
It was a deodorant —"Teen Spirit" — that lent its name to the first song on the album, Nevermind. The band would change their name to The Pink Floyd Sound in 1965, later shortening. Over the following couple of years the band would go through a variety of different line-ups and names, with Syd Barrett joining in 1964. Pink Floyd originally formed as Sigma 6 in 1963, a band containing Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason alongside friends Clive Metcalfe and Keith and Sheilagh Noble.


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And all this was interspersed with almost eerie intervals, melodies, and Cobain's unmistakable style of dragging the notes.Vig worked with many effects, and among other things, doubled Cobain's voice. In the studio, Vig fully exploited this, allowing drummer Dave Grohl (who joined in 1990) and bassist Krist Novoselic free reign on their instruments, while Kurt Cobain on guitar screamed out his choruses. Melody merged with brute musical force.The band had already demonstrated a radical dynamic when performing their songs live.
It was no longer about world politics or wars: this was simply about life. A band wearing torn jeans and lumberjack shirts singing in frustration about heartbreak, family violence, unemployment, poverty, drugs, injustice and stupidity. 'Teen Spirit' tops chartsAnd that was how the album, that swept youth off their feet in 1991, was created. And while this didn't initially appeal to Cobain, Vig successfully convinced the Beatles fan with the argument that John Lennon always did this too.
Cobain had conceived this idea after growing tired of the band being taken too seriously and wanted to show they had a humorous side. Single after single followed, all topping charts and landing in the radio stations' hot rotations.A video for their fourth single "In Bloom," parodied the musical performances of bands like The Beatles that appeared on early 1960s variety shows, with the screams of frenzied teenage fans often drowning out the music.In fact, that was a reason why The Beatles eventually stopped performing live back then. The music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ran every hour on MTV. Cobain, who had declared war on the rock establishment and its superstars, the bloated million-dollar business and the mainstream, suddenly found himself exactly where he never wanted to be.The rebels had become a mass-market rock band, appearing on television and in the gossip columns.
Thus, Nirvana recorded their third album In Utero with underground producer Steve Albini against the wishes of their record company. The antidote was to be a new album that was hard-hitting and unsuitable for the charts. The more he tried to withdraw from the entertainment circus, the more it got on his nerves.

He is suing the band for "lifelong damages" that include "extreme and permanent emotional distress with physical manifestations, interference with his normal development and educational progress, lifelong loss of income earning capacity," and "loss of enjoyment of life. The iconic album cover with a naked baby in a pool swimming after a dollar bill rates as one of the most recognizable covers, alongside The Beatles' Abbey Road or Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.That baby on the cover, now a grown man, most recently alleged that his picture with his exposed genitalia constituted child pornography. Rolling Stone counts it among the best albums of all time. It has reportedly sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
