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Facts
1 Kurt's Childhood idol was Evil Kenevil
2 The baby on the Nevermind cover is named Spencer Elden
3 The 'Sliver' film clip was taped in Kurt's Garage
4 Kurt originally made the song 'Polly' with a cheap 5 stringed guitar
5 The Australian copy of Incesticide does not have the liner notes like the American one, just what songs were written and played by who.
6 In the picture on the back of 'Nevermind', it is a collage of little bits of meat, with some hands and a small picture of 'Kiss'
7 Silverchair got their name from the song 'Sliver' and a song called 'the chair' which was done by another band(?), so they changed the 'Sliver' to Silver
8 Kurt got the name for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when a friend of his graffitied on a wall that 'Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit'
9 'Teen Spirit was/is(?) a de-odourant
10 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was voted #1 on Triple J's hottest 100 of all time
11 'Nevermind' was voted as being the #1 album you must hear before you die!
12 The first band that Krist and Kurt were in together, was the Stiff Woodies
13 Nirvana had been through 5 drummers(including Dave)
14 Nirvana's first single was Love Buzz/Big Cheese
15 Nirvana's first show was in Tacoma, WA
16 Nirvana's last show was in Munich, Germany
17 Nirvana's first drummer was Aaron Burckhard
18 One of Kurt's bands (Skid Row) went through 5 other names
19 Kurt designed the 'Jag-Stang'. It was what you get when you cross a Jaguar with a Mustang
20 There have been 2 other bands called Nirvana, one was a group from the early sixties and the other is a Christian band from the early 80's who tried to sue them.
21 There is a rare song called 'Pay To Play' which is a demo of 'Stay Away' but the lyrics are changed to 'Pay To Play'
22 'In Utero' was originally going to be named 'I hate Myself And I Want To Die'
23 When Kurt was a teenager, who used to fire his BB-Gun(Ball Bearing Gun) at the building across the street from him
24 Kerrang!, an English music mag was published to co-incide with the release of 'From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah'.
25 Kurt Was left handed
26 The idea for the cover of nevermind came from when Kurt and Dave were watching a documentary on babies being born underwater, and they said that would look cool on the cover
27 Kurt wanted to do all their songs for their albums on their first or second take.
28 Butch Vig, the producer for Nevermind plays in the band Garbage
29 Half the songs on Nevermind were written at the time of Bleach, but didn't make it onto the album
30 Burton from 'Fear Factory' was in the clip of Smells Like Teen Spirit
31 Kurt sings 'Load up on drugs, kill all your friends..' instead of 'load up on guns, bring all your friends..' on the Live Tonight! Sold Out! video
32 Kurt Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967
33 Kurt got his first guitar when he turned 11
34 Nirvana's best selling album was Nevermind
35 Their biggest hit was Smells Like Teen Spirit
36 Nirvana first signed up to SubPop,then switched to Geffen
37 Breed was originally called 'Immodium' based on the medicine that the lead singer of Tad used on one of their European tours.
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