NEVERMIND poll

This Nevermind boxed set thing includes more "Boombox demos" that no one wants to hear.. and the tracklisting doesn't include "Endless Nameless" as far as I can tell. And of course there's one disc that's just a different mix of the entire album. Sounds pretty fucking amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRm8RmNGFq4&feature=player_embedded

i heard "Breed" on the other night, bass sound on that song is just ridiculous. but i'd already voted for "Drain You."

i wonder what non-singles have had the most radio play, i think i've heard "Breed" and "Polly" the most, and "Drain You" and "Something In The Way" and "On A Plain a little bit

― some dude, Friday, June 24, 2011 8:23 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark

lately i think "on a plain" might be the champ of this

yeah On a Plain is terrific

On a Plain got my vote last time and probably would again; what an earworm.

i meant specifically it's the champ of non-singles i've heard on the radio a lot, but yeah it may be my favorite song on the album these days too. lyrically it's almost like a thesis statement for kurt's nonsensical profundity.

Nevermind is 25 today. wow, i'm old.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/nirvanas-nevermind-10-things-you-didnt-know-w441220

some more good stuff:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/butch-vig-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-nirvana-s-nevermind-and-the-mediocre-state-of-music.html

I think there is so much music out there that is mediocre—not just EDM, but folk music, hip-hop music—because there’s so much music out there. Before, it was hard to put music out. So at the end of the day, you have to put out something that’s good. Whether it’s EDM or folk music, if it’s going to resonate some way you’re going to find an audience. And how many bands are on YouTube now? Ten million? You go through SoundCloud and check out all the EDM tracks out there and every now and then one sounds interesting, but a lot of it is really soulless. There’s no human passion in it, and it’s just a mixture of interesting sounds. I think people are going to get bored with that. Nirvana happened at the end of the ’80s because a lot of the music that was dominating the charts was very slick, and when Nirvana came along, it was so visceral and primal that it freaked people out, you know? They thought, ‘Wow, this is the real thing.’ The reason that record was so big is the timing. If Nirvana came out now with Nevermind, it would not have even remotely the same impact.

Butch is seriously overstating the quality of the music that was being released pre-internet.

MTV Classic has three Nirvana things in a row scheduled tonight. First up is the "making of / classic albums" doc. Last is Unplugged. In the middle *seems* to be just Nirvana videos celebrating this ann'y (based on the description). Hoping it's more than that, but if not, oh well.

Just FYI.

i remember hearing "Verse Chorus Verse" on a radio when it came out and being obsessed w that song but having no idea what it was called. this was before the internet and i had a BBS i used to download DOOM WADs and one of them was a Nirvana music mod that had that song. so for about a solid decade that's the way I heard that song.

no idea if Nevermind would make an impact nowadays. for one thing there's no MTV so you wouldn't have Teen Spirit on heavy rotation. for another it's an entirely different landscape and Kurt would have maybe said "screw this label business I'm going to be on SoundCloud"

it was a product of it's time. i actually saw Nirvana open up for Sonic Youth three months before Nevermind was released. they absolutely blew my mind that night. it was one of those moments were i knew i has witnessing something very special. best thing about Nirvana was the killing of hair metal. i hated the KNAC culture and it was something i could latch onto.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/I3FMoGC28iVPdOe1B0Mi-DNwPlfLhuObEcqSr7k1rk2thhCZE91HJQSU3NhZfntofvKMpRQPAY65jgKSBjZAEh3YJgjhTAQFpP-5Tvbn1aX1ni2CKkQc2D2U4TUFsvgeE5IBUaRaywMamw1Ty1524LFgH5pkB3lzKoMqaA1-1tgZyo8PiHZC86QzR0YfU_my4VTjP1_ceVppsJyh05GYOoPbiHeu766sa_-N419bP7gqKZcEn1tBge5YtbF6twOptLDsYD--00jYjXen5i2JKM9vfXyceJ8uphzACqdDReCeuD2Qk1QBlhbRegzsCW2j2CJdO-ZtB9lpraZIKjtzf1OARhXnn9SVt9yvQsiqSozIJ1GjJfqYHwEHFCG7VlLEyVZZPbdzJqpOiDN2kretqLrWttU-Hin9iCv5GeuyZruPPD515XSYZoBCf3suL0kSYQ08J9DDkuN4xjQ39FH2UDAwvbdjKXZcMo830Fl2T2VPt0-JEOJ60zlJ1oHok75cAICcOQYqQ2NLyP50qntFKhlFBMJOH3sDDcOQDP4ZHbpXNO9QLMOnIM5abuCt3DjZHi2fjVOw7gXGKOuJHKJeWGW3mDCfTZFUUpmimPpkvbwmrog9=w1689-h950-no

August 17, 1990:

Blew
Been a Son
Negative Creep
Drain You
Lithium
Floyd the Barber
Smells Like Teen Spirit
School
About a Girl
Love Buzz (Shocking Blue cover)
Sliver
D-7 (Wipers cover)
Territorial Pissings

I listened to this album this morning for the first time in at least 10 years. It's pretty good!

Incidentally, the other day I heard Hole's "Live Through This" for the first time. It's pretty good, too! I totally forgot I saw them live back in 1994 I think. Never saw Nirvana live, never really wanted to, nor do I regret missing them live. But yeah, "Nevermind" is pretty good!

It's a great record! I know it was trendy for a few years for some to knock Nevermind because of its relatively shiny mix, pop smarts and its status as a gateway album, but all of those things are just a few of the reasons why it's such a great record. I've lost count of the number of people I've spoken to with a deep interest in alternative rock that began with this album.

wow I thought come as you are was a consensus favorite!

these days it's Lithium