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The seven-song session was the band's first with Grohl, who had joined Nirvana in September 1990. According to Montgomery, the band "would play the songs live and then Kurt would either put a vocal on it or he wouldn't. It was all first take."
Based on the novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind, "Scentless Apprentice" is unique among Nirvana songs in that the main guitar riff was written by Grohl, rather than Cobain. The band briefly considered releasing it as the album's second single, following " Heart-Shaped Box ," but no single for the song was released by the time of Cobain's suicide ...
"Plateau" is a song by alternative rock band the Meat Puppets, written by vocalist and guitarist, Curt Kirkwood. It appears on the band's second album, Meat Puppets II, released by SST Records in April 1984.
Nirvana was an American grunge band formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987, with drummer Dave Grohl joining the band in 1990. The band recorded three studio albums ; Bleach , Nevermind and In Utero , with other songs available on live albums , compilations , extended plays (EPs ...
The song was released under the title "Verse Chorus Verse," but since this title is shared by another, abandoned Nirvana song, it is now referred to by its earlier title of "Sappy." The same version that appeared on No Alternative was re-released as "Sappy" on the Nirvana rarities box set, With the Lights Out , in November, 2004, with a note ...
In the song, Cobain fingers chord shapes on his guitar but varies between playing single notes and double stops on the instrument, giving the track a loose feel. [20] The song opens with bouncing guitar strums before Cobain starts singing his lines in an almost whispered manner. [21]
"On a Plain" was recorded in the key of E major, with Cobain's guitar tuned to drop D. The song starts with a noise intro played by Cobain, with an audible handclap. After a short pause the main riff comes in with the power chords D5-G5-F5-E5-F5-E5-D5 played twice then followed by the power chords D5-C5-B5-A5 followed by the first progression ...
The song follows a basic sequence of F 5 –D ♭ –E ♭ in the verses and pre-chorus and is mainly restricted to a droning chord of F 5 throughout the refrain as its chord progression. [20] The journalist Charles R. Cross said it featured the "soft-hard dynamics" of Nirvana's 1993 single " Heart-Shaped Box ," with quiet verses followed by a ...