"About a Girl_Heather was Here"
Song by Nirvana
from the album “Bleach”
Released	June 15, 1989
Recorded	1988-9 at Reciprocal Recordings in Seattle, Washington
Genre	Grunge
Length	2:48
Label	Sub Pop
Writer(s)	Kurt Cobain
Producer(s)	Jack Endino
“Bleach” track listing
Floyd the Barber (2)	"About a Girl_Heather was Here" (3)	School (4)

"About a Girl (live)"
Single by Nirvana
from the album MTV Unplugged in New York
B-side(s)	"Something in the Way"
Released	October 24, 1994
Format	CD
Recorded	1993
Genre	Rock
Length	3 min 37 s
Label	DGC
Producer(s)	Nirvana and Scott Litt
Chart positions
#1 (US Modern Rock) #3 (US Mainstream Rock) #4 (AUS) #8 (FIN) #13 (BEL)
Nirvana singles chronology
"Pennyroyal Tea" (1994)	"About a Girl" (live) (1994)	"Aneurysm" (1996)

"About a Girl" is a song by the American grunge band, Nirvana. It is the third song on their 1989 debut album, “Bleach”. It is also the first song on the posthumous MTV Unplugged in New York album from which it was a single in 1994. Cover of the Nirvana album Bleach. ... [[ For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ... Nirvana was an American rock band originating from Aberdeen, Washington. ... Bleach was the debut album by Nirvana, released in June 1989 through Sub Pop. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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History

Dating back to at least 1987, "About a Girl" is often considered to be Kurt Cobain's first great pop song. It is also perhaps the closest he ever came to writing a traditional love song. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. ... For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ... Love songs are songs about love, a subset of songs that deal with intimacy. ...

According to the 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad, "About a Girl" was written after Cobain spent an entire afternoon listening to Meet the Beatles! repeatedly. At the time, Cobain was trying to conceal his pop songwriting instincts, and he was reluctant to include the song on “Bleach” for fear of alienating the band's then-exclusively grunge fanbase. "To put a jangly, R.E.M. type of pop song on a grunge record, in that scene, was risky," he admitted in a 1993 Rolling Stone interview. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Michael Azerrad is an American author, journalist and musician. ... Meet the Beatles! was The Beatles first official album in the United States, released on January 20, 1964 by Capitol Records, sister company to British label, Parlophone (both subsidiaries of EMI). ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in early 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and vocalist Michael Stipe. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This article is about the magazine. ...

However, “Bleach”'s producer Jack Endino was excited about the song, and even saw it as a potential single. Years later, Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana's 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind, would cite "About a Girl" as the first hint that there was more to Nirvana than grunge. "Everyone talks about Kurt's love affair with...the whole punk scene, but he was also a huge Beatles fan, and the more time we spent together the more obvious their influence on his songwriting became," Vig told the NME in 2004. Jack Endino is a music producer based in Seattle, USA. Long associated with Seattle label Sub Pop and the grunge movement, Endino worked on seminal albums from bands such as Mudhoney and Soundgarden, but is probably best known for producing the first Nirvana album, Bleach, released in 1989. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Butch Vig Bryan Butch Vig (born August 2, 1957 in Viroqua, Wisconsin) is both a rock musician and record producer. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nevermind is the seminal second studio album from the American rock band Nirvana. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... For other uses, see NME (disambiguation). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"About a Girl" was recorded for Bleach in December 1988 by Endino in Seattle, Washington. It remained one of the few songs from “Bleach” which Cobain continued to perform live until his death in April 1994. The acoustic MTV Unplugged rendition, recorded in 1993 and released posthumously on MTV Unplugged in New York in 1994, is perhaps the most familiar reading of the song. Nickname: The Emerald City Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Coordinates: Country United States State Washington County King County Incorporated December 2 1869 Government  - Mayor Greg Nickels (NP) Area  - City  142. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... A steel string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. ... MTV Unplugged is a series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments. ... MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by the American grunge band, Nirvana. ...

Meaning

According to Chad Channing, Nirvana's drummer around the time of “Bleach”, Cobain didn't have a title for the song when he first brought it into the studio. When asked what it was about, Cobain replied, "It's about a girl." This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The girl in question was Tracy Marander, Cobain's then-girlfriend, with whom he lived at the time. Apparently, Marander had asked Cobain why he had never written a song for her, and Cobain responded with "About a Girl." The song addresses the couple's fractured relationship, caused by Cobain's refusal to get a job, or to share cleaning duties at their apartment (which housed many of his pets). During arguments on the subject, Cobain would occasionally threaten to move into his car, at which point Marander would usually relent.

Strangely, Cobain never told Marander that he had written "About a Girl" for her. In the 1998 Nick Broomfield documentary Kurt and Courtney, Marander revealed that she only found out after reading Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Nick Broomfield with his famous sound boom and half-on headphones. ... Kurt and Courtney is a documentary film about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, made by Nick Broomfield. ...

Other versions

A live, electric version of "About a Girl," recorded in 1990, appears as a B-side on CD versions of the band's 1990 single for the song "Sliver". Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... Sliver is a song by the band Nirvana. ...

Another live electric version, recorded in 1991, appears on the 1994 home video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!. Another live version from Nirvana's show at the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam on November 25, 1991 appears on the re-released version of Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! which was re-released on DVD in 2006. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... front cover Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! is a VHS/Laserdisc home video released by the grunge band Nirvana on November 15, 1994. ...

A solo acoustic demo version appears on the 2004 Nirvana box set, With the Lights Out, and on the 2005 compilation album, Sliver: The Best of the Box. The “Bleach” version was re-released in 2002 on the band's "best-of" compilation, Nirvana. A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is one or more musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related things that are contained in a box. ... With the Lights Out is a box set, containing 3 CDs and 1 DVD, from the American grunge band, Nirvana. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Nirvana is a best-of compilation album from the American grunge band, Nirvana. ...

Single

"About a Girl" was released as MTV Unplugged in New York's only commercial single. Five thousand numbered limited edition copies were sold in Australia, while a standard single was sold in countries across Europe. The following songs appear on the single: This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...

1. "About a Girl" (Cobain)
2. "Something in the Way" (Cobain)

Something In The Way is a song by the American rock band, Nirvana. ...

Chart positions

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Accolades

• Ranked #2 in NME's "Top 20 Nirvana Songs" (2004)
• Ranked #2 in Q's "10 Greatest Nirvana Songs Ever" (2004)

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Covers

"About a Girl" has been covered by the American trip-hop band, Cibo Matto. Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap) is a term coined by British dance magazine Mixmag, to describe DJ Shadow s hip hop instrumentals that (inspired by Organized Konfusions track Releasing Hypnotical Gases) changed-up the beat and pallet mid-cut, giving the listener... Cibo Matto was a New York City-based band formed by Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda in 1994. ...

According to music producer Barrett Jones, Dave Grohl covered "About a Girl" at The Laundry Room Studios. It has yet to be released. David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. ...

Trivia

Cobain was eulogized by Patti Smith in a song called "About a Boy" on her 1995 album, Gone Again. The same title was used for a 1998 novel by the British writer, Nick Hornby. The novel makes several references to Cobain and Nirvana. Patricia Lee (Patti) Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gone Again is the sixth album by American singer-songwriter Patti Smith, and the second solo project since the dissolution of The Patti Smith Group. ... About a boy is a 1998 novel by British writer Nick Hornby. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist and essayist who lives in Highbury, Islington in London. ...

Sample

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References

• About a Girl discography infomation at sliver.it
• About a Girl live unplugged
• Azerrad, Michael. Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Doubleday, New York: 1993, ISBN 0-86369-746-1