Nirvana Lyrics

This page contains links to lyrics for the Rock band Nirvana.

Fast Facts

1. Genres: Grunge Rock
2. Origin: Aberdeen, Washington
3. Formed: 1987
4. Disbanded: 1994
5. Albums: 3
6. Labels: Sub Pop Records, Geffen
7. Debut album cost $606.17 to record
8. Third album coast approximately $25,000 to record
9. Drummer Dave Grohl formed the Foo Fighters

Notable Recordings

• 1989: Bleach
• 1991: Nevermind
• 1992: Incesticide
• 1993: In Utero
• 1994: MTV Unplugged in New York
• 1996: From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
• 2004: With the Lights Out

Influences

• The Melvins, The Pixies, The Sex Pistols, The Vaselines, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin; Aerosmith, Scratch Acid, Creedence Clearwater Revival

Critical Response

• "The music-fuzz-blast guitars, throbbing bass-roars and spits with enough in-your-face bluster to make your compact disc skip; left-of-center rock rarely sounds as alive as the metallic punk of Smells Like Teen Spirit, the album's first single."—Entertainment Weekly ¹

• "From Bleach on, they have specialized in a kind of luminous roar and scarred beauty that has more to do with Patti Smith, the Buzzcocks and Plastic Ono-era John Lennon."—Rolling Stone ²

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