Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", 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...", Highly Recommended-Ranked #3 in Spin's List of the 20 Best Albums of 1991., Ranked #3 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", 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...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "When NEVERMIND rocks, it does so extremely, 'Territorial Pissings' and 'Breed' showcasing Dave Grohl's savage drumming and Krist Novoselic's stringy, limber bass.", 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...", "With little more than four chords and a torn cardigan, Kurt Cobain unleashed the teen spirit of a generation...", "...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...", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", 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...", "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.", Ranked #12 in Nme's List of the `Greatest Albums of All Time.', Included in Q Magazine's List of the 50 Best Albums of 1991., 5 stars out of 5 -- "NEVERMIND, the album that shot them into the stratosphere, is a riotous, life-affirming laugh.", Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century., Ranked #1 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
