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From the Single All Apologies

From the Album 1. Serve The Servants 2. Scentless Apprentice 3. Heart-Shaped Box 4. Rape Me 5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle 6. Dumb 7. Very Ape 8. Milk It 9. Pennyroyal Tea 10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 11. Tourettes 12. All Apologies 13. Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip
Bonus Track


From the Album 1. Smells Like Teen Spirit 2. In Bloom 3. Come As You Are 4. Breed 5. Lithium 6. Polly 7. Territorial Pissings 8. Drain You 9. Lounge Act 10. Stay Away 11. On A Plain 12. Something in the Way 13. Endless Nameless
Bonus Track


From the Single Smells Like Teen Spirit

From the Album 1. Blew 2. Floyd The Barber 3. About A Girl 4. School 5. Love Buzz 6. Paper Cuts 7. Negative Creep 8. Scoff 9. Swap Meet 10. Mr. Moustache 11. Sifting 12. Big Cheese 13. Downer

Other Songs Aero Zeppelin Aint It A Shame Alcohol Aneurysm Anorexorcist Baba O Riley Bad Moon Rising Bambi Kill Beans Beans and Wine Been A Son Beeswax Big Long Now Blandest California Cannibal Rights Clean Up Before She Comes Cocaine Girl Come As You Are Come On Death Cufk Tish Sips Curmudgeon D-7 Dazed Confused Dive Do Re Mi Do You Love Me Dont Want It All Down In The Dark Even In His Youth Glycerine Grey Goose Hairspray Queen Happy Hour Heart Shaped Box Heartbreaker Help Me Help Me Im Hungry Here She Comes Now Hurt Cover I Hate Myself And I Want To Die I Hate Myself And Want To Die I Made For Loving You I Wanna Be Your Dog If You Must Im So Happy Immodium Immodium (Breed) Imodium In His Room Intro Jenny Jesus Doesnt Want Me For A Sunbeam Jesus Dont Want Me For A Sunbeam Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam Know Your Right Lake Of Fire Laundry Room Louge Act Lounge Art Man Who Sold The World Marigold Mexican Seafood Misery Loves Company Moist Vagina Mollys Libs Mollys Lips Mrs. Butterworth Mrs. Butterworth [Previously Unreleased Track] Mrs. Butterworth [Rehearsal Demo] My Best Friends Girl My Girl My Sharona New Sensation New Wave Polly Nothing Oh Me Oh The Guilt Old Age Opinion Other Improv [Previously Unreleased Track; Demo Version] Pay To Play Pen Cap Chew Plateau Rainbow Chaser Raunchola Raunchola/Moby Dick Run, Rabbit, Run! Sappy Seasons In The Sun Sliver Smells Like Teen Booty (Nirvana Vs. Destinys Chil Smells Like Teen Spirt (Demo) Smels Like Teen Spirit Something in the Way Something in the Way (from the album Nevermind) Son Of A Gun Spank Thru Spectre Stain Talk To Me The Man Who Sold The World The Money Will Roll Right In The Other Improv The Priest They Called Him They Hung Him On A Cross They Hung Him on a Cross [Previously Unreleased Track; Demo Version] Token Eastern Song Tourettes: The Eagle Has Landed Turnaround Twist And Shout Verse Chorus Verse Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Where Do You Sleep Last Night White Lace And Strange You Know Youre Right Youve Got No Right
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Nirvana was an American rock band formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990.

Despite releasing only three full-length studio albums in their seven-year career, Nirvana has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important rock bands of the modern era. The band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists in history.

They were inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, the band's first year of eligibility. -Wikipedia
Members:
Kurt Cobain -
lead vocals, guitar
(1987-1994)

Krist Novoselic -
bass guitar
(1987-1994)

Dave Grohl -
drums, backing vocals
(1990-1994)
Name Origin:
Jumped from many names including Skid Row, Pen Cap Chew, and Ted Ed Fred, before picking on Nirvana in February, 1988

Cobain said Nirvana was chosen because:
"I wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean, raunchy punk name like the Angry Samoans"
From: Aberdeen, Washington, United States
Genre(s): Alternative rock, grunge
Formed: Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic met in 1985 and recruited Aaron Burckhard
Active From: 1987-1994
Associated Acts: Kurt Cobain, Fecal Matter, Melvins, Foo Fighters, Sweet 75, No WTO Combo, Eyes Adrift
Awards:
1992
2 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Alternative Video and Best New Artist, ("Smells Like Teen Spirit")
Quotes:
"There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'."
-Kurt Cobain on his lyrics

"At the end of the last couple of months when I was doing $400 worth every day, I was definitely noticing things about my memory and I knew that eventually my health would start getting a lot worse. It sounds like I don't regret it and I don't, but that's because I used it as a tool. I used it as a medication to get rid of a pain. And that's the biggest reason why I did it. In that sense, I don't regret it, but anybody else who's going to get addicted to drugs are obviously going to @#$%& up their lives eventually. If it doesn't take a year, it will be next year. I've seen it happen with every person that gets strung out. Drugs are bad for you. They will @#$%& you up.
-Kurt Cobain on heroin

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
Kurt Cobain

"We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough."
Kurt Cobain

"Kurt chews bubble gum in his soul." -Courtney on Kurt's song writing

"I'm here to impeach a president and kill a soap opera star"- Krist

"The name of our band is pronounced "Nir-vah-nah", not "Nir-van-na" - Dave

"I was driving and 'Teen Spirit' came on the radio, and I thought 'God, that really sounds like
sh*t!'" -Dave Grohl

"So all of my comments tonight are out of a book: How to be Witty at Parties." -Chris

"We were staying in this house in Laurel Canyon with three mud-wrestling
girls for a week-and-a-half." --Dave

"I ate about 600 of them in a day, and I had an extreme feeling of beauty.
Those Mentos really work!" --Dave

"Y'know, maybe one percent, of the people who are listening to "Nevermind",
that ever bought "Nevermind", maybe not one percent, but I'm just saying that
this, um, a small minority of people who are listening to our record now,
know about punk rock. A lot of people don't know about punk rock ..they think
about punk rock and they think of that Quincy episode where the guy threw the
brick off the building, and..."
-Dave

"It's okay to eat fish
'Cause they don't have any feelings"
-Nirvana
from Something In The Way (2022)
(more Nirvana Quotes)
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