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Nirvana's first official release was the single "Love Buzz/Big Cheese" in 1988. In 1989, the band released its first album, Bleach, on Sub Pop Records. The record had a limited first pressing of 1000 white vinyl records that were sold at the Lamefest in Seattle on August 8 1989. Bleach was highly influenced by The Melvins, by the heavy dirge-rock of Mudhoney, and by the 70s rock of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Novoselic noted in a 2001 interview with Rolling Stone that the band had played a tape in their van while on tour that had an album by The Smithereens on one side and an album by the black metal band Celtic Frost on the other, and noted that the combination probably played an influence as well.[4] Bleach became a favorite of college radio stations nationally, but gave few hints of where the band would find itself two years later.
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The most impressive posthumous Nirvana release yet was to have been a 45-track box set compiled by Novoselic and timed to be released in honor of the 10th anniversary of "Nevermind" in the fall of 2001. But in June of that year, Love filed suit in King County superior court in Washington, seeking to terminate the L.L.C.
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There is quite a bit of unreleased Nirvana music out there. Some of which has been in the hands of savvy bootleggers since shortly after his death. But the crown jewel is a track called "You Know You're Right", which was spawned from Nirvana's final recording session in the spring of 1994. This track, along with many others, was supposed to be part of a boxed set due out last year to coincide with the 10th anniversary of "Nevermind", Nirvana's breakthrough album. Courtney Love filed suit to dissolve Nirvana LLC, halting the boxed set's release. If Love just didn't want the boxed set to be put out, the suit wouldn't have been necessary, since (according to Rolling Stone magazine) a unanimous decision must be made for all future Nirvana releases.
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To preemptively squelch backlash from fans worried about the overcommercialization of a decidedly anticorporate band, Love sought to assure Nirvana's fanbase that the music would not simply be licensed to the highest bidder. In her released statement, Love wrote, "We are going to remain very tasteful and true to the spirit of Nirvana while taking the music to places it has never been before." [21]
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Even with all of Cobain's indie influences, Nirvana's early style was influenced by the major rock bands of the 70s, including Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and KISS. In its early days, Nirvana made regular habit of playing cover songs by those bands, including Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", "Dazed and Confused" and "Heartbreaker", and a studio recording of KISS' "Do You Love Me?". He ... talked about the influence of bands like The Knack, Boston, and The Bay City Rollers.
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Cobain often pointed out that "Rape Me" was written before Nirvana's ascension to superstardom, and therefore could not have been a cynical comment on fame, as many suggested around the time of In Utero's release. Still, the song's bridge, which was written later on, does seem to contain direct references to Cobain's celebrity, which he famously struggled with. The line "my favorite inside source" is believed to be a reference to former friends who, supposedly, revealed personal information to the magazine Vanity Fair , which ran an unflattering portrait of Cobain and wife Courtney Love in September 1992. The line "I'm not the only one" is believed to be Cobain's way of saying that his wife and daughter were being just as badly hurt by the negative media exposure as he was.
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