Nirvana-Bleach (1989)

 


Artist: Nirvana

Title: Bleach

Label: Sub Pop

Format: LP

Catalog Number: SP 34b

Year of Release: 1989

Country and Year of Edition: US late 90's Olyphant

Sell Price:$7.59

Sell Date: 7/6/26

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Discogs Last Sold: 6/8/26 G+/VG+ $3.95

Low: $2.50

Median: $5.56

Average: $6.11

High: $12.25

Current low price: $8.98 VG/VG+

Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 217/410

Where Sold: Saco, ME

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought: Facebook CD $2 lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+

Sad To See It Go: No 

The run on all things Nirvana continues to the point where I'm starting to run out of releases of theirs to write about.  This is probably the singular greatest Album to come out of "Grunge" (excluding the Mudhoney EP Superfuzz Bigmuff, which is the definitive release of the genre).  Relistening to Bleach, I remember WHY I liked it so much back in 1989.

First off this is a guitar record with all the tricks of the noise rock trade.  Chuggers like "Negative Creep," pull on 'n' off with "School," stop 'n starts with "Floyd The Barber," controlled feedback with "Blew" and a cover made their own with Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz."   Cobain put his stamp on the verse-chorus-verus more emphatically when Jason Everman's second guitar left the band, but in the end he needed Pat Smear to come in later on for the big time stages.

Bleach sounds more like a band record than anything else that followed.  If they continued on this path without tweaking the formula they probably wouldn't have gotten so big.  But for me the "Johnny's little girl ain't a girl no more" was really Daddy and the chug chug chugs made it all stand out as my favorite album that year.  When I brought my brand new white vinyl copy to Worcester that summer and couldn't make it to their show at Green Street Grill in Jamaica Plain,  I would never in my wildest dreams imagine this would be what it was before time ruined everything.

The first one is still the most life affirming.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)

Nevermind (1991)

Incesticide (1992)

In Utero (1993)

MTV Unplugged In New York (1994)

Sweet 75-Sweet 75 (1997)

Various Artists-No Alternative  (1993)

The Shocking Blue-The Shocking Blue (1970)

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