Already the next year they released their first album, Bleach. This album cost a total of 600$ to record, which isn`t much. They then started to tour in the U.S. and later that same year they had their first European concert in Newcastle, England. The following year they released a new single without very much success. By now Nirvana thought they had got an unfair welcome in the industry, and they decided to change record company from Sub-pop records to Geffen records. In 1991 they signed a contract with Geffen records and started to produce their next album which was to be named Nevermind.
September 24th the same year Nevermind was released and debuts as number 144 on the his lists, but after an interview on MTV`s Headbangers Ball and an appearance on NBC`s Saturday Night Live the album climbs right to the top spot with(whit) their hit song Smells Like Teen Spirit
Kurt had never expected to be so popular and did not even like the idea of being a main stream rocker. He hated the commercial part of Nirvana and had several times encouraged the audience to stop buying their records and to stop coming to their concerts. Kurt thought most of the fans were false fans and only liked their hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit. In this period Nirvana mostly played arena rock shows and this wasn`t the way they liked to play. They preferred to play in small clubs where the energy gets more intense and intimate. But because of their bad habit to crush guitars, amps and so, thay had to do the arena rock shows because of the money. Kurt also started to use heavy drugs more often in this period, such as haroin and morphine. At this point Kurt described himself as suicidal.
24th of January 1992, Kurt got married to the former stripper Courtney Love in Waikiki, Hawaii. She is now known for her band Hole and is also soing a god job in the film industry. The People vs Larry Flint, whatever. Six months after they got married they had a child, Frances Bean. When Courtney was pregnant there were big scandal in the press which claimed she was using heroin while she was pregnant with Frances. Courtney, of course, denied all of this, but she did not deny that she was using heroin. She claims she stopped using heroin that instant she got to know she was pregnant.
The other members of Nirvana hoped Kurt would calm down now that he had a wife and kid. This was also the fact, for a while. In this period they recorded a new album, Incesticide.