Bleach
by Nirvana
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Nirvana bestography
Bleach is ranked 4th best out of 17 albums by Nirvana on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nirvana is Nevermind which is ranked number 13 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 35,938.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Bleach track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Bleach rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 74/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | leniad | Top 101-200 Music Albums of the 1980s | 23/44 | - |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 44 Music Albums of 1989 | 24/44 | 2 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 28 Music Albums of 1989 | 9/28 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 42/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Altsoul | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 58/100 | 41 |
| 2026 | TastyandTemptin | Top 47 Music Albums of 1989 | 35/47 | 1 |
| 2026 |  swed | Top 53 Music Albums of the 1980s | 33/53 | 8 |
| 2026 |  Strangel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 15/100 | 17 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 649 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,452 | |||
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Bleach ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago | Artem | 872 | 77/100 |
| ! | 10/03/2026 18:28 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/24/2026 06:25 | LammyTS1 | 1,112 | 59/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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Bleach forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/04/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5455): By ThaCrookedSpokeView latest topic →
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Bleach comments
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It’s not complicated! Sometimes slower is better. Finishing the work that Black Flag’s My War and Flipper’s Album started, Bleach and company turned both metal and hardcore underground on its head by making SLOW the new fast. Combining the detuned riffage of Sabbath with 80s we-don’t give-two-fucks hardcore attitude, Bleach lumbers, falters and squeals like a p-st-off mastodonian raging through a tarpit. The Nevermind the Bullocks of metal, Bleach showed that you didn’t have to have the technical chops of Yngwie Malmsteen, wear clothes destined for the local Hot Topic or have a cover shot of Satan eating a baby to be metal. If I had to pick one album from grunge to throw up on the wall and point & beam & cry out - THIS IS WHAT GRUNGE SOUNDED LIKE in all its detuned, feedback laden squalls of a cow-in-a-blender glory, it would be this.
Not quite good enough to be considered a great album in it's own right but certainly more than just a historical artefact. That the band that wrote Negative Creep became the biggest band in the world can't fail to make me smile.
This is the best Nirvana album before they got gobbled up my the mainstream. Unpolished at their finest and not overproduced like Nevermind
Space-Dementia 12/28/2015 01:57 | #155239 | TOP COMMENT
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Good debut from Nirvana. Musically, there's a couple great songs, but the rest I don't find too impressive. However, what I love about Bleach is the passion that went into it. Whenever Kurt sings, I get chills cause of how into it he is and how much it seems like he wants to keep singing. I love the effort they put into making this. I also agree that, although it's worse than Nevermind and In Utero, this album is a prime example of grunge. It's the grungy-est of the three, which is why less people like it but also why I admire it.
Kick ass album, better than Nevermind. Not trolling, just saying
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