$606

[underpants]

The recording sessions were completed with a cost of $606

Music

According to Cobain, the music on Bleach conformed with the grunge genre Sub Pop heavily endorsed. "There was this pressure from Sub Pop and the scene to play 'rock music'," Cobain said. "Strip it down and make it sound like Aerosmith." Cobain felt he had to fit the expectations of the grunge sound in order to build a fanbase, and so he purposefully suppressed his arty and pop songwriting traits when crafting the record.<6>

Cobain told Spin in 1993 that with Bleach "I didn't give a flying fuck what the lyrics were about," and claimed that eighty percent of the lyrics were written the night before recording.<7> Cobain often was still working on them on the drive to the recording studio.<3> He explained, "It was like I'm pissed off. Don't know what about. Let's just scream negative lyrics, and as long as they're not sexist and don't get too embarrassing it'll be okay. I don't hold any of those lyrics dear to me."<7> Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad noted that nevertheless many of the songs on the album were reflective of Cobain and various incidents in his life.<8> "Mr. Moustache" was inspired by Cobain's dislike of macho behavior,<9> while "School" was a critique of the Seattle music scene, particularly Sub Pop.<10>

All songs were written by Kurt Cobain, except where noted.

1. "Blew" – 2:55
2. "Floyd the Barber" – 2:18
3. "About a Girl" – 2:48
4. "School" – 2:42
5. "Love Buzz" (Robbie van Leeuwen) – 3:35
6. "Paper Cuts" – 4:06
7. "Negative Creep" – 2:56
8. "Scoff" – 4:10
9. "Swap Meet" – 3:03
10. "Mr. Moustache" – 3:24
11. "Sifting" – 5:22
12. "Big Cheese" (compact disc and cassette only) – 3:42
13. "Downer" (compact disc only) (Cobain, Krist Novoselic) – 1:43

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_(album)

The next album two years later was Nevermind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind

[Forkboy]

1. My favorite part about Bleach is that Dale Crover from the Melvins played on some of it.

Nirvana was pretty good, don't get me wrong, but they were 4th on my list of Seattle bands, behind the godlike Melvins, then Mudhoney, and Tad. Nirvana was the most accessible of the bunch, a plus for most, a negative for me. But they were still mighty good, even if Cobain was an drunken, fucked up idiot when I saw them open for the Melvins on the day Nevermind was released (we heard it for the first time on the way to the show).