want to see Mr Moustache or Sifting get blanked, so I'll vote for one of those, since some of you already share my love for Paper Cuts. Sifting is a bit overlong, but what a great, ugly chorus of doom.

― Oneohchex Point Charlie (Spectrist), Friday, 31 August 2012 21:57 (8 months ago) Permalink

how popular was bleach among metal dudes when it came out? i read kirk hammett was a fan somewhere.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

"Negative Creep" by a fuckin mile

― for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Friday, 31 August 2012 22:11 (8 months ago) Permalink

how popular was bleach among metal dudes when it came out? i read kirk hammett was a fan somewhere.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, August 31, 2012 6:00 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

but kirk hammett is the metal dude who always told the press how much alternarock he was into

― some dude, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

seemed like all the metal bands/dudes in olympia liked them, but it was a small town

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Friday, 31 August 2012 22:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

Bleach is hardly "alternarock" album in the same vein as REM or Beat Happening though... You could call it indie rock by definition, but it seems much more related to metal than typical college rock of the time. Thinking about it now, it's remarkable how different its cloth is from that of Nevermind and In Utero. It sounds like a different band entirely. Bleach has a lot more guitar riffage, where the following albums are heavy on power chords.

― Poliopolice, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

I got the

how popular was bleach among metal dudes when it came out? i read kirk hammett was a fan somewhere.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, August 31, 2012 6:00 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

but kirk hammett is the metal dude who always told the press how much alternarock he was into
--some dude

Their music festival they curated had Best Coast and Modest Mouse and Wooden Shjips

― jjjdoom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 August 2012 22:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

Who is they?

― Poliopolice, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

kirks hammetts

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Friday, 31 August 2012 22:57 (8 months ago) Permalink

yeah but even way before Orion Festival or even before they did Lollapalooza i'd see Kirk interviews and go "huh, he listens to a lot of alt rock" -- i was kinda going off the assumption that he repped for Bleach after Nevermind but maybe that wasn't the case i dunno

― some dude, Friday, 31 August 2012 23:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

At least based on doing college radio back in 89-90, Nirvana and Bleach was just another record in the stacks. Mudhoney was the cool band on Subpop at that point and people were way more into Dinosaur Jr. by comparison with similar bands.

Maybe out west it was different, but there wasn't that many metal guys I knew in Indiana in that were listening to that kind of rock. They might know and like The Misfits or The Ramones, but that's about as far as that went.

― earlnash, Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-metallicas-kirk-hammett-discusses-kurt-cobain

― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

paper cuts at a respectable placing!

― how's life, Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

:D

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

I played this on college radio and yeah, almost nobody thought it was as good as "Superfuzz Bigmuff"--but "Superfuzz Bigmuff" was really fucking good!

― theStalePrince, Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:55 (8 months ago) Permalink

that was maybe true at the time of its release, but i remember noticing over the year leading up to the release of nevermind that a HUGE amount of interest in nirvana had developed. by that point, mudhoney had become a little bit "yeah, them", the haircuts and disappointing debut LP doing a fair bit to dampen the enthusiasm superfuzz occasioned.

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

i think the summer 91 tour with sonic youth (the tour in "1991 the year punk broke") was an indication, by that point, that nirvana's pre-nevermind momentum had generated more buzz than mudhoney's... it might have been a slower build though, since nirvana didn't really have a single that got as much attention as "touch me i'm sick" .. i'm guessing their most popular song prior to "teen spirit" was "sliver"

― billstevejim, Saturday, 1 September 2012 08:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

I saw them twice during Bleach era. It was my favorite album in 1989. I fuckinh hated Nevermind when it came out. I still have never sat down and listened to it all the way through.

I turned on a lot of metal friends to Bleach at that time. None of us considered it metal, but we all found it ludicrously heavy and catchy as fuck.

A masterpiece.

― Nate Carson, Saturday, 1 September 2012 12:55 (8 months ago) Permalink

Seems weird and kind of a shame you've never listened to Nevermind all the way through. Maybe it's finally time to check it out ;)

― MikoMcha, Saturday, 1 September 2012 21:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

lol nate youre doing it again

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 1 September 2012 21:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

But I can see how someone who loved Bleach might not see anything redeeming in Nevermind. They sound nothing alike.

― Poliopolice, Saturday, 1 September 2012 21:55 (8 months ago) Permalink