30 years of Nirvana's Nevermind - an album forged by contradictions
Photo: Frank Micelotta Archive/Getty Imageswas a generation-defining milestone that sold 30 million copies and made a tragic icon of Kurt Cobain.united musical tribes that had been largely separate and added a pop element that made them accessible to everyone else.Released 30 years ago this week,was a generation-defining milestone that sold 30 million copies and made a tragic icon of Kurt Cobain.
Ranked the most influential band of all time by US magazine Spin last year, Nirvana's ethos continues to reverberate in artists as varied as Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey and Frank Turner.
"It's been building up through the years... Nirvana came along and delivered the goods," said Thurston Moore, of fellow grunge outfit Sonic Youth, at the time.In doing so, Nirvana made all the permed-hair, spandex-wearing posturing of 1980s rock look ridiculous. "It was the album that made hard rock obsolete - the rock that was popular at the time: superficial, misogynistic, less intense," Charlotte Blum, author of a recent book about the grunge movement, told AFP.Cobain was ambitious, his diaries filled with intricate plans, ruthlessly firing drummers until they found the perfect fit in Dave Grohl .He was traumatised at the idea that"yuppie scum in BMWs" were listening to"I haven't listened to it since we put it out.
Producer Butch Vig pointed out that Cobain had no problems with it in the studio:"If it had only sold 50 000 copies, he probably wouldn't have had any comments on whether it was too slick."But it was Cobain's monomaniacal dedication to the punk cause that gaveFrom the immediately catchy riffs of
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