Album Rating: 5.0

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Hate Your Enemies

Save Your Friends

Find Your Place

And

Speak The Truth

Album Rating: 5.0

Went on my first long walk of the year today and this album made it all the sweeter; hugely impactful listen, overdue 5 bump awarded.



Some small details really struck me today - such as when the riff in "Rape Me" gets ever so slightly more distorted, and the almost country-ish twang Cobain adopts in the chorus of "Frances Farmer"

Album Rating: 4.5

Eww stinky nirvana

Watch the Hype! (1996) documentary. It's better than this album.

Album Rating: 4.0

I’m not doing that.

Album Rating: 4.5

[2]

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah fuck that

Album Rating: 5.0

Fucking love Tourette’s ‘get the decorators in!!’ it’s a perfect throwaway bit of rock ‘blonde boy brains on the back of the wall!!!’

Album Rating: 4.0

Not bad at all but I'll never understand how they became the biggest band of the 90s and nor did they apparently.

I assume there was tons of grunge type noise rock floating around the late 80s/early 90s yet these guys rose to the top. I guess Kurt being a handsome dude and their we don't give a fuck about money or fame attitude ironically helped them.

Album Rating: 5.0

It’s like this EE.



MTV and the music press were the fountain where we absorbed what was happening. The mainstream music ‘scene’ as it were was made up of stadium rock (U2, Bon Jovi) pop (MJ, Madonna and a trillion others) and then you had the underground consisting of metal, punk, goth, dance and so on.



Music was an absolutely massive part of peoples lives. TV programmes, radio shows, massive gigs, every pub and club hosted a band or ‘a night’ to accommodate and yet if you were aged between 12-16 there was no real totem representative of your typical young ‘teen’

Hip-Hop - Different World

Metal - OTT nonsense

Goth - Mopey Student Bollocks

Pop - Superficial drek.

Rock - Music for dinosaurs



The Music which bore a similarity to Nirvana was off kilter, ‘arty’ rock or abrasive student band type stuff performed by people who were ‘cool’ but out of reach



Nirvana came on to the scene and obliterated everything. They were fucked off, sarcastic, musically loud and their songs were unbelievably fresh and unequalled in terms of excitement. They were ‘new’ and there was no packaged product. They called the shots and chaos ensued.



We had our ‘punk’ the youth had found its band. They were what had happened before in the 60s and 70s and now we had it in its purest most undiluted form.



They were the absolute bollocks.

Album Rating: 5.0

Haha, amazing - that sums it up

Album Rating: 4.5

zak and his hyperbole heros take 2





and oh damn i have this as a 2? its deffo better than that. must be from the time when i hated cobains vocals

Album Rating: 2.5

No matter how fucked up the world gets, it's comforting to know you can always count on the Nirvana manchild demographic for some comedy.



"its purest most undiluted form"

I could cry.

Album Rating: 5.0

You know me Mort I like my heroes



Strong

Fast

Fresh from the Fight

sure

Larger Than Life

Album Rating: 4.5

zak talking about his favourite bands reminds me of the introductions in guy ritchie films

Album Rating: 4.3

YOU

I WOULD

DIE 4 U

DARLIN IF U WANT ME TO

i always figured they got big cause they took the grungy sound from underground rock in the 80s and injected some pop into it.

Album Rating: 4.5

^ They immediately tapped into something. It was a genuine phenomenon. The look, the (unwilling) frontman icon, and very importantly (and because of), the '...Teen Spirit' video connected en masses in a profound way.

Album Rating: 4.0

@Zak



I can more or less see what you mean but I think it’s definitely a case of “you had to be there” to fully grasp it because almost everyone I know who was an adolescent at the time including my old man speak of it with the same zeal

Album Rating: 4.0

Also besides a few tracks from nevermind and one or two from in utero they weren’t even very radio friendly or accessible and definitely not poppy, but I guess that was a large part of their appeal as Zak said they Inhabited an emerging niche between different genres or scratched an itch that wasn’t being scratched by anything else