Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

 
Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records. Frontman Kurt Cobain sought to make music outside the restrictive confines of the Seattle grunge scene, drawing influence from groups such as the Pixies and their use of loud/quiet song dynamics.
Despite low commercial expectations by the band and its record label, Nevermind became a surprise success in late 1991, largely due to the popularity of its first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jackson's album Dangerous at number one on the Billboard charts. The Recording Industry Association of America has certified the album Diamond (over 10 million copies shipped), and the album has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Nevermind was responsible for bringing alternative rock to a large mainstream audience, and critics subsequently regarded it as one of the best rock albums of all time.

Tracklist:

01 Smells Like Teen Spirit
02 In Bloom
03 Come as You Are
04 Breed
05 Lithium
06 Polly
07 Territorial Pissings
08 Drain You
09 Lounge Act
10 Stay Away
11 On a Plain
12 Something in the Way
13 Endless, Nameless

It’s an awesome mainstream rock record. Its four 45s including “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come As You” Are are exemplary, soaring rock singles and became angst anthems for teens across the world. The quiet/loud schtick that Nirvana made their own was stolen from the Pixies, as Kurt freely admitted, but even Frank Black’s merry crew never managed to hook listeners like the Nevermind singles.
The guitars are all crunched, phased and compressed to within an inch of their six strings and the drum sounds are predictably accountant-tight and brickie-tough. Lyrically, aside from “Polly”, Nevermind rarely goes beyond woe-is-me or the cryptic: witness “On A Plain”’s ‘The black sheep got/blackmailed again/forgot to put/on as a coat.’
But even the occasional nonsense lyric couldn’t hide the beguiling, revelatory side of his writing. The aforementioned “Polly” is about a rapist, while Kurt said “Something In The Way” was about sleeping rough (friends have since denied he ever did).
And there were Kurt’s vocals. By turns haunted and hurting, caged and desperate, it’s his scuffed, torn diary of a voice that you remember after the guitar crunch has gone, ultimately ensuring that Nevermind is a flawed classic, but a classic just the same.

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