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- Summary: The debut album for the grunge band is remastered and reissued with a 1990 live recording of a concert at Portland, Oregon's Pine Street Theatre.
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 19
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Mixed: 1 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Sure, it’s valuable as a blueprint for music that would change everything (for a while, anyway), but also as a repository for the perfect synthesis of grunge’s anger and Kurt Cobain’s pop sensibility.
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Bleach is freshened up with remastered versions of unusually heavy songs like the haunting "Negative Creep," where Cobain howls about alienation and being stoned, and the pounding "Floyd the Barber," where the main subject of the eerie track is a man being strapped down and tortured by characters from "The Andy Griffith Show.
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Q MagazineBleach's grooviness is intrinsic to its enduring appeal, just as much as the cankerous layers of noise. [Dec 2009, p.128]
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Bleach showed instances of promise and a few songs went on to become some of the best they ever wrote, but in comparison, it pales to the band’s later work. So take it all in stride because Bleach is surely for fanatics but certainly not for everyone.
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One small quibble, though: while it’s great to have documentation of the band’s early live sound (and in many ways the versions of the songs from Bleach are superior thanks to the sprightly energy), you don’t really get a sense of the sheer ferocity and electricity Nirvana generated in a tiny, cramped college bar.
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Bleach is a stronger record than it is commonly perceived to be, and does deserve to be checked out in some form by fans of heavy riff-driven rock. Regardless, this reissue is underwhelming, seemingly more concerned with enticing Nirvana completists to purchase it for the live material than in illuminating why Nirvana’s first album was an important step in a career that has helped define rock music for the last two decades.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 0 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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Mar 29, 2011
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Jul 18, 2020
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Dec 3, 2011
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Aug 7, 2021I think this album is great.
Best songs: About a Girl, School, Love Buzz
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Oct 25, 2021My first love in music. Nothing groundbreaking but almost a premonition to what was to come.
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Apr 10, 2021this album is a 7 this album is a 7 this album is a 7 this album is a 7 this album is a 10
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Aug 27, 2021
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