Big Cheese

Big Cheese is the twelfth song on the album Bleach.

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"Big Cheese" was a song written by Krist Novoselic during 1989 and was written about the president of Sub Pop records.

It was the B-Side to the single Love Buzz and the 12th track on Bleach.

Musically, the song is rather simple. The intro is the note C pulling off into the note B. The main riff uses power chords of the same notes and played in a 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."

Bleach
Blew, Floyd the Barber, About a Girl, School, Love Buzz, Paper Cuts, Negative Creep, Scoff, Swap Meet, Mr. Moustache, Sifting, Big Cheese, Downer