“Love Buzz” hinted at pop, but it was “About A Girl” that made Cobain’s pop sensibility obvious. More significantly, “Been A Son” was another move away from the drop-D textbook that informed Bleach. However, the Blew version of “Been A Son” is much rawer than the cut on Incesticide and includes a rare Krist Novoselic bass solo. Blew is also easy to overlook because it contains two tracks from Bleach (“Blew” and “Love Buzz”) and two songs that later appeared on Incesticide (“Stain” and “Been A Son”). It’s impossible to find and prohibitively expensive, and I’m pretty sure those two elements are connected. The Blew EP was technically released in December 1989, but only in the UK, and apparently for about 15 minutes. They were filled with insane amounts of potential, but they were still a band with one album, one single, and a few one-offs to their name.
They were about to embark on a west coast tour, again opening for Tad, which should tell you about the reality of Nirvana entering 1990. The band’s search for the right drummer paralleled Cobain’s maturation as a songwriter, and to fully appreciate what went down in the late summer of 1991, we have to go back a year to 1990.Īs the year dawned, Nirvana was still recovering from a six-week European tour opening for Tad, a miserable experience by all accounts, despite incipient rumblings of Nirvana-mania throughout Europe, especially England. However, as phenomenal as their entry into the mainstream was, how Nirvana got from Bleach to Nevermind is actually the better story. Nevermind was an epochal release, 20 is a nice, round number, and Kurt Cobain was a fantastic musician and a classically tragic figure. Even Amy Winehouse‘s recent death shook up those old “27 Club” cobwebs.
Spin recently asked, “What does Nevermind mean now?” and The Onion looked back at the Axl Rose/Kurt Cobain relationship circa 1991. Nirvana crowd at the University of Washington in Seattle
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