Talk:Dumb (Nirvana song)

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This article was nominated for deletion, but kept following discussion on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Dumb (song). Mgm|^(talk) 09:36, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Original research

I'm moving this here pending some type of verification. It would be a bad move to allow editors to speculate and engage in original research as to the meaning of songs. Best to just stick to quotes from the artists themselves whenever possible. Serpent-A 09:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

"Dumb" can also be interpreted as being about passing the time wistfully ("The sun is gone, but I have a light") and enjoying the "simple pleasures" in life ("We'll float around, and hang out on clouds"). The song's bridge in particular can be seen as painting a serene picture, with Cobain singing "Skin the sun, fall asleep/Wish away; the soul is cheap" in a nursery rhyme rhythm.

"Dumb" was written over a year before Cobain's addiction to heroin. However, some believe the song was partially inspired by his earliest flirtations with the drug. It has been speculated that the lyric, "My heart is broke, but I have some glue" is a reference to sniffing glue.

Unsourced material

The following is unsourced information:

• Though never released as a single, "Dumb" was picked up by many alternative rock radio stations and became a modest radio hit.

• Like some other In Utero songs, "Dumb" was extensively bootlegged long before the album was released; when Cobain played its opening chords during Nirvana's set at the Reading Festival in August 1992, a large part of the audience started to sing along, prompting Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic to joke, "Power of the bootleg, Kurt!"

• A brief live clip of "Dumb," recorded on November 10, 1993 in Springfield, Massachusetts, appears on the vinyl version of the band's 1996 live compilation album, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah. It features Cobain accidentally repeating the song's second verse instead of going into the bridge, then stopping to apologize to the audience.

While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) ^talk 11:47, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Reference for this??

• "Kurt Cobain wrote "Dumb" in the summer of 1990 after he had begun to follow some of his own poppier instincts.[1] "

Article re-write

I have re-written the article from scratch and all of the information is sourced. The song is significant in the history of Nirvana, perhaps more so than a number of other articles for songs by the band, such as "I Hate Myself and Want to Die", "Sappy" and "Negative Creep".QuintusPetillius (talk) 16:12, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Single Vendor (network) charts

As per guidelines on Wikipedia:Record charts: in the article prose, some charts representing the home country of the artist or composer (this can mean country of origin, country of residence, official nationality or any country where the artist or composer has lived for a substantial part of their lives) or releases with a strong link to the country in question can be included if no other suitable charts can be located.QuintusPetillius (talk) 19:21, 29 June 2013 (UTC)