Nevermind

You know when you taste or smell something that takes you back to a certain place & time? That's exactly what this album does to me. I'm a freshman in high school feeling all the feelings & have found my catharsis. Nevermind is hard raw poetry that makes all the sense in a senseless world. I lost myself in the words, angst & heavy guitars. It's a phenomenal album by a phenomenal band. 5 out of 5.

I don't think there is anything significant that I could write about this record that hasn't been already said or written, its value being immense, its songs (all of them) practically immortal classics and the Butch Vig production practically overproducing everything in it. The "commercial" face of Nirvana, but you wouldn't ever want to live in a world without those songs IMHO. Not as punk as Bleach, not as beautifully sick as In Utero, but a true display of power, melody, taste, lyrics and sounds perfectly blended - an unicum, if you will.

It's hard to describe how much this turned the world around back then. The world was still in that metal phase, a phase which (for the most part) I was okay with. I like some of the bands involved there, but a lot were on autopilot, just like back in the 70s with album-oriented rock. And then punk blew up the whole thing. Then this came out and blew everyone out of the water. EVERYONE thought "grunge" was the thing (when grunge was basically a made-up fashion by the press). Yeah, I got this album. And listened to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" endlessly. But other songs on the album kept me coming back. And now, thanks to the new Batman movie, "Something In The Way" became the new thing. But even so "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is still the juggernaut, the song that EVERYONE knows. Imagine being the writer of that kind of song. It's hard to wrap your head around. Just about every song on this album I have gone through a phase with saying it's the second best song on the album and have played a bunch of times (except for the bonus track, which loses its welcome with me after a while). But besides the one track which only slightly bothers me, this definitely a must-have album for me.

I was 13 years old when I experienced this album for the first time in full. A gawky, pale boy, I needed to find my way. Having started at a new school that year, not only was I struggling to make friends (ie. I had close to zero), but all of my former friends were suddenly just that - former friends. My parents were more worried about my grades than my feelings, my sister was living in her own world, and nothing seemed to be going right. It was a dark time. Honestly, I didn’t just feel alone. I was alone. It was at that point in my life where I discovered Nevermind, and boy did it change my world. Every song would run the range of emotions: sadness, anger, even some happiness via sarcastic humor. It’s cliché to say that you feel like an artist “gets” you, but Kurt Cobain really did get it. He got me, he got you, he got all of us. At a time when I needed to be heard, I listened. And it made all the difference.

I have listened to this record so many times over the years, but it's been a long time. Initially, when this came up, I kind of rolled my eyes. Over the years, I've come to consider Bleach and In Utero to be much better Nirvana records. But man this record rules--yeah the production is a little too polished. But there's something there with this band, and it's so clearly resonant 30+ years later why this record took the world by storm. So great to hear so many of these songs in the context of this album again for the first time in a while. Note: "Endless, Nameless" is it's own separate track on the streaming services, which I was not expecting, but I guess that makes sense when this record is presented digitally. That track rips so hard.

Since this is one of those albums that has long ago been placed in the echelons of rock music's greatest hits, I think it's one that people might be too eager to jump to the conclusion that it's overhyped or not deserving of the praise it receives. But of course, that's nonsense. Even if you're tired of hearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' for the billionth time, it's hard to deny that Cobain tapped into something otherworldly with not only that indie and punk rock inspired masterpiece, but with every single track on this album. Putting aside the well known singles (for my money, Lithium is the superior of the four), not only is every song on this album worth listening to, every song on this album is fan-freaking-tastic. Who can forget 'Drain You', it's bizarre 'guitar solo' and a punk-rock yet Beatles-esque catchiness? The haunting closure of 'Something in the Way', or Cobain maximizing how much gravel he can incorporate into his signature screams in 'Territorial Pissings'. There's no denying so many of these songs saw additional life breathed into them due to Nirvana's seminal 'Unplugged' album, but that doesn't make them any less impressive.

Classic grunge album. Pretty much the album that introduced everyone to the Seattle sound on a massive scale. The quiet/LOUD/quiet thing got repetitive though. Also I think it was easy to overlook the actual artistry of the music because it was so plastered on MTV.

I think I love this album more at this point in my life than I have at any other point. The standard for what drums should sound like on a rock album. If these songs weren’t also loud hard rock songs, they could easily all be top 10 pop hits with different production. For all of the things rock music has become since it’s inception, I’m hard pressed to think of a better example of a rock album that’s also incredibly popular in mainstream culture.

I really love this album. So much nostalgia. The first 7 tracks are basically perfect. Drain you and Lounge Act lost my focus a little, but still good songs. I dislike Stay Away, but On a Plain gets me right back into it. Endless, Nameless is trash, but I don't really count it against the album since it wasn't on the original and was a hidden track later.

Bängeri! Nirvana

I probably would have rated it higher if most of the songs weren't played to death on the radio. Plus, Bleach is better. I said what I said.

Kicked off in fine form as I thought to myself "why do I never ever listen to this?" It's a perfect time capsule, and one that is dangerously front-loaded. A very enjoyable meal but lacking in nutrition over the long run. That said, Novoselic's melodic bass really stood out after so long. Your indie grandpa here first heard "Nevermind", in full, over the PA before a Kingmaker gig at the Harlow Square while wild rumors of Freddie Mercury's death spread around the venue. Can't beat your first time. It's strange how, outside of the canonized singalongs, the lyrics are very obscure for such a huge selling record. Can anyone identify which song the following couplet is from? "The black sheep got blackmailed again Forgot to put on the zip code" Bet you all know the next part though! Decent 4

I wondered when this would pop up in this collection, so now the wait is over. Despite all the overblown melodrama and seemingly unwanted attention this album generated for the band--or maybe just Kurt Cobain--it's hard not to simply enjoy this album the same way I did when I first heard it not long after it came out. I'm also glad to have finally seen the videos for their singles, as some of them highlight Cobain's ironic humor really well ("Smells like teen spirit" has its anarchist cheerleaders, while the "Bloom" video is a hilarious parody of Nirvana playing a Top of the Pops type show; "Come as you are" and "Lithium" aren't quite as interesting, video-wise). I think my favorite tracks are still "Lithium" and "Polly", but there are so many others to choose from, too. And kudos to whoever obsessed over what I think is the longest Wikipedia entry for an album in this collection (so far). I immediately flashed to the shrine of flowers and other things that remains outside of the former Cobain/Love residence in Seattle decades after Cobain's suicide; testament to the enduring allure of the tragic-figure-who-passed-before-his-time. I really wanted to give this album five stars, simply for its role in putting Seattle on the music map and for the legacy of the band, but I could really only do that if the album had been half as long (or if the project's editors had decided to only include this one rather than two other Nirvana albums as well). The first side of the album is so strong--as different as it is to pre-Nevermind Nirvana--but then the second side from "Drain you" onwards creeps by in a much less elevated place, sadly (except "Something in the way"). Nothing too horrible, of course (although the hidden track "Endless, nameless" isn't worth the long wait after "Something in the way"), but a good reminder of how hard it is to produce a complete album from start to finish. Not that insta-fans worldwide were complaining, of course.

yeah i mean... what is there to say lol this is just really really good. just still holds up. feel all my old teenage wounds and hurts and rage and messiness rising up in me again listening to this. so much painnnnnn. weirdly specific memory of some girl in the year below me at school singing lithium in the girls' bathroom lol. horrifically that would have been TWENTY YEARS AGO. i wonder where she is now. gonna give it 4 just because these days it's not really the kind of thing i'd listen to regularly, like i feel there are only really really specific moments where i need this kind of music, but i feel like i really mean 4.5.

local woman bravely announces that she likes this album

Not skipless due to Endless, nameless but still a classic

Quite the album to start on, while I prefer In Utero, there is a reason this album is so well regarded. Such an angsty, aggressive and dark album, alongside strong hooks, an incredible backing band and Kurt Cobain's iconic vocals. It was nice to revisit, though my thoughts on it hadn't really changed, really great album, though it lulls a smidge in the middle. 4/5

Insanely catchy. Half the album’s already classics that play on every rock station, which I didn’t know, never having gotten into Nirvana. I thought that maybe they’d had a series of albums that all had a hit- nope. This could be a greatest hits album with how stuffed full of classics it is.

If this album was 10 songs long I’d give it 5 stars but the last 3 let it down though I’m sure most die hard nirvana fans would disagree.

might be overrated but the impact it had is undeniably huge

Definitely some bangers on here that will always get me rocking out. I thought this album was just going to have 2-3 hits, but it's probably 6-7 which impressed me. However, the last couple songs leave a lot to be desired. Endless, Nameless is a good exhibit of what I don't like about grunge. Drums are awesome in it though. The last two songs were so bad that I almost went to rate this a 3, but I went back and listened to a couple other songs back and realized that wouldn't be fair.

Truly one of the albums of all time Everyone is here from the batman song to the single most recognisable drum fill of all time I know half these songs from drums and love all of the drums in the album this shit slaps

Do you like layers and layers of guitars, because I have More Than a Feeling that this record has enough multitracked guitars to make Tom Scholz of Boston blush.

Heard Before? Duh. Notes: - i had forgotten that all the solos are just the verse and/or chorus melody. it's cute. - clean verses / distorted choruses formula works every time. - nice use of prechoruses and the occasional bridge. - crunchy, bright, clean production was perfectly suited to the cultural moment, and i think it was an innovation that the anerican underground sorely needed. - i was too weird for this normie music at the time, so these songs don't really mean anything to me, but i can dig their power and simplicity. - this doesn't relate to the album per se, but i especially appreciate and admire Kurt as a champion of the underground. without him, hardly any of us would be listening to Daniel Johnston, and i certainly would never have met Wesley Willis, which was one of the defining moments of my life. Verdict: The music I loved on the 90s might still have been made without this epoch defining mainstream moment, but it might not have found its way to me in small town prairie Canada. Thanks for the alterna-boom, Kurt. It was good while it lasted. Listen Again? Worth a revisit this time but I can't see a reason to deliberately hear it again.

OK, I know I’m probably going to get some pushback for not giving this album five stars along with a glowing review, but the truth is I’ve been hesitant about reviewing this record for over a year. I kept putting it off, and now that the generator finally pulled it, here we are. I’ll start by acknowledging that this album is absolutely influential. It made its mark on music history, and I’ll always give it full credit for its impact on rock music. This album practically changed the direction of rock overnight, by killing off glam and hair metal and bringing grunge and heavy alternative into the mainstream. But with all that being said, I’m personally just sick of these songs. Unless you were around at the time and actually living through the culture, it’s hard to explain. This was an era before Spotify and Apple Music, when you couldn’t drown yourself in endless new music. You were stuck with whatever the radio or MTV gave you, or whatever you could afford on cassette, CD, or vinyl. So not only did I listen to this album from start to finish countless times, but it was also shoved down our throats constantly through the radio and MTV. Now we’re in a new era where this album has a second life. It’s still massively popular, and the younger crowd is rediscovering it as they dig backward to understand the roots of the bands they love today. If you’re part of that younger generation, by all means, enjoy this album and get everything you can out of it. But for me, no hard feelings. I’ve just heard this entire album a few times too many, and it no longer has the novelty it once did.

Sure, it’s a classic and it kicked off an entirely new genre. But, I never really connected to it like most people seemed to.

Many amusing memories of when this was big and I was playing in a very much not grunge band, basically a middling Camper Van Beethoven wannabe band, practically living out of a van and not letting our lack of popularity stop us from touring the country. Playing a show at American University to a handful of cafeteria workers on break because Nirvana was playing across town at a place far too small for how big they had gotten so fast and even the students who booked us went to their show instead, unapologetically, I might add...and checking in to a motel outside of Cincinnati, can't remember where we were coming from but to stay awake for the all night drive we split the ice cream generously doused with acid a fan had given us and having a quasi religious experience transfixed by the Come As You Are video playing on the lobby TV. Not technically related, but felt like a continuation of the same series of events, maybe 12-15 hours later we opened for the great - and still active - Southern Culture On The Skids at a combo laundromat/bar, where we were paid in washing machine tokens and a warm case of Coors Silver Bullet. Don't recall where we were playing next but do recall us drinking the warm Coors around a campfire at the trailer park we found in the middle of the night, doing our favorite nighttime campsite activity: watching the fire channel, as our roadie Buckles described it. I haven't heard this record in a long time and was sorry to be a bit disappointed by it. The singles still land but the rest is either repetitive or just bad. Meanwhile, my tween daughter and her friends wear Nirvana shirts believing it's a lifestyle brand. Thinking back in what I was doing when they were big, I guess they were more of a lifestyle brand for us, too.

This album is filled with most of the songs hat I know by Nirvana, but I have never listened to his album fully. A lot of the sons are really good with Kurt singing and Dave destroying the drums in a good way. Not sure the name of the guitarist but he is also really good on a lot of the songs. But then there are a handful of songs that are pretty boring. Whenever he rhymes Plane with Complain always makes me laugh with how ridiculous it is. Also not the biggest fan of when Kurt screams. The last song gave me the heebee-jeebees for some reason. All around very solid album with a lot of hits. High 3

Yes, yes. The music that shaped a generation, blah blah. Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Ok obviously I love this album. In my top, like, fifty maybe? It's so pop yet so fucked up sounding plus it has Kurt Cobain, who obviously is great and he can write a hook for sure, no kidding. We basically have Charlie xcx instead of this, which I'm honestly fine with, think it's a compliment to both artists. Great cover art. I mean color scheme, composition, very anticap, great lettering, great kerning, great baby. I might like in utero better, is that crazy? Relistening, I honestly forgot how good the basslines are on this thing, way better than they need to be considering the lyricism and popstructured grunge. Standouts: Smells like teen spirit, come as you are, Lithium, territorial Pissings, Something in the way. Just some live commentary: Smells like teen spirt. Iconic. Love imagining different stupid dumb lyrics. All time great air guitar song. Come as you are, great bassline. Lithium is better though, plus my favorite lyrics on the album and you can really hear Kurt's voice. Yeah pollys lyrics are fucked up for sure. I want Tropical Fuck Storm to cover this @tropicalfuckstorm Territorial pissings, great deep cut, I feel underrated. Sounds like FIDLA R or wavves, more proof Kurt can write good hook. I like when his voice cracks, very hendrixesque overall. Something in the way, very atmospheric. Sounds like Campdogzz, kinda sad funny lyrics. I would play endless, nameless to someone I wanted to dislike Nirvana, unless they're coming from a heavy rock background, and then i might just play this first.

The first of the album is fun, but then it kind of slips away. Not really my thing, I guess.

Still think this is subpar. Lithium and come as you are are good. Screw the rest.

Many years ago my best friend in college and I were sitting around with guitars - and drinks, as will become obvious - and we wanted to write a gloom or death metal song. We came up with a stupid riff starting on F# that we kept repeating with lyrics that began: "in the depths of hell I'll kill you....the serpent sleeps tonight." It was good, I'm telling you. Literally 2 months later on the radio I hear the song "Come As You Are" by some new band. It is LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME RIFF. Phone calls are made, lawsuits are discussed, then acceptance sets in that we blew it and further realization hits us that we were just two drunk kids in a shoddy apartment. All of the above is 100% true. Not for nothing and not even relevant to the story: I never liked Nirvana and still don't - almost aggressively-so. I tried, I really did. "Hey - some of my best friends are Nirvana fans." Hell even my music production mentor is a diehard fan and I love the guy but man I do not like that band. This band. At all. What's more annoying and likely irrelevant to the actual music is that they're constantly named as one of the bands that "speaks for my generation [X]" which is total horseshit. If I/you weigh in hype (you shouldn't) as a factor this might be my most hated musical act (as I eagerly step on Lou Reed's grave) of all-time. ...Hmm... you know, great drumming, though - whatever happened to that kid. I'll say that at least this album is better than the horrific unplugged album, JFC that's terrible. Or In Utero jeeeeeezussssss kill me (no wait that's his wife's equally horrible song god am i done with that garbage yet) quickly. Ok I thought about giving this a generous 2 stars just because they must have done something right and occasionally you can polish a turd (some of the singles I admit are not half-bad) but after around track 5 it is utter trash and it took a long time today before I could finish this. This loud-soft-loud theme was always annoying or garbage-y at worst (looking at you Pixies, jesus h christ). Plus Cobain really was an asshole in every interview. It was the 90s, you just *had* to be "anti-cool" - I'm so glad that shit is done with as I tried to avoid it whenever I could. Fine - like what you want obviously but don't force this noisy shit on me or attribute it as something that it wasn't. ...oh well, whatever. Never mind indeed. (also Kurt's vocals sucked ginormous ass) 2/10 1 star.

Easiest review of my life. Sucks that one of the best albums I'll listen to for all of 1001 comes at #3. I'm so happy! New favorites on relisten: Drain You, Territorial Pissings, literally everything tbh. Unreal. RIP Kurt.

BEFORE: This should be pretty straightforward. One of my favourite albums of all time. Bought it on cassette when it came out and thrashed it. Have owned it in some format and listened at least semi-regularly ever since. Good excuse to listen to it again. AFTER: Perfect album. No wasted time. I even love Endless, Nameless. HIGHLIGHTS: Everything, but special shout-out to Side 2 which doesn't get the same attention. Territorial Pissings, Drain You, Lounge Act and On A Plain are all incredible tracks. LOWLIGHTS: Nope. VERDICT: An easy, easy 5 stars.

I mean, it's a classic and a sound defying record for it's decade and then some. Of course.

Got this album on my 20th birthday. (Thank you, Jeppe) They exploded just after that, so I couldnt see them on a small stage in copenhagen as planned.

lounge act is my favorite

What more can I say that hasn’t already been said? Revolutionary record and one that will live forever.

One of my favorites since I was a kid

Still an amazing album. TBH though- in the 90’s I was much more into Pearl Jam than Nirvana.

I mean it is hard to find fault with this album… maybe it is too short and not loud enough?

Wow. What an album. Genre defining. Just amazing songs. Absolutely love this one. Everyone should listen to it.

Oh man, oh man, oh man. Nirvana were a forced unto music that forever changed the grunge scene. Kurt Cobain (RIP) was a tortured, trouble and beautiful artist. Talk to your Aunty Clarius, she’s somewhat an expert, This album kicked off a movement, and I say let it stomp down the door. The drums, the melody’s the angst. Play it loud little man, lift your horns and bang that head till your neck aches.

legendary pull

In my opinion the album that changed the music world the most. An amazing record, going from one highlight to the next. The second half may not have any hits anymore, but still has amazing songs. 5/5

Finally, an album that TRUELY deserves to be on here! Feels like I haven't gotten an album like this in years. Generator, more like this please!

Listened to this album about a thousand times never a bad listen.. favorite track is come as you are.

Remains the peak of its genre.

It's a classic

We learned long ago that we need not understand the lyrics to get the groove. Rock endures, and there's not a mediocre song on the album. 5/5

I remember well when the album arrived on the market and within a short time everybody knew Nirvana. The music was new, fresh and great. Now, 25 years later it is still a great album, it is still enjoyabel to listen to and it is still great.

Arh idag kan jeg holde album fri, for her er en 5er alle dage. Men hov. Nu køre albummet alligevel igen!

Jeg skylder det album hele min musikalske identitet

First impression: I already knew I was giving this 5 stars before I even pressed play. This album was part of the soundtrack to my early high school years. I’m not even sure if it’s my favourite album they’ve released, but it’s such a classic that it absolutely deserves this rating. I will admit I probably overplayed it back then, so revisiting it this time around (probably for the hundredth time) didn’t have quite the same magic as it did on that first listen. Because of that, this rating is really honouring that initial experience and the album’s role as one of my gateways into rock music. Favourite track: (this was so hard for me to choose) In Bloom One sentence: Kurt’s vocals blessed my ears once more. May he rest in peace. Will I revisit? Yes

A pop music inflection point. The dawn of popular grunge (sorry Neil Young, sorry Kinks).

Another classic. Has the super well known bangers of course but some slept on tracks in here as well

While Nevermind may not stick out as much by the standards of today, but it's hard to describe how transfixing it was when it came out. Grunge was knocking on the door of the mainstream, and Nirvana kicked it completely down with their sophomore record. The punk infused riffs, dangerously catchy hooks, and Cobain's vocals all combined to make something the public didn't know they needed (myself included). While the album could use some editing and maybe drop the outro and end on Something's in the Way, it's hard to ding it too much. Nevermind inspired countless teens to pick up a guitar and form bands, gave many more a once in a generation folk hero in Kurt Cobain, and gave the middle finger to pop culture norms like a great album should. You don't have to like them, but Nevermind's impact isn't up for discussion.

Greatest album of the nineties? Probably

Tough decision between something ahead of its time, flaws and all, vs a masterpiece for the ages. In the end I gave the boys the benefit of the doubt. Something in the Way tipped me over the edge.

incredible. cmon. wow. shocking i hadn’t already listened to this album fully

6 stars out of 5

Sooo many banger - can't complain. Solid album. A classic.

Incredible album. Still love it as much as when I first heard it

Discazo pero quemadisimo ya, lo escuché una banda de veces lpm

True masterpiece

generacional, a pesar de que Nirvana no es santo de mi devoción 5

This is a seminal album of the grunge movement. Like it or not, Nirvana’s Nevermind was the moment, even before all of the drama with Kurt Cobain. And for those that hate Nirvana (honestly, how and why???!!???), you wouldn’t have gotten the Foo Fighters without this album. 5⭐️

Not a bad song on here. This album/band was a huge part of my youth, and Kurt Cobain turned me on to a lot of other bands. I’m preferential to In Utero, but this album is all killer, no filler.

one of the greatest albums of all time, i love this album with all my heart. when i heard that the irritating distortion at the end of endless, nameless is surprisingly a broken guitar, i knew kurt cobain wasn't just taking a guitar and flinging it on the ground: he was being himself, the messy yet loving seattle grunge rock lead singer-songwriter that we all know. fav tracks are come as you are, drain you, lithium, bleed etc.

Generation defining with iconic tracks. Their success is mostly owed to this album. It's not my ultimate favourite from Nirvana, but a top album no less and certainly deserves a 5.

Classic album, an easy favorite

I’ve listened to this one many times. 🤘🏻

Straight killer, no filler. 10/10

Everything that I can actually say is that Nirvana is my favourite band. Nevermind is a 10/10 but I like more Incesticide at this moment. Still ‘Drain’ you is my favourite.

Classic then. A classic now

This album was the soundtrack of my childhood.

Ground breaking grunge album that continues to stir the spirit.

Treffer ikke like godt som når jeg var kid, men tenåring-Kjetil hadde blitt bisk hvis jeg gir noe annet enn 5.

Høydepunktene er såpass gedigne at de forglemmelige låtene ikke klarer å trekke plata ned fra femmeren.

Easy five stars. So many hits on one album

Is Kurt Cobain overrated? Yeah, probably. Is this album somehow underrated now? Also probably.

This album put guitars in so many kids' hands. Mine included.

4.5/5

So honestly this deluxe version of this album on YT music is like worse. The original album and length is perfect, the rest of this feels like it's just being milked, like you can almost here it in his voice in the performances. Interesting. That said ya this is an all timer for so many reasons. I think most of all just how honest it is. Such a pure expression of pain and love.

When to listen: after school in your humid attic with slanted ceilings after sneaking weed into the house. A no skips album, respect.

I forgot how many hits are on this album. Something in the way. Lithium. And the ENDING. My god. An absolute classic. Not overrated, extremely rated.

As an vinyl I own, I put this record on for a fresh listen. Nirvana is my all time favorite group (so I may be a bit biased towards them), however I had always considered their studio recorded albums a bit weak vs. their tracks standing on their own. With that in mind, I'm glad I listened to this album again (with intention) before just giving it a 4, as it helped place me in the mindset of where society was at at the time; you had twenty and thirty-somethings being fed a line of bullshit for the past decade-plus - drugs are bad and the people who are addicted to them are worse and need to be locked away forever, the economy is great and no one should have to pay taxes so long as you are rich and white, satanic rituals are going on nonstop in the seedy underbelly of most of america (without a shred of actual evidence), just follow the rules and pull up those bootstraps and you too will be wildly successful, etc. While most gen xers were able to see through this bullshit, their boomer parents took everything they heard as established fact, and it left a whole generation of cynical minded individuals like a powder keg ready to blow - Nevermind, Nirvana, and the grunge revolution was the spark needed to set off that explosion Nevermind is an album not afraid to be loud or crude, not afraid to break open festering wounds caused by mental health failures of the prior 15 years, not afraid to poke fun at the holy rollers and religious right that seemed to be taking over most of America. It allows the pent up rage of Gen x to be unleashed, and did so with some very catchy, beautifully written music. I'm glad I gave Nevermind a fresh listen, as I see (and hear) parallels of the early 90s popping up again today. This album gives me hope that it will only be a matter of time before rage boils over again and power is taken back by young adults

No-one is giving this anything other than 5 are they!?

This was actually a pretty big one for me. Wore this record out. LSD and strobe lights were involved. 5

I mean cmon it’s Nevermind I’m racking my brain and I can’t think of a single 5 song run on any album that’s as good as the first five tracks on Nevermind. Smells Like Teen Spirit’s one of the most popular rock songs ever made for good reason, and I don’t think I can name ten lead singles on any album I like more. I love how it transitions to In Bloom, which has a completely different, slower sound while still having so much energy. Come As You Are has one of my favorite guitar solos and man that guitar/bass line is just awesome. Lithium’s cool just because how much it focuses on vocals over the rest of the songs before it on the album, and again is full of great transitions between the chiller and more grungey parts of the songs. Cobain’s vocals are great as expected, with some really fascinating lyrics (especially looking back knowing about his impending suicide in a few short years). Instrumentation from Novoselic and Grohl is stellar The rest of the album (ok maybe except Territorial Pissing) is good too, though it’s just so hilariously frontloaded that the back half does feel a bit slow at times, but I absolutely would not call it bad music Pretty easy to see why this is an absolutely generational album; in fact I’d make the argument as an album it’s more iconic than anything not put out by the Beatles. It has its peaks and valleys but very few works eclipse what Nirvana’s able to do here

For a long time I sort of dismissed Nirvana, never really "got" them and was fed up of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit. So it goes without saying I'd never listened to this album in full, even though it is one of the most famous rock albums with the iconic, instantly recognisable cover. I have to say this album thoroughly surprised and impressed me. The first 5 songs contain 4 of their biggest hits which are still very good regardless of being heard a lot. The rest of the record really kicked things into gear and was a lot heavier than I expected, both musically and lyrically. "Breed" and "Territorial Pissings" are straight up bangers and brought an energy I didn't quite expect. The same goes for "Lounge Act" and "Stay Away" another two favourites of mine. Couple that with the slower "Polly" and haunting "Something In The Way", this is a complete record start to finish.

Reminds me of being 7 years old and listening to this on cassette. The nostalgia hits HARD. In Bloom will forever be stamped on my heart. Not a bad track in the whole album.

I mean what can be said about it that hasn’t already been said? Kurt has done great pop sensibilities that they turned into a grunge album. They’re the most punk of the big four and it shows - the songs aren’t complicated and that lends to their popularity. It isn’t my favorite Nirvana album (In Utero) and it is a very front loaded album but it’s a classic and helped change the musical landscape in the 90s.

Like some Beatles records on the list, I went in thinking I’d be iconoclastic and give it a 4, only to be blown away all over again. I’m young enough that even though I was aware of Kurt Cobain’s death, it didn’t feel like something that happened to me personally. Perhaps that’s a way to define your micro-generation: tell me about Kurt Cobain. Anyway, by the time I was taking music more seriously Nirvana and their importance were simply assumed. That kind of annoyed me, so even though I knew all the songs, I think the only album I actually owned was Unplugged. Then I went back through it all again in the streaming era, but it never seemed to have the impact it was supposed to. Hearing it in the context of this project changed that. I feel like I can finally hear what an explosive impact this had when it came out… how it suddenly reorganized the whole pop music universe around itself. Don’t have the energy at this moment to try to explain WHY that was, but grateful to finally feel like I got it.

This album probably introduced me to grunge and alt-rock as a genre growing up and I can probably find traces of its influence in a lot of stuff I listen to today. The mega hits have a musical restraint along with a cleanly produced mix that made hooks that burns into your brain. The back half of the album was more unknown to me and drifts more into punk and slower tracks but I think it all comes together by the end minus Endless, Nameless which has its own energy entirely. Between how influential the songs are and the sense of that tampered emotional rage as a young adult I think this album hits the mark dead on.

It's a bit front heavy. It's probably overrated. But it is influential probably in the same way as sex pispols were 15 years earlier. It's not a great album but very good 9/10

Not a lot to add to the other five star reviews to be honest; an absolute classic.

Lot of feels wired up with this one. Time travel like few other albums I can think of. I thought it was a lock at a 5 when it popped up but I wavered a bit. Starts very strong but didn't hold up quite as well as I expected.

It’s not as good as In Utero but what it is is still an easy five.

Not too may albums that put other grunge acts on the map still hold up. Thats just not the case with Nevermind.

Яростный бой за ничто. Я знаю каждую песню из этого альбома, большинство человечество точно знают половину даже если вообще не слушают музыку. Этот релиз - голос поколения, а Курт - кумир до сих пор сотен миллионов человек. Переслушать этот альбом  всегда ностальгия по первому прослушиванию - то чувство незабываемо. Smells like teen spirit - песня которую знает абсолютно каждый даже спустя 35 лет после релиза, несмотря на это факт на мой взгляд на альбоме есть гораздо сильней композиции. Переданное настроение очень четкое и яркое, хотя в точности сказать, что именно сложно: то ли ярость и понимание ее бесцельности, толи внутренний бунт, саботаж и отрицания всего вокруг. Все описания которые возникают в голове крутятся около чего-то одного - для это непринятие. Весь альбом пропитан отвержением ко всему. Этот альбом получает безоговорочные 10/10, пусть я хотел поставить меньше чисто из-за личных вкусов, но просто не смог!

I'm the one who likes all their pretty songs, I like to sing along, but, tbh, I don't really know what it all means. The album doesn't hold back, starting with three iconic songs in a row, opening with its biggest single, before diving into the grittier, deeper cut "Breed." The album manages to mix, with expertise, more accessible tracks (the radio-friendly unit shifters) with the more aggressive and toothy tracks like "Breed," and "Territorial Pissings." Even if some tracks do get too heavy for some the choruses all have a clear vocal hook to latch onto, like a lifering. There isn't really a low point in the album. The closest would be Polly with softer and more introspective sound. I really love the dynamics in these tracks. They verses are often bass and light, clear guitar, moving into a slightly heavier pre-chorus and reaching a wall of sound for the chorus, only to fall back to the lighter instrumentation. That combination of clean guitar and chorus effect is immediately identifiable. With its gritty riffs, dark, strained vocals, and guitar anti-solos, this album just oozes character. The album completely captures the youth frustration of waiting for the impending beanie baby craze to start. Although I think I prefer In Utero, Nevermind is still an undeniable juggernaut and, unlike some of my teenage music taste, still stands the test of time. (Also a complete side note. Short scale offsets are extremely cool.) 5/5

the first authentic hit punk rock group. They started it all.

Obviously an all timer.

Heard it a million times now and it never gets old

My 17 year old self didn’t like this music because I couldn’t understand the words; I still don’t, but I appreciate the sentiment. 4.5

I see Courtney’s vision these guys were cooking.

Du easy listening qui buche que l'criss. La prod explosive a sûrement contribué au succès fou de cet album mais overall j'aimerais que ce soit un peu plus chaleureux/moins métallique parce que la grande majorité des tounes sont toutes incroyables. In Utero est mieux produit mais je vais toujours préférer le songwriting de Nevermind. 4.75 étoiles

One of my favourite albums of all time. Almost every song could have been a single, and I love them all. The production is really clean, and the energy is great. Even the album cover is epic. Favourites: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Something In The Way, Lithium, Come As You Are, In Bloom.

A perfect album. Grunge was one of the last great movements to come out rock and roll and Nirvana was the most talented of the bunch. Heavy punk and '70s rock and roll influences.

Smell Like Teen Spirit is overrated. Not that it's bad, but damn the rest is so much better.

Nostalgia definitely contributed to this 5 star rating, but the album still rips. The first 5 songs are all classics in their own right, each one bringing a unique tone to the album. Endless, Nameless is probably the only real weak spot and even that has its place.

Album 215. Nevermind (https://open.spotify.com/album/2UJcKiJxNryhL050F5Z1Fk?si=TgV9x8FjQXu-Xan7nGUSng) — Nirvana (1991) Well...I don't want to give it a highest rate. But actually I can't. Unfortunately it's too good. I'm fucking liked ten out of thirteen songs and still trying to be snooty — goated. I definitely don't like this album as much as I like most of 5 star albums, but it's still... 5/5 Liked: — Smells Like Teen Spirit — Come As You Are — Breed — Lithium — Territorial Pissings — Drain You — Lounge Act — Stay Away — On A Plain — Something In The Way

Perfect album, no notes

Absolute classic from the godfathers of grunge

love it

classic, generacional os hits sao MUITO BONS

10 stars!!

*93 Det er simpelt, det er råt, og det føles bare helt rigtigt.

Nirvana har haft en meget særlig plads i mit hjerte siden jeg som ganske ung fik “MTV unplugged on New York” på CD. Nevermind er banger på banger og jeg vender tilbage til det album igen og igen. De største 5 stjerner på listen indtil videre *****

lyden af Smells like teen spirit, der smadrer ud af højtalerne, sveden der drypper, bar kas', kroppen spændt og klar til at hoppe ind i moshpit'en - Nirvana live er helt klart i top 10 over musikalske oplevelser jeg gerne ville have oplevet. Der er SÅ meget energi her. Næsten lidt synd, et det kun var alle de nedern drenge fra Engdalsskolen med deres doc martins og skovmandsskjorter der hørte det, mens vi andre seje drenge fra Gjellerupskolen hørte Wu-tang. Tror faktisk aldrig, jeg har hørt Nevermind i sin helhed før. Super råt, beskidt og god energi. Kan nok bedre lide de mere punkede indslag end de grungede, og selvom der generelt er et højt niveau hele vejen igennem, så bliver numrene 8-11 alligvel lidt kedelige. Og så er spørgsmålet jo så, hvor meget de tre hits og albummets generelle betydning kan kompensere for. Et lille bitte femtal herfra.

Oh, I’ll mind.

Is it overplayed? Yes. Is it iconic? Also yes.

Nothing I could say about this album that hasn’t been said before. Oh well, whatever, Nevermind

крутой

Still hits all the high notes.

Fantastic 90s Grunge album with havy distortion and amazing sound

I fffuckiing loooveee nirvanaaa urgfhghghghghg some of these songs don‘t get recognised enough for it being such a popular album. Gave me a boner.

Obviously a classic.

Perfect album

An all timer. Nothing to say that hasn't been said.

Oh, boy, I lived this album. I was a metalhead at the time, though even I can admit that hair metal was getting watered down with paper imitations of the best examples of the genre. If there’s one thing businesspeople know how to do, it’s ruin a good thing by running it into the ground. It got to the point that as long as you had long hair and sang about love, you got a record deal and a video in heavy rotation on MTV. Then, here comes Smells Like Teen Spirit, and I'll admit, even I was like, "What is this?!?!" It was awesome and signaled the death of hair metal because the record industry had a new genre to run into the ground, grunge. I hate that word. Nirvana does not sound like Soundgarden, who doesn't sound like Pearl Jam, who doesn't sound like Alice In Chains, yet they're all labeled as grunge. It's dumb. They are all from Seattle, and that's about the only common ground. Well, that and most of them thought hair metal was goofy. The 80s were about greed, drugs, and fun. The 90s were different, though the drugs continued and would eventually rob us of several geniuses. The 90s were about looking inward and looking at the world around you. It wasn’t a party every day in the lives of those bands or most of America; it was about survival. I was a dumb kid and tried to hate "grunge," even though I actually loved it. I stayed true to hair metal at my own expense. It took me years to appreciate bands like Jane's Addiction, Rage Against the Machine, and Tool. Now they're three of my favorite bands. But I bought all the "grunge" albums, including Nirvana's Nevermind. I thought they showed up out of nowhere, not realizing this was actually their second album, and their previous album, Bleach, kind of broke them. Nevermind just exploded them to the masses. Kurt Cobain became a god, and then it was his worship that ended up destroying him, I think. It's a shame. I just wonder what Nirvana would have sounded like today? Were they destined to explode anyway? What about the Foo Fighters? It makes you think. Track 1 is Smells Like Teen Spirit. This is the song of a generation. It's angry, but melodic, heavy, but quiet. It totally deconstructed what rock and roll was at the time. Deconstructed rock and then built it up into a heavy Stooges-like anxiety attack. Except, at that time, I didn’t know who the Stooges were, unless you were talking about the Three Stooges. The guitar sounds so quiet until Dave Grohl comes in and they get LOUD. Then we get about five guitars layered on top of each other, and then the soft, quiet, soft, quiet thing begins. It's actually become kind of a cliche now, but at the time, hair metal didn't sound like this. These guitars weren't flashy and nimble. Cobain's guitars were strangled and bludgeoned. Just noise that happened to sound like music. Then his solo is nothing compared to a Van Halen song, but it served the song and what Nirvana wanted to create. The song is still powerful and still gives me chills. It will be played and revered 100 years from now. Track 2 is In Bloom, and again, I'm a riff guy. The lyrics mean nothing to me, and Cobain's lyrics really meant nothing to me because I couldn’t understand them half the time. That main riff is so good. We're kind of in a soft, loud mode here too, but the soft has a fat riff, and the loud is really just noise. And yet, there are harmonies, and you could see the Beatles singing this song if it were 1966. Cobain loved the Beatles, and it shows on Nevermind. The lyrics are about a tough guy Nirvana fan who doesn't realize the band would likely think he's a dork and probably be against everything he believes in. In a way, Cobain spoke this into existence. He was horrified at frat boys rocking out to his songs, as those kinds of guys beat him up as a kid. Track 3 is Come As You Are. It's not one of my favorites. I think it's one of the best vocals by Cobain, though. I do like Cobain as a lyricist. He sometimes makes up words to fit what he means. He writes in a bit of a cryptic style, but leaves enough breadcrumbs for us to find the path to his meaning, or at least I think he does. Track 4 is Breed, and it starts as straight fire. I love that fuzzy riff from both the guitar and bass. Later, the guitar is less fuzzy and just screeching along to the verses. This song is great, one of my favorites on the album. The solo sounds like Cobain is in a literal struggle with his guitar. It's amazing how much power these three men can generate in about 3 minutes Track 5 is Lithium, which I just thought was about batteries. It was later that I discovered its use for mental health. Growing up in the rural south, you didn't hear much about mental health. You still don't, but things are a bit better. I love the yeah, yeah, yeahs as the chorus with the guitars doubling the vocals. Krist Novoselic is the MVP of this song. "I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, that's okay, cause so are you. We broke our mirrors." Great lyrics. I don't think I'll ever forget those lines. Track 6 is Polly. This song is haunting, dark, and hard to listen to. The song is from the perspective of a sexual predator who has kidnapped a girl. It seems Cobain wanted the listener to sit in the uncomfortable reality of sexual violence. Not my favorite song, but powerful. Track 7 is Territorial Pissing, and when I first heard it, I wasn't ready for it. It was too loud, too fast, too much noise, and Cobain's voice was torturous. Now, it's one of my favorite songs on the album. The song is about toxic masculinity, and the so-called alphas need to mark their territory. When this album came out, I asked my mom to pick it up for me. When she got home, she didn't have the CD and said there was a naked baby on the cover and a song about pissing. She was not going to be seen buying such trash. I think that was the only time mom ever paid any attention to what I was listening to. And by that point, I was into NWA, 2 Live Crew & metal. Track 8 is Drain You and the guitars sound great on this. It sounds like a dozen were recorded and just layered on top of each other. Another song I could picture the Beatles singing. Cobain had an ear for a melody. I think the wild success of this album caused him to regress a bit for the follow-up, Heart-Shaped Box. The songs on it aren't quite as melodic or accessible. It's the same thing Pantera did after Vulgar Display of Power. They wanted to record the heaviest album ever with Far Beyond Driven. One that would actually lose their most casual fans. I wasn't a casual fan, but it took me a while to come to love FBD. But I digress. The breakdown in the middle of the song reminds me of Cheap Trick's cover of Ain't That a Shame from their Live at Budokan album. Track 9 is Lounge Act, which I admit I don't have any memory of. Now it's coming back to me. This song sounds more like a Lemonheads song. It's not as "grungy," it's got a nice poppy bassline underneath it. Cobain's voice sounds totally different until they get to the last part of the song. Track 10 is Stay Away and again, it’s not memorable. I must have only listened to the first 8 songs on this album most of the time. Now it's coming back. The song is very punk rock. The lyrics tell the music execs to stay out of the band's hair and let them write and perform the way they want. It's funny how music or TV execs all think they've got talent. If they did, they wouldn't be execs, they'd be stars. Track 11 is On a Plain, and I love the harmonies on this track. This track is more nonsense than most of Cobain's lyrical content. It's supposedly him doing stream-of-consciousness lyrics as he was tired and ready to go home. Track 12 is Something in the Way, and is not to be confused with Something in the Way She Moves by the Beatles. I love this sound. The strings are beautiful. Cobain's harmonies are so filled with melancholy. They make me think of a cold, grey day in November. The song is about someone on the outside of society, in extreme poverty. The song puts you right in the place of someone who just can’t get out of where they are. Track 13 is Endless, Nameless, and it truly is noise, then it turns into something musical before devolving again. Not my favorite track. Apparently, it was born out of a jam with more stream-of-consciousness lyrics. This album isn't perfect. There are a few forgettable songs, but it's an album of a generation and probably the album of the 90s. I tried to deny it and hate it for years, but it's an album everyone should hear. It's genius.

Easy 5. Duh.

It’s the classic grunge album for a reason. While it hits a high in Smells Like Teen Spirit that it never reaches again in the rest of the album, it’s an incredible record. From lyrics to vocals to instrumentals to just the whole vibe of the record, it’s intense and emotional album that creates a rich soundscape. Wide range of types of tracks and Cobain is at his best and one of the best modern rock albums.

Smells Like Teen Spirit - 5/5 In Bloom - 5/5 Come as You Are - 5/5 Breed - 5/5 Lithium - 4.5/5 Polly - 4.5/5 Territorial Pissings - 4/5 Drain You - 4/5 Lounge Act - 4.5/5 Stay Away - 4.5/5 On a Plain - 4.5/5 Something in the Way - 5/5 I can't really think of any other albums that shaped my taste in music more than this one. When I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time, I knew I had to find more music like it. The first half of this is a blitz of all killer no filter, while the second half slows down a bit before speeding up and slowing down once again. Thanks Nirvana for making record companies search for the next big thing in music, and for making my music taste what it is now. Overall: 5/5 Favorites: Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Come as You Are, Breed, Something in the Way

Great, as always! ★★★★★

D-I-S-C-A-Z-O

Another iconic album that again somehow I’ve never given a full listen. Smells like teen spirit: such a classic track. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know this one, and out of those people very few dislike it. In Bloom comes in right after with that heavy, yet soulful punch right in the feels. Come as you are, again, such a classic. There’s a reason why when people think Nirvana, they think this album. Breed has such drive to it. It was a nice contrast to the slow yet powerful Come as you are before it. Lithium is just a great track in itself. The way it plays around with the instrumental a bit while still maintaining the sound of this album. Polly is powerful as always. Territorial Pissings is so funny to me. It’s a complete bop with a hilarious name. I enjoyed Drain You a lot. Lounge Act was pretty good and I loved how heavy Stay Away got at the end. On a Plain, while the lyrics were somewhat basic, was still a bop. Something in the Way was utterly gorgeous. While slightly too long for an outro, Endless Nameless was overall ok. 5/5 ⭐️ 143/1089

9/10 not bad, autumn type of music

5/5

One of the first records I listened to in full. I used to play this one every day. The perfect soundtrack for the hateful, paranoid and dangerously lonely teenager I was. Think I turned out okay, all things considered.

I remember tripping mushrooms, listening to this, and thinking this was what it sounds like to sell your soul for rock and roll. Spins: Thousands Playlist Additions - Everything

So good I listened to it four times in a row

have you guys heard of this one before

Honestly its influenced is legendary!!! I bought it when it came out and played it over and over. I do not think it has aged that well but still its importance cannot be overlooked.

One of the greatest albums of all time! So much is great but listening again reminds me what a beast Dave is on the drums.

One of my favorite albums. This is peak for them. It has almost everything a person wants from an album

I mean come on. Got some of the GOATs here that you can’t help belting out while sitting at your home office desk at 9am on a Thursday. Really enjoyed Territorial Pissing (hate the name though) and Lounge Act along with the obvious. I think it would be really interesting to learn more about Kurt Cobain. Seems like a brilliant yet tortured artist. Have a feeling he would really hate being alive in today’s world.

5⭐️ album, what else can a feller say 👨🏽‍💼👨🏼‍💼🦟😏

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So many recognizable songs and the flow and energy is amazing. It’s got the ragers and the slow-ers. A totally different vibe than say Getz/Gilberto, which is a great album in its own right (certainly not a 2).

One of my favorite albums. The angst, the thrashing, the lyrics. So good.

ееее гранж

Still a banger

Iconic, so many hits on one album. Descends into noise a few times so I'd call it a 4.5

Nevermind is an album that hit at the perfect time and is an outsized cultural juggernaut. I can't really be objective about this one. I enjoy pretty much all the tracks on here, even if they have been overplayed, especially "Smells Like Teen Spirit." This is an album that inarguably belongs in a list of 1001 albums you must hear before you die.

No bad songs.

Masterpiece. Definitely one of the greatest albums ever.

Crazy how nirvana made grunge so catchy. With how popular this album is it’s pretty easy to forget how raw sounding it is, especially for music of its time. A lot less than in utero though - you can really hear the progression of their sound through this album, especially coming all the way from bleach. I love it. Fav songs: in bloom, lithium, something in the way

Great album. Definitely a touchstone point in popular music and culture in the 90s.

This feels like the pinnacle of grunge. If this is up your alley it hits completely right. The lower moments keep it from being a full 5.0/5 to me but I can't keep it from getting a rounded 5, it's so good. 4.5/5

Um dos álbuns que mais marcou a minha adolescência!!

Monumental

Nevermind — второй и самый коммерчески успешный альбом Нирваны. Самое нелюбимое детище Курта, т.к. в производственный процесс ни раз вмешивались и песни порой излишне продюссировались, для достижения "радио-френдли" эффекта (чего, в общем-то, они добились на 100 процентов) И что самое интересное, ни смотря на все эти приколы, альбом звучит изумительно, что в очередной раз доказывает что талантливого песенника полного идей не останавливает удавка сверху, а порой даже подстёгивает на ещё более интересные идеи. Разбирать пластинку по песням смысла нет, тутошние синглы да и остальные вещи с альбома давно стали бессмертными, хотя перефоршенная "Teen Spirit", как по мне, намного менее интересная в сравнении с Drain You или Lithium, а в особенности, мне хотелось бы отдельно затронуть Endless, Nameless. Хидден-трек который оставался скрытым даже для самих фэнов Нирваны достаточно долгое время, емнип, чтобы "достигнуть" его, надо было отмотать около 30 минут с концовки с Something In The Way. И боже мой... Что же это за песня... Кобейн с командой оторвался здесь по полной, воздав должный почёт своему рок-герою юности Игги Попу. Ибо эта песня буквально ода и как таковой энергетике Stooges, и своего рода, оммаж на L.A. Blues с Funhouse (1970). Беспорядочное изнасилование гитар, чистая энергия, неконтролируемый хаос и почти гипнотический поток из перегруженных гитар, это не для пуссис которые слушают Тин Спирит и скипают остальной альбом. И да, в этой же самой песне слышно как Курт буквально ломает свою гитару и под конец записи она уже издавая последние хрипы, доигрывает свои последние "аккордики" выходящие из усилка. Ухх... Чистая энергия и перфоманс. Балдёж. В общем, альбом, безусловно культовый, и как бы тут не хотелось по-снобски "фи'кать" - культовость совершенно заслуженная.

It's crazy how much of this album is on the public consciousness. Without necessarily seeking it out, I've heard all of these songs before. Every song has been a banger so far. There's somethiiing in the waaaay. (Batman)

iconic!

One of the greats of Grunge and Alternative Rock for a reason. There’s quite a bit of diversity on this album from the dark but mellow “Polly” to the punk-Esque energy of “Breed” and everything in between.

Nevermind is a really important album for me. Being born the year Nirvana exploded into a global phenomenon, and raised in the Seattle area throughout my childhood, the legacy of Kurt Cobain was palpable. Three of my first CDs were Bleach, In Utero, and Nevermind. Nirvana's influence would go on to set the initial foundation for all the music I love to this day: prog, metal, hip-hop, hyperpop, jazz etc etc etc. (though I hate most post-punk, which grunge is very much adjacent to, ah well). Listening to Nirvana fills me with a sense of regional pride I can't explain, and every time I listen to Nevermind commuting in to work on the ferry looking at downtown Seattle, I sincerely wish I had been able to meet Kurt. RIP. 5/5

Utter classic. Not a bad song on it. The deluxe versions are great as well

College soccer teammate “wanna go see this band Nirvana and their new album?” Me “naw, going to check out Halloween parties” Oh well, whatever, nevermind

brooo this shitz slaps

This album started my music nerdom and it's still absolutely golden.

rager

Pepinazo

Another trip down memory lane, and another amazing album in its entirety.

Favorite Song: In Bloom

There’s a temptation to treat this as a cultural event first and a record second, but it holds up better when you reverse that. The mechanics are surprisingly disciplined. A narrow melodic vocabulary runs right through it - stepwise movement, familiar phrase lengths, recurring interval tensions - and instead of expanding that palette, the band keeps it fixed and varies everything around it. It’s a constraint system more than a showcase. The songs are built on very simple harmonic beds, often deliberately under-specified. Power chords remove the third, leaving the vocal to imply colour. That’s where the friction lives. Cobain repeatedly places brighter tones - major thirds, occasional major seventh inflections - against a darker or neutral backing. It doesn’t resolve in a blues sense, it just sits there, slightly wrong. That becomes one of the album’s most reliable signatures: hooks that feel good in the mouth but never quite settle emotionally. Arrangement does the work that harmony might otherwise do. Dynamics are structural, not decorative. Quiet/loud isn’t an outburst, it’s a switching system. Sections are defined by density, saturation and timing rather than chord movement. “Stay Away” is a good example of harmony being almost entirely static while the form is carved out by stops, starts and pressure changes. The band has to be tight for that to read, and they are. The unison vocal/guitar move is another piece of engineering that masquerades as instinct. It turns a simple line into something physically larger without adding harmonic information. Slight imperfections between the two sources create a natural smear, which reads like an effect. It’s doing the job of processing through alignment rather than circuitry. That idea extends to the vocals more broadly. Double-tracking isn’t just thickening, it’s a scaling mechanism. When it drops back to a single voice, the focus narrows instantly and the listener is pulled into the detail of phrasing and words. There’s a quiet redistribution of roles within the trio. The guitar is often blocky and declarative, the vocal sits within its established range, and the bass carries more of the internal movement than it’s usually credited with. “Lounge Act” makes that explicit, with countermelodic lines that imply harmonic direction underneath fairly blunt guitar shapes. It’s one of the ways the record avoids true monotony even while the topline language stays consistent. What keeps it from feeling like an exercise is the variety of conditions applied to that same core system. The opening stretch cycles through maximal impact, commentary, suspended atmosphere and compressed aggression without changing the underlying grammar. Later tracks show the method more plainly. “On a Plain” feels almost like the template exposed - clear form, recognisable phrasing, no need for extreme dynamics to make it land. “Something in the Way” strips the system to its limit case, where harmony, development and even performance energy are reduced to almost nothing, leaving tone and space to carry the weight. The hidden track complicates the sense of closure. After a genuinely resolved ending, it reintroduces instability in a way that feels less like an extra and more like a refusal to let the record settle into a single reading. It’s not essential to the core argument of the album, but it does underline that the band’s range extends beyond the controlled environment they’ve built. What emerges is less a collection of distinct songs than a single, well-defined approach examined from multiple angles. The melodic consistency that might initially register as limitation becomes the binding agent. It allows the listener to track changes in texture, dynamics and interaction more clearly, because the underlying language stays constant. The result is a record that feels authored and cohesive without needing stylistic variety to prove it.

yeahhhhhh

Ohhhh. Well it gets a 5. The interesting thing with this album is that at the time I was not really a Nirvana fan. I associated the In Utero album cover with every careless jeep driving bro I encountered and frankly Nirvana in general represented everything I disliked about the “mainstream.” But now? My god do I love all of it. ❤️ Just like everyone else. And I do, personally, prefer In Utero, but every song on this album is classic. Boolean rating: yes! So glad I listened and listened again before I die. RIP Kurt.

Probably the album that put grunge on the map. The super deluxe version of this album is extensive, recommend for any Nirvana fan.

Just as an album it probably isn't perfect but as an album in its era it's basically perfect. It sets a precedent early and delivers through every track. No boring moments as far as I'm concerned.

What am I gonna do, say Nevermind isn't incredible? Obviously it is.

Anti establishment, influence of tobi vail, disturbinggggg lyrics, cool drums, cool guitars, polished sound / noise mix

What a treat

I hadn't really forgotten how good this album is but it had been a while since I'd had a listen. Thanks for the reminder and RIP Curt.

Great excuse to listen to this in full, been a while

An absolutely flawless record. In utero might be slightly better because of the even better writing, but this is just non-stop bangers. It’s so well recorded and mixed too. Masterpiece eeeasily

I don't actually need to listen to this. I will. But I do not need to. I was just young enough that I "found" Nirvana not long after they ended, so they weren't as formations for me as for many others. But goddamn do I know pretty much every note here by heart. From the opening chords of Smells Like Teen Spirit to the ending cello swells of Something in the Way. It's easy to get tired of an album that is frontloaded with unavoidable hits... you couldnt listen to rock radio that whole decade and avoid it, which is why Breed is probably my favorite track on side 1. But those tracks are still so good. Teen Spirit is inimitable... it's one of those songs that everyone wants to cover, everyone technically can play, but it never, never sounds right, from the tone of those first few chords right on down. And then you get things like On a Plain toward the end, probably my fave track on the album. Kurt had a supreme sense of both pop melody and sonic chaos and brooding darkness. I guess it might not be for everyone... my grandmother basically tapped out of music by the time those hooligans the Beatles came out... but this is an all time classic and immediate 5*

Not my first time listening to this. Nirvana being an iconic band and this is my favorite album of theirs. At first I had in the back of my head that it's overplayed, but somehow that really doesn't affect Nirvana or their work. They hold up perfectly, sad I couldn't see them continue, but I'm glad they left behind a good amount of work. Favorite song is "Something in the way"

Full-on five stars. Musically, this album is gritty and dirty, but due to the talent of its band members, it's also tight. I was a freshman in college when this album exploded onto the scene. The sheer impact it had on mainstream music alone should make this worthy of five stars. I can think of no better anthem for the 90s then "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

5 stars. All bangers Long Live Nirvana. RIP Kurt

People who hate on Nirvana are not half as cool as they think they are.

Never actually listened to Nevermind before. I think I'd need more listens to love the more noise-rock last third, but it's hard to knock an album this important with songs like Come as You Are and Lithium.

i’d give it 50 if i could

Such a good albummmmm, i recommend a 100000%%%

Rate: 9.5/10 Not vulgar rock at all; it's actually quite enjoyable as someone who wouldn't listen to a full rock album. Surprised me and will keep listening to it.

Who wasn’t caught in the storm of this album. I remember the first time hearing these guys. That says all you need to know. If a heavier guitar is your thing then you just can’t hate this album. Choice cut: Something In the Way

Masterpiece! I love it. The first track 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' is absolutely perfect! All others are perfect too.

Cobain's disaffected, nonchalant nihilism is a primary text of American counterculture, and though this record would catapult that counterculture into mainstream commercialism in a way that would contribute to Kurt's suicide, the record melds underground post-punk noise and pop song structures in extraordinary fashion.

MUSICA

What a great album…this was one of the initial albums that sparked the grunge movement. I remember listening to this in high school when it came out

Middleschool Album got me into grunge rock

Great! Lots of hits! Stand-outs - Stay Away - Something In The Way

This album was really important for Batman. So I gotta respect it.

staple grunge album, although it’s very mainstream the quality is undeniable, absolute classic, 10/10 in my book

I think everybody remembers when they discovered Nirvana and heard their second studio album Nevermind, which quickly exploded into our lives in 1991. It was released in 1991, but it peaked at number one on January 11, 1992. It was like a bride's list of "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue." It had that feeling of sounding old and yet new, but it borrowed from the sounds before it and near it and connected us together through the feelings of someone who was deeply scarred. Kurt Cobain became the unreluctant spokesman for a generation. It was great to hear this album after all these years away from it. I was a huge fan of Nirvana. When famous people die, it does not usually matter to me. I took it hard that Cobain committed suicide. I had tried a few years before him and I failed. I was jealous. I always get jealous when I hear someone was successful in killing themselves. I think it is hard to pick one song as my favourite from the album, but I still love listening to "Come as You Are" because of the lyrics... "Come as you are, as you were As I want you to be As a friend, as a friend As an known enemy" I feel like friends are future enemies. Sometimes they are current ones, but hide it well. As for the album, it is brilliant. I think it has aged better than most albums from that time period, especially the hip hop albums. 10/10.

Easy 5. Yeah "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was way overplayed, and a few other tracks were too. But this album is so deep. Even downstream tracks like "Territorial Pissings" and "Stay Away" are amazing. OK, except "Nameless, Endless".

You can probably trace 80% of my musical tastes back to hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit on the radio, as a teen living in the Seattle suburbs.

After all this time, it still hits so hard.

Grunge perfection

best nirvana album

One of those albums where every song is good. I think that because of the reputation they hold as a mega band, it’s easy to forget that they were also just an incredibly talented trio of musicians with a charismatic frontman who was also a great lyricist. sure the songs are simple and follow a pretty predictable pattern but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Honestly a really solid album. It’s deserving of the general praise it gets. This is perhaps the only grunge album that I love.

The day Hair Metal died...

Not much to think about, absolute audio kino

Classic.

has always been a favorite. every single song is 5/5 except endless, nameless...which is a 2/5. i love the story behind it, and perhaps the whole point is that i don't love listening to that song.

Every song is a classic, and some are way heavier than I remember. Undeniable influence, a timeless masterpiece.

Goes so hard. It would have been hard for me to not give this a 5 even if I'd hated every track, the influence this has had makes it a 5 almost by itself.

Fortfarande en bra skiva. Alla utom en låt är bra. Konstigt hur energirik den är / ger trots de mörka texterna.

One of the first bands I was ever into. However, it's been a long while since I listened to any of their stuff. It may be the nostalgia talking or I am realising how great of a band they were again because I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. It may be overplayed but listening to Come As You Are for the first time in at least a year or two nearly brought me to tears, but Breed is the best track though. He wasn't the most skilled on the guitar but he sure knew how to use it to create a hell of a sound.

Not my favourite Nirvana album anymore but it’ll always be my first. Revolutionary and timeless

One of the most important albums of my childhood, and one of two which cemented me on the path towards being the weird Rock and Metal guy I am.

sick

Probably Nirvana’s best album containing some icon tracks. Excellent- I already have this album in my music collection.

Even though I'd been listening to what came to be "grunge" since 1988, this album was still a world-changing, earth-shaking event. Somehow heavier, louder, and still more melodic and accessible than anything that came before it. Not meaner, though. 35 years later, having gotten tired of Come as You Are (which I always thought was third tier on this album), and the punch of Smells Like having worn off, I'm surprised to find that when you listen to the album it all sounds fresh and immediate again. Landmark album and just a great listen, too.

I'm not that big of a Nirvana fan but this is a well regarded album for a reason. 5 / 5

kurt cobain.

No notes what a perfect album.

So much for "and I swear that I don't have a gun".

Expectation: -> One of my most played albums in the early-mid 90s. 5/5 After listening: -> How does it still sound so good in 2026? My appreciation for it has only grown. Probably a top-20 all-time for me. Track ranking: Bloom Come Spirit Plain Lithium Drain Lounge Breed Polly Something Stay Pissings Endless

there's no bad excuse for another listen of Nevermind, 6 stars.

Yesterday Unplugged, today Nevermind! Two of the easiest 5s I have given so far https://youtu.be/EtapU5nI6G4?is=-twv-QGD87AXBDtk the fact that this sounds so good just shows how brilliant these three were. Best tracks: Smells Like Teen Spirit (duh), Come As You Are, Lithium, Something in the Way (and also Breed)

I'm a steadfast "In Utero is better" snob, so it was an absolute delight to remember how good this is and how unbelievable Kurt's voice sounds

5/5

One of the first CDs I bought and a classic for a reason. Really changed the game (thank you Pixies). While not my favourite record, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a great. The sound is incredible and I truly love all the songs, no skip album for me. The songwriting, especially behind the more mellow songs like Polly, really gets to me. Kurt was talented at writing about horrifying topics and getting people to listen.

This is more like it. Hooks you on the first song and doesn't let up until the last, which by the time you go to check the track length, is done and straight back to Smells like Teen Spirit (if you have it on repeat like I did lol) I'm aware as this list goes on my reviews will get more nuanced, but at the time of writing I genuinely stand by my score. An incredible album.

i love this album FIVE STARS the first half is definitely stronger than the second half, and I don't like Polly, so maybe it would be a 4.75 if I could do that... but I love this album and often it is just exactly what I need to listen to. my favourite song on this album is lithium it's one of my favourite songs ever. Thank u nirvana

incredible piece of work, i like that the album starts so strongly bc it really does just prepare you for what youre about to hear smells like teen spirit doesn't overshadow the rest of the album as much as I thought it would, there are some really heavy hitters further on i'm amazed how the songs can all sound different while still feeling like theyre from the same album

I liked a few but in bloom was so bad and polly too Stay away is my new fav.

Very good

fav songs: all of them hooky, dynamic, melodic, raw, explosive 90/100

goode

Near perfect album not as keen on last song but still enjoyed it

I really liked this Album! This is the first album I've listened to from beginning to end from Nirvana.

Absolute 10/10 masterpiece.

Un clásico

That baby's penis was on my screen for 13 songs and I enjoyed every second of it. The songs, that is. The album cover is a classic, but I could perhaps do without it.

The album that introduced me to rock. Territorial Pissings and Lounge Act are my favorite tracks from this one.

One of the best of the grunge era.

I mean...at this point I don't even really have any perspective on Nevermind. I was in college, it was "our music", it was a specific moment in time that felt like the Beatles exploding. We all agreed on Nirvana and this album. It's of its time and entirely timeless. The melodies over the dissonance and unresolved tritones - Kurt was such an important songwriter, sophisticated beyond his technical knowledge. And I believe his greatest work was probably still to come. Huge loss. Thankfully we have what he left.

Nothing to say here that hasn't been said a million times. This is great

Incredibly good

The genesis of my taste in music.

An album I have listened to all the way through multiple times. What is there to say? "Smells Like Teen Spirit" fundamentally changed the soundscape of Rock. "In Bloom" has the Pixies/Foo Fighters styling to it. I think it also captures the ennui of many Nirvana songs well.

The only downside this album has is that the singles are so strong that the rest of thr album suffers for it

I don't have anything original to say about this. It rocks

9/10

I haven't listened to this album since I was about 16, probably out of some snobbish attitude towards american punk that I still need to get over. But I'm so happy to come back to it. It's got that quality that all good punk music should have of filling you with energy and bitterness that just makes you want to scream. Can't stay sitting down listening to this album. Easy 5 stars.

A perfect 10 Best Song: Something in the Way Rating: 10/10 Stars: 5

Classic

Such a great album. I'll admit it may be a little more front loaded with the best tracks, but all around an amazing album and a very important one as well.

Dude, it’s Nevermind.

9 / 10 - Cornerstone Rock Album - generationsprägend - So viele ikonische Songs - Erstaunlich abwechslungsreich Favs: - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Breed - Lithium

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I’ve listened to this album easily more than a 1000 times. There’s so many reasons it’s considered one of the greatest ever. My favorite is probably that’s It’s pop songs dressed in thrash. Also we know the playing is great but Butch Vig really crushed the production. On a scale of 1-5 this is an 11.

Ah, the album which a subsection of "open-minded" and "friendly" rock fans see as evidence of a poser. The fact of the matter is that it's a great album. Wonderful tone throughout, great melodies, tight songs, fantastic vocals...it's no wonder that this album gained mass appeal beyond the scope of the genre. One of those cases of something being incredibly popular and incredibly good. It's okay to like popular things when they're good, after all.

Great when it came out and great now.

Still a bloody great album from start to finish.

The first few tracks are my favorites, obviously. Classic album. If you listen on youtube sometimes they do this weird slightly moving baby album cover. It's weird

Overly produced for a nirvana album, but overall a fantastic one.

The synthesis of everything that had been brewing since 1980. People call Nevermind a GenX anthem, but really it is a late GenX/Xennial anthem. People born between about 1972 and 1982 as opposed to the 1965-1972 set. It has been copied and turned into its own genre at this point, but it is hard to overstate what a sea change this album caused when it hit the airwaves. Nirvana was not the first grunge band, but they were the first to blend pop/metal/punk/rock into something that made sense to be played on the radio. Behind all of the screaming and blasting guitars are bonafide pop hits with catchy hooks and unusual turns of phrase. It was just fundamentally different than everything else you would hear at the time. An all time classic.

Perfect all around

The more times I hear this, the more I like the second half more. Solid 9/10, or a 5/5.

No skip, vraiment bien

5 bags of popcorn and 5 ice cold cups of soda

One of my favourite all-time albums. I wouldn’t change a thing. Man there are some killer tunes on here

Substitute of my youth.

5/5

Man what an album. It's a sonic punch in the face.

I mean if anyone tells me this is the best album of all time... I can kind of tell their age but fair.

What can I say about Nevermind that hasn't been said already? The opening riff to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the sound of my musical awakening. I know I'm not unique. Nirvana inspired a generation of people thanks to Kurt Cobain's cryptic lyrics and unique vocals, and the band's ability to blend punk, with heavier rock, while including enough pop sensibility to allow them to cross over into the mainstream and become one of the biggest bands on the planet. Nirvana described their sound as "The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath," and I think that's pretty apt. Look no further than "On A Plain", "In Bloom", and "Come As You Are" for evidence of Cobain's pop sensibilities. Likewise, fast-paced rockers like "Breed", "Territorial Pissings", and "Stay Away" offered a tasted of their punk leanings, while "Polly" and "Something In The Way" highlighted the band's versatility beyond being a rock band. The evolution from Bleach to this is incredible. While I do prefer other Nirvana albums to this one (Incesticide, In Utero, Bleach), it's less because I think this one is lacking in any way, and more because I'm often in the mood for Nirvana's noisier fare (check out "Endless, Nameless). Also, I've easily gotten my mileage out of Nevermind. I don't usually get bogged down on 'influence,' but with Nirvana, it's an honor I warmly accept. I'm sure I'm not alone in scouring photos of the band to see what band shirts Kurt, Krist, and Dave were repping (Flipper, Daniel Johnston), what albums Kurt would include on his 'favorite albums of all time' list, or listening intently to interviews when the question of their influences come up. My music taste, or at least a firm portion of it, was inspired by Kurt Cobain's personal taste. I love Melvins, Big Black, Flipper, The Jesus Lizard, and the Butthole Surfers (among others), while other Cobain favorites I still can't quite grasp (The Beatles (I know, I know), among others). Additionally, Nirvana's sudden ascension and breakthrough opened the gates for a broader range of alternative/underground bands to acquire major label record contracts. In the industry's scramble to find the next big thing, underground groups for whom a record deal was never an option were now being courted by those same labels. Many bands were given second lives with newfound interest in their projects. And that is Nirvana's legacy; opening the door for those behind them, and building stairs from the underground to the surface. Oh jeeze, I'm rambling... Oh well, whatever, Nevermind. 5 stars

Damn near perfect album.

Apart from the questionable album cover this is a perfect album. Encapsulated the mood of the times perfectly. The album kicks off with the overplayed but peerless smell like teen spirit then never really loses pace. In bloom is arguably the best nirvana song, cobains screaming is very tuneful! Then there is a tremendous run of songs towards the end of the album which are both memorable and poignant. Often mocked this album it was never bettered in America in this decade at least.

No notes

unquestionably a masterpiece of music, simple but perfect production and beautiful and personal lyrics according to what Kurt Cobain thought in that historic moment of his life as a new pop star

10/10 – Masterpiece

There's a lot that can be said for this album. And a lot of it has already been said in the ~35 years since its release. It makes sense given the cultural bombshell this was, even before you get to all of the drama and tragedy surrounding the people involved with the album itself. Impressively, there is still intrigue around the album today. Just going off of that impact alone, this has to be considered one of the most significant rock albums of all time. Even putting all of that aside, it is still an impressively good album. The songs themselves are well done, well written, and memorable. The music hits hard and fast, but also can be slow and subtle at times. While the sound is often heavy, the melodies are really the focus of each track. The themes are deeper than you might expect from the surface level. The vocals can be both tortured and sincere (a little reminiscent of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band). When you add it all together, each part really gels with the others to make a strong, cohesive work that demands your attention from start to finish. I don't know that I can set aside the decades of influence this album has imparted to make an unbiased evaluation here. It also doesn't help that I've listened to this album a few dozen times on my own, though it had been a while since the last one. Regardless, I think Nevermind is indicative of what this list is (or should be about): it is an exceptional album that's worth, at the very least, one listen. If you disagree... well, whatever, never mind. Overall: 4.6/5

For an album that saved rock and roll, it's still pretty great. A five for sentimentality (even if it's not their best album).

Bomba album, legendaran i pun bangera. 9/10 Najbolja pisma: Polly

classic banger album through and through. rip kurt you woulda loved tumblr and probably also fortnite

This is as good a place as any for my "grunge is not a thing and is just a marketing concept invented by labels and media" rant, so I will start by saying "grunge is not a thing and is a marketing concept invented by labels and media." If you look at the "big 4" of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden you will first be struck by the fact that they sound nothing alike. Pearl Jam is just a classic rock band, Alice in Chains is like... sludge metal or something, and Soundgarden is a recovering hair metal band. Nirvana was a punk band who happened to blow up, so then the others decided to ape their aesthetic and pretend there was a "scene." Further, despite being Flanderized post-death into "flannel guy" there's like strikingly few photos of Kurt Cobain wearing flannel. Like, yeah there's a few, but you've gotta do some scrolling on Google Images to get there. You know who did wear lots of flannels? People in the Pacific Northwest. Like, remember when Agent Cooper gets suspended from the FBI and he just starts wearing flannels? I do. In short, it is my hypothesis that a bunch of journos from Chicago or NYC caught some shows in Seattle, saw a bunch of people wearing flannels, and just assumed it was some crazy new subculture. In 1992, the New York Times, ran the following and was somehow unaware that it was being mocked: "All subcultures speak in code; grunge is no exception. Megan Jasper, a 25-year-old sales representative at Caroline Records in Seattle, provided this lexicon of grunge-speak, coming soon to a high school or mall near you: WACK SLACKS: Old ripped Jeans FUZZ: Heavy wool sweaters PLATS: Platform shoes KICKERS: Heavy boots SWINGIN' ON THE FLIPPITY-FLOP: Hanging out BAND AND HAGGED: Staying home on Friday or Saturday night SCORE: Great HARSH REALM: Bummer COB NOBBLER: Loser DISH: Desirable guy BLOATED, BIG BAG OF BLOATATION: Drunk LAMESTAIN: Uncool person TOM-TOM CLUB: Uncool outsiders ROCK ON: A happy goodbye" and this straight up got published by the most prestigious American newspaper. So, in sum, I do not trust the prevailing historical narrative on this matter. Also, the album is very good.

4.5 I love this album. The second half is so much better than the first half, but maybe because the first half has been overplayed on rock radio for 35 years.

Pivotal album for me personally

Loved this when it first came out and still love it today. Great album.

I feel like a basic bitch giving a 5 to Nevermind, but it's one of those truly pivotal pieces of art that goes on to redefine the medium to some degree. I'm firmly in the "In Utero" is better crowd, but that doesn't mean this still isn't awesome. Of all the names on the long list of creators who passed away too soon, Cobain is the one I wish had stuck around the most. It would have been fascinating to see where he would have gone. Nirvana were never gonna last much longer, but to see what this guy would do next would be amazing.

Instantaneous 5. Excuse me while I listen to Lounge Act one million times in a row

I grew up on alt-rock radio in the aughts, but I didn’t listen to this until my mid-20s. I bought a used CD, put it in the car stereo, and went for a drive. Even knowing every bar of all four singles, the full listen was electrifying. Still is. And I still remember that drive.

I’ll never get tired of it.

the Joni Mitchell’s Blue of grunge (with a blue album cover to boot: Kurt really was a genius)