Nirvana Nevermind is 20 years old today, September 24!!!
Where were you when Nevermind was released? This is an awkward confession, but I was merely a year and weeks old when this was released. I was lucky to have an awesome father who lived through the period of alternative rock. I grew up with a certain disdain for my generation's music, and my father would always tell me that "in his days, music rocked!".
So one day, when I was about 13 years old, I gave it a try.
MIND = BLOWN!
I mean it was in my father's playlist whenever he worked, but that was the first time I really paid attention to it. Man Kurt Cobain is a music god. I did some research and indeed daddy was right, Cobain/Nirvana is one of the greatest things to happen to music. Bless his soul.
I can't say much about the zeitgeist of Nirvana as it is was beyond my generation, but this much I can say, the lyrics is beautiful! It really cuts to the generational anxiety (as I can still see in my dad, especially when he goes in his existential grunge mode sometimes at age 46 now lol). the music is restrained, almost structured, yet at the same time always manages to explode at the right moments. The ebb and tide in "All Apologies" summarizes Nirvana's musical corpus - angry yet contained, violent yet deliberate. It reverberates through "Lithium", "The Man Who Sold the World" (this song! The intro solo still gives me goosebumps occasionally), "Heart Shaped Box", "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and others.
Truly, Nirvana was a once in forever event!
Where were you when it happened? Are you part of this grunge rock generation?
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Here are excerpts of this event across the internet:
imo smells like teen spirit is one of the worst nirvana songs... you should check out bleach or in utero... they're way better than nevermind, at least in my eyes. i'm not saying nevermind is bad, it's just not the best.
imo smells like teen spirit is one of the worst nirvana songs... you should check out bleach or in utero... they're way better than nevermind, at least in my eyes. i'm not saying nevermind is bad, it's just not the best.
but anyways... nirvana rocks!!
Dad? What are you doing here on TL? joking. :p I heard them all over and over, nothing beats Nevermind for me.
I have every single cd I could find. Including all the Outcesiticide ones, my favorite song is actually the last song they made "You know your right", and there is a video recording of them doing "Seasons in the Sun" with Kurt on drums and singing, Dave plays guitar I think.
Edit: Kinda sad they are releasing his Cd's like this again really....... Looks like someone needs some money -_-'. Oh and I was born the year Bleach came out (my favorite cd's are Bleach and In Utero). My grandpa lives in Aberdeen, I used to go there all the time.
Edit: Damnit the more I think about them the more i remember all the songs I liked "I Hate Myself and I want to Die" with Beavis and Butthead to start it off : )
I still have this CD in my car. In Utero is probably better though, even if nevermind brings back more memories
unplugged in NY was by far my favorite though. Nirvana was arguably better as an acoustic outfit, even if a lot of those songs were covers. Two of my favorite songs come off of there
I was seven, older guys and girls in my elementary were talking about "the best band in the world, with Croatian in it (Krist Novoselich)" and my first live memory of Nirvana was poster with Krist and Dave where they were touching each other tongues - with tongues!
Back in that days I didn't like them because Kurt seemed like spoiled brat that blaimed world for everything but in reality he had everything and he could change his own reality and world of music. With years I started to love them but I was never a fan, I just know how much they did for music. But I was always more into Pearl Jam :p
Grunge eventually evolved into really, really shitty music, but the origins of the movement remain totally asskicking and potentially lifechanging. I listened to the extra disc in the just-released deluxe edition of Nevermind today, there's a lot of great stuff in there. The "Here She Comes Now" cover was a highlight for me. The shitty-live-mix version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is actually better than the studio one in many ways.
EPT
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