Nirvana - Nevermind

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian continue "Massivember" (?) this week by delving into the watershed alternative album Nevermind (1991, DGC) by Nirvana. With their second album and major label debut, the band was launched into superstardom by the iconic hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" off the album. Paving the way for scores of alt bands to follow, the style and sound of this music was oft imitated, sometimes verging on copycats. Brian and Bill discuss Nirvana's formation, the Seattle sound, and how the music was developed. As the talk continues, we discuss who could have broke alternative if not Nirvana, Butch Vig's production, Kurt Cobain's guitar tone, Krist Noveselic's musicianship, Dave Grohl as the king of rock and roll, the tragic demise of Cobain and the band, and as always a track by track review!

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0:42.3	She saw the board, selfish shirt, and all I hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, and know, hello, and Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Oh. Oh. This is the great album's podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian.
1:28.2	And today we are going to be talking about Nirvana's 1991 album, their second and major label debut.
1:37.1	Nevermind.
1:38.1	Yeah, it's going to be a good one this week, just like it was last week.
1:43.1	It's good every week.
1:44.7	Yeah, and the week before that too.
1:47.0	But this is the second in our month-long series of just huge albums that we have yet to discuss on the podcast.
1:56.3	Call it Massive Album Month.
1:58.4	Oh, okay.
1:59.6	It's Mass Vember. Nope. Nope. So what we do here on the podcast
2:06.9	is every week, we take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great. And we're
2:12.7	not doing it as like, uh, documentarians. We're not going to, you know, this isn't classic VH1's classic albums.
2:20.7	This is more just fans talking about music.
2:25.6	Yeah, that's what we are first and foremost.
2:28.3	We're fans.
2:29.0	Yeah, we do a little bit of research.
2:30.5	We make sure that we are at least on level with, you know,
2:34.0	doing our best to kind of talk
2:35.8	about the music without sounding like complete noobs. Yeah, I would say that's accurate.
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