MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Krist Novoselic, Sub Pop
29 Mar 2020
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Sub pop records signs new bands: founded by bruce pavitt and jonathan poneman in 1988, radio and press respond positively to the local scene. Nirvana: kurt cobain, krist novoselic, dave grohl (originally chad channing) First album: bleach, cost to record and sold 35,000 copies. Signed to dgc label (geffen) in 1991: bought their contract for ,000, released nevermind 1991, entered charts at number 144, reached #1 by 1992, stayed on charts for 5 years, sold 10 million copies. In utero released in 1993, sold 4 million copies: produced by steve albini, more aggressive sound, kurt cobain died april 5, 1994. Focus on energy, aggression, and claiming space for women and sexual minorities. For the first time, half of the top 10 singles of the 1980s decade listed in billboard had women lead singers: compared to three in the previous decade, and none the decades before.
