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Do you own Nirvana - Nevermind

Do you own Nirvana - Nevermind

  • Yes

    Votes: 118 63.8%

  • No

    Votes: 58 31.4%

  • Smells like teen carrots

    Votes: 9 4.9%
  • Total voters
    185
elgecko

elgecko

Apr 30, 2007
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Anasleim, CA
#1
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Yet another installment in the "Do you own [INSERT ALBUM]?" series.

Nirvana's Nevermind. Released in September 1991. The harbinger of "Seattle Grunge Rock" that marked the end of "glam rock" and "hair metal".

I bought it when it first came out. It was kind of hard not to. As soon as it was released, it was blatantly obvious that it marked a major shift in rock music and popular music in general. I disembarked the Grunge Train soon after, focusing my listening on blues, jazz, and classic rock.
 
#9
"This town needs an enema!"

Being a teenage rock god wannabe in the 80's this album gave me mixed feelings at the time. Back then rock musicians were programmed to:

1. have long hair
2. be technically fluent in your instrument
2b. every song needs a rippin' guitar solo
3. image is just as or more important than the actual music

It was a needed change that brought both good and bad.

I swear my band at the time was the first band to ever cover Teen Spirit! The singer even mumbled improvised lyrics. We played it at the school's prom. Liz Wilde, the Cream Cheese Bitch was supposed to DJ the dance so we only learned a few songs. She didn't show up so we had to play our set twice. I still have my ripped to tatters jeans I wore at that show. And they still fit!
 
#15
i think it's possibly the first i can answer yes.

Bought it a few months after it's release. I was 13. This was honestly the heaviest thing i'd listened to at the time..... Before that the music i listened to featured little distortion. I was into grunge for about a year then moved on and never got back to it really. When i started playing bass 4 years later though i listened to this record again and picked up basslines from it (lounge act is a terrific bassline). My brother was also learning guitar and back then he was big into Nirvana so partly I learned tunes so i could play along with him.

Anyway, i don't give this record a spin about ever (last time i istned to it through was maybe 15 years back) but it's part of my music history and kinda marked a switch in what i listened to at the time.
 
#20
elgecko said:
I just wanted to say that I still own my finest wool flannel from the early 90s!



Just a guess but Nevermind is believed to mark the dividing line between the Baby Boomers and Generation X.
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I'm a Baby Boomer. I had given up on rock radio. I hated the Hair Metal like no one had ever hated anything. I thought it was silly, and brainless, and devoid of any kind of musical statement at all. Don't get me wrong; I loved the 60's and 70's guitar gods. I just thought 80's guitar gods were wankers.

The first time I heard "Teen Spirit," I thought it was Cheap Trick, and they had gone back to their roots.

I loved Nirvana, but I didn't like much of the other grunge.

Alice in Chains was good; I remember that.

STP? Left me cold.
Soundgarden? No thanks.

But Nirvana?

It just had an air of AUTHENTICITY to it that I really enjoyed.
 

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