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Track List
01) Smells Like Teen Spirit
02) In Bloom
03) Come as You Are
04) Breed
05) Lithium
06) Polly
07) Territorial Pissings
08) Drain You
09) Lounge Act
10) Stay Away
11) On a Plain
12) Something in the Way
13) Endless, Nameless
01) Smells Like Teen Spirit
02) In Bloom
03) Come as You Are
04) Breed
05) Lithium
06) Polly
07) Territorial Pissings
08) Drain You
09) Lounge Act
10) Stay Away
11) On a Plain
12) Something in the Way
13) Endless, Nameless
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First Released
1991
Grunge
Sad
Rock/Pop
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30,000,000 copies
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Nevermind est le deuxième album studio du groupe américain de grunge Nirvana, sorti le 24 septembre 1991 par le label DGC Records. Kurt Cobain écrit et compose seul quasiment toutes les chansons de l'album et le groupe commence à enregistrer en avril 1990 avec le producteur Butch Vig mais la session est interrompue prématurément. Le batteur Chad Channing quitte ensuite le groupe et est remplacé par Dave Grohl. Le groupe change également de label et reprend l'enregistrement de l'album en mai 1991 avec de nouvelles chansons, dont Smells Like Teen Spirit et Come as You Are.
L'album ne bénéficie pas d'une promotion particulière mais la surprenante popularité de son premier single, Smells Like Teen Spirit, fait de lui un succès commercial inattendu à la fois pour le groupe et pour le label. Il atteint notamment la première place des classements musicaux de ventes d'albums aux États-Unis, en France et au Canada et est également plébiscité par la critique. Nevermind s'est vendu depuis à plus de 30 millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde.
L'album est dominé par un puissant son punk rock parsemé de mélodies pop accrocheuses et le sens des paroles des chansons est souvent difficile à interpréter. Il fait sortir de l'ombre la scène grunge de Seattle et est un facteur déterminant de la popularisation du rock alternatif dans le monde entier. Véritable phénomène des années 1990, il marque le retour des guitares saturées dans la musique pour toute la décennie et laisse sa trace sur toute une génération. En 2011, il est réédité dans une édition spéciale pour les vingt ans de sa sortie.
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Before its September 1991 release, Geffen Records were hoping to sell 250,000 copies of Nevermind. But Nirvana's second album went on to shift 100 times that amount; and, since the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain in April 1994, its surprise success has been acknowledged as a factor in its primary songwriter’s tragic demise.
With hindsight it is easy to work out why Cobain struggled with the LP after its completion and release. In Utero, Nirvana's third and final studio album of 1993, was a difficult, abrasive record; compared to its predecessor, it's clearly the product of a mind pushed beyond its limit. Cobain would dismiss Nevermind, the follow-up to 1989's scrappy debut Bleach, as “a Motley Crue record” rather than the punk album that may have been initially intended.
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 final mixes. While 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 standalone cuts, including Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You, Are are exemplary, soaring rock singles which quickly became angst-ridden anthems for disaffected teens across the world. The quiet/loud formula that Nirvana made their own was stolen from the Pixies, as Kurt freely admitted; but Frank Black’s merry crew never managed to hook listeners like Nevermind did.
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 a zip code".
But even the occasional piece of nonsensical wordplay couldn’t hide the beguiling, revelatory side of Cobain's writing. The aforementioned Polly is about a rapist, while Kurt said Something in the Way was about sleeping rough - although friends of his 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 guitars have faded. Ultimately it's his fraying presence that ensures that Nevermind is a flawed classic, but a classic just the same.
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Nevermind est le deuxième album studio du groupe américain de grunge Nirvana, sorti le 24 septembre 1991 par le label DGC Records. Kurt Cobain écrit et compose seul quasiment toutes les chansons de l'album et le groupe commence à enregistrer en avril 1990 avec le producteur Butch Vig mais la session est interrompue prématurément. Le batteur Chad Channing quitte ensuite le groupe et est remplacé par Dave Grohl. Le groupe change également de label et reprend l'enregistrement de l'album en mai 1991 avec de nouvelles chansons, dont Smells Like Teen Spirit et Come as You Are.
L'album ne bénéficie pas d'une promotion particulière mais la surprenante popularité de son premier single, Smells Like Teen Spirit, fait de lui un succès commercial inattendu à la fois pour le groupe et pour le label. Il atteint notamment la première place des classements musicaux de ventes d'albums aux États-Unis, en France et au Canada et est également plébiscité par la critique. Nevermind s'est vendu depuis à plus de 30 millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde.
L'album est dominé par un puissant son punk rock parsemé de mélodies pop accrocheuses et le sens des paroles des chansons est souvent difficile à interpréter. Il fait sortir de l'ombre la scène grunge de Seattle et est un facteur déterminant de la popularisation du rock alternatif dans le monde entier. Véritable phénomène des années 1990, il marque le retour des guitares saturées dans la musique pour toute la décennie et laisse sa trace sur toute une génération. En 2011, il est réédité dans une édition spéciale pour les vingt ans de sa sortie.
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Before its September 1991 release, Geffen Records were hoping to sell 250,000 copies of Nevermind. But Nirvana's second album went on to shift 100 times that amount; and, since the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain in April 1994, its surprise success has been acknowledged as a factor in its primary songwriter’s tragic demise.
With hindsight it is easy to work out why Cobain struggled with the LP after its completion and release. In Utero, Nirvana's third and final studio album of 1993, was a difficult, abrasive record; compared to its predecessor, it's clearly the product of a mind pushed beyond its limit. Cobain would dismiss Nevermind, the follow-up to 1989's scrappy debut Bleach, as “a Motley Crue record” rather than the punk album that may have been initially intended.
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 final mixes. While 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 standalone cuts, including Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You, Are are exemplary, soaring rock singles which quickly became angst-ridden anthems for disaffected teens across the world. The quiet/loud formula that Nirvana made their own was stolen from the Pixies, as Kurt freely admitted; but Frank Black’s merry crew never managed to hook listeners like Nevermind did.
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 a zip code".
But even the occasional piece of nonsensical wordplay couldn’t hide the beguiling, revelatory side of Cobain's writing. The aforementioned Polly is about a rapist, while Kurt said Something in the Way was about sleeping rough - although friends of his 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 guitars have faded. Ultimately it's his fraying presence that ensures that Nevermind is a flawed classic, but a classic just the same.
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