In case you're wondering, yes, this is the actual Nirvana Spotify bio; look at this meme's description lol | NOTHING WAS EVER QUITE THE SAME AFTER NIRVANA. THE BAND'S SECOND ALBUM, 1991'S NEVERMIND, REVOLUTIONIZED POPULAR MUSIC BYORINGING ALTERNATIVE ROCK ABOVE GROUND, INTRODUCING MAINSTREAM AUDIENCES TO SOUNDS AND CONCEPTS THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY EXISTED ONLY IN SHADOWY RECORD STORE CORNERS AND ON LOW-FREQUENCY COLLEGE RADIC AIRWAVES. NEVERMIND'S NOISY, DISSONANT GUITAR ROCK, MUMBLED OR HOWLED SURREALISTIC LYRICS, AND GENERALLY ANGSTY PUNK ATTITUDES WERE UNLIKELY CANDIDATES FOR CHART SUCCESS, BUT THE BAND UNDERCUT THEIR GRUNGY SONGS WITH ENOUGH POP MELODICISM TO CREATE A SOUND UNLIKE ANYTHING AVERAGE LISTENERS HAD EVER HEARD BEFORE, STRIKING AT THE EXACT RIGHT MOMENT TO BECOME AN UNPRECEDENTED
SUCCESS.
SINCE NIRVANA WERE ROOTED IN AN INDIE AESTHETIC BUT LOVED POP MUSIC, THEY FOUGHT THEIR STARDOM WHILE COURTING IT, BECOMING SOME OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS ANTI-ROCK STARS IN HISTORY. THEY CONSCIOUSLY ATTEMPTED TO SHED THEIR AUDIENCE WITH 1993'S ABRASIVE. STEVE ALBINI-PRODUCED THIRD ALBUM IN UTERO, BUT VOCALIST/QUITARIST/SONQWRITER KURT COBAIN'SGROWING MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUES LED TO HIS DEATH BY SUICIDE IN 1994 THOUGH NIRVANA'S STORY WAS CUT TRAGICALLY SHORT, THEIR LEGACY STANDS AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL IN ROCK & ROLL HISTORY.
KURT COBAIN (VOCALS, QUITAR) MET CHRIS NOVOSELIC (BORN KRIST NOVOSELIC) (BASS) IN 1985 IN ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON, A SMALL OGGINC TOWN 100 MILES AWAY FROM SEATTLE. WHILE NOVOSELIC CAME FROM A RELATIVELY STABLE BACKGROUND, COBAIN'S CHILDHOOD HAC BEEN THROWN INTO TURMOIL WHEN HIS PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN HE WAS EIGHT. FOLLOWING THE DIVORCE. HE LIVED AT THE HOMES OF VARIOUS RELATIVES, DEVELOPING A LOVE FOR THE BEATLES AND THEN HEAVY METAL IN THE PROCESS EVENTUALLY, AMERICAN HARDCORE PUNK WORKED ITS WAY INTO DOMINATING HIS LISTENING HABITS AND HE MET THE MELVINS, AN OLYMPIA-BASED UNDERGROUND HEAVY PUNK BAND. COBAIN BEGAN PLAYING IN PUNK BANDS LIKE FECA MATTER. OFTEN WITH THE MELVINS' BASSIST DALE CROVER. THROUGH THE MELVINS' LEADER, BUZZOSBORNE. COBAIN MET NOVOSELIC. WHO ALSO HAD AN INTENSE INTEREST IN PUNK, WHICH MEANT THAT HE. LIKE COBAIN. FELT ALIENATED FROM THE MACHO, REDNECK POPULATION OF ABERDEEN. THE DUO DECIDED TO FORM A BAND CALLED THE STIFF WOODIES, WITH COBAIN ON DRUMS NOVOSELIC ON BASS, AND A ROTATING CAST OF GUITARISTS AND VOCALISTS. THE GROUP WENT THROUGH NAME CHANGES AS QUICKLY AS QUITARISTS, BEFORE DECIDING THAT COBAIN WOULD PLAY GUITAR AND SING. RENAMED SKIO ROW. THE NEW TRIO FEATURED DRUMMER AARON BURKHART, WHO LEFT THE BAND BY THE END OF 1986 AND WAS REPLACED BY CHAD CHANNING. BY 1987. THE BAND WAS CALLED NIRVANA
VIRVANA BEGAN PLAYING PARTIES IN OLYMPIA GAINING A CULT FOLLOWING. AROUND 1987 THE OAND MADE TEN DEMOS WITH PRODUCER JACK ENDINO, WHO PLAYED THE RECORDINGS TO JONATHAN PONEMAN. ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SEATTLE-BASED INDIE LABEL SUB POP PONEMAN SIGNED NIRVANA, AND IN DECEMBER OF 1988. THE BAND RELEASED ITS FIRST SINGLE, ACOVER OF SHOCKINA BLUE'S "LOVE BUZZ." SUB POP ORCHESTRATED AN EFFECTIVE MARKETING SCHEME, WHICH PAINTED THE BAND AS PACKWOODS, LOGGING-TOWN HICKS, WHICH RRITATED COBAIN AND NOVOSELIC. WHILE "LOVE BUZZ" WAS FAIRLY WELL-RECEIVED, THE BAND'S DEBUT ALLBUM, BLEACH, WAS WHAT GOT THE BALL ROLLING. RECORDED FOR IUST OVER $600 AND RELEASED IN JUNE 1989, BLEACH SLOWLY BECAME A HIT ON COLLEGE RADIO, DUE TO THE GROUP'S CONSISTENT TOURING. THOUGH JASON EVERMAN WAS CREDITED AS A SECOND QUITARIST ON THE SLEEVE OF BLEACH, HE DIDN'T APPEAR ON THE RECORD; HE ONLY TOURED IN SUPPORT OF THE ALBUM BEFORE LEAVING THE BAND AT THE END OF THE YEAR TO IOIN SOUNDGARDEN AND THEN MINDFUNK. BLEACH SOLD 35,000 COPIES ANA NIRVANA BECAME FAVORITES OF COLLEGE RADIO THE BRITISH WEEKLY MUSIC PRESS, AND SONIC YOUTH, MUDHONEY, AND DINOSAUR JR., WHICH WAS ENOUGH TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF MAJOR LABELS.
IN JULV 1990. NIRVANA RECORDED "SLIVER"/"DIVE"WITH MUDHONEY DRUMMER DAN PETERS ON DRUMS AND PRODUCER BUTCH VIG. THE BANA ALSO MADE A SIX-SONA DEMO WITH VIA, WHICH WAS SHOPPED TO MAIOR LABELS, WHO SOON OEGAN COMPETING TO SIGN THE GROUP. IN AUGUST, THEY HIT THE ROAD WITH SONIC YOUTH'S GOO TOUR (INCLUDINC CROVER ON DRUMS). THAT SEPTEMBER, DAVE GROHL, FORMERLY OF THE D.C.-BASED HARDCORE BAND SCREAM, BECAME NIRVANA'S DRUMMER AND THE BAND SICNED WITH DGC FOR $287.000. NIRVANA RECORDED THEIR SECOND ALBUM WITH VIG, COMPLETING THE RECORD IN JUNE OF 1991. NEVERMIND WAS RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER, SUPPORTED BY A QUICK AMERICAN TOUR. WHILE DGC WAS EXPECTING A MODERATELY SUCCESSFUL RELEASE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 100,000 COPIES, NEVERMIND IMMEDIATELV BECAME A SMASH HIT QUICKLY SELLING OUT ITS INITIAL SHIPMENT OF 50,000 COPIES AND CREATING A SHORTAGE ACROSS AMERICA. WHAT HELPED THE RECORD BECOME "SMELLS LIKE TEEN
A SUCCESS WAS SPIRIT," A BLISTERING FOUR-CHORD ROCKER THAT WAS ACCOMPANIED BV A VIDEO THAT SHOT INTCHEAVY MTV ROTATION. BY THE BEGINNING OF 1992, "SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT" HAD CLIMBED INTO THE AMERICAN TOP TEN AND NEVERMINA BUMPED MICHAEL JACKSON'S MUCH-TOUTED COMEBACK ALBUM DANGEROUS OFF THE TOP OF THE ALBUM CHARTS: IT REACHED THE BRITISH TOP TEN SHORTLY AFTERWARD. BY FEBRUARY, THE ALBUM HAD BEEN CERTIFIED TRIPLE PLATINUM,
NIRVANA'S SUCCESS TOOK THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BY SURPRISE, NIRVANA INCLUDED. FROM THE MOMENT NIRVANA WERE MET WITH MAINSTREAM VISIBILITY. COBAIN USED HIS NEWFOUND FAME TO RELENTLESSLY PUSH HIS FAVORITE INDEPENDENT ARTISTS AS IF THEIR MUSIC WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HIS OWN. THIS TOOK THE FORM OF BRINGING JAPANESE ALT-POP TRIO SHONEN KNIFE ON TOUR, COVERING LESSER-KNOWN BUT FORMATIVE ARTISTS IKE THE WIPERS, THE VASELINES, AND MEAT PUPPETS, OR WEARING A HOMEMADE DANIER JOHNSTON T-SHIRT DURING TELEVISION APPEARANCES AND HIGH-PROFILE CONCERTS COBAIN'S ENTHUSIASTIC FANDOM INTRODUCED UNTOLD NUMBERS OF NIRVANA FANS TO ARTISTSTHEY MOST LIKELY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN TO SEEK OUT ON THEIR OWN, AND IN THE PROCESS ENERGIZED THOSE ARTISTS' CAREERS.
IT SOON BECAME APPARENT THAT NIRVANA WASN'T QUITE SURE HOW TO HANDLE ITS SUCCESS. AROUNC THE TIME OF NEVERMIND'S RELEASE. COBAIN APPEARED ON MTV'S HEADBANGERS BALL IN DRAG; THE GROUP MOCKED THE TRADITION OF MIMING ON THE BBC'S TOP OF THE POPS, WITH NOVOSELIC CONSTANTLY THROWING HIS BASS INTO THE AIR AND COBAIN SINGING HIS LIVE VOCALS IN THE STYLE OF LAN CURTIS: AND THEIR TRADITIONAL IVE DESTRUCTION OF INSTRUMENTS WAS IMMORTALIZED ON A SATURDAY NIAHT LIVE PERFORMANCE THAT ENDED WITH NOVOSELIC AND GROHL SHARING A KISS. BY EARLY 1992, QUESTIONS BEGAN TO ARISE ABOUT THE BAND'S STABILITY COBAIN MARRIED COURTNEV LOVE. THE LEADER OF THE INDIE ROCK/FOXCORE BAND HOLE, IN FEBRUARY OF 1992, ANNOUNCING THAT THE COUPLE WAS EXPECTING A CHILD. A FEW MONTHS LATER. NIRVANA CANCELED SEVERAL CONCERTS AND REFUSED TO MOUNT A FULL-SCALE AMERICAN TOURDURING THE SUMMER. COBAIN COMPLAINED THAT HE WAS SUFFERING FROM CHRONIC STOMACH TROUBLES. WHICH SEEMED TO BE CONFIRMED WHEN HE WAS ADMITTED TO A BELFAST HOSPITA AFTER A JUNE CONCERT. WHILE HE WENT THROUGH THESE PROBLEMS, DGC RELEASED THE ODDS-AND-ENDS COMPILATION INCESTICIDE LATE IN 1992; THE ALBUM REACHED NUMBER 39 U.S AND NUMBER 14 U.K.
AS NIRVANA PREPARED TO MAKE THEIR THIRO ALBUM, THEY RELEASED "OH, THE GUILT" AS A SPLIT SINALE WITH THE JESUS LIZARD ON TOUCH & GO RECORDS. CHOOSING STEVE ALBINI (PIXIES, THE BREEDERS. BIA BLACK, THE JESUS LIZARD) AS THEIR PRODUCER, THEY RECORDED IN UTERO, IN TWO WEEKS DURING. FEBRURARY 1993. LATER IN THE VEAR, REPORTS, INCLUDING AN ARTICLE IN NEWSWEEK. CIRCULATED THAT DGC WAS UNHAPPY WITH THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM, AND MAKING ACCUSATIONS THAT NIRVANA DELIBERATELV MADE AN UNCOMMERCIAL RECORD BOTH THE BAND AND THE LABEL DENIED SUCH ALLEGATIONS. DECIDING THAT ALBINI'SPRODUCTION WAS TOO FLAT. NIRVANA DECIDED TO REMASTER THE ALBUM WITH R.E.M. PRODUCER SCOTT LITT. WHO ALSO REMIXED THE SINGLES "HEART SHAPED BOX" AND "ALL APOLOGIES." IN UTERO WAS RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER OF 1993 TO OOSITIVE REVIEWS AND STRONG INITIAL SALES. DEBUTING AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. AND U.K. CHARTS. NIRVANA SUPPORTED IT WITH AN AMERICAN TOUR, HIRING FORMER GERMS MEMBER PAT SMEAR AS AN AUXILIARY QUITARIST. WHILE THE ALBUM AND THE TOUR WERE BOTH SUCCESSFUL. SALES WEREN'T QUITE AS STRONG AS EXPECTED, WITH SEVERAL SHOWS NOT SELLING OUT UNTIL THE WEEK OF THE CONCERT. AS A RESULT, THE GROUP AGREED TO PLAY MTV'S ACOUSTIC UNPLUGGED SHOW AT THE END OF THE VEAR, AND SALES OF IN UTERO PICKED UP AFTER ITS DECEMBER AIRING
AFTER WRAPPING UP THEIR U.S. TOUR ON JANUARY 8. 1994 WITH A SHOW AT CENTER ARENA IN SEATTLE, NIRVANA EMBARKED ON A EUROPEAN TOUR IN FEBRUARY. FOLLOWING A CONCERT IN MUNICH ON FEBRUARY 29, COBAIN STAVED IN ROME TO VACATION WITH LOVE. ON MARCH 4. SHEAWAKENED TO FIND THAT COBAIN HAD ATTEMPTEA SUICIDE. WHEN HE RETURNED TO SEATTLE. HIS MENTAL ILLNESS GREW WORSE. LOVE AND NIRVANA'S MANAGEMENT ORGANIZED AN INTERVENTION PROGRAM THAT RESULTED IN COBAIN'S ADMISSION TO THE EXODUS RECOVERY CENTER IN L.A. ON MARCH 30. BUT HE LEFT THE CLINIC ON APRIL 1, RETURNING TO SEATTLE. HIS MOTHER FILED A MISSING PERSONS REPORT ON APRIL 4. ON APRIL 5, COBAIN DIED BY SUICIDE AT HIS SEATTLE HOME.AFTER HIS DEATH. KURT COBAIN WAS QUICKLY ANOINTED AS A SPOKESMAN FOR GIENERATION X, AS WELL AS A SYMBOL OF ITS TORTURED ANGST.
NOVOSELIC AND GROHL PLANNED TO RELEASE A DOUBLE-DISC LIVE ALBUM AT THE END OF 1994. BUT SORTING THROUGH THE TAPES PROVED TO BE TOO PAINFUL, SO MTV UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK APPEARED IN ITS PLACE. THE ALBUM DEBUTED AT THE TOP OF THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN CHARTS. AS A HOME VIDEO COMPRISED OF LIVE PERFORMANCES AND INTERVIEWS FROM THE BAND'S NEVERMIND ERA, TITLED LIVE! TONIGHT'SOLD OUT!. WAS ISSUED AT THE SAME TIME (THE PROJECT BEGAN PRIOR TO COBAIN'S PASSING AND WAS COMPLETED BY SURVIVING BANDMEMBERS) IN 1996, MTV UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK'S ELECTRIC COUNTERPART. FROM THE MUDDY BANKS OF THE WISHKAH. WAS RELEASED, DEBUTING AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. CHARTS. FOLLOWING COBAIN'S DEATH. GROHL FORMED THE FOO FIQHTERS, RELEASING THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM IN 1995. FOLLOWED BY THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE IN 1997 AND THERE LS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE IN 1999. NOVOSELIC FORMED THE TRIO SWEET 75. RELEASING THEIR DEBUT IN THE SPRING OF 1997, AND ALSO APPEARED ALONG WITH FORMER DEAD KENNEDVS FRONTMAN JELLO BIAFRA AND FORMER SOUNDAARDEN QUITARIST KIM THAVIL ON THE 2000 LIVE SET LIVE FROM THE BATTLE IN SEATTLE W.T.O. COMBO.
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BY THE LATE '90S, NOVOSELIC BEGAN RESEARCH FOR A PROPOSED BOX SET OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONGS FROM THROUGHOUT NIRVANA'S CAREER. THE PROJECT WAS SUPPOSED TO SURFACE IN THE FALL OF 2001 (TO COINCIDE WITH THE TENTHSOLD OUT!. WAS ISSUED AT THE SAME TIME (THE PROJECT BEGAN PRIOR TO COBAIN'S PASSING AND WAS COMPLETED BY SURVIVING BANDMEMBERS) IN 1996, MTV UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK'S ELECTRIC COUNTERPART. FROM THE MUDDY BANKS OF THE WISHKAH. WAS RELEASED, DEBUTING AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. CHARTS. FOLLOWING COBAIN'S DEATH. GROHL FORMED THE FOO FIQHTERS, RELEASING THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM IN 1995. FOLLOWED BY THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE IN 1997 AND THERE LS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE IN 1999. NOVOSELIC FORMED THE TRIO SWEET 75. RELEASING THEIR DEBUT IN THE SPRING OF 1997, AND ALSO APPEARED ALONG WITH FORMER DEAD KENNEDVS FRONTMAN JELLO BIAFRA AND FORMER SOUNDAARDEN QUITARIST KIM THAVIL ON THE 2000 LIVE SET LIVE FROM THE BATTLE IN SEATTLE W.T.O. COMBO.
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BY THE LATE '90S, NOVOSELIC BEGAN RESEARCH FOR A PROPOSED BOX SET OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONGS FROM THROUGHOUT NIRVANA'S CAREER. THE PROJECT WAS SUPPOSED TO SURFACE IN THE FALL OF 2001 (TO COINCIDE WITH THE TENTHANNIVERSARY RELEASE OF NEVERMIND), BUT LEGAL ISSUES DELAVED ITS RELEASE. FINALLY. THE NIRVANA LLC PARTNERSHIP -- WHICH INCLUDED GROHL. NOVOSELIC, AND LOVE -- CAME TO AN AGREEMENT AND THE ALBUM-LENGTH COMPILATION NIRVANA WAS RELEASED IN OCTOBER OF 2002. ALTHOUGH THAT RELEASE INCLUDED ONLY ONE UNRELEASED SONG, THE LONG-AWAITED BOX SET, TITLED WITH THE LIGHTS OUT, APPEARED IN LATE 2004. INCLUDINA THREE DISCS OF RARE AND UNRELEASED MATERIAL PLUS A LIVE DVD THAT FEATURED MATERIAL FILMED AS EARLY AS 1988 THE BAND'S 1992 SET AT THE READING FESTIVAL WAS RELEASED IN 2009 AS LIVE AT READING. THE SAME YEAR, SUB POP BEGAN A NIRVANA STUDIO ALBUM REISSUE CAMPAIGN WITH BLEACH; SPECIAL 20TH-ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS OF NEVERMIND AND IN UTERO FOLLOWED IN 2011 AND 2013 RESPECTIVELY. IN 2014. NIRVANA WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME BY R.E.M.'S MICHAEL STIPE. COBAIN'S PLACE IN THE INDUCTION PERFORMANCE WAS TAKEN BY SEVERAL VOCALISTS. INCLUDING JOAN JETT AND KIM GORDON. ~
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