Albums information
Bleach
*Produced by Jack Endino *Drums by Chad Channing on all tracks except
Floyd the Barber, Paper Cuts, and Downer, which has Dale Crover on drums.
*Album's recording cost is listed as being $606.17, which was payed
for by Jason Everman, who didn't even appear on the album.
*The bulk of the album was recorded on 12/24/88, 12/29/88, and 1/24/89
at Reciprocal Studios in Seattle, WA with 3 tracks being drawn from the
1/23/88 Jack Endino/Dale Crover session.
*Nirvana was billed for 30 hours of studio time. *Downer appears only
on the CD release.
*Older vinyl versions do not contain Big Cheese.
*Released in June of 1989 by Sub Pop Records (SP 34b US) and remastered
and rereleased by Geffen in 4/92.
Nevermind
*Produced by Butch Vig.
*All drums by Dave Grohl.
*Some CDs contain the hidden track Endless, Nameless after 10 minutes
of silence following Something In The Way. The first 50,000 CDs pressed
lack the track and some versions pressed by the CD Clubs lack it.
*The album was recorded in May and June of 1991 at Sound City Studios
in Van Nuys, CA.
*Inside the album is a page with random lyric lines from the songs.
There are 2 lines of poetry which do not appear in any of the songs. These
lines were made up by Kurt.
*Nevermind was released on 9/24/91 by Geffen Records (DGC-24504 US).
*Has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
Incesticide
*Collection of B-sides and rarities.
*Originally planned as 2 different releases by Geffen and Sub Pop (to
be called Cash Cow), but they joined forces.
*The band's intent was to 'beat the bootleggers' by releasing the rare
songs before the bootleggers could.
*The pictures in the album, from left to right are: Krist Novoselic,
Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Dale Crover, Chad Channing, and Danny Peters.
*Released on 12/15/92 by Geffen Records (DGC-24504 US).
In Utero
*Produced by Steve Albini.
*All drums by Dave Grohl.
*Recorded at Pachyderm Studios in March 1993.
*2 tracks (Heart-Shaped Box and All Apologies) remixed at the band's
request by Scott Litt (of REM fame) in the Summer of 1993, during that
session the song "Verse Chorus Verse" was recorded again.
*A special version which is for sale in Wal-Mart stores labels Rape
Me as "Waif Me" and features slightly altered back cover art.
*On the disc itself is a picture of Kurt and Courtney's nanny dressed
in drag with the word 'princess' scrawled on his stomach.
*Import versions contain the track "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow
Through The Strip" a 7:33 jam session as the "Devalued American Dollar
Incentive Track" after 25 minutes of silence following All Apologies.
*Originally titled "I Hate Myself And Want To Die", then to be titled
"Verse Chorus Verse", finally "In Utero" was settled on. *"In Utero" is
latin for "In The Womb".
*Released 9/21/93 in the US (9/14/93 elsewhere) by Geffen Records (DGC-24607
US).
*Sold 500,000 copies in it's first week (overshadowed by Pearl Jam's
VS which sold 900,000 copies), Has sold over 5 million copies to date.
Unplugged
*Produced by: Scott Litt
*Features appearances by 2 members of The Meat Puppets
*Labelled as being complete, it does contain all the songs, but the
entire session lasted about 15 minutes longer. Geffen cut some banter and
tunings. There are complete versions floating around on video.
*Originally conceived as a double album with 1 CD containing the Unplugged
session and the second CD containing other live electric tracks.
*Released 11/1/94 by Geffen Records (DGC-24727 US)
*Has sold about 3.4 million copies as of the release of FTMB.
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