Nirvana + Garbage: the Core Relation
Two endpoints. 3 steps. Where would you dig next?
Butch Vig produced Nevermind and plays drums in Garbage.
Follow the route
Nirvana → Nevermind → Butch Vig → Garbage
Keep the detail straight
This is a documented route; other or shorter paths may exist.
Take a side trail
- Butch Vig produced Let Your Dim Light Shine. Source
Three more rabbit holes
Fleetwood Mac and Nirvana share more than a record-store shelf.
Continue through Nevermind, Nirvana.
Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled album and Nirvana’s Nevermind both used Sound City.
Fleetwood Mac → Fleetwood Mac → Sound City → Nevermind → Nirvana
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Nirvana to Pixies in four steps, through the recording desk.
Continue through Nirvana.
Steve Albini recorded In Utero and Surfer Rosa.
Nirvana → In Utero → Steve Albini → Surfer Rosa → Pixies
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That Nirvana Unplugged song has a 1970 Bowie trail.
Continue through Nirvana.
Nirvana performed the title song from David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World.
David Bowie → The Man Who Sold the World → The Man Who Sold the World → Nirvana
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Find a different route
Open Find, choose Nirvana and Garbage and explore the graph. This is one documented route; the finder may offer a shorter one. Follow a person, a record or a place that catches your ear.
Spot a missing credit or a better source? Open the relevant entry and contribute what you can document. A cover, sample, shared city and shared stage mean different things; the source should support the exact relationship.