This Day in Music History: Nirvana's Debut Album "Bleach" Released June 15, 1989
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Summary
A podcast episode titled "This Day in Music History: June 15, 1989" by ThorntonSean, available on Audiomack, which notes that on this date in 1989, Nirvana's debut album "Bleach" was released in the US. The album title came from a poster urging drug users to bleach their needles, and Kurt Cobain wrote most lyrics the night before recording while feeling "pissed off."
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· 3 pulledNirvana's debut album Bleach was released in the US.
The title for the album came from a poster 'Bleach Your Works' urging drug users to bleach their needles.
Kurt Cobain claimed that most of the lyrics on the album were written the night before recording while he was feeling 'pissed off', and that he did not regard them highly.
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