American rock band formed around 1986 by Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. Despite her short existence as a group, and Cobain's suicide in 1994, her music garnered tremendous success around the world, to the extent that Nirvana was considered one of the best rock bands of the time and the standard bearer Grunge motion.
Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic spent part of their teens in the city of Aberdeen (Washington state). Together they had played in some bands in the Washington area, such as The Sellouts, Skid Row or The Stiff Woodies.
In 1988 they recorded a model and the Sub Pop label offered to record a single. Almost at the same time that there were changes in the battery seat; The post was definitely occupied by Chad Channing. Love Buzz was released in November of that year, and in June 1989 saw the light Bleach, the first album of the band, fresh and bitter at the same time, produced by the guru Jack Endino. That same year they were joined by Jason Everman as the second guitar, ephemeral union of only a few months, and soon after embarked on a tour of Europe with TAD.
In May 1990, at the end of the American tour, Channing left the group. After these changes, Dave Grohl would finally occupy this position, after editing a single, Sliver, in which he still played Channing in one face and in the other, Dan Peters, of Mudhoney. He also marked his first collaboration with producer Butch Vig, another guru of the later called "Movida Grunge", and more recently known by his new group, Garbage.
With Butch Vig they recorded their first album for Geffen, Nevermind, released in September 1991, which would take less than a month to sell half a million copies in the USA. The video of the first single extracted of the long duration Smells like teen spirit was emitted massively by MTV, contributing to its rapid expansion by the globe. The album reached number one on the US charts in January 1992.
Although the move to a multinational record company was noticeable in some of the content of the album, his second full length followed the line opened by Bleach: feelings and passions prevail over technical perfection and, helped by a good promotion, stood as standard bearers of the movement Grunge.
Shortly thereafter, Kurt Cobain married Courtney Love, leader of the band Hole. They toured in Europe for the summer (Frances Bean was born, daughter of the marriage) and began recording their next work at the end of that year with the legendary Steve Albini. This American producer and musician, who had played in Big Black and formed Rapeman afterwards, had produced countless bands, such as The Breeders or Pixies, before working with the trio.
In Utero was the title chosen for this work, from which Heart-Shaped Box was extracted as an advance single, in September 1993. Between these two albums, Incesticide was released in late 1992, compilation of B-sides and unpublished, skillful commercial maneuver Of his label, trying to make Nirvana look like an AOR (Adult Orient Rock, or "adult rock") as far as regularity is concerned, a difficult thing, given the particular character of Kurt Cobain.
The end of 1993 and the beginning of 1994 was tumultuous, with calls to the police from his home in Seattle and an admission to a hospital in Rome, clear preludes of the fatal outcome: Cobain's suicide in Seattle in April 1994 .
Nirvana ceased to exist as a group, and although some time later Krist Novoselic began again from below with a new group called Sweet 75, with which he worked with total independence, never got to have great international repercussion.
In 1995 Dave Grohl decided to go ahead on his own, and recorded solo what would be his first album with a new group. Only his friend Greg Dulli (of the Afghan Whigs) helped him with some contribution in the form of electric guitar, and in the summer of 1995 the first album of The Foo Fighters came to light. Once the album was released, he recruited Pat Smear (formerly of The Germs and Nirvana) and two former members of Sunny Day Real Estate, Nate Mendel and William Goldsmith, as permanent training. This first album got an exceptional reception between the critic and the public, mixing something of the Grunge of the past next to an explosive Power-pop. In 1997 they released their second album, The color and the shape, that followed the line of its predecessor in style and successes.
At the end of 2004, after the endless quarrels between Nirvana survivors (Novoselic, Grohl, Cobain's widow Courtney Love and the song rights owner), he saw the light With the lights out, an album with Sixty-eight unreleased tracks, among rehearsals and domestic recordings of the group, which put Nirvana back on the front pages of the music press around the world.
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