@@silversnoops568 because they had just had one of the biggest albums of all time and they just took all the junk they had laying around and put it onto an album. I believe Dave Grohl even said as much that the studio really said they were gonna make a lot of money. Kurt wasn't comfortable doing it but he eventually relented.
its really fun to see all these gen x people commenting similet comments to this on these kinda videos, you know there is a band called "Sap" which did a great job at making 90s like grunge in 2023. I love 80s and 90s rock especially grunge and metal so its fun to see thats there are still really good grunge and metal bands in 2024
Nirvana MTV Unplugged is a must, too! Honestly, I love every single album by them, they have so much feelings, whatever they are: anger, sadness, fear, even happiness sometimes. Kurt was majestic. Thats crazy that they existed for like 5 years (popularity came later, so ~3 years) and after 30 years people still in love with his voice ❤
I love how much you guys are into the heavy shit, this album is easily the most adrenaline inducing record Nirvana has made, it has a raw and unfiltered energy that is hard to match. Also to add context to some tracks, About A Girl actually is about a girl Kurt was dating around the late 80s that dumped him because he couldn't get a job, and School is actually inspired by Kurt going to work as a janitor at his old highschool. A lot of the lyrics on this album are definitely last minute, and Kurt confirms that but there's still songs that have a rhyme and a reason behind them.
If you guys want more grunge like “Bleach”, check out TAD - Inhaler (1993) and Melvins - Houdini (1993, this album was partially produced by Kurt too). If you want more grunge like “Dirt”, check out Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991) and King’s X - Dogman (1994). Also, if you ever get curious about “post-grunge”, Silverchair - Frogstomp (1995) is an absolute killer album from front-to-back.
It’s a crime Chad Channing didn’t make the Hall of Fame with Nirvana. He was not only pivotal in launching their distinctive sound on the Bleach album, but had also already written many drum parts on Nevermind, which Dave Grohl kept, and I believe influenced his playing moving forward.
I think they pushed to try to have him included in some way but the committee wouldn't budge. All three members really liked Chad. There's a concert they played on the In Utero tour in Ohio where they hear a rumor Chad is in the crowd, and they spend the entire show trying to get him to come up and play School. Kurt at one point even apologizes and says if him asking Chad to come on stage freaked him out, he's really sorry. They ended up waiting for him until they closed the show playing School, the only time that ever happened in band history. Chad wasn't there 😢
Yeah, I mean, it wasn’t even like Kurt and Chad disliked each other, it’s just Kurt was the songwriter and Chad wanted to have more input writing songs, they both didn’t want to budge on their opinion, so, Chad was out, heard all of the band still liked him though.
IIRC, Krist Dave and Pat tried to have him included but were blocked by the committee. Dave Grohl did give him a tribute in his speech though, saying that Chad deserved to be there and said that many of "his" iconic drum parts are from Chad's notes (He'd never said they were his, but people assumed) I don't think there was any hostility between Chad and the others when he left, it was said to be creative differences. If you compare the drums on Bleach era songs and then Dave Grohls, you can see that he wouldn't have fit in. Channing's best work is on the heavy tracks like Floyd the Barber, not the soft things like About a Girl - which Nevermind is similar too. It's 100% a shame that he wasn't included, though. Especially because Pat Smear, the touring guitarist for a year, got included. I'm glad Pat got recognition, he deserved it, but Channing did too.
@@garysimonson1135 I second the pair, but would reverse the order, especially when they just listened to and very much liked Bleach, they're ready for the edgier, rawer BMF. Makes more send to go chronological, too.
I saw nirvana on 11-27-93 at Bayfront Park, Miami. The full show is up on youtube. Also saw Alice in Chains, Pumpkins, Tool, Pearl Jam. Janes Addiction, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys. Too many early 90s bands to list, it was a good time for music.
Looks like you guys got Bleached! This is my favorite grunge album, no question. Low budget, sounds like a show at a small club. Best $600 ever spent. This is how rock should sound. Soundgarden should definitely be in your grunge lineup. Either Badmotorfinger or Superunknown. Badmotorfinger is a more classic grunge album, but they’re both classics. Soundgarden was also a titan of grunge from Seattle with Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and others. Also, The Melvins are I think are looked at as kind of the godfathers of grunge. They are from Seattle as well I think. This was a lot of fun. My favorite moment was, “I know what bass is.” Lol. Thanks, guys! Hope you had a great 4th!
I’m happy to see you guys enjoy this album beyond what happened with Kurt. Let’s always remember until everything went down, this was a couple of guys living their dreams through their passion about music
This album was made for $600. The hubbins and I saw Nirvana right before they hit it big with “Smells Like Teen Spirit “ at SXSW in Austin. There was probably 20 or so people there. It was awesome and unhinged! A few months later, we were at our favorite punk bar. Ministry’s song, “So What” had just ended, and just like a bomb went off….the DJ dropped “Smells Like Teen Spirit”! We were like, “WE KNOW THIS SONG!!! WE JUST SAW THIS BAND!! HOLY SHIT!!” The whole bar seemed to stop and just listened with amazement then we all hit the floor aggressively slam dancing. That song was an embodiment of our anger and cynicism. Music totally changed after that. Hair bands were DONE, to which we all were thankful! I just wished we would’ve picked up a poster bill from that SXSW show! We could’ve totally had them sign it. That’ll be one of our biggest regrets. BUT, we got to see them at their most raw!
The lyrics to Floyd were based on characters from The Andy Griffith Show, which Kurt watched as a kid. It's like his grown up/twisted/whateverthefuck of what he really thought was going down in Mayberry 😂 🤘
Check out some of the early live Nirvana videos & you can see them playing a bunch of those songs in places like little German bars (or basements). It’s amazing how tight they are & how well the songs sound live.
They were a completely incredible live band before the fame and Kurt's issues changed the vibes forever. They were still good at times after, but never as enthusiastic or as physical on stage as the Bleach era.
@misterscarisma learned Mr. Moustache in my first month of playing guitar, I STILL can't get Love Buzz or Mexican Seafood and it's been a year and a half
I laughed when you said “imagine looking at the radio and seeing Nirvana - Blue” (Bro, our radios didn’t tell you the song that was playing back then… you’d be staring at your radio FM channel wondering “what is this dope song?” And have to hope the dj tells you who sang it after the song is over. Also, please do more Nirvana, I would love for yall to do all there albums eventually, but I’ll try to be patient. I’ll try to check out more than just nirvana and pearl jam too. I never got into Alice In Chains growing up. Oh! Would also love to see yall cover The Offspring - Smash. That one was huge for me growing up. Thanks for listening to my input :-)
I'm excited for Facelift, but I hope you guys do Nirvana's Unplugged soon my wish list is still: Pearl Jam - Ten Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Faith No More - The Real Thing or Angel Dust Deftones - White Pony Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger U2 - Joshua Tree Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Love buzz was their first recorded single, which was a cover song, I believe they released it alongside Blew. Pearl Jam Ten is a must for this grunge week. Edit: Jar of Flies too! When my dad attended a Nirvana concert he said it was right before they blew up, probably right before nevermind came out. They went from playing clubs and bars to arenas and stadiums instantly
Everyone already listed some of the best, but gonna echo another comment - you gotta hear Temple Of The Dog's self-titled (and only) album which is comprised of Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and several members of what would become Pearl Jam. It is a tribute album to Cornell's friend, the frontman of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, who died of an OD. An incredible album
The first song i learned on guitar was also about a girl! the chorus is a lil hard to get cuz of the lower chords but promise it’s worth man. Great video guys! looking forward to the next grunge videos.
You gotta watch/listen to live at paramount its not only nirvanas best concerts but one of the best concerts of all time, plus you get to hear nirvana songs that didnt make it in albums
In the spring of '91, I saw them live in a little club in Edmonton, Canada. They were touring their Sliver single, and there was maybe 50 people there. I was obsessed with Bleach, and loved Blew in particular. Incredible gig!
Pixies - Doolittle is a must. Do some research and you'll see that Pixies were shockingly influential for a number of better known 90s bands that came after them.
I just wanted to let you know. Kurt sang hard and was damaging his vocal cords throughout his short career. That’s why he sounds so much different on Bleach to how he sounds on In Utero. Smoother voice in Bleach, scratchy gritty voice on In Utero.
Foo Fighters debut album. Technically not a grunge album, but it still has a lot of the punk elements that grunge has since it released a year after Kurt died.
Yeah, Nirvana unplugged is a must, the unplugged concert video would be best, then yall can see the band and see Kurt do his thing, instead of listening to the audio😊
Y'all should check out the album "Spiderland" by the band Slint. It's not grunge, it's post-rock from 1991. It's the band's second, and final album. It's a masterpiece.
@@johnfountain5619 and @jay_evans1, Jay is obviously from the US, are you also, John? And did you grow up in an urban or rural area? I have a couple of theories as to why punk was considerably more popular in England than in the U.S, just testing them out.
Well, YOU two will love this story. Early 1988, I was running sound at a dark hole-in-the-wall club in Portland, OR called Satyricon. The mood of the times was such that of course I put together my own band, cobbled together from two or three other groups who hung out at the 'con. The "other" club in town was the upstart, even-more-noise-oriented little brother, a place called Blue Gallery, who would let us play there AND maybe pay us a cut of the door. A friend was about to debut HIS new band and we had another brand-new group. Wanting to have SOMEONE come to the show, we had made contact with a new record label in Seattle and they were going to send down a popular Seattle band called CATBUTT who everybody thought were going to sell a THOUSAND COPIES of their next single. Big time. We were stoked. At the last minute, the whole deal fell through and the record label called us and told us that they were instead sending a band from Aberdeen, WA to fill the slot. We were crushed. Everybody had TWO WORD NAMES and this band just had a single word name. WTF. SO out of step. They didn't show up for soundcheck but finally rolled in late, set up and absolutely DESTROYED the club, causing way more damage to the place than we had made at the door. They drove away without asking for payment and played their first Seattle show the next day. My first band, first show. Epic night. I got to see everybody when they came to town and there were some Mudhoney/Nirvana duos that were just insane. I swear I saw them levitate on stage more than once.
'Floyd the Barber' is excellent and brilliant. The Andy Griffith Show was, and to a degree still is, held up as an image of the 'small town American lifestyle' perfection. Conformity, no one having any real problems, no one struggling or hopeless, etc. It was delusional and dishonest, depicting a reality that never existed, glossing over and denying the dark realities that simmer behind the closed doors of outwardly 'perfect' and 'squeaky clean' small town America in the 50s. Gen X has no patience with that WASPy denial and 'we don't talk about that' bullshit. Kurt was our avatar. He would take the characters and setting of the Andy Griffith Show and degrade it with visions of abuse and cult-like murder. Just like the 50s family home gave birth to the Charles Manson cult and his murderous family. Nirvana concerts during the production of Bleach would have just been club shows, mostly local. The music from Bleach is absolutely perfect for a club environment. You can just picture these raw, grungy, powerful songs getting the small crowd cramped into a dark club moshing together in front of the stage, only a foot or two away from Kurt screaming and shredding on the guitar. Where music is played and how it is listened to actually has a very big influence on the music itself. Music made for a huge concert hall has to be different than music for a tiny club. The acoustics are all different, what sounds travel well over large spaces is different, etc. David Byrne from The Talking Heads wrote a book called 'How Music Works' that talks about this a great deal. It's a very good book if you're curious about why different kinds of music were popular during different eras. Like why don't we have lots of 'classical' style music now or why didn't they have loud, driving basslines and piercing vocals back in the past? As technology develops and how and where music is listened to changes, music also changes. When classical music was dominant, it was listened to in giant concert halls where the audience was mostly walking around, talking to each other, and music listening was an inherently social gathering event. When recorded music was developed, lots of people predicted it would destroy music completely. They described listening to a record at home, alone, as a sort of craven masturbation. They predicted that no one would ever learn to make music because they could always just buy a recording of a true master playing more beautifully than the amateur could ever see themselves as capable of. Philip de Souza, the marching band guy, was particularly doom-and-gloom about it and reading his opinions on the matter is quite fascinating from the modern era. But such things still have influence today. Now people generally don't listen to music on home stereos, they have earbuds in playing compressed digital audio. All of that has an impact on what type of music can be successful. The 'poop as hard as rock' lyric that might seem strange and out of place is a consequence of heroin. Opiates bind to opioid receptors in the body. In the brain, that can lead to euphoria (and analgesia, painkilling, suppression of breathing, addiction, there are a bunch of different receptors and different opiates stimulate different ones to different degrees... neuropharmacokinetics are as complicated as the name makes it sound) but there are also receptors in the intestines. There, it slows and temporarily paralyzes the intestines. Which leads to poop not moving through the intestines as fast as normal. When such stuff hangs around, the body pulls water out of it. Which results in, well, poop as hard as rocks. (Insert 'the more you know' gif here) (Another fun fact, the most popular anti-diarrhea medicine is actually an opiate derivative that works the same way, stimulating the same receptors in the intestine, but it can't cross the blood-brain barrier so that's why it is legal without prescription - they don't have to worry about it making anyone happy)
The first song Nirvana released was Love Buzz, this was a cover of a Dutch band (not grunge/punk at all, very hippie sounding actually), which is why this song sounds so different compared to the rest of the album. They released Love Buzz together with Big Cheese. The album itself is a bit of a mess (a good one don't get me wrong), because they recorder the album at different studios and times. The first session they did was 6 hours (recording and mastering), yet only 3 songs where chosen from this session for this album. The next session they recorded Love Buzz and Big Cheese, for only around 100-200 dollars. The last session also didn't take very long and was for the final songs on the album, costing around 600 dollars.. They did not have a lot of budget simply because their lable at the time (Sub Pop) was very poor and going almost bankrupt at some point, meaning that their budget was very small. Nirvana also wasn't their priority at the time, Mudhoney was their more popular band at the time. A great, but messy album in my opinion, but very important to Kurt for finding his sound and finaly feeling like he could make music for a living. If you ever want a very detailed biography on Kurt, you should check out the book 'Heavier than Heaven' by Charles R. Cross. This is one of the best and most acurate books about Kurt's life.
Badmotorfinger should not be missed. It was part of a threesome with _Nevermind_ and _Ten_ that introduced grunge to the world outside of Seattle back in '91. If you've only heard "Black Hole Sun", you may not be prepared for the aggressive rock full of alt tunings and timings.
Song 6, Paper Cuts, has one of my top ten favorite lyrics from Nirvana (maybe top 5): "I have found my eternal love but she can not look me in the eyes, but I see hers and they are blue". - I dont know why I love that so much, perhaps because I have blue eyes lol.
I appreciate you young guys checking out some of this stuff. If you haven't already you need to watch the entire unplugged video. They went from bleach to that performance in about 5 years. they were the biggest punk band in the world when they did unplugged.All of their albums were great and very different but I think Incesticide is the most representative of who they really were.
Ten by Pearl Jam is absolutely necessary, as well as the album Vs. by Pearl Jam. Soundgarden has two albums you gotta do as well - Suoerunknown and Badmotorfinger
This has been my favorite Nirvana album for a long time. It wasn’t when I first heard it, not sure when or why my opinion on it changed. I was around 10 when I first heard it, then I liked Nevermind more when I first heard that. For whatever reason this one surpassed it sometime over the last couple of decades.
One thing that I love about Nirvana is the lyrics, are related with real things that Kurt lives on his town and things like that, like the Beatles lyrics.
The songs on here some of them reference his relationship with his mother it was a turbulent one he would run away a lot and his mother kicked him out at one point. About a girl was written about his girlfriend at the time she asked him to write a song about her and that was the song Kurt wrote.
32:20 the whole ‘I eat cows and I am not proud’ is the fact he feels bad for the cows that have to die so he can eat a kind of vegan like quandary he describes in Something in the way as well as others. Soundgarden’s Hands all over is about this and deforestation
ALICE IN CHAINS - FACELIFT NEXT! What else should we add to the grunge marathon list??
Acid bath when the kite string pops, pretty please
@@spvilles7556 up!
Purple by stone temple pilots, superfuzz bigmuff by mudhoney and you should for sure check out daydream nation or goo by sonic youth!!!
super unknown soundgarden
LET'S GOOO
The compilation album Incesticide (1992) is great too. For me it is at the same level as the "official" Nirvana albums
Agreed
probably my favorite
It was a cash grab, literally.
@@Stockhandle123 what makes you think so?
@@silversnoops568 because they had just had one of the biggest albums of all time and they just took all the junk they had laying around and put it onto an album. I believe Dave Grohl even said as much that the studio really said they were gonna make a lot of money. Kurt wasn't comfortable doing it but he eventually relented.
About A Girl is what convinced the producer of Bleach to work with Nirvana.He knew Kurt was special
Not true. Jack Endino, the producer, worked with them on their very first session on January 23, 1988.
Album: Superfuzz Bigmuff
Artist: Mudhoney
Release: 1988
thats a must!
Uncle anesthesia by screaming trees too
47 year old here. I love watching the younger generations stumble into the music of my youth and find it just as magical as I did.
its really fun to see all these gen x people commenting similet comments to this on these kinda videos, you know there is a band called "Sap" which did a great job at making 90s like grunge in 2023. I love 80s and 90s rock especially grunge and metal so its fun to see thats there are still really good grunge and metal bands in 2024
My dad saw nirvana at the cow palace and he barely even remembers it :(
@@thesvtguy my cousin remembers being in the paramount theater in '91
@@Maxim_Escott773 I watch that show all the time
Nirvana MTV Unplugged is a must, too!
Honestly, I love every single album by them, they have so much feelings, whatever they are: anger, sadness, fear, even happiness sometimes. Kurt was majestic. Thats crazy that they existed for like 5 years (popularity came later, so ~3 years) and after 30 years people still in love with his voice ❤
I love how much you guys are into the heavy shit, this album is easily the most adrenaline inducing record Nirvana has made, it has a raw and unfiltered energy that is hard to match.
Also to add context to some tracks, About A Girl actually is about a girl Kurt was dating around the late 80s that dumped him because he couldn't get a job, and School is actually inspired by Kurt going to work as a janitor at his old highschool.
A lot of the lyrics on this album are definitely last minute, and Kurt confirms that but there's still songs that have a rhyme and a reason behind them.
If you guys want more grunge like “Bleach”, check out TAD - Inhaler (1993) and Melvins - Houdini (1993, this album was partially produced by Kurt too).
If you want more grunge like “Dirt”, check out Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991) and King’s X - Dogman (1994).
Also, if you ever get curious about “post-grunge”, Silverchair - Frogstomp (1995) is an absolute killer album from front-to-back.
'Houdini' and 'Badmotorfinger' especially
Silverchair Frogstomp has a bunch of underrated songs for sure.
Silverchair is underrated as
It’s a crime Chad Channing didn’t make the Hall of Fame with Nirvana. He was not only pivotal in launching their distinctive sound on the Bleach album, but had also already written many drum parts on Nevermind, which Dave Grohl kept, and I believe influenced his playing moving forward.
I think they pushed to try to have him included in some way but the committee wouldn't budge. All three members really liked Chad. There's a concert they played on the In Utero tour in Ohio where they hear a rumor Chad is in the crowd, and they spend the entire show trying to get him to come up and play School. Kurt at one point even apologizes and says if him asking Chad to come on stage freaked him out, he's really sorry. They ended up waiting for him until they closed the show playing School, the only time that ever happened in band history. Chad wasn't there 😢
Yeah, I mean, it wasn’t even like Kurt and Chad disliked each other, it’s just Kurt was the songwriter and Chad wanted to have more input writing songs, they both didn’t want to budge on their opinion, so, Chad was out, heard all of the band still liked him though.
LITERALLY A CHAD
IIRC, Krist Dave and Pat tried to have him included but were blocked by the committee. Dave Grohl did give him a tribute in his speech though, saying that Chad deserved to be there and said that many of "his" iconic drum parts are from Chad's notes (He'd never said they were his, but people assumed)
I don't think there was any hostility between Chad and the others when he left, it was said to be creative differences. If you compare the drums on Bleach era songs and then Dave Grohls, you can see that he wouldn't have fit in. Channing's best work is on the heavy tracks like Floyd the Barber, not the soft things like About a Girl - which Nevermind is similar too.
It's 100% a shame that he wasn't included, though. Especially because Pat Smear, the touring guitarist for a year, got included. I'm glad Pat got recognition, he deserved it, but Channing did too.
@@aw3046 drums on Floyd The Barber is played by Dale Crover from The Melvins lol
Soundgarden - superunknown
First do Soundgarden-Superunknown, then do Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger.
@@garysimonson1135 I second the pair, but would reverse the order, especially when they just listened to and very much liked Bleach, they're ready for the edgier, rawer BMF. Makes more send to go chronological, too.
Superunknown, no question
Best grunge album ever for me🖤
The guy on the album cover is actually Jason Everman, Kurt is on his left
I saw nirvana on 11-27-93 at Bayfront Park, Miami. The full show is up on youtube. Also saw Alice in Chains, Pumpkins, Tool, Pearl Jam. Janes Addiction, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys. Too many early 90s bands to list, it was a good time for music.
Looks like you guys got Bleached! This is my favorite grunge album, no question. Low budget, sounds like a show at a small club. Best $600 ever spent. This is how rock should sound. Soundgarden should definitely be in your grunge lineup. Either Badmotorfinger or Superunknown. Badmotorfinger is a more classic grunge album, but they’re both classics. Soundgarden was also a titan of grunge from Seattle with Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and others. Also, The Melvins are I think are looked at as kind of the godfathers of grunge. They are from Seattle as well I think. This was a lot of fun. My favorite moment was, “I know what bass is.” Lol. Thanks, guys! Hope you had a great 4th!
I’m happy to see you guys enjoy this album beyond what happened with Kurt. Let’s always remember until everything went down, this was a couple of guys living their dreams through their passion about music
This album was made for $600.
The hubbins and I saw Nirvana right before they hit it big with “Smells Like Teen Spirit “ at SXSW in Austin.
There was probably 20 or so people there.
It was awesome and unhinged!
A few months later, we were at our favorite punk bar. Ministry’s song, “So What” had just ended, and just like a bomb went off….the DJ dropped “Smells Like Teen Spirit”!
We were like, “WE KNOW THIS SONG!!! WE JUST SAW THIS BAND!! HOLY SHIT!!”
The whole bar seemed to stop and just listened with amazement then we all hit the floor aggressively slam dancing. That song was an embodiment of our anger and cynicism.
Music totally changed after that. Hair bands were DONE, to which we all were thankful!
I just wished we would’ve picked up a poster bill from that SXSW show! We could’ve totally had them sign it. That’ll be one of our biggest regrets. BUT, we got to see them at their most raw!
great story, thanks for sharing
@@Geo-wc7jcHappy to share it. :)
The lyrics to Floyd were based on characters from The Andy Griffith Show, which Kurt watched as a kid. It's like his grown up/twisted/whateverthefuck of what he really thought was going down in Mayberry 😂 🤘
I know i already commented, but also surfer rosa by pixies. Kurt cobain took a lot of inspiration from that album to make nevermind.
Love the pixies suggestions. Incredible band!
Check out some of the early live Nirvana videos & you can see them playing a bunch of those songs in places like little German bars (or basements). It’s amazing how tight they are & how well the songs sound live.
They were a completely incredible live band before the fame and Kurt's issues changed the vibes forever. They were still good at times after, but never as enthusiastic or as physical on stage as the Bleach era.
For the record, Mr. Mustache is super fun to play on guitar. Good finger exercise. One of their more complicated songs.
Love Buzz and Mexican Seafood are MILES more complicated
@@absolutez3r058 Miles? I disagree. Maybe equally.
@misterscarisma learned Mr. Moustache in my first month of playing guitar, I STILL can't get Love Buzz or Mexican Seafood and it's been a year and a half
@@absolutez3r058 Thats why. You've only been playing for a year and a half
Love the energy you guys bring to this reaction
Pearl Jam-Ten
🫡
no
Yes
Garbage
@@basskit_fuck u mean no ??
yessssssss i’ve been waiting for you guys to react to this one a kind album!
Sweet Oblivion - Screaming Trees
I needn't say anymore. Listen to it.
You guys should definitely listen to Incesticide, Superunknown, and Jar of Flies
Yeah, they definitely need to check out Incesticide.
Heavy on jar of flies, my favorite Alice in chains album
@@wyanthewion288 My favorite album from them is Dirt but Rotten Apple is probably my favorite song from them
@@therealninjastar that’s valid, I love the bass on rotten apple
@@wyanthewion288 Oh yeah it’s iconic
I laughed when you said “imagine looking at the radio and seeing Nirvana - Blue” (Bro, our radios didn’t tell you the song that was playing back then… you’d be staring at your radio FM channel wondering “what is this dope song?” And have to hope the dj tells you who sang it after the song is over. Also, please do more Nirvana, I would love for yall to do all there albums eventually, but I’ll try to be patient. I’ll try to check out more than just nirvana and pearl jam too. I never got into Alice In Chains growing up. Oh! Would also love to see yall cover The Offspring - Smash. That one was huge for me growing up. Thanks for listening to my input :-)
Negative creep by far my favorite. Good reaction. Great to see people about 10 years younger than me liking what I grew up listening to
Stone Temple Pilots- Core
Stp sucks
I'm excited for Facelift, but I hope you guys do Nirvana's Unplugged soon
my wish list is still:
Pearl Jam - Ten
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Faith No More - The Real Thing or Angel Dust
Deftones - White Pony
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
U2 - Joshua Tree
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Love buzz was their first recorded single, which was a cover song, I believe they released it alongside Blew. Pearl Jam Ten is a must for this grunge week. Edit: Jar of Flies too! When my dad attended a Nirvana concert he said it was right before they blew up, probably right before nevermind came out. They went from playing clubs and bars to arenas and stadiums instantly
Everyone already listed some of the best, but gonna echo another comment - you gotta hear Temple Of The Dog's self-titled (and only) album which is comprised of Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and several members of what would become Pearl Jam. It is a tribute album to Cornell's friend, the frontman of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, who died of an OD. An incredible album
If the want to do a deep dive they should absolutely do Mother Love Bone
The Pixies were the seed. Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking started the 90s renaissance.
Deftones guys! Diamond Eyes or White Pony. You will be blown away.
I second that!
That’s not grunge
@@jacktilghman9797 Captain Obvious entered the chat.
Not Grunge but incredibly good !
@@damiendelvallee7256 I can only recommend grunge?
Having lived through it, the big four... AIC, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden.... def need to cover Ten by Pearl Jam, and, Superunknown by Soundgarden
My favourite Nirvana album! 🫡 this is Nirvana!!!
You guys gotta review HUM - You'd Prefer An Astronaut
So 90's. So fucking epic! HUM was a big influence on the Deftones and changing their sound.
I WAS WAITING FOR YOU GUYS TO REACT TO THISSS
There's a long interview here on YT with producer Jack Endino about the making of Bleach and other Nirvana tracks he recored.
Papercuts is so good
Definitively my favorite Nirvana album.
aint no way bro pulled out the ds-1
And negative creep is iconic
Sonic Youth - Goo
Dirty
The first song i learned on guitar was also about a girl! the chorus is a lil hard to get cuz of the lower chords but promise it’s worth man. Great video guys! looking forward to the next grunge videos.
It really is crazy they impacted music and only were from 87 to 94... Still are relevant today!
I loved this album at the time. Little did know this Album was the catalyst for me to go on to discover Melvins, Crowbar and Silverchair.
You guys should really react to the album frogstomp by silverchair. They were only 15 when it was released in 1995. One of the best grunge albums.
Hole - Live through this
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You gotta watch/listen to live at paramount its not only nirvanas best concerts but one of the best concerts of all time, plus you get to hear nirvana songs that didnt make it in albums
I’ll say it again, y’all got to listen to Temple of the Dog, one of the most emotional grunge albums ever.
In the spring of '91, I saw them live in a little club in Edmonton, Canada. They were touring their Sliver single, and there was maybe 50 people there. I was obsessed with Bleach, and loved Blew in particular. Incredible gig!
Hole-Live through this
Mad Season - Above
A FANTASTIC ALBUM
Yes, what a great album. As soon as I heard Nevermind, I ran out to look for more and bought Bleach and I loved the sound.
react to "You Know You're Right" is the last song Nirvana ever recorded
Shocking Blue - Love Buzz is the original one. Funky and psychedelic. Great band.
Idk if this counts but I recommend Nirvanas Incesticide album it’s a compilation of b sides and songs from all the albums highly recommend
Pixies doolittle
The album is Doolittle my bad
Second this!
They are gonna love this album
Pixies also inspired radiohead
for sure! very influential band to 90s alternative rock
About A Girl was the first song I learnt on guitar - recommend watching him play it on Unplugged to learn. Keep practicing - you'll get there :)
Yeah, it's also a song to practice singing while playing guitar
Pixies - Doolittle is a must. Do some research and you'll see that Pixies were shockingly influential for a number of better known 90s bands that came after them.
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I just wanted to let you know.
Kurt sang hard and was damaging his vocal cords throughout his short career.
That’s why he sounds so much different on Bleach to how he sounds on In Utero. Smoother voice in Bleach, scratchy gritty voice on In Utero.
Nirvana MTV unplugged!
Something new for you could be reviewing classic 90s movie soundtracks like:
Singles
honestly basement are a grunge band that go hard af especially the colourmeinkindness album
Foo Fighters debut album. Technically not a grunge album, but it still has a lot of the punk elements that grunge has since it released a year after Kurt died.
About a Girl was the first song I learned on guitar too😊 Also it wasn’t hugely popular until the unplugged version years later.
I wouldnt say that mad season is grunge, bit given it is still 90s i would bump it into the list
Nice DS-1 dude🖤🎸
Yeah, Nirvana unplugged is a must, the unplugged concert video would be best, then yall can see the band and see Kurt do his thing, instead of listening to the audio😊
Y'all should check out the album "Spiderland" by the band Slint. It's not grunge, it's post-rock from 1991. It's the band's second, and final album. It's a masterpiece.
That's a band you rarely hear from. Critics love them, but I can't handle the punk-like off-pitch vocals.
Excellent album! Ethan Buckler from Slint went on to form King Kong, one of my all time favorites!
@@johnfountain5619 and @jay_evans1, Jay is obviously from the US, are you also, John? And did you grow up in an urban or rural area? I have a couple of theories as to why punk was considerably more popular in England than in the U.S, just testing them out.
Down On The Upside - Soundgarden
Everyone skips this one and it’s arguably their best!!! Please do this one >w
I hope they get to it, too, but coming off of Bleach, I'd have to go Badmotorfinger first.
Alice In Chains Unplugged is by far one of the best live shows ever.
Well, YOU two will love this story. Early 1988, I was running sound at a dark hole-in-the-wall club in Portland, OR called Satyricon. The mood of the times was such that of course I put together my own band, cobbled together from two or three other groups who hung out at the 'con. The "other" club in town was the upstart, even-more-noise-oriented little brother, a place called Blue Gallery, who would let us play there AND maybe pay us a cut of the door. A friend was about to debut HIS new band and we had another brand-new group. Wanting to have SOMEONE come to the show, we had made contact with a new record label in Seattle and they were going to send down a popular Seattle band called CATBUTT who everybody thought were going to sell a THOUSAND COPIES of their next single. Big time. We were stoked. At the last minute, the whole deal fell through and the record label called us and told us that they were instead sending a band from Aberdeen, WA to fill the slot. We were crushed. Everybody had TWO WORD NAMES and this band just had a single word name. WTF. SO out of step. They didn't show up for soundcheck but finally rolled in late, set up and absolutely DESTROYED the club, causing way more damage to the place than we had made at the door. They drove away without asking for payment and played their first Seattle show the next day. My first band, first show. Epic night. I got to see everybody when they came to town and there were some Mudhoney/Nirvana duos that were just insane. I swear I saw them levitate on stage more than once.
This album will grow on y’all more and more the more you listen to it
'Floyd the Barber' is excellent and brilliant. The Andy Griffith Show was, and to a degree still is, held up as an image of the 'small town American lifestyle' perfection. Conformity, no one having any real problems, no one struggling or hopeless, etc. It was delusional and dishonest, depicting a reality that never existed, glossing over and denying the dark realities that simmer behind the closed doors of outwardly 'perfect' and 'squeaky clean' small town America in the 50s. Gen X has no patience with that WASPy denial and 'we don't talk about that' bullshit. Kurt was our avatar. He would take the characters and setting of the Andy Griffith Show and degrade it with visions of abuse and cult-like murder. Just like the 50s family home gave birth to the Charles Manson cult and his murderous family.
Nirvana concerts during the production of Bleach would have just been club shows, mostly local. The music from Bleach is absolutely perfect for a club environment. You can just picture these raw, grungy, powerful songs getting the small crowd cramped into a dark club moshing together in front of the stage, only a foot or two away from Kurt screaming and shredding on the guitar. Where music is played and how it is listened to actually has a very big influence on the music itself. Music made for a huge concert hall has to be different than music for a tiny club. The acoustics are all different, what sounds travel well over large spaces is different, etc. David Byrne from The Talking Heads wrote a book called 'How Music Works' that talks about this a great deal. It's a very good book if you're curious about why different kinds of music were popular during different eras. Like why don't we have lots of 'classical' style music now or why didn't they have loud, driving basslines and piercing vocals back in the past? As technology develops and how and where music is listened to changes, music also changes. When classical music was dominant, it was listened to in giant concert halls where the audience was mostly walking around, talking to each other, and music listening was an inherently social gathering event. When recorded music was developed, lots of people predicted it would destroy music completely. They described listening to a record at home, alone, as a sort of craven masturbation. They predicted that no one would ever learn to make music because they could always just buy a recording of a true master playing more beautifully than the amateur could ever see themselves as capable of. Philip de Souza, the marching band guy, was particularly doom-and-gloom about it and reading his opinions on the matter is quite fascinating from the modern era. But such things still have influence today. Now people generally don't listen to music on home stereos, they have earbuds in playing compressed digital audio. All of that has an impact on what type of music can be successful.
The 'poop as hard as rock' lyric that might seem strange and out of place is a consequence of heroin. Opiates bind to opioid receptors in the body. In the brain, that can lead to euphoria (and analgesia, painkilling, suppression of breathing, addiction, there are a bunch of different receptors and different opiates stimulate different ones to different degrees... neuropharmacokinetics are as complicated as the name makes it sound) but there are also receptors in the intestines. There, it slows and temporarily paralyzes the intestines. Which leads to poop not moving through the intestines as fast as normal. When such stuff hangs around, the body pulls water out of it. Which results in, well, poop as hard as rocks. (Insert 'the more you know' gif here) (Another fun fact, the most popular anti-diarrhea medicine is actually an opiate derivative that works the same way, stimulating the same receptors in the intestine, but it can't cross the blood-brain barrier so that's why it is legal without prescription - they don't have to worry about it making anyone happy)
The first song Nirvana released was Love Buzz, this was a cover of a Dutch band (not grunge/punk at all, very hippie sounding actually), which is why this song sounds so different compared to the rest of the album. They released Love Buzz together with Big Cheese. The album itself is a bit of a mess (a good one don't get me wrong), because they recorder the album at different studios and times. The first session they did was 6 hours (recording and mastering), yet only 3 songs where chosen from this session for this album. The next session they recorded Love Buzz and Big Cheese, for only around 100-200 dollars. The last session also didn't take very long and was for the final songs on the album, costing around 600 dollars.. They did not have a lot of budget simply because their lable at the time (Sub Pop) was very poor and going almost bankrupt at some point, meaning that their budget was very small. Nirvana also wasn't their priority at the time, Mudhoney was their more popular band at the time.
A great, but messy album in my opinion, but very important to Kurt for finding his sound and finaly feeling like he could make music for a living.
If you ever want a very detailed biography on Kurt, you should check out the book 'Heavier than Heaven' by Charles R. Cross. This is one of the best and most acurate books about Kurt's life.
I love seeing you guys enjoy the music so much
Smashing Pumpinks - Pisces Iscariot
Did they listen to Mellon Collie yet?
Pisces Iscariot for sure👍
@@IronFloydiannah
@@beanboi3178 They should listen to Mellon Collie next.
@@IronFloydian I’m saying
Badmotorfinger should not be missed. It was part of a threesome with _Nevermind_ and _Ten_ that introduced grunge to the world outside of Seattle back in '91. If you've only heard
"Black Hole Sun", you may not be prepared for the aggressive rock full of alt tunings and timings.
I think you should do superfuzz bigmuff by mudhoney, its also very early grunge. But an important album
You earned a sub from this GenXer.
Song 6, Paper Cuts, has one of my top ten favorite lyrics from Nirvana (maybe top 5): "I have found my eternal love but she can not look me in the eyes, but I see hers and they are blue". - I dont know why I love that so much, perhaps because I have blue eyes lol.
Love this record so much
I appreciate you young guys checking out some of this stuff. If you haven't already you need to watch the entire unplugged video. They went from bleach to that performance in about 5 years. they were the biggest punk band in the world when they did unplugged.All of their albums were great and very different but I think Incesticide is the most representative of who they really were.
During the marathon you need to do incestiside by nirvana And then after the marathon do MTV live unplugged by nirvana To just complete the collection
You need to watch Nirvana MTV Unplugged
Live through this- hole(Kurt cobains wife’s band)
Love Buzz is a cover song originally by The Shocking Blue. Also, Jason Everman played bass in Soundgarden too.
Temple of the dog - temple of the dog
Now that you've been red pilled with grunge and early nirvana you are ready for mudhoney. Superfuzz bugmuff is an absolute classic
Ten by Pearl Jam is absolutely necessary, as well as the album Vs. by Pearl Jam. Soundgarden has two albums you gotta do as well - Suoerunknown and Badmotorfinger
Fun fact love buzz is a cover of a 60s song
Just some insight for the inspo on the track *school* Kurt had dropped out and shortly returned to his high school as a janitor!
This has been my favorite Nirvana album for a long time. It wasn’t when I first heard it, not sure when or why my opinion on it changed. I was around 10 when I first heard it, then I liked Nevermind more when I first heard that. For whatever reason this one surpassed it sometime over the last couple of decades.
Live through this by Hole soon. The singer is Kurt Cobain's wife. Hole is the most successful and famous female led grunge band.
OMG YES!!!!
They need some lady-grunge for balance.
@@smithfield731 definitely
Great album. Rumors were Kurt helped quite a bit with it before he died
@@neonbible08 Lucky I don't like rumors isn't it. Except for rumors by Fleetwood Mac that's a flawless album, I like that kind of rumors.
Bleach is an epic banger!
Can you guys do Frogstomp Silverchair
One thing that I love about Nirvana is the lyrics, are related with real things that Kurt lives on his town and things like that, like the Beatles lyrics.
Love hate love Alice In Chains please
Watch the 'Live at the Moore' live version, as it is mind-blowing watching Layne in action.
The songs on here some of them reference his relationship with his mother it was a turbulent one he would run away a lot and his mother kicked him out at one point. About a girl was written about his girlfriend at the time she asked him to write a song about her and that was the song Kurt wrote.
32:20 the whole ‘I eat cows and I am not proud’ is the fact he feels bad for the cows that have to die so he can eat a kind of vegan like quandary he describes in Something in the way as well as others. Soundgarden’s Hands all over is about this and deforestation