Boy, nothing screams, "Happy Valentines Day", like Nirvana! Yeah...Obviously that's a pile of sarcasm.
I am not a Nirvana fan. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I personally attribute them to one of the major causes of the decline of music in the 90's, and was a little distraught when I found out that they didn't stay confined to that era.
No, what I, and possibly others, didn't know was that Nirvana actually got their start in the 1980's, releasing their first album, Bleach, in 1989.
Ugh...Let's get this done and over with.
Kurt Cobain, and Krist Novoselic, met in high school, and while Cobain was always seemingly interested in starting a band, the latter feigned interest. Even after being given a demo of his work by Cobain, Novoselic wouldn't listen to it for three years.
The duo would go through a series of drummers between their inception and 1988, with Chad Channing, having the position for their debut album. However, when Bleach was first released, it didn't sell well. Probably because it's noisy, hot garbage, which is contradictory to everything that was the 80's.
And that's pretty much my summary of the whole thing. Bleach is loud, annoying, and with the exception of, About A Girl, doesn't contain anything noteworthy.
Now, before you say, "Oh, you're just a hater," let me make it clear that Nirvana's follow up, and breakthrough album, Nevermind (1991), is a solid album. As much as I despise the 90's as a whole, I do acknowledge that there are good albums from this era. They just aren't my preference.
Bleach feels unrefined, and with thirteen tracks, too long for this derailed mess to go on. There is no sense of focus. Rather, just an opportunity for Cobain to scream into a microphone for forty-three minutes.
Did I enjoy the album? Obviously not. I also knew going into it that I wouldn't. However, I did sit through the entire thing, giving it a fair opportunity to change my mind.
I picked Bleach up because I simply wanted to own a unique 1980's album, and it definitely is unique in comparison to the music of the era. It's a shelf piece, and not an album I suspect I will ever return to.
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