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Product Description ------------------- Second studio album by the legendary American grunge band. Originally released in 1991, the album has been been remastered and re-released to mark the 20th Anniversary of its original release. Regarded as one of the most influential albums of all time, it includes the tracks 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Come As You Are', 'Lithium' and 'In Bloom'. .co.uk ------ One of the defining moments of the 1990s, despite happening at the start of the decade. The guitars start jittering, then "BOOMA-ABOOMA-ABOOMA-ABOOM!", the drums kick in and grunge splatters itself all over a generation of MTV viewers. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" will surely always speak to alienated teenagers, while giving them something to th around their rooms to, kicking the whole thing off as it means to go on. "Come As You Are" is dark and twisted, while "Lithium" and "In Bloom" show Kurt Cobain's often overlooked sense of humour, and "Stay Away" highlights the best way to shred your vocal chords. It's nigh-impossible not to love this album, and it will remain Nirvana's most affectionately remembered work. It's just a shame that a misplaced sense of "selling out" (stupid term if ever there was one) led to such an internal rejection of "...Teen Spirit". A work of genius, no question. --Emma Johnston P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review ------ Before its 1991 release, Geffen Records were hoping to sell 250,000 copies of Nevermind. It eventually sold more than 100 times that a and is also acknowledged as being a factor in its primary songwriter’s death. With hind it is easy to work out why the frontman struggled with the LP after it had been made. In Utero, the last studio album the band made before his suicide, was a difficult, abrasive record, clearly the product of a mind pushed beyond its limit. But he dismissed this follow-up to debut Bleach as “a Motley Crue record” rather than a punk album. The tunes are still ace, but there is an unquestionable MTV sheen plastered over the bulk of them. The band enlisted Butch Vig to produce the record and trusted him behind the desk. But when mixing went awry, Slayer mixer Andy Wallace was brought in to tweak the record. Although Wallace used less studio trickery than the average pop producer, Kurt was right: what now sits on 26 million shelves is definitely not punk. Instead, it’s an awesome mainstream rock record. Its four 45s including “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come As You” Are are exemplary, soaring rock singles and became angst anthems for teens across the world. The quiet/loud schtick that Nirvana made their own was stolen from the Pixies, as Kurt freely admitted, but even Frank Black’s merry crew never managed to hook listeners like the Nevermind singles. The guitars are all crunched, phased and compressed to within an inch of their six strings and the drum sounds are predictably accountant-tight and brickie-tough. Lyrically, aside from “Polly”, Nevermind rarely goes beyond woe-is-me or the cryptic: witness “On A Plain”’s ‘The black sheep got/blackmailed again/forgot to put/on as a coat.’ But even the occasional nonsense lyric couldn’t hide the beguiling, revelatory side of his writing. The aforementioned “Polly” is about a rapist, while Kurt said “Something In The Way” was about ing rough (friends have since denied he ever did). And there were Kurt’s vocals. By turns haunted and hurting, caged and desperate, it’s his scuffed, torn diary of a voice that you remember after the guitar crunch has gone, ultimately ensuring that Nevermind is a flawed classic, but a classic just the same. --Lou Thomas Find more music at the BBC ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/syn//albumreviews/-/music/ ) This link will take you off in a new window See more ( javascript:void(0) )