Nirvana – Bleach

I've got a strange story about my copy of this white vinyl. I bought it decades ago, around the late 90’s, early 00's. I think I probably got it on ebay. It was sealed. I asked the guy I was buying it from how he knew it was white if it was still sealed. I believe he said that he had gotten two of them and was told they were both white and the other copy that he had already opened was white. I don't know where he got them. Now here's where it gets weird... I am almost positive that when my sealed copy arrived from him, it had one of those round green stickers that says COLOR VINYL on it. I can even being worried because I thought that all copies with those green stickers on it were later represses, that were made of different colors, not white, and I being relieved when I opened it and it was indeed original white vinyl (with one or two very faint black smudges). Could it be that I have mis-ed this detail about it having the green sticker on it? Sure, I guess. After all, it was over 20 years ago...although I'm not sure why my brain would invent a detail like that. Anyway I still have it.

I had this, my mom lost my records. Weep for me.

Average sell price: 800 dollars, cheapest copy for sale: 3000. Guys you realize no one is buying them for a reason right? Lol

1005 people "have" a copy of a 1000 copy run of this record?!?!

I was at a show with Tad/Nirvana in Feb 90 and they were selling these at the mersh table. Wish I had some extra cash that night.

I wonder where the source of ‘1,000 copies were produced’ came from? They are not numbered. Plus, I’m sure at some point people were saying there were only 300 copies, then 500 copies, now it’s 1,000!? Strange.

First CD version (Tupelo) is actually from august 1989. Same 11 tracks as their LP version. Big Cheese instead of Love Buzz and no Downer.

This is my favorite Nirvana album. It's not quite metal, it's not quite punk. Heavy yet melodic. Experimental yet pop. Simple yet complicated. Unsured raw energy that rocks really f**kin hard. Anthemic, nihilistic and just straight up brutal. Full of beauty and darkness. Full of heart. This album is in a league of its own. I can't think of another album that sounds anything like this set of songs. It's truly original in my eyes. And for that reason it will always be my favorite Nirvana album.

As a sympathizer to the 'vana's earlier material, I have to champion this release. Amalgamates a time, a place and a smell, a smell before the smell of teens. Lisa Orth's layout will always get a medal from me and throw some bone shaman's relics to the maestro Dale Crover for his skin-work.

"Negative Creep" leaves no shirt untorn.

Bleach is their best album in my opinion. Like most people, I was introduced to the band via Nevermind. I hated the band at first, because I hated Smells Like Teen Spirit. But I soon grew to enjoy them when I realized that they were unlike all the other thrash/grunge bands on MTV at the time. Bleach bears that out.

Here was a band almost completely unconcerned with its image. They didn't care about being mysterious or putting on some pretentiously dark, gothic facade. Musically, they were every bit as competent as their contemporaries, but Cobain's songwriting was much stronger.

Bleach captures a moment in the life of a down and dirty garage band. It's just some guys jamming like crazy, making some great music.