Nirvana Nevermind 22 years ago today.

[epom]

22 years ago 3 relatively normal guys changed the world. If only we had someone like them now....

[6th Gear]

I preferred Soundgarden to Nirvana.

However, there is no denying Nirvana were a great band. Bleach was my favourite album.

[stuartmmcfc]

blimey, time passes to quickly

[The Nur]

Time for a listen, I think.

[Mr Kitten]

Wow... that's crazy.

Pretty much the reason I first wanted and bought a guitar (a white korean-made strat with maple neck...)

[Justin Cyder]

Just to reinforce the point of how time is a thief...

[Patch1875]

still a magical album.

funnily enough been listening on napster to the 20th anniversary deluxe edition of 'In Utero' think it just out this week.

[telecat]

"Nevermind" and "In Utereo" will be available as high definition 24/96 Blu Ray Audios next month. They are part of Universal's "Pure Audio" series.

[marcosgt]

Couple of great tracks but most of the album is pretty average, imo.

Changed the world? Nah...

M

[Patch1875]

marcosgt said:

Couple of great tracks but most of the album is pretty average, imo.

Changed the world? Nah...

M

Way more than a couple of great tracks, changed a generation I would say. I was 20 when it was released (actually on my 20th birthday) and listening to it brings back memories from a great time in my life and that album was with me all the way.

The music being released in my late teens and early 20s was immense.

[Justin Cyder]

Does any record really change the world?

Certainly a very influential record & an influential band. Then again, they were influenced heavily by the Pixies, it's all a continuum.

[Coco H]

22 years ago. That makes me feel ancient. Mind you it was my birthday yesterday and I erm received an electric blanket and that made me feel ancient too.

[Ridgemont]

Going to necro this thread as its 25 years now and I'm having severe tempus fugit syndrome. This was the sound of my sixth form and now I'm, well deeply middle aged. Wife, house, kids etc. I still occasionally listen to nevermind and the unplugged sessions, and cast my mind back. Very poignant: I've always struggled to comprehend punks who batter on about the Pistols and the Jam, even when sat on top of a mortgage and a 30 year career, but, as always with aging, I guess you become a lot more tolerant as you go through the same processes.

Edit: The funny thing that sticks in my mind is that around the same time as Cobain's death it was the 25th anniversary of Woodstock. At the time there was a rash of hippy st bandwagon climbing including if I recall a coke advert which featured a bald headed exec bumping into his ex flower power chick at the 25th anniversary concert. I regarded it as sellout and also from a different epoch. Millennia separated us from them. Boy was I wrong in retrospect

Edited by Ridgemont on Sunday 25th September 23:10

[Ridgemont]

Ha: Pepsi not Coke: fk me that advert is lame. But I suspect it makes my point

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R-LUexYsRpY

[TheExcession]

marcosgt said:

Changed the world? Nah...

I disagree, Nevermind killed the 'Big Hair Metal' bands practically overnight.

I saw Nirvana many many times in the early years, mostly at small grunge clubs in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield. I have memories of being stood on stage within a few feet of Kurt listening to him bellowing into the mic, catching his eye, giving him the biggest grin and then launching myself into the crowd.

I was in Penang when I got news of his death. Sipping breakfast coffee chatting to some Aussies when one lad across the table lifted his head out of a newspaper and declared in a very Australian accent 'fk me! Kurt Cobain's dead.'.

There was complete silence for a few moments and my heart really sank.

Nirvana really touched a lot of people over the years and I would definitely say they defined a generation, much like The Smiths did (I can't stand The Smith's b.t.w.).

Hard to believe it was such a long time ago when I can close me eyes and still remember it like looking at a photo.

[Flip Martian]

I only really appreciated them after he'd died - I was listening to so little music by the end of the 80s that I missed a few things I ended up loving. Nirvana was one. The Unplugged album just shows they weren't all about noise, I love it.

[768]

Bought my copy in Saudi Arabia.

The censors varied in the artistic level with which they applied their black marker pens to their work. Where some drew rectangles, some scribbled around, I chose a copy with a very neat pair of swimming trunks drawn on. Doesn't feel at all long ago.

[franki68]

TheExcession said:

marcosgt said:

Changed the world? Nah...

I disagree, Nevermind killed the 'Big Hair Metal' bands practically overnight.

I saw Nirvana many many times in the early years, mostly at small grunge clubs in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield. I have memories of being stood on stage within a few feet of Kurt listening to him bellowing into the mic, catching his eye, giving him the biggest grin and then launching myself into the crowd.

I was in Penang when I got news of his death. Sipping breakfast coffee chatting to some Aussies when one lad across the table lifted his head out of a newspaper and declared in a very Australian accent 'fk me! Kurt Cobain's dead.'.

There was complete silence for a few moments and my heart really sank.

Nirvana really touched a lot of people over the years and I would definitely say they defined a generation, much like The Smiths did (I can't stand The Smith's b.t.w.).

Hard to believe it was such a long time ago when I can close me eyes and still remember it like looking at a photo.

I think it was more the grunge scene as a whole rather than just never mind that changed the landscape .badmotorfinger,ten and never mind were all released withIn a month of each other.
i think the influence of Metallica is also severely underrated in the termination of dreadful bands like motley crue and poison and the like .

[entropy]

Never got them first time round. It wasn't until I heard Lithium when I was mentally in a bad place did they make more sense to me.

[epom]

Certainly changed my whole world. I was 12 at the time.