Group Nirvana

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Group Nirvana

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Nirvana is • American rock band formed by vocalist and
guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic
in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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Group composition
• Several drummers have changed in the band; drummer Dave Grohl, who joined Cobain and Novoselic in
1990, played with the band the longest.
• Last line- up:
• Kurt Cobain — lead vocals, guitar (1987-1994; died 1994)
• Krist Novoselic — bass guitar, occasional vocals (1987-1994), accordion (1993-1994)
• Dave Grohl — drums, backing vocals (1990-1994)
• Former members:
• Aaron Burkhard — drums (1987)
• Dale Crover — drums (1988, 1990), backing vocals (1988)
• Dave Foster — drums (1988)
• Chad Channing — drums (1988-1990)
• Jason Everman — rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1989)
• Dan Peters — drums (1990)

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Band history
• In 1989, Nirvana became part of the Seattle music scene, releasing
the debut album Bleach on the independent label Sub Pop. After
signing a contract with a major label DGC Records, Nirvana gained
unexpected success with the song «Smells Like Teen Spirit» from
her second album Nevermind, released in 1991. Subsequently,
Nirvana entered the musical mainstream, popularizing the
alternative rock subgenre called grunge. Kurt Cobain turned out to
be not just a musician in the eyes of the media, but the «voice of
the generation», and Nirvana became the flagship of Generation
X. In 1993, the third and last studio album of the band, In Utero,
was released, the compositions of which were musically very
different from the previous works of the band.
• The short but vivid history of the band was interrupted due to the
death of Kurt Cobain on April 5, 1994, but in the following years
the fame of the team only grew. In 2002, the unfinished demo
recording of the song «You Know You’re Right», which the band
was working on shortly before Cobain’s death, took

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Albums of the band
The discography of the American band Nirvana includes 3 studio albums, 2
mini-albums, 21 singles, 5 video albums, 3 live albums, 5 compilations.

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The best album - ?
The best Nirvana album is: Incesticide.
Due to the variety of tracks offered,
Incesticide wins over other Nirvana
records. It has trace elements of all the
other releases of the band, but in scope
and size it surpasses even In Utero

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Awards and prizes
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2014)
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Debutant Video (1992)
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video (1992)
• BRIT Award for International Breakthrough[d] (1993)
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video (1993)
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Production Designer (1994)
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video (1994)
• Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album (1995)

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The first releases of the records
The first official record of Nirvana was the single «Love
Buzz /Big Cheese», released in 1988. In June 1989, the
band released their first album Bleach on the Sub Pop
label. The album was produced by Jack Endino. Bleach’s
sound was strongly influenced by The Melvins,
Mudhoney and such famous rock bands of the 1970s as
Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. On June 22, 1989,
Nirvana embarked on a big American tour, performing in
26 cities. In 2001, Novoselic said in an interview with
Rolling Stone magazine that, sitting in his van during this
tour, the band listened to a cassette, on one side of
which was recorded an album by The Smithereens, and
on the other — an album by Celtic Frost, who played in
the genre of black metal, and that, perhaps, this
combination also greatly influenced their game . Bleach
immediately became the most popular album on small
American college radio stations (especially on KCMU,
the University of Washington radio station)

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Musical style
• Nirvana’s musical style has been mostly described as
grunge, alternative rock, punk rock. The band was also
noted as a hard rock performer. Kurt Cobain described the
band’s early sound as «copying Gang of Four and Scratch
Acid». When Nirvana recorded Bleach, Cobain decided that
they needed to meet the expectations of Sub Pop in terms
of grunge sound; this suppressed his desire to write lighter
songs.
• Cobain sought to create a mix of heavy and light sound. He
said: «I wanted to be like Led Zeppelin, play extreme punk
rock and do slow pop songs.» When, after recording
Bleach, Kurt heard the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa album (released
in 1988), he felt that it had exactly the sound he wanted to
achieve, but could not, trying to play heavier grunge songs.
The subsequent popularity of The Pixies convinced Cobain
of the need to follow his musical instincts.

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