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

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

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

Listening to Nirvana's second album for the umpteenth time, it's hard to imagine that this little baby of an album is nearly 18 years old. Hard to imagine partly due to the fact because it still has a fresh and unique sound that many have tried to imitate but few have achieved and partly because, as an album that is only just entering it's adult years, it is one of the defining music albums of all times. Feel free to disagree with me on that one but I warn you, there's enough material on Nevermind to back up my argument way into the small hours. Despite the early success and critical acclaim of the album, I was perhaps a little late on the Nevermind band ...  Read the complete review

Nevermind - nirvana The great thing about the album "nevermind" by nirvana is that every song has an unbelievable jagged edge to it,. The three members of Nirvana are front man (singer\songwriter) kurt Cobain, dave grohl (drummer) and krist noveselic (guitar). Kurt also plays the guitar throughout all songs aswell as singing and dave is a backing vocalist. Nevermind released in 1991 is an Indie Rock and punk (Grunge) based album which consists of 12 amazing tracks. The first song - Smells like teen spirit starts the album off to a dark emotional beginning, and as the song starts with a powerful rocky edge the deepness of the music comes ...  Read the complete review