Kurt Cobain NIRVANA "Nevermind" Original 1991 US Hard Rock LP Dave Grohl

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Nirvana / Nevermind - Geffen Records GHS-24425 (US)(1991) ...This auction is for an original issue Record on (US) vinyl. This is a first pressing and includes a promotional album-size 2-sided full color poster with the album art (back is picture #3).

  Nevermind was never meant to change the world, but Nirvana's second album turned out to be the place where alternative rock crashed into the mainstream. Nevermind is probably a little shinier than it should be, positively glistening with echo and fuzzbox distortion, especially when compared with the black-and-white murk of Bleach. This doesn't discount the record, since it's not only much harder than any mainstream rock of 1991, its character isn't on the surface, it's in the exhilaratingly raw music and haunting songs.

  Track listings and reviews listed below...
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Detailed item info

Album Features UPC: 720642442517 Artist: Nirvana (US) Format: LP
Release Year: 1991 Record Label: Geffen Genre: Grunge, Rock & Pop
Track Listing
(Side One)
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. In Bloom
3. Come as You Are
4. Breed
5. Lithium
6. Polly

(Side Two)
1. Territorial Pissings
2. Drain You
3. Lounge Act
4. Stay Away
5. On a Plain
6. Something in the Way

Details Producer: Nirvana, Butch Vig Distributor: Geffen Distribution Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo
Album Notes
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar); Chris Novoselic (vocals, bass); David Grohl (vocals, drums).
Additional personnel: Kirk Canning (cello).Recorded at Sound City, Van Nuys, California.Personnel: Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar); Dave Grohl (vocals, drums); Krist Novoselic (vocals); Kirk Canning (cello).Audio Mixers: Craig Doubet; Andy Wallace.
Recording information: Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, CA.
Photographers: Kirk Weddle; Michael Lavine; Kurt Cobain.Unknown Contributor Role: Kirk Canning.

You can never predict when the zeitgeist will hit, and Nirvana's second album turned out to be the place where alternative rock crashed into the mainstream. This wasn't entirely an accident, since Nirvana did release a record with a shiny surface, no matter how humongous the guitars sounded. For all the anguish on Nevermind, it's bracing because Kurt Cobain exorcizes his demons through evocative wordplay and mangled screams, and because the band has a tremendous, unbridled power that turns pain into pure catharsis. In retrospect, Nevermind may seem too unassuming for its mythic status -- it's simply a great modern punk record -- but though it may no longer seem life-changing, it is certainly life-affirming, which may just be better.

Editorial Reviews
Ranked #12 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
NME

...The culmination of 10 years of post-punk, and a reinvention of the style for a new generation....Smart, sarcastic rock, noisy and catchy and unabashedly confused, that zoomed from a collegiate cult following into the Top 10 without a hint of appeasement...
New York Times

[A] blissful union of corrosive riffs and bubblegum melodies....Singles such as 'Come As You Are' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' brought a rarely heard punk influence into the mainstream.
Q

Ranked #5 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991 - ...aching melodies...fearsome metallic attack...An album which penetrated all the way to the heart of America's metal homeland...
Melody Maker (19911201)

Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.
Vibe (19991201)

Ranked #1 in AP's list of the `Top 99 of '85-'95' - ...this Seattle trio, for better or for worse, actually deserved the literal heaps of attention that pursued them. ...[Nirvana] broke into and stole the hearts of this generation because Sir Cobain could write an incredibly catchy song...[with] lyrics that were not shallow treatises...
Alternative Press (19950701)

Included in Q Magazine's list of the 50 best albums of 1991.
Q (19920101)

Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.
Q (19991201)

Ranked #3 in Q's Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime
Q (20011001)

Ranked #1 in EW's Top 10 albums of the '90s - ...[It] continues to spew a molten-lava stream of melody, primal force, and passion...
Entertainment Weekly

Highly Recommended - Ranked #3 in Spin's list of the 20 Best Albums Of 1991.
Spin (19911201)

Ranked #1 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.
Spin (19990901)

Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (19990513)

5 stars out of 5 -- NEVERMIND, the album that shot them into the stratosphere, is a riotous, life-affirming laugh.
Record Collector

On Nov-15-11 at 11:02:34 PST, seller added the following information:

 Correction: Catalog number for this record is DGC-24425 (not GHS-24425)