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''Bleach'' is the debut album by the American Grunge band Nirvana . It was released in June 1989 through the Sub Pop record label. ''Bleach'' originally sold only 6,000 copies, but following the enormous success of the band's second album, '' Nevermind '' (1991), fans discovered Nirvana's little-known debut album. It has now sold over four million copies worldwide. The album's working title was ''Too Many Humans''.Cross, Charles. ''Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain'', p. 105. Hyperion, 2001. ISBN 0-7868-8402-9 It was officially named ''Bleach'' in February 1989 after the band's frontman Kurt Cobain found an AIDS prevention poster while Nirvana was driving through San Francisco . The poster advised Heroin addicts to bleach their needles before use, featuring the slogan "Bleach Your Works".Azerrad, Michael. ''Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana''. Doubleday, 1993. ISBN 0 86369 746 1. p. 91 RECORDING The main sessions for ''Bleach'' took place at Reciprocal Recording Studios in Seattle, Washington , with local producer Jack Endino manning the board. The sessions took place in December 1988 and January 1989. They cost a total of $ 606.17, which was supplied by soon-to-be second guitarist Jason Everman , Azerrad, 1993. p. 91 though he did not perform on the album. Nine of the tracks on the final album were recorded during these sessions. The remaining songs on ''Bleach'' (" Floyd The Barber ", " Paper Cuts ", and, on most versions of the album, " Downer ") were recorded during a previous session at Reciprocal Studios, with Dale Crover on drums. This session took place on January 23, 1988, with Endino as producer. A total of ten songs ( available on Ultra Rare Trax Volume 3 ) were recorded during the brief six-hour session (though Endino only charged for five hours of studio time). The session cost a total of $ 152.44, which was paid for with money Cobain had saved from his janitorial job and with a loan from Tracy Marander, his then-girlfriend. The band attempted to re-record "Floyd the Barber" with drummer Chad Channing during the main sessions for the album, but preferred Crover's version.Roberts, Alex; Andrews, Adam; and Furth, Charles. ''Live Nirvana Sessions History''. LiveNirvana.com. SONGS Most of the songs feature themes based on life in Aberdeen, Washington , a small American Working Class town where songwriter Kurt Cobain grew up. Lyrically the album is less surreal and nonsensical than much of what came after. Musically the album is heavily influenced by the Grunge sound of contemporaries The Melvins , the Heavy Metal of Black Sabbath 's early work, and the Hardcore Punk of Black Flag and Minor Threat . Cobain has also said that the band listened to Swiss extreme metallers Celtic Frost before recording the album. The band's Punk Rock roots are most evident on " Negative Creep " though there is little trace of the direction they would later go in. " School " is about the Seattle Scene at the time, comparing it to high school; the song's lyrics consist of only four lines.Azerrad, 1993. p. 100 " Floyd The Barber " is a song about Small-town America where everyone turns out to be a mass murderer. Cobain once referred the song in an interview to the Andy Griffith show hence the mentioning of characters like Opie and Aunt Bee .Azerrad, 1993. p. 101 " Paper Cuts " is partially based on a true story of a family in Aberdeen, Washington that kept their children isolated in a windowless room, opening the door only to feed them; the song also references Kurt's alienation from his mother. SINGLES
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