About a Girl

~ Recording by Nirvana

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • US1989-08-08
Sub Pop RecordsSP 34
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Tupelo Recording CompanyTUP CD6, TUPCD6
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Tupelo Recording CompanyTUPLP6
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Warner Music Canada (imprint of Warner Music Canada Co.), Sub Pop Records98787-0034-2, SPCD 34
1.3About a Girl2:50NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Tupelo Recording CompanyTUPCD6
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Geffen Records, Sub Pop RecordsGFLD 19291
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop RecordsSP34b
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Tupelo Recording CompanyTUPCD6
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Tupelo Recording CompanyRTD 301.0006.4 28, TUPMC 6
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • JP1992-08-26
Geffen Records, Sub Pop RecordsMVCG-93
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (DADC Austria)NirvanaAlbum
  • GB1992-08-31
Geffen Records, Sub Pop RecordsGED24433, GEFD24433
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (sonopress)NirvanaAlbum
  • DE1992-08-31
Geffen Records, Sub Pop RecordsGED24433, GEFD24433
1.3About a Girl2:50NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Geffen Records, Sub Pop Records424 433-2, GED24433, GEFD24433
1.3About a Girl?:??NirvanaBleach (remaster)NirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop RecordsSP34a
1.3About a Girl2:53NirvanaBleach (Sonopress Pressing)NirvanaAlbum
Geffen RecordsGEF-24433
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Geffen Records, Sub Pop RecordsGEFD-24433
1.3About A Girl?:??NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • JP1996-10-23
Geffen RecordsMVJG-25002
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • DE2002-08-19
Sub Pop Records9878-70034-2, SP34b
1.2About a Girl2:47NirvanaNirvana (international version)NirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • MX2002-10-18
Polydor (British label, see annotation)
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvana (transparent ring on CD, "Made in the EU" on last page of booklet, MADE IN GERMANY BY UNIVERSAL M & L)NirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2002-10-28
Geffen Records, Sub Pop Records493 523-2
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2002-10-28
  • -2002-10-29
  • FR2002
Geffen Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop Records493 523-2
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • US2002-10-29
DGC Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop Records0694935072
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • CA2002-10-29
DGC Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop Records0694935072
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • JP2002-11-02
Geffen Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop RecordsUICY-1140
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
Geffen Records493 5234
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
Geffen Records, Sub Pop Records, Universal Music Argentina S.A. (not for release label use, for copyrights use only)493 523-2
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
Geffen RecordsSSTARCD 6762
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
Geffen Records0694935232
1.2About a Girl?:??NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
Geffen Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop Records493 523-1, 493 590-1(493 523-1)
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • AU2003-01-07
Geffen Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop Records4935232
1.2About a Girl2:52NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
BMG (the former Bertelsmann Music Group, defunct since 2004-08-05; for releases dated 2008 and later, see annotation)SL-114ABC
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop Records
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • JP2006-01-25
Geffen RecordsUICY-6001
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvana (limited edition)NirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • JP2008-11-27
Geffen Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop RecordsUICY-90832
1.3About a Girl2:50NirvanaBleach (limited edition)NirvanaAlbum
  • JP2009-06-09
Sub Pop RecordsWPCR-13269
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (20th anniversary edition)NirvanaAlbum
  • GB2009-11-02
Sub Pop Records5051865614623, SP834
1.3About a Girl2:46NirvanaBleach (20th anniversary deluxe edition)NirvanaAlbum
  • US2009-11-02
Sub Pop Records
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (deluxe)NirvanaAlbum
  • XW2009-11-02
Sub Pop Records
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (20th anniversary edition)NirvanaAlbum
  • US2009-11-03
Sub Pop RecordsSPCD 834
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (limited edition)NirvanaAlbum
  • JP2009-11-25
Sub Pop RecordsWPCR-13726
1.3About a Girl?:??NirvanaBleach (20th anniversary deluxe edition, white)NirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop RecordsSP 834
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (20th Anniversary CD)NirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop Records, Warner Music Australia (AU subsidiary of Warner Music International since 1988)5186561462
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (Reissue on white vinyl)NirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop RecordsSP 034
1.3About a Girl2:46NirvanaBleach (reissue)NirvanaAlbum
  • US2011-11-22
Sub Pop RecordsSP34
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (deluxe edition)NirvanaAlbum
  • XW2013-09-26
  • US2013-09-26
Sub Pop Records[none]
1.3About a Girl (Remastered)2:48NirvanaBleach: Deluxe EditionNirvanaAlbum
  • -2013
Sub Pop Records
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2015-08-28
DGC Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop Records, UMe (imprint of Universal Music Enterprises)00602547314321
1.2About A Girl?:??NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2015-11-13
DGC Records, MTV Unplugged, Sub Pop Records0602547378781
1.2About A Girl?:??NirvanaNirvana (Reissue)NirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2015-11-13
Geffen Records, Sub Pop Records0602547289483
1.3About a Girl2:50NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • US2015-11-20
Sub Pop RecordsSP 34
1.3About a Girl?:??NirvanaBleach (reissue, a lot of the runout text scratched out)NirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop RecordsSP 034
1.3About A Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (2009 re-mastered version)NirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop Records
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (reissue)NirvanaAlbum
Sub Pop RecordsSP 34
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • JP2017-08-08
Octave (Japanese), Sub Pop RecordsOTCD-9001
1.2About a Girl2:47NirvanaNirvanaNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2018-07-18
Geffen Records
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • JP2020-07-22
Sub Pop Records, ULTRA‐VYBESPCD 834, UVPR-30118
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
  • US2023-03-31
Sub Pop RecordsSP1559, SP34RTX
1.2About a Girl2:49NirvanaBest of the BestNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
Universal (plain logo “Universal” used by Universal Music and Universal Pictures)493 523-2
1.1About a Girl2:49NirvanaBirth of Alternative, Volume 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleach (European reissue repress - sonopress)NirvanaAlbum
Geffen Records, Sub Pop RecordsGED24433, GEFD24433
Promotion
1.8About a Girl2:48NirvanaAlternative Distribution Alliance Midline Catalog Sampler Summer ’98Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Alternative Distribution AllianceADA 20027
Bootleg
1.3About a Girl2:48NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Euro StarES 931
1.3About a Girl2:47NirvanaBleachNirvanaAlbum
Matrix011
4.12About a Girl?:??NirvanaHeart Shaped Box, Volume 1NirvanaAlbum + Compilation
1.14About a Girl2:48NirvanaHeart Shaped Box, Volume 1NirvanaAlbum + Compilation
1.14About a Girl?:??NirvanaHeart-Shaped BoxNirvanaAlbum + Compilation
1.16About a Girl2:42NirvanaRare Tracks, Volume INirvanaAlbum + Compilation

Relationships

recording engineer, engineer and mixer:Jack Endino
bass guitar:Chris Novoselic
drums (drum set):Chad Channing
guitar and lead vocals:Kurdt Kobain (lead singer and guitarist for Nirvana)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Sub Pop Records (in 1989)
recorded at:Reciprocal Recordings in Seattle, Washington, United States
part of:Indie 88: Top 500 Indie Rock Songs (number: 199) (order: 199)
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/2SHTKB8YYlawTGIuJ2b2ok [info]
recording of:About a Girl (from 1988-12-24 until 1989-01-24)

Related works

About a Girl

lyricist and composer:Kurdt Kobain (lead singer and guitarist for Nirvana)
publisher:EMI‐Virgin Songs, Inc.
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