About A Girl (track)
by Nirvana
Year: 1989
From the album Bleach (track #3)
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About A Girl appears on the following album(s) by Nirvana:
- MTV Unplugged In New York (track #1) (1994)
- Bleach (track #3) (this album) (1989)
- With The Lights Out (track #15) (compilation) (2004)
- Nirvana (track #2) (compilation) (2002)
- Live At Reading (track #9) (2009)
- Sliver: The Best Of The Box (track #6) (compilation) (2005)
- Live At The Paramount (track #7) (2019)
- Live And Loud (track #16) (2019)
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One of their best songs, and to be honest the only saving grace of this album. If they had put this on Nevermind instead of Endless Nameless or Territorial Pissings, Nevermind would be the #1 album on this site.
The band's most accessible song on Bleach. Not sure what hardcore grunge fans make of it.
I would describe it as an early Beatles track with a hard wistful edge to it. Kurdt liked the Beatles and he was keen to demonstrate there was more to Nirvana and his song writing capabilities than pure Grunge. His first real masterpiece. It was about his difficult relationship with then girlfriend Tracy Marander. She was interviewed in Aug 2020 and although was unable to confirm this she stated it was one of her favourite Nirvana songs.
Yeah.. this song is totally overrated. It's not bad, but its fantastic unplugged version frequently has people confusing this song as the best off of Bleach, which simply isn't the case. The studio version doesn't deserve the credit it gets. It's no more than a simple ballad that doesn't measure up to others on the album such as "School" or "Negative Creep"
Martini 10/19/2015 10:26
One of my favourite Nirvana songs.
The Live version on MTV Unplugged is much better.
GandalfORiley345 05/21/2014 23:48
compressed, like classical, too good to come from the worst nirvana´s album, that´s what people says
So far, the album's turning out great!
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