Nevermind - Nirvana

Everyone knows this album, but I wanted something really special to review (since this should take me to my first £50!) and it just had to be this. My regular readers may well know I can never decide on an all time favourite album (see my ‘thumbs up’ list for some clues) but this was the first album I ever bought (originally for £8.79 on tape) and still one of my favourites. I’m assuming you all know who Nirvana were, they revolutionised rock music in the early 1990s, wiping away big-haired glam rock and bringing grunge to the masses. This album was by no means the start of it all though. Grunge was pioneered within Seattle by the likes of ...  Read the complete review

Nirvana are often considered an overnight success story, but anyone who has read Charles Cross' book of Kurt Cobain will know that by the time Nevermind was released and launched them to worldwide fame, they had been touring for years and had built up a fantastic reputation on the Seattle scene as the kings of grunge music. Nevermind is Nirvana's second album and it was really kicked off by the success of the single 'Smells like Teen Spirit', this song caught the attention of a generation with the high school video where the punks invade and it ends in a warped mess of bodies and screeches, this heralded a change in direction for American music and really gave ...  Read the complete review

Nevermind is a vital album for any grunge fan in as much as it represents a zeitgeist and a slice of pop culture - the iconography contained within each song is reflective of the 1990s music in general, and of course of the furore that Kurt Cobain and his bandmates started, influencing bands including Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. This album was immensely successful upon its release and saw Kurt and the rest of the band shoot to fame virtually overnight, largely thanks to the lead single, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Above all else, it's perhaps something of a depressing reminder of a talent gone far beyond his time, although of course there's no escaping the fact that ...  Read the complete review

Well, after receiving a crown from out of nowhere for my Maximo Park review (oh, feel free to read it!), I decided it was time to bust out another music review...as it seems to be more of a forte than random groceries found around the house!! So this ladies and gentlemen, is the cult album of Nevermind by Nirvana. For those completely unaware of the band, let alone the album, Nirvana were a Grunge band from Seattle during the early 90s. Made up of frontman Kurt Cobain, Kris Novoselic and Dave Grohl, they're widely considered as one of the biggest bands of their generation and genre due to their attitude and songs that hit the eardrums hard being the voice of ...  Read the complete review

Prologue No other album had such a great impact on my life like 'Nevermind'. It somehow marked the final stage of my quest regarding 'the perfect music' for me. I was 14 when I first listened to this album and even now I'm blown away as much as I was the first time. Although this happened in 2004, somehow I've always been connected to 'Nevermind' as I was born in 1991, the same year Nirvana recorded it, released it and eventually changed the world with it. The music that lied inside that cassette marked me in a very positive way. It changed my mentality, my view on music and it also made me discover Kurt Cobain; the artist and the man behind the ...  Read the complete review