Nevermind by Nirvana (USA)

By now we all know the genius or Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. For most of us Smellls Like Teen Spirit and Nevermind was our first introduction.

A new sound and a new voice was ushered in for a new generation. Besides the more popular songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Come as You Are and Lithium there are several lesser known but equally impressive tracks on the album. My favorites incldue the fast and fretic sounding Breed and the slower Something in the Way. Adfter the last track plays there is some bonus Nirvana material also. Nevermind is one of the best debut albums I have ever heard.

'Nevermind'...it's almost impossible to say something new about this album, which has been around but still remains to be amazing every time I listen to it. Nirvana is not particularly my 'brand' of music, but there's something about this album that is very powerful.

First of all, my family has owned it since just about the dawn of time, so that has a lot to do with it. I have good memories associated with these songs--"Smells like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are", and "Breed" especially. So I can really only say good things about this CD, and recommend it to anyone who likes good instrumentals and Grunge music...and hasn't already heard it. Heck, even if you have already heard it, hear it again!

This is one of the great albums ever! I bought it before it was a CD, then as a CD, now it's on our iPods ... there are no bad songs on here at all. My son has grown up to be a HUGE Nirvana fan, having listened to this -- ha ha -- even "In Utero." He is the consummate expert on Nirvana, and even wrote to Krist Novoselic to compliment him on his book "Of Government and Grunge" (I think that's what it's called), and Krist -- to his credit -- wrote back very enthusiastically. The songs on "Nevermind" speak not just to Kurt and the guys, but to an entire generation and to generations yet to come ... it really is profoundly universal, even as the songs are so intensely personal. Highly recommended!!!

What can be said about this album that hasn't already been said over and over? This was the soundtrack to many a disillusioned youngster in the early 90s, and helped kill out the glam rock idiocy of bands like Motley Crue and Quiet Riot.

As classic rock records go, this has to be up there. While now, eighteen (WOW!) years after its release, Nirvana may be somewhat out of the forefront in the music scene, its influences on contemporary music are still felt. I was in a club in Galway, Ireland in 2007, and all of a sudden Smells Like Teen Spirit started playing. Not a techno remix, or any other kind of remix. The real, album version of a song. I hadn't ever heard something like that played at a crowded nightclub, but I did then. AND THE CROWD WENT NUTS. It was amazing. If that isn't evidence that this song and album are still popular than I don't know what is.

Yes, Kurt Cobain was a druggie. Yes, he was depressed. While this album compresses a lot of that with shiny major-label production and sheen, you can still sense his disapproval with the whole thing. 'Something in the Way', with its supremely hushed tones and gentle, somber guitar work, is haunting, to say the least.

'In Bloom', with Dave Grohl's crashing, smashing drum work and the power guitar riff is another demonstration of Nirvana at its best. The song has since featured in the video game Rock Band, and probably helped forge another generation of young Nirvana fans, more than a decade after the band's global dominance.

There really isn't enough to say about this album. It's amazing. It's seminal. It's historic. blah blah blah. But it backs up all that hype by coming through in every fashion. It is the soundtrack for a generation.

best tracks (besides all of em): Smells Like Teen Spirit, Drain You, Something in the Way

I have a deep connection to this album. It was the first one I ever owned, and I listen to it a lot, especially back then. What a revolutionary album, for rock music of the era, being a culmination of the grunge movement in Seattle released to the rest of the country and selling in record numbers. What an amazing event for the band as well, which was little known outside the area, besides an underground cult following, before it was released. Still great for the nostalgic, to rock out, guaranteed enjoyment, crank it up, get crazy, get nasty - so many great moments - not to be missed.