Smells Like Bleach: A Punk Tribute to Nirvana
Smells Like Bleach: A Punk Tribute To Nirvana is a tribute album by various artists to the American grunge band Nirvana, released in 2001. The album's title came from the amalgamation of Nirvana's signature song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and their debut album Bleach. It contains twelve Nirvana songs from different releases, mainly Nirvana's second studio album, Nevermind (which contained seven of the 12 songs covered herein), and despite the title only a single song ("Negative Creep") comes from Bleach. Track listing Song information Tracks 1-5, 7-8 were originally performed on the album Nevermind. Track 6 was originally performed on the album Bleach. Tracks 9-10 were originally performed on the album In Utero. Track 11 was originally performed on the album Incesticide. Track 12 was originally performed on the "Sliver" single. Liner notes The liner notes to Smells Like Bleach were written by Dave Thompson. In it, he describes Smells Like Bleach as Nirvana's "first ever tribute album." In actual fact, the tribute album Smells Like Nirvana: A Tribute to Nirvana was released before Smells Like Bleach (6 June 2000). In the seventh paragraph, Thompson writes that "if the Hall of Fame has not collapsed beneath the weight of its