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Nevermind |  | Artist: Nirvana
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 426
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 42 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 24425
UPC: 720642442524
EAN: 0060694922132
ASIN: B000003TA4
Release Date: August 1, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Smells Like Teen Spirit | | • | In Bloom | | • | Come As You Are | | • | Breed | | • | Lithium | | • | Polly | | • | Territorial Pissings | | • | Drain You | | • | Lounge Act | | • | Stay Away | | • | On A Plain | | • | Something In The Way |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of the defining moments of the 1990s, despite happening at the start of the decade. The guitars start jittering, then "BOOMA-ABOOMA-ABOOMA-ABOOM!", the drums kick in and grunge splatters itself all over a generation of MTV viewers. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" will surely always speak to alienated teenagers, while giving them something to thrash around their rooms to, kicking the whole thing off as it means to go on. "Come As You Are" is dark and twisted, while "Lithium" and "In Bloom" show Kurt Cobain's often overlooked sense of humour, and "Stay Away" highlights the best way to shred your vocal chords. It's nigh-impossible not to love this album, and it will remain Nirvana's most affectionately remembered work. It's just a shame that a misplaced sense of "selling out" (stupid term if ever there was one) led to such an internal rejection of "...Teen Spirit". A work of genius, no question. i--Emma Johnston/i
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 VERSE CHORUS VERSE November 18, 2004
Captain Clawfoot
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
All through time there have been bands that have influenced certain groups of people so much that they become voices of a generation. Nirvana is one of these bands. There is no point in any of you old rockers out there trying to deny it. Nirvana didn't do anything new, but what they did do was done in such a way that they made a whole generation of bored teenagers want to start a band and do it for themselves. For Nirvana, it was all about the timing. If i heard Nevermind now i would think "Yup, that is pretty heavy, but at the same time, pretty cool" but when i heard it when i was 14 years old i just thought "That is the most amazing, cool, angry, fingers up to society thing i have ever heard". It was like hearing my mums Beatles records being played with attitude, and this was something i could totally identify with at the time. The first song i ever heard was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and i only heard the chorus first time. It blew me away so i went out and bought the single. Back in these days, buying a single or album was the most exciting thing in the world because you just couldn't wait to hear what you had just bought. I remember rushing home and putting single on. What i heard truly blew me away and i had to play it again about 10 times to take it all in. It was the verses i couldn't understand. I was supposed to be into all things angry and heavy at the time yet i totally loved the quite parts of the song as much as the heavy chorus. For me, and i'll bet for millions of other young teenagers at that time, hearing that one song was enough for me to go and buy every Nirvana record i could find, and every time having that weird sense of anticipation before you could get the record to a record player and finally hear another Nirvana masterpiece. Don't get me wrong, while all of Nevermind is truly classic and pretty much invented "Alternative" music, Nirvana did have some bad songs, and even now i am getting into bands that i might even go as far as saying i like more than Nirvana, but at the time of its release Neverming was an absolute classic, powerful, cool and life changing album. People are forgetting the fun to be had in dicovering an album like this and because its so easy to download music these days, the true experience of dicovering a band is fading very fast.
Brilliant August 26, 2007
Cuban Heel (Liverpool)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
It doesn't matter that this album became popular. It doesn't matter that Cobain moved away from the underground scene by injecting a bit more melody in his songs on 'Nevermind'. It doesn't matter that the ethos of American indie music or the 'grunge' scene didn't start with Nirvana. The fact is that this is an outstanding record. Why did it sell more copies than anything by The Pixies? Because it's better than The Pixies.
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br /Music doesn't always have mass appeal just because it conforms to the lowest common denominator. Sometimes it really is just that good. And you can make the argument that everything is derivative - all music builds upon something that came before it.
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br /The truth is that there isn't a bad track on this album. Beatle-esque harmonies are interwoven with grinding guitars and bouncy little bass loops. The drums drive everything on with frenetic energy. Cobain's voice cracks and howls throughout, bridging the gap between blues and punk. And the lyrics speak to the angst-ridden teenager in us all. Everything just seems to gel perfectly. And when music is this good, all that other nonsense is meaningless. 'Selling out', in this case, is just a euphemism for 'getting better'.
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br /My favourite track is probably 'Lounge Act' because it shimmies along in a vaguely sleezy kind of way. But 'Drain You' has a great opening; 'On a Plain' has these great, breathy vocal harmonies; 'Stay Away' is a proper shriek-along song; and 'Something in the Way' is creepy and uplifting at the same time - no mean feat. I surely don't need to say much about the 4 singles that were lifted from the album, you will have heard them a zillion times already. But what I will say is that if you like those tracks, you'll be amazed at how the record actually gets better after them (ie. on the vinyl copy I owned originally, the b side is actually better than the a side). Which is saying something when you're talking about 4 of the best songs of the early 90s: 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'In Bloom', 'Come As You Are' and 'Lithium'.
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br /Seriously, don't get put off by the opinions of people who want to appear cool by rejecting something just because it was popular, or by pointing out that someone else did something similar before. Quality is quality. Who cares if someone wants to make themselves look clever?
Nirvana - Nevermind February 20, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you don't already have this album in your CD collection, I suggest that you purchase it now, because it's an absolute must-have.brIt may be over a decade since the band was abruptly halted by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain's suicide, and yet this is still one of those albums that keeps selling and keeps selling.brThousands of teens every year get their first taste of Nirvana. More addictive than any narcotic, and there's no horrible come-down. You can just keep listening and keep listening, and the high just gets better and better.brSmells Like Teen Spirit is the band's most famous song, without a doubt. The raw guitar into, the moment where the drums cascade into action and the fuzz peddle is pushed hard to the floor...it's the soundtrack to so many great experiences.brCome As You Are is arguably one of the best songs they ever recorded. With Krist's watery bass into, and the infectious yet simple vocal arragement is truly magic.brBut skip straight to number four if you want something to headbang, jump around, scream your lungs out to! Breed is the epitome of all things loud and amazing.brThen Drain You, Lounge Act and On A Plain are the best of the rest, although it broke my heart to have to choose my favourites. This whole album is astoundingly good, and you should buy it immediately, and play it as loud as your stereo will allow you.
The Anthem Of My Youth October 28, 2003
Pinky Brown (London)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was 17 when this record came out, I'd been to the 1991 Reading Festival - my first festival! - shortly before and heard Teen Spirit for the first time. I was just getting over my year-long baggy phase, I was bored of Blur, fed up of The Farm and couldn't care less about the Charlatans. Even Happy Mondays didn't really float my boat any more. I was a disaffected Doc Martens-wearing suburban girl from Sussex and I was ready to ROCK! After this record, English music just couldn't compete, at least for the next few years. I got into Mudhoney and Pavement and Sebadoh and then on into more and more obscure little bands from Nowheresville, Ohio, like Eggs and New Bad Things who had one EP out, on green vinyl, that you could only get if you made a special trip up to Rough Trade in London, downstairs under the skate shop, rifling through the racks looking for anything with a photocopied cover and a single-word band name. Nevermind was the soundtrack to my friend's 18th birthday, in a scout hall in Portslade, where a flailing arm to Teen Spirit gave me a bloody nose that I wore with pride like a war injury. A guy in a Motorhead t-shirt nearly broke my jaw dancing to Lithium on a Saturday night at the black-painted damp-walled Basement nightclub in Brighton. At Reading Festival 1992 it rained all weekend and me and my friend Viv held on to the front row barrier all day from 2pm, waiting for Nirvana to come on on the Sunday night. Kurt came on in a dress and a wheelchair and the crowd went nuts. We told each other we'd be telling our grandchildren about this moment and displayed the multiple bruising around our ribcages with joy. The opening chords that had the entire dancefloor exploding in flailing arms and spilt plastic glasses of cider, and us falling over and getting up again and being sick later after too much cheap cider and our army parkas smelling of fags and beer, and not realising that this was the absolute moment that you look back on ten years later and think, Jesus, that was IT, that was my youth, dancing with my friends, yelling the words to Smells Like Teen Spirit that nobody ever got right til you were hoarse and coughing and laughing all at the same time. Nevermind was the soundtrack to my life.
Revolutionary February 12, 2005
Hedgeman (Newcastle, England)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
The best thing about Nevermind is the fact it single-handedly destroyed hair metal. Guns 'n' Roses were curtly (no pun intended) removed from their throne as Kings of Rock. Whitesnake and co. found themselves powerless against the raw force that was Nirvana. Teenagers found a reason to listen to music, record shops found a reason to open early, and Weird Al Yankovic found a reason to write another comedy skit. brSmells Like Teen Spirit was the catalyst, a monsterous, unforgettable riff which crushed all in its path. Lithium was the second attack, the simple "dum dum" on the bass drum and pinging ride cymbal giving a feel of "floatiness".brThe more grungy tracks, "Drain You", "Stay Away" and "Breed" keep the Bleach fans happy as well as the people who buy this album for more than SLTS.brNevermind is not technically the greatest album in the world, but its conviction, application and perfect timing make it the timeless legend it is today.
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