Nevermind
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Nevermind
Nevermind is the second studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991 by DGC Records. Produced by Butch Vig, it was the band's first release on the label, as well as the first to feature drummer Dave Grohl. Despite low commercial expectations, the album became a surprise success, largely due to the popularity of its lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jackson's Dangerous at number one on the US Billboard 200, and also produced three other successful singles: "Come as You Are", "Lithium", and "In Bloom". Nevermind was responsible in part for bringing both alternative rock and grunge music to a mainstream audience, and has been ranked highly on lists of the greatest albums of all time. -Wikpedia
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Rolling Stone
Nevermind finds Nirvana at the crossroads — scrappy garageland warriors setting their sights on a land of giants. -1991
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Billboard
The Seattle trio's blockbuster sophomore album changed music and pop culture forever. -2016
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Pitchfork
Nevermind is basically a great fake-out. It presents itself as an off-the-cuff explosion, a from-the-gut expression of realness and energy in the grand punk tradition. -2011
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BBC
A flawed classic, but a classic nonetheless. -2007
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Allmusic
it's simply a great modern punk record -- but even though it may no longer seem life-changing, it is certainly life-affirming, which may just be better.
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The Telegraph
Nevermind gave many bands the confidence to give it a go, knowing that they didn’t need the best equipment to succeed. -2016
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AV Music
Nevermind does succeed at putting Nirvana in its proper place, paying respect to the legend and the loud, irreverent, humanistic rock ’n’ roll band behind it. -2011
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Spin
Nirvana has built this one for speed—that would be speed with a capital “S”—and it sure is fun to drive. A little bit punk, a little bit metal, a little bit country, a little bit rock’n’roll. -2016
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Sputnik Music
Nevermind shows Kurt and the boys firing on all cylinders and creating one of the most rightfully celebrated albums in grunge, alternative, and music history. -2016
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NME
‘Nevermind’ is a record for people who’d like to like Metallica, but can’t stomach their lack of melody. -1991
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Only Solitaire
There's no denying, Nevermind really did give a revolutionary twist to the wheel of popular music in 1991, possibly the last one in known history.
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Soundlab
'Nevermind’ is a classic album; it represents the perfect synthesis of the seemingly irreconcilable both lyrically and musically and - oh yes - it also boasts a classic cover. -2018
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Classic Rock Review
Nevermind isn’t a terrible album – there are some really good tracks – but much of the album is entirely forgettable.
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Drowned in Sound
Nevermind is the joint twenty-first selling album of all time. It is definitely not an underground punk record. -2011
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Substream Magazine
Nevermind is one of those rare instances in music where both the underground and the mainstream agree on something being awesome, and everyone is better for it. -2015
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The New York Times
"Nevermind" is more sophisticated and carefully produced than anything peer bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Mudhoney have yet offered. -1991
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Entertainment Weekly
Nirvana may not stand a chance of selling anywhere near as many records as Guns N’ Roses, but don’t tell Cobain; you never know how he’ll react. -1991
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NZ Herald
Nevermind may have been built on the backs of others, like the Pixies, but it was a landmark album that changed the musical landscape for artists and fans alike. -2011
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The Top Tens
Overall, it is no where near one of the bands best, but it is still one of my favorites, if that makes any sense at all. It's one of their easiest songs to play, and was way too commercial, but inspired many musicians to come, and is unbelievably catchy.
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Loudwire
Certainly not a shabby grade, but its a far cry from all the post-revolutionary praise. -2011
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Immortal Reviews
Nirvana defined human anxieties in Nevermind, bringing our deepest angers and loneliest memories to a new light. -2017
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Chicago Tribune
"Nevermind" is a giant leap beyond the cauterizing fury of the group's acclaimed but one-dimensional debut, "Bleach". -2016
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What Hi Fi
Nevermind serves to confirm Cobain’s fearsome melodic power and demonstrates just how right this album was in the first place. -2016
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Overblown
Nevermind is a great starting point, but fans who don’t give their other albums the time they deserve are really missing out. -2016
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Reflector
I would suggest “Nevermind” to anyone who’s into the alternative genre, considering “Nevermind” is the most easily recognizable grunge album. -2018
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The Alternative
I dont believe an album will have as much influence as Nevermind did. -2016
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Rock Music Raider
In the end, Breaking new ground for a genre and providing guidance of sorts for generations to come. And for this I value it. Despite itself. -2017
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KEXP
These guys will be remembered in years to come because they know how to write songs with hooks. -2016
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Rockhaq
Nevermind opened the minds of the industry powers and those who were happy to stick to the bland sound of the radio, to new musical possibilities.
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The Guardian
Nevermind marked a move away from strutting hairspray metal, and its celebration of weirdos changed rock for the better. -2011
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Jon Spencer Reviews
An album so famous that very few people haven’t heard at least one song from it in their lifetime and one that is often considered a gold standard for 90’s music. -2018
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Spill Magazine
This was music by, for, and about a whole new group of young people who had been overlooked, ignored, or condescended to.
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Drew Martin Writes
Nevermind is an album worthy of the praise its received and more. From the iconic opening track to the final one hid behind several minutes of silence, this is one of those albums slated as required listening.
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Irish Examiner
Real or imaginary, Nevermind turned out to be a beautifully morbid album.
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Albumism
today we reminisce in its grandeur and its flaws, its blessings and its curses, and its hair-trigger impact and its repercussive effects it had on each one of us. -2016
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Atwood Magazine
Nevermind was a heavy rotation of almost any format you could think of: modern rock, heavy rock, album rock, punk rock, and pop. -2017
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Beats Per Minute
One of those rare, near-flawless works of art that only grows finer with age.
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No Ripcord
The album is amazing. The reissue is amazing. The band is amazing.
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Q Magazine
Twenty years, five discs, but Nevermind is always more than the sum of its parts. 2011
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American Songwriter
That sense of hostile irony may be one of the most underrated qualities on Nevermind, whose sly dismissals and cagey lyrics sound like an extension of Cobain's scabrous guitars and Dave Grohl's thundering drums.
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The Telegraph
It's an album undiminished by time, that can still make me want to throw myself around an imaginary mosh pit or curl up in a fetal ball.
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Under the Radar
Not only does the original record sound incredible, the bonus tracks are revelatory.
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Global Texan Chronicle
Nevermind does possess the songs, character and confident spirit to be much more than a reformulation of college radio’s high-octane hits.
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Slate
By offering new testimony on behalf of the will of Cobain’s noisier instincts, this Nevermind commands our attention too. -2011
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Observer
In two years, it will have outlasted its auteur, and it’s safe to say that its ecstatic howl will stay in the air for a long time to come. -2016
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5th and 3rd
Nevermind: flashes of occasional brilliance and obvious talent are marred by confused, neurotic lyrics and the limitations of punk-grunge dogma. -2014
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Female First
The sound is impressive, the b-sides tight, but if you own the album already and aren't a diehard fan, this might be worth picking up. -2011
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BPM
Looking back now, it’s hard to fully grasp the impact of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Big bands had come and gone over the years since the Beatles, but few had sparked such a cultural zeitgeist, nor connected as directly with the heart of their generation. -2011
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IGN
For die-hard fans, this is another must-own piece of discography that offers plenty of fan service and history, though not without some slightly repetitive track choices. -2011
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American Songwriter
the album itself proves surprisingly sophisticated, especially for seeming so unforced and unthinking. -2011
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Chicago Reader
20 years have gone by since Nevermind changed everything in its wake. -2011
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Culch.ie
Nevermind was a sound that played from your bedroom was guaranteed to p’soff your Folks – in a damn those tennagers bad way. -2011
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Collapse Board
Nirvana have emotion, raw emotion, the sort where the singer bares his soul all the way down the line and with the use of but a few simple words and phrases communicates way deeper with the listener than this sort of music is meant to. -2011
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The Orion
“Nevermind” needs to be heard in 2018, if only to remember where it took music for the next decade and beyond and as a remnant of what rock once was when it broke free. -2018
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Entertainment.ie
Nevermind contained more than just recycled music; it was rock at its most powerful and cathartic and should be remembered for just that, even if the ultimate tragedy of the band cannot be forgotten. -2011
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Seattle pi
The album is undeniably louder now, but when I compared tracks back-to-back with the original 1991 CD, I found I preferred the new version. -2011
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Vibe Rant
Perhaps the biggest problem with this album was just how catastrophically big it was, the fame and success was too much for Cobain who took his life two years after the success of the album. -2017
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