The lyrics on that recording were largely unfinished, and would only be completed once the band were in Vig’s studio. And even though the recording was terrible, I was super excited.” “But underneath the fuzz, I could hear ‘Hello, Hello,’ melodies and chord structures. “It was so fucking distorted, I could barely hear anything,” Vig later recalled. It was then crudely recorded onto cassette, which was sent to Butch Vig to notify him of this latest addition to the album’s pool. (This process is why it’s the only song on Nevermind in which all three band members are credited as writers.) Eventually, at Novoselic’s suggestion, the song’s pace was reduced, which allowed new drummer Dave Grohl (recently hired to replace Chad Channing) to throw in some “disco flams” inspired by funk drummer Tony Thompson. Introducing it to his bandmates at rehearsal, it was deemed “ridiculous” by bassist Krist Novoselic, who despaired at being made to continuously play this “Louie Louie” rip-off for over an hour. His design for this particular song was far more ambitious than any nihilistic punk diatribe: he wanted to write “the ultimate pop song.” As he composed it, his mind was on the use of dynamics as employed by another influence, the Pixies, in particular their tendency of “being soft and quiet and then loud and hard ,” Kurt would concede. Writing Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
“All in all,” Kurt himself would later confess, “I think we sound like The Knack and The Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.”
“ had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation, but also this vulnerable pop sensibility,” said producer Butch Vig, who’d be drafted in for this album’s sessions. As well as being a champion of the uncompromising punk rock of Wipers and the primal power of Swans, Kurt was also a Beatles obsessive, and always sought to contrast his work’s prevailing darkness with an appreciable edge. Displeased with the oppressive, sludgy sound that had dominated their 1989 debut, Bleach, Kurt wanted to ensure that its follow-up would further expose the expressive moments that their debut harbored, allowing for songs with a stronger, more unabashed sense of melody than before.
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