You guys mentioned Lithium, that's another fantastic song. I'll never forget them playing it at the VMAs and watching Krist launch his bass like 80 feet in the air lol
@@delugesofgrandeur I think In Utero is a better album too, but that doens't take away anything from the impact and significance Never Mind had or stands for. Very little was the same after Never Mind was released. In that sense it's certainly one of the greatest albums ever recorded. In Utero made less of an impact in that sense, because it came after the seismic shift Never Mind had caused. I still enjoy both albums by the way... from the day they were released (I am of Kurt's generation).
Yes. I can remember in early '92, Smells Like Teen Spirit took over MTV and finally put hair metal out of its misery. This is one of those albums you can put on and just let it play. Not a bad song in the bunch.
I remember at that time there was sucky music being made and played. Then Smells Like Teen Spirit came on the scene. I remember the video on MTV making its debut. I fell in live with Nirvana immediately. Nirvana began a new epic of music.
We suddenly went from Warrant to Nirvana (literally and symbolically) real quick. You’re all correct. Man! I still can’t believe it and I also lived through it. I was 9 when Nevermind came out, and all I had was Top 40, Country, and Christian radio available at the time, but I remember the cultural and musical shift.
@@nickid43z58 Summer '91 Metallica The Black album, Pearl Jam Ten, Use Your Illusion 1 and II, RHCP Blood Sugar....all released within 44 days of Nevermind......hardly sucky music
@@severngamingnetworki think they meant in the years prior, not the 2 months prior to nevermind coming out. I love all the bands you mentioned there too, but nevermind IS the one that changed the game. Lifted all the others up in one way or another.
This is my favorite Grohl drum part. Nothing fancy, but it's just so groovy. I'm surprised the guys didn't call it out in the video. And of course the drum sound itself is so massive, which Dave attributed to the acoustics at Sound City where this was recorded. ("Sound City" is also a fantastic documentary by Dave Grohl, which I strongly recommend to any rock music fans, not just Nirvana fans.)
To me grunge was a message for teens that you can be a rockstar and not look like a pretty boy with hairspray/makeup. Nirvana was the poster for that message.
I know what you mean but Kurt was ridiculously beautiful haha, would've been interesting to see the trajectory of the band if he had someone else's face!
Grunge bands (which I love far more than L.A glam metal bands) ended up being posers themselves, just a different kind in term of codes and attitude. I was a teenager in early 90's and Cobain, while very talented, was too disrespectful to other bands (Guns n roses, Metallica, Pearl Jam). He was both humble and pretentious at the same time, acting like the new messiah sometimes. He was a little bit trapped by medias asking him all the time his opinion about everything.
@@mazuljce Yeah, that’s true. Fame got into their heads. These were kids growing up too fast, not able to handle fame and the pressure to stay relevant.
I dimly recall them mentioning they were worrying about basically copying the Pixies' soft/loud switch style in writing Smells Like Teen Spirit, couldn't tell you where I heard that but it was the first thing to come to my mind as soon as Ryan started talking about the loud and muted phases in the song
Nirvana, Nevermind, A Tribe Called Quest, Low End Theory, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magic all were released on the same day September 24, 1991
There’s so many Nirvana songs worth listening to. A deeper cut that is frequently sited as their best song is Aneurysm. I doubt you’ve heard it and it is definitely worth a reaction. Nevermind front to back doesn’t have any bad songs, I personally like In Utero even more but they definitely threw caution to the wind.
I love In Utero better also. Partly because the mixing is more raw sounding, but also the songs. HSB is a beautiful masterpiece that will haunt my soul until I die, and while Nevermind is creative obviously, Kurt makes a lot more unique and creative decisions with his guitar work throughout In Utero. For Anuerysm, the play on dynamics was wonderful, especially live.
You said a few times "leave Nirvana alone", are there people here or on your Patreon that don't like them? That's crazy. I'm a "metalhead" but Nirvana is still in my top 10 bands ever. Extremely popular and "simple" yes, but also raw and powerful
They are overrated as hell. Very influential, different at the time, and had some big hits for sure. But they weren’t great musicians at all and wrote pretty bland stuff
The first nirvana song I heard while I was driving up to Bakersfield with my uncles. To this day I play it when I go back just to capture that moment again when I first heard it
@@turns2ashes That is interesting. I never heard that. I remember an interview where Kurt was praising Grohl's metronome timing and power. But I could see him really liking the frenetic Mudhoney style and wanting that too, just never heard about it.
@@Σατανας666 so I'm not misconstrued, he's not even close to being on Bill Ward's level. Just the thumping nature of some rolls feel reminiscent of some of Ward's to me.
Between August and October 1991 we got Nevermind from Nirvana, Ten from Pearl Jam, Bad Motor Finger from Soundgarden, and Metallica's black album. What an insane run.
The whole album is top notch. Lounge Act, On a Plain, and Drain You are all amazing and there are no bad tracks. The haters hate only because the album was mega popular.
His collaboration with Dave and Krist in "Sound City" was so cool. I don't know if they worked together after that, but you could tell that Dave was on cloud 9.
Hearing this album as a 12 year old when it came out changed EVERYTHING. The intensity and the flow, the rawness and the beauty - it was revolutionary! Cobain, Novoselic, and Grohl created a masterpiece to change music forever.
One of the best albums of all time. It perfectly captured the angst of the 90s. We knew what was coming all right, in the next 30 odd years lol. Lithium (of this same album) and About a Girl are must listens.
In this genre, bands like Husker Du or Minutemen started the loud/soft dynamic. It’s post-hardcore style. In the mid 80s hardcore punk bands started experimenting, getting influence from outside like the Beatles or Rem. Then ofc, bands like Pixies, Soundgarden, and Janes Addiction come in late 80s combining bunch of diff rock and punk styles into something more accessible
I'm here early so I hope you respond..The day this album dropped was nuts..We went to an underground club and they dropped smells like teen spirit and the whole place went beserk..
That's been my favorite Nirvana song ever since I first heard it when I was 11 years old in 1991. I remember walking around my neighborhood playing it in my head (I didn't own a portable listening device then) and I would sing along not knowing what it means.
I’ve listened to this song more times than I could count in the last 15 years, and I had never once thought about how the intro sounds like STP. And you heard it first listen. Well done sir 🫡
I'm going to tell you right now that, while I LOVE Endless, Nameless and all of their other *really* abrasive tracks, they're not likely to be big fans. Just worth checking your expectations if they happen to do it.
The loud/soft dynamic has been around for a long time (especially in metal) but it was popularized with grunge and Nirvana, and Cobain credited the Pixies with inspiring him to use it
Pixies definetly were the pioneers. Cobain himself stated that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was an attempt to emulate the "Pixies style". But Nirvan obviously took it to another level and made it a thing.
@@The16thninja Context. 90's grunge. Cause if we throw that out of the window, i agree they were doing that already, but also Paganini was doing that in the violin and Beethoven was riffing (no pun intended) off of that idea even before going deaf so... Pixies were the pioneers of that. In the implied alternative/grunge context. Which Nirvana admitedly took a page from. I would also agree with the dude who said Beatles is a heavy influence on those bands. Although i hate The Beatles, lol.
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, Drain You, Lithium, Serve the Servants, About A Girl, School, or just the rest of the Nevermind album. Lol. Just my suggestions. Been rocking with you guys a long time. Many years. Much love!!!!
Maybe not right away, but I think we’ll need a MTV Unplugged Nirvana full video/album reaction. All time best Unplugged imo and it’s a very important listen. They were on another level
Stone Temple Pilots and many other grunge bands came out after Nirvana and definitely after the classic "Nevermind" album was released. Yes, Stone Temple Pilots pretty much emulated this exact sound in their guitars and even the voice mix on their first album "Core".
You guys mentioning the hits on this record, crazy to think that one dude came up with all of em. Kurt wrote every single one of their songs what an absolute genius that guy was
Drain You and On A Plain are the best songs off Nevermind IMO while Aneurysm is my favourite Nirvana track overall, although every song they ever recorded is brilliant.
Every song on this album was fire. My 14 year old jaw hit the floor and just stayed there the entire run time. Check out the song Territorial Pissings if you want to hear their full on hard sound. Love.
In an infamous Interview with Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, Kurt said of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, “I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it”. And that’s just the most famous reference, Dave Grohl penned in a NY Times Article in 2004, “Face it, the quiet/loud dynamic that's dominated alternative radio for the last 14 years can be attributed to one and only one band, the Pixies. Undoubtedly one of the most influential groups of the new rock generation.” The dynamic in raw form goes back to forever (way beyond its different use in ‘Black Sabbath’), but its particular application in that time, and the influence of that application is pretty clear.
Dave Grohl said in a famous conversation with Pharrell that his drum groove, especially on the Nevermind record, was mostly inspired by disco and funk bands like The Gap or Cameo. I can't unhear those tight funky grooves now, this is fascinating the way he incorporated in louder, raw music. Great bands to get inspiration from, too.
To answer your question at the end, there are no misses on this album. Territorial Pissings goes the hardest, but man, each song has something to give. Novoselic and Grohl just have so many good vibes with the bass lines and drum tracks. Thanks for getting me to cue this album up again. It has been a while.
Damn, this takes me right back to 1992, on the tractor cutting hay fields on Mr. Furlow’s farm back home in Texas when I was 19 years old! Jammin’ the Nirvana Nevermind cassette tape!
Boys and Girls the album Nevermind one of the greatest album ever created yes middle America I said it!!!!!!!! it sold very well, it killed off hair metal(pop metal), Grunge became a thing, had impact, album shifted culture and define the sound of the 90s and had 100 bands afterwards chase this sound.
Nirvana how great they were rated, will always still be underrated to me. Such an impactful band to so many other bands. The drumming by Dave Grohl was also so good and unique, with those fills upon fills. NASSSS-TY!
Milk It is the best Nirvana song ever!!!!! Such a masterpiece. The vocals, the insane lyrics, that drumming. Amazing song! I'm pretty sure it's a song about Kurt's stomach problems and his bad reaction to taking the liquid medication he was on.
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Man, if they enjoyed In Bloom they'll definitely love the track Lithium from the same album.
They’re gonna love the whole album lmao
This is one of the greatest albums of all time.
That would be correct.
Beginning to end, Legendary.
Along with Stone Temple Pilot’s CORE album.
You are correct!
You meant one of the most overrated albums of all time.
Drain You is one of my favorites from this album. I dont know why, but it just hooked me in so fast & easily. I love it!!!
Agreed! One Nirvana BEST songs
@@Hella916 Also Kurt's favorite at the time, from what i read!
My personal fave Nirvana song
One of their best.
Drain You is the epitome of a perfect pop song!!!!
You guys mentioned Lithium, that's another fantastic song. I'll never forget them playing it at the VMAs and watching Krist launch his bass like 80 feet in the air lol
And then come down nearly knocking him out.
And catching it with his eyebrow.
One of the greatest albums ever recorded.
In Utero is better.
@@delugesofgrandeur Meh. In Utero's good, but it's too specific to Kurt's battles with fame. Nevermind is universal.
@@JoyGrenade I just think song quality-wise, in Utero is superior.
@@delugesofgrandeur I think In Utero is a better album too, but that doens't take away anything from the impact and significance Never Mind had or stands for. Very little was the same after Never Mind was released. In that sense it's certainly one of the greatest albums ever recorded. In Utero made less of an impact in that sense, because it came after the seismic shift Never Mind had caused. I still enjoy both albums by the way... from the day they were released (I am of Kurt's generation).
When people are compiling lists of greatest albums, Nevermind will always be on there... In Utero is great but it won't make as many lists.
Kurt had rare voice where he would scream and still sound highly melodic!
@Lost In Vegas, you DEFINITELY need to hear “Breed”. It’s one of my favorite Nirvana songs. It definitely smokes.
I can tell you from personal knowledge that Nirvana releasing this album changed everything about music and culture.
Yes. I can remember in early '92, Smells Like Teen Spirit took over MTV and finally put hair metal out of its misery. This is one of those albums you can put on and just let it play. Not a bad song in the bunch.
I remember at that time there was sucky music being made and played. Then Smells Like Teen Spirit came on the scene. I remember the video on MTV making its debut. I fell in live with Nirvana immediately. Nirvana began a new epic of music.
We suddenly went from Warrant to Nirvana (literally and symbolically) real quick. You’re all correct. Man! I still can’t believe it and I also lived through it. I was 9 when Nevermind came out, and all I had was Top 40, Country, and Christian radio available at the time, but I remember the cultural and musical shift.
@@nickid43z58 Summer '91 Metallica The Black album, Pearl Jam Ten, Use Your Illusion 1 and II, RHCP Blood Sugar....all released within 44 days of Nevermind......hardly sucky music
@@severngamingnetworki think they meant in the years prior, not the 2 months prior to nevermind coming out. I love all the bands you mentioned there too, but nevermind IS the one that changed the game. Lifted all the others up in one way or another.
Dave's backing vocals after the solo is superb
It really is
This is my favorite Grohl drum part. Nothing fancy, but it's just so groovy. I'm surprised the guys didn't call it out in the video. And of course the drum sound itself is so massive, which Dave attributed to the acoustics at Sound City where this was recorded. ("Sound City" is also a fantastic documentary by Dave Grohl, which I strongly recommend to any rock music fans, not just Nirvana fans.)
Chad wrote the main drum parts for this song.
Lithium definitely needs to be next off of this album. They have such a deep collection, but I think you guys would love that one.
To me grunge was a message for teens that you can be a rockstar and not look like a pretty boy with hairspray/makeup. Nirvana was the poster for that message.
I know what you mean but Kurt was ridiculously beautiful haha, would've been interesting to see the trajectory of the band if he had someone else's face!
Grunge bands (which I love far more than L.A glam metal bands) ended up being posers themselves, just a different kind in term of codes and attitude. I was a teenager in early 90's and Cobain, while very talented, was too disrespectful to other bands (Guns n roses, Metallica, Pearl Jam). He was both humble and pretentious at the same time, acting like the new messiah sometimes. He was a little bit trapped by medias asking him all the time his opinion about everything.
@@mazuljce Yeah, that’s true. Fame got into their heads. These were kids growing up too fast, not able to handle fame and the pressure to stay relevant.
I'm sure that's what thrash metal bands where in the 80s. Metallica, Megadeth, overkill, testament etc...
I thought that was punk that brought that philosophy?
Yes! One of my favorite Nirvana songs. Thank you!
GOAT band. You REALLY cant pick a bad Nirvana song to check out. They dont ALL follow this formula, but yes, a LOT of bangers
Bleach is a dogshit album
Teen Spirit
Lithium
In Bloom
Come As You Are
Something in the Way
Breed
Polly
Lounge Act
Stay Away
This is one of the greatest records of all time!
Na
You guys gotta give this the full album treatment, not a bad song in the bunch, landmark album for sure.
So good. What's your favorite track off Nevermind?
@@scribeadventures4696 On a Plain is fun....but there all good
Pixies definitely perfected the soft to loud approach to a rock song. Cobain loved them.
I dimly recall them mentioning they were worrying about basically copying the Pixies' soft/loud switch style in writing Smells Like Teen Spirit, couldn't tell you where I heard that but it was the first thing to come to my mind as soon as Ryan started talking about the loud and muted phases in the song
@@petercolson2990 They flat out admitted they were ripping off the Pixies when they wrote Teen Spirit
@@GroinFaceGroin I knew I'd heard it somewhere, just wish I could cite where
@@petercolson2990 Wikipedia...look up the Pixies and under the legacy section it states it
@@petercolson2990 Yep I think they called themselves a Pixies rip off band
Your boy Sturgill Simpson has an unbelievable cover of this song.
One of the best covers I’ve heard. I feel like Kurt would love that cover too.
I second this. Totally different vibe and meaning to the song
Lounge Act on Nevermind.
Song slaps
Yup. That’s my favorite song on this record
My favorite! Just way too short
I love Lounge Act
to me Nirvana was always a very simple band that just did what they wanted to do the right way. like a grunge Beatles
People did, and do talk about Oasis and The Beatles in the same sentence but Kurt's writing was far closer to the Fab Four than Noel's to my ears.
Great analogy
Beatles suck lol
@@YuriGoofov your opinion on anything music is probably always wrong
@@Vivi_9 nah they're just boring garbage.
Nirvana, Nevermind, A Tribe Called Quest, Low End Theory, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magic all were released on the same day September 24, 1991
Fire!
3 albums that defined the 90's
The black album was released around this time also
Also pearl jam's ten
Also Laughing Stock by talk talk
Loud/soft dynamics in rock music go all the way back to Black Sabbath
and yet, Kurt Cobain got his inspiration from the Pixies not Black Sabbath.
Pixies were the loud quiet loud band. I think that is what Kurt would have said. And Thom Yorke/Radiohead would agree.
Kurt has said countless times that Black Sabbath were a huge influence on the band and not to mention that he told this to Billy Corgan as well
@@pugshorty9852 Kurt was a huge Black Sabbath fan.
They go back to Mozart!
There’s so many Nirvana songs worth listening to. A deeper cut that is frequently sited as their best song is Aneurysm. I doubt you’ve heard it and it is definitely worth a reaction. Nevermind front to back doesn’t have any bad songs, I personally like In Utero even more but they definitely threw caution to the wind.
I love In Utero better also. Partly because the mixing is more raw sounding, but also the songs. HSB is a beautiful masterpiece that will haunt my soul until I die, and while Nevermind is creative obviously, Kurt makes a lot more unique and creative decisions with his guitar work throughout In Utero. For Anuerysm, the play on dynamics was wonderful, especially live.
About time for more Nirvana!
You said a few times "leave Nirvana alone", are there people here or on your Patreon that don't like them? That's crazy. I'm a "metalhead" but Nirvana is still in my top 10 bands ever. Extremely popular and "simple" yes, but also raw and powerful
And Fun!
What are those other bands, probably shit like slipknot or linkin park the same level as vana lmao
They are overrated as hell. Very influential, different at the time, and had some big hits for sure. But they weren’t great musicians at all and wrote pretty bland stuff
@@jonathanking8289 Biggest L take ever made bozo
8:13 one of my favorite guitar solos ever. It’s like a giant middle finger to the glam metal of the 80s.
Ugh. 🙄
And what was it toward a metal album released just a year prior, called rust in peace, which has solo after solo which just sht on that one?
@@davidsuch8942they said glam metal, not thrash
I love the album, but it's an utterly mediocre solo. Whatever. To each their own
@@MrOctober44 coming back to comment again 7 hours apart. This comment really got to you huh? 😂
Scentless apprentice is my fav song of theirs. Such a good drum beat. 🥁 🎸
I highly recommend Nirvana"s "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" performance on mtv. react to the video. Kurt is insane
Corny. Very corny.
Stick with "About a girl".
@@fidacucaHow is that corny?
@@fidacuca corny??? Lmao it’s an amazing performance
@@fidacuca lol shut up
A stunning performance, good pick
The first nirvana song I heard while I was driving up to Bakersfield with my uncles. To this day I play it when I go back just to capture that moment again when I first heard it
Yall gotta check out “You Know You’re Right”. Such a banger and also pretty emotional, and happens to be one of the last songs Kurt ever recorded
100%......it's one of my favourites of theirs
You really like this song? Or are just pretending?
It's miles behind the really iconic songs.
@@fidacuca agreed. "You know you're right" sounds like a demo EP. The iconic songs have a first class production and dont even compare lol.
The absolute last song he ever recorded was actually Do Re Mi
@fidacuca I love that song. It's one of my favourite Nirvana tunes.
Nirvana Unplugged in NY is a must listen.
❤I love this album
It's not
Yes
@@Nichwar19There always has to be a hater
@@ashleybrown4754 i'm not a hater, i just have a great taste
Nirvana - Breed
Nirvana is just one of those bands! They didn't need to release much and yet completely changed the landscape of the music industry!
Grohl's fills always reminded me of Bill Ward's, especially on this track.
Strange how it came out that Kurt didn’t like Dave’s drumming and wanted him to drum more like the Mud Honey drummer.
@@turns2ashes That is interesting. I never heard that. I remember an interview where Kurt was praising Grohl's metronome timing and power. But I could see him really liking the frenetic Mudhoney style and wanting that too, just never heard about it.
That’s funny. He always reminded me of Lars. A crap drummer doing his best to be technical. Bill Ward is a god.
@@Σατανας666 so I'm not misconstrued, he's not even close to being on Bill Ward's level. Just the thumping nature of some rolls feel reminiscent of some of Ward's to me.
@@odindasko I hear ya. I hear some John Bonham in the fills, too.
Between August and October 1991 we got Nevermind from Nirvana, Ten from Pearl Jam, Bad Motor Finger from Soundgarden, and Metallica's black album. What an insane run.
The whole album is top notch. Lounge Act, On a Plain, and Drain You are all amazing and there are no bad tracks. The haters hate only because the album was mega popular.
They stayed at our house in 1989. Nice guys and funny too
Ain't no resisting Nirvana, baby.
NIRVANA is GOATED. "Drain you" is my favorite tune from Nirvana.
Probably my favourite Nirvana song.
"You Know You're Right"is the next song you should react to them.
In the 90's, Paul Mcartney was asked which band he would like to be part of today, his answer was of course Nirvana
His collaboration with Dave and Krist in "Sound City" was so cool. I don't know if they worked together after that, but you could tell that Dave was on cloud 9.
Hearing this album as a 12 year old when it came out changed EVERYTHING. The intensity and the flow, the rawness and the beauty - it was revolutionary! Cobain, Novoselic, and Grohl created a masterpiece to change music forever.
Nirvana is not just one of the bands but the iconic one reminding 90s itself...just so miss them.
One of the best albums of all time. It perfectly captured the angst of the 90s.
We knew what was coming all right, in the next 30 odd years lol.
Lithium (of this same album) and About a Girl are must listens.
Y'all need to react to Nirvana's "ballsack" b-side of bleach
‘Dive,’ is a great deep cut from them. Man, it’s underrated.
In this genre, bands like Husker Du or Minutemen started the loud/soft dynamic. It’s post-hardcore style. In the mid 80s hardcore punk bands started experimenting, getting influence from outside like the Beatles or Rem. Then ofc, bands like Pixies, Soundgarden, and Janes Addiction come in late 80s combining bunch of diff rock and punk styles into something more accessible
Man, this video made my damn day!
Nevermind is a classic rock album! 10/10
Yes. Every song is indeed a banger. Every one.
I'm here early so I hope you respond..The day this album dropped was nuts..We went to an underground club and they dropped smells like teen spirit and the whole place went beserk..
This needs to be one of the next albums you review front to back.
That's been my favorite Nirvana song ever since I first heard it when I was 11 years old in 1991. I remember walking around my neighborhood playing it in my head (I didn't own a portable listening device then) and I would sing along not knowing what it means.
wish these guys would do albums more often
Heres a suggestion by Nirvana… Milk It ! Next level stuff!
Ha right? Or curmudgeon? Or I hate myself and want to die? Deeeeep cuts!
The whole album is good
Spot on with the stone temple pilots comparison
Maybe vocally but STP were more complex musically.
They're ALL bangers! That was the phenomenal part of it. Put it on and let it run.
I’ve listened to this song more times than I could count in the last 15 years, and I had never once thought about how the intro sounds like STP. And you heard it first listen. Well done sir 🫡
Aneurysm is another Nirvana banger you guys should check out.
For sure, but definitely the Live at the Paramount version
Butch Vig, who produced this along with several other grunge era bands, is a master of building song dynamics.
I miss you guys, man. You guys don’t make enough content!!
My FAVORITE Nirvana song! 💯
“Territorial Pissings”, the last song on the album is 🔥🔥🔥
It's an awesome track but not the last one on the album. You've got another 5 tracks, plus the hidden one, endless nameless
@@pauloviegasphotography oh, yes. I was actually thinking of “endless, nameless”. Now that would be a fantastic reaction.
I'm going to tell you right now that, while I LOVE Endless, Nameless and all of their other *really* abrasive tracks, they're not likely to be big fans. Just worth checking your expectations if they happen to do it.
The kind of riff that is so satisfying, so familiar, so groovy, that it is hard to believe that someone wrote that.
'Breed' is a great one.
Not a single skip on this album
Lounge Act is a Must Hear! Pure Nirvana perfection!
Drain You is untouchable. The perfect Nirvana song.
Every song on the album is a banger. My personal favorite is Drain you.
The loud/soft dynamic has been around for a long time (especially in metal) but it was popularized with grunge and Nirvana, and Cobain credited the Pixies with inspiring him to use it
Do "Man Who Sold the world" from their Unplugged set.
This brings me back to seventh grade. Tape deck Walkman hidden in the hoodie front pouch and small hole on the inside to the headphone jack. 🎧
9th grade for me! Music of the 90’s uh the best. You bet!
I got this one in 1993ish, I was 9 and I'd carry it in my pocket if it wasn't in my walkman.
@@PhillipCalvin627 If you had that album it elevated your importance to the next level.
you guys might as well go through the whole album like you did Dirt. So many bangers
Pixies definetly were the pioneers. Cobain himself stated that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was an attempt to emulate the "Pixies style". But Nirvan obviously took it to another level and made it a thing.
Saw them a bunch in Boston back in the day.
Definitely on the list but my opinion you wouldn’t have any of this without the Beatles.
Led Zeppelin was doing the loud soft dynamics back in the 60s. Listen to Ramble On and What Is and What Should Never Be.
@@The16thninjaI literally just had this conversation on a Facebook post the other day and cited the same songs as you in my examples lol
@@The16thninja Context. 90's grunge. Cause if we throw that out of the window, i agree they were doing that already, but also Paganini was doing that in the violin and Beethoven was riffing (no pun intended) off of that idea even before going deaf so...
Pixies were the pioneers of that. In the implied alternative/grunge context. Which Nirvana admitedly took a page from.
I would also agree with the dude who said Beatles is a heavy influence on those bands. Although i hate The Beatles, lol.
I discovered this song by playing Rock Band. It was so much fun on the drums lol
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, Drain You, Lithium, Serve the Servants, About A Girl, School, or just the rest of the Nevermind album. Lol. Just my suggestions. Been rocking with you guys a long time. Many years. Much love!!!!
Maybe not right away, but I think we’ll need a MTV Unplugged Nirvana full video/album reaction. All time best Unplugged imo and it’s a very important listen. They were on another level
Nice job fellas! another banger reaction.
Stone Temple Pilots and many other grunge bands came out after Nirvana and definitely after the classic "Nevermind" album was released. Yes, Stone Temple Pilots pretty much emulated this exact sound in their guitars and even the voice mix on their first album "Core".
You guys mentioning the hits on this record, crazy to think that one dude came up with all of em. Kurt wrote every single one of their songs what an absolute genius that guy was
Nevermind is one of the best albums ever
I use this song to erase any earworm in the world anytime. The way they stopped the music in the middle of every sequence does miracles.
The whole album is just banger after banger... that album was life changing for a lot of kids.
NIRVANA 🐐
Drain You and On A Plain are the best songs off Nevermind IMO while Aneurysm is my favourite Nirvana track overall, although every song they ever recorded is brilliant.
Every song on this album was fire. My 14 year old jaw hit the floor and just stayed there the entire run time. Check out the song Territorial Pissings if you want to hear their full on hard sound. Love.
I also like how each line from Verse 1 correlates to each line from Verse 2 (sell the kids for food - we can have some more etc.)
Wow, how did I never know that?! 🤯
In an infamous Interview with Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, Kurt said of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, “I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it”. And that’s just the most famous reference, Dave Grohl penned in a NY Times Article in 2004, “Face it, the quiet/loud dynamic that's dominated alternative radio for the last 14 years can be attributed to one and only one band, the Pixies. Undoubtedly one of the most influential groups of the new rock generation.” The dynamic in raw form goes back to forever (way beyond its different use in ‘Black Sabbath’), but its particular application in that time, and the influence of that application is pretty clear.
Dave Grohl said in a famous conversation with Pharrell that his drum groove, especially on the Nevermind record, was mostly inspired by disco and funk bands like The Gap or Cameo. I can't unhear those tight funky grooves now, this is fascinating the way he incorporated in louder, raw music. Great bands to get inspiration from, too.
To answer your question at the end, there are no misses on this album. Territorial Pissings goes the hardest, but man, each song has something to give. Novoselic and Grohl just have so many good vibes with the bass lines and drum tracks. Thanks for getting me to cue this album up again. It has been a while.
One thing that Dave Grohl was iconic for was using Disco drum patterns.
The whole Album is shocking brilliant.
Damn, this takes me right back to 1992, on the tractor cutting hay fields on Mr. Furlow’s farm back home in Texas when I was 19 years old! Jammin’ the Nirvana Nevermind cassette tape!
Boys and Girls the album Nevermind one of the greatest album ever created yes middle America I said it!!!!!!!! it sold very well, it killed off hair metal(pop metal), Grunge became a thing, had impact, album shifted culture and define the sound of the 90s and had 100 bands afterwards chase this sound.
Overrated album by overrated band.
The whole track is really nice, very fun to play the drums 🥁🎵
The song You Know You're Right. One of the best they did.
Lounge Act is one of my favorite Nirvana songs that I don't think enough people give enough love to. Would love for the boys to check it out sometime.
Nirvana how great they were rated, will always still be underrated to me. Such an impactful band to so many other bands. The drumming by Dave Grohl was also so good and unique, with those fills upon fills. NASSSS-TY!
Milk It is the best Nirvana song ever!!!!! Such a masterpiece. The vocals, the insane lyrics, that drumming. Amazing song!
I'm pretty sure it's a song about Kurt's stomach problems and his bad reaction to taking the liquid medication he was on.
Grohl is an absolute monster on the drums