Big Cheese was a song written by Kurt Cobain during
1989 and was written about the president of Sub Pop records. It was the 12th
track on the album Bleach and the B-Side to the single Love Buzz.
Musically, the song is rather simple. The intro is the
note F pulling off into the note E. The main riff uses power chords of the same
notes and played in similar fashion. The chorus is the power chord F# played
about seven times and then G played twice.
While the song comes across as a kind of
standard-issue anti-authority rant, with Cobain complaining about being sent to
"the office" by the titular cheese, that cheese was in fact a real
person - Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop records. "I was expressing all the
pressures that I felt from him at the time because he was being so judgemental
about what we were recording," Cobain told Michael Azerrad in Come As You
Are.
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