"Blew" is the title of a song and EP released by the American grunge band Nirvana.

Song[link]

"Blew" was written in 1988 by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The song was recorded in December 1988 and initially appeared as the first track on Nirvana's 1989 debut album Bleach.

Release[link]

Blew was released in December 1989 on Tupelo Records on 12" vinyl and Compact Disc. The Extended play was originally scheduled to be released to coincide with the beginning of Nirvana's European leg of the Bleach tour, but it was released several months late. In addition to the song "Blew", the release also includes "Love Buzz". This mix of "Love Buzz" is the Bleach version, as opposed to the 7" Sub Pop Singles version. To round off the rest of the maxi-single, two previously-unreleased songs, "Been a Son" and "Stain" were included that stemmed from a 1989 studio session.

Blew was intended to be released to promote an upcoming European tour, but this plan was scrapped, and the maxi-single ended up being released exclusively in the UK shortly after its completion.

As Blew was released only in the UK it was thus difficult to obtain elsewhere. Only 3,000 copies of the maxi-single were pressed on 12" vinyl and CD. Both vinyl and CD counterfeit copies exist, of which the vinyl copies vary in color (the official 12" vinyl was only pressed on black vinyl).

Track listing[link]

All songs written and composed by Kurt Cobain, except where noted. 

• "Blew" and "Love Buzz" were previously released on Bleach.
• "Been a Son" was later released on the "best-of" compilation Nirvana and a different version appears on Incesticide.
• "Stain" was later released on Incesticide.

Charts[link]

Other versions[link]

• A live version performed at the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam, Holland in 1991 was released on the live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah in 1996.
• Video footage the aforementioned 1991 performance in Amsterdam later appeared on the Nirvana DVD re-release of Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! in 2006.
• A live performance of the song, from the 1992 Reading Festival, was released on the Live at Reading CD and DVD release in 2009.
• Another live performance, recorded February 9, 1990 at The Pine Street Theatre in Portland, Oregon, appears, with the rest of the concert, as the last track on the 20th anniversary deluxe reissue of Nirvana's 1989 debut album Bleach in 2009.
• Another live performance is featured on the video Live at the Paramount, released in 2011.

Personnel[link]

Nirvana

• Chad Channing – drums
• Kurt Cobain – guitar, vocals
• Krist Novoselic – bass guitar

Production

• Jack Endino – production for "Blew" and "Love Buzz"
• Steve Fisk – production for "Stain" and "Been a Son"

Covers[link]

• Japanese musician Miyavi has covered the song.
• American Pop-punk band The Ergs! covered the song on their Blue EP.
• Northern Irish Alternative rock band Ash covered the song, releasing it on their Numbskull EP in 1999.
• Istanbul rock band Direc-t's singer Bilge Kosebalaban has covered the song.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Blew EP on Nirvanadiscography.com
• Live Nirvana Companion to Official Releases - Blew EP
• Live Nirvana Sessions History - September 1989

Look up blew, blow, or blown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Blow may refer to:

• Exhalation
• Strike (attack)
• Cocaine

In film and television[link]

• Blow (film), a 2001 American film about drug trafficking
• "Blow" (My Name Is Earl), an episode of My Name is Earl
• Blown, a 2009 American film starring Jim Caviezel and Samuel L. Jackson

In music[link]

• The Blow, a Portland, Oregon music group
• B.l.o.w., a blues-rock band from the UK, active in the mid 1990s.
• Blow (Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album)
• Blow (Heather Nova album)
• Blow (Straitjacket Fits album)
• Blow (Ghinzu album)
• Blew (EP), an EP by Nirvana
• Blow (Lil Wayne mixtape)
• "Blow" (song), by Kesha from Cannibal
• "Blow", a song by Atreyu
• "Blow", song by Rick Ross
• "Blow", song by Tyler the Creator

In other uses[link]

• Blow (drink), a brand of energy drink
• Blow job, a type of oral sex
• Blowing or insufflation, a method of ingesting cocaine
• Blown, an erotic novel by Philip José Farmer

See also[link]

• Blew (surname)
• Blow (surname)
• Blow Job (disambiguation)
• Blow up (disambiguation)
• Blowout (disambiguation)
• Blow by Blow, a 1975 album by Jeff Beck
• Blown save, a baseball term
• Bloo, a character in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Blows Heroin: Regionally, in Chicago, when used in plural form, i.e. Rocks and Blows refers to crack-cocaine (rocks) and heroin (blows).

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Flux Pavilion
Birth name	Joshua Steele
Born	(1989-01-15) January 15, 1989 (age 23) Towcester, UK
Genres	Electronic, Dubstep
Occupations	Producer, DJ
Years active	2008-Present
Labels	Circus
Associated acts	Doctor P, Example, SKisM, Foreign Beggars
Website	facebook.com/fluxpavilion

Joshua Steele, known professionally as Flux Pavilion, is an English dubstep producer and DJ.^[1] He is the co-founder of Circus Records, along with Doctor P, DJ Swan-E and Dyspro.^[2] He is best known for his 2011 single "Bass Cannon", which peaked at number 56 on the UK Singles Chart,^[3] and was placed on the Radio 1 A-List. Along with Doctor P, Flux Pavilion presented the 2011 compilation album Circus One, to which he contributed four tracks. In August 2011 his track "I Can't Stop" was sampled by producer Shama “Sak Pase” Joseph for hip-hop album, Watch the Throne by Jay-Z and Kanye West.^[4] In December 2011, Flux Pavilion was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll, as one of only two independent artists on the longlist.^[5] On 5 March 2012, his track "I Can't Stop" was used in the viral Kony 2012 campaign, and was previously featured in SSX.

Discography[link]

Extended plays[link]

Compilations[link]

• Doctor P and Flux Pavilion - Circus One^[8]

Singles[link]

Other releases[link]

Remixes[link]

As producer[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Flux Pavilion on Facebook
• Flux Pavilion on Myspace

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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.

The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.^[1]

History[link]

The earliest recorded use^{[citation needed]} of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." ^{[2][dubious – discuss]} In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.

It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.^[3][4][5][6]

Use as praise[link]

The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."^{[7][dubious – discuss]}

In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.

See also[link]

• Absentee landlord
• Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• New World Order (conspiracy theory)
• Ruling class
• The Establishment
• Power elite
• Corrections officer
• YTMND

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). Random House Dictionary of American Slang. New York: Random House.