Nevermind

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Editorial reviews

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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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-05-28 rating:
Nevermind is a classic grunge album.
I only gave this great grunge album four stars because I'm not so keen on some of the songs. The four songs that stand out the most for me are Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Come As You Are and Polly. Nevermind is the album that really kicked off grunge music big time it was a massive selling album. This is the grunge album to own and the late Kurt Cobain lives on through Nirvana's music. br / br /

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review by: date: 2009-05-15 rating:
Simply brilliant
Bought Nevermind after I purchased the greatest hits album about 2 years ago having read about the hype surrounding it. Having only listened to it once, I can honestly say I am unlikely to ever come accross an album anything like this one. The quiet/loud technique is brilliant, despite it not being Nirvana's idea. It suits Cobain's low, harmonic voice brilliantly. Grohl's drumming is something else. br / The album is full of power chords, emotional lyrics and brilliant melodies, the second half is my particular favourite with Drain You and Lounge Act. br / I'm only young (17) yet I really think I'll be listening to this when I'm well into my forties, and I'll be more than happy to see my kids listening to it as well. This album changed the generation, and I'm more than happy at being given the chance to listen to it.

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review by: Welshman on the dark side of the UK date: 2009-03-12 rating:
The English Language Has Too Few Superlatives!
Quite simply, this is the finest album ever recorded. There is not a single weak track, no filling - just absolute, unadulterated raw talent. Appreciated by Rockers 'Poppers' alike. If you are a 'Popper', buy it; this may well be the first Rock album you'll listen to, and appreciate, time and again. Tragic loss of talent.

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review by: stipesdoppleganger date: 2009-01-24 rating:
A triumph and a tragedy all at the same time.
The release of Nevermind in 1991 was one of those seismic moments that happen occasionally in rock music where an album comes out of nowhere and blows everything apart. Not only did the album bring the worlds focus on the Seattle grunge scene, something ironically that Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain wanted to escape from, it paved the way for alternative rock as it was perceived to course into the mainstream. It made exciting new things possible while at the same time bringing an amount of celebrity that Cobain could not handle. br /Cobains approach to recording Nevermind was , according to David Grohl , that "Music comes first , lyrics second" and that he wanted the material to sound like "The Bay City Rollers getting molested by Black Flag" . The quiet /loud dichotomy of the verses and choruses was influenced by bands like The Pixies but i think it,s fair to judge the songs on Nevermind as essentially power pop with a scabrous dissonant patina and intense lyrical ( despite Cobains assertion about the lyrics ) themes. br /All this is so much padding if the songs are,nt any good but as anyone who has heard this album , and who in their right mind has,nt. already knows that this was ( arguably ) the best out right rock album since Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistolswith who it shares a titular similarity . The album was propelled to multi platinum sales( it even replaced Michael Jackson's Bad: Remastered at number one ) on the back of the anthemic single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". br /I,m not going to go into the songs as they are so familiar and i doubt i could say anything original . But i will say that Nevermind is one of the few ( on the surface ) conventional rock albums that i could happily listen to anytime , anywhere. A Martini album if you want to be flippant which i invariably do. Ultimately though Nevermind became about much more than the album itself. As David Azerrad wrote in his Nirvana BiographyCome as You are: Story of "Nirvana" - "Nevermind came along at exactly the right time This was music by , for and about a whole new group of young people who had been overlooked, ignored or condescended to ". A clarion call that had record company executives frantically searching around offering big bucks to any band that could be lumped in with the new grunge scene- a scenario that is neatly encapsulated by that iconic album cover. br /What is it exactly that makes an album go stratospheric ? I dunno and i,m willing to bet most record company executives dont, know either. There is no doubt that Nevermind deserved to sell by the skip load - it,s a truly great rock album though it is over eulogised. But why this sold and equally great rock albums by bands like Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur Jr and Cobains beloved Pixies did,nt, at least shift comparable amounts is a mystery to me. The ironic tragedy is of course that this success, and it,s subsequent trappings, were too much for Cobain to handle.If Nevermind had continued on the level of their first album Bleach then it,s possible Kurt Cobain would still be around today. Ultimately the very thing that invogorated the music scene for a while caused it,s main creator to shrink away from the world and eventually depart it forever. As a legacy though Nevermind would be hard to top. br / br /


review by: date: 2009-01-13 rating:
Bubblegum pop masquerading as avant-garde rock
This is the album that New Kids on the Block would have come up with if they had been handed some instruments and instructed to thrash and moan; the album so bland that it made Phil Collins sound piercing (for the right reasons); the album that made The Monkees appear threatening; the album that redefined the terms `derivative', `sanitized', `over-rated' and `hypocritical'; the album that formed part of the process in which a generation desperate for something to moan about was deceived into believing that it was part of a radical movement reshaping society - rather ironic, given that grunge was supposedly based on individualism!; the album that spawned the appalling reality music shows that litter television schedules nowadays, as it proved that anybody could become famous by belching out one pathetic pastiche after another; the album that set a new direction for perplexed record company executives in the aftermath of the Milli Vanilli scandal; the album that is played in shopping malls the world over; the album that deserves to be at the bottom of the popular music's septic tank (below the 1980s/1990s pop that it was supposedly railing against). br / br /The songs on this album generally follow a tested-and-trusted quiet-then-loud vocal formula, accompanied by perfunctory instrumental performances. Each track demonstrates that the `grunge' designation was a mere euphemism for pop, used by people desperate to be trendy whilst giving the impression that they were highly individualistic. The lyrics are on par with what any sulking 12 year old could come up with if thrown a pen and paper. Hopefully the day will come when people who still mistakenly believe that this album was in some way significant can see it as the minor footnote in musical history that it is. Even the name of the band was not original. br /

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