Nirvana
Nevermind

Uh-oh! We are told that this review also appears on ondarock. So, nirvana77 is playing both sides, or is it just a copycat? Bah.

"Nevermind": don't think about it. Indeed, when you first put this album on the stereo, you get the feeling that you've never thought anything good in your life. "Nevermind" is something more than an album. It's anger, unease, pain, excruciating pain. All of this can be summed up in the first seconds of the first track, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", perhaps the most well-known rock song of the 90s. But let's go in order.

Nirvana is on their second album, after their promising debut with "Bleach" for the indie label Sub Pop. Backed by their already established colleagues Sonic Youth, they enter Geffen's orbit, at the height of the grunge era. Two years after "Bleach", Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl (who had become the band's permanent drummer in the meantime) release "Nevermind". An hour of technically simple pieces, turned into rock masterpieces by Cobain's trembling, hoarse, and fearful voice. It can't be said that Nirvana are great musicians, but this makes it even harder to explain why they have been so successful. The emotions that this album offers to the listener who identifies with Cobain's anger are impossible to put into words. As we mentioned, the four chords of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Four chords, indeed, but spewed out in a turbulent outburst that Grohl's rolls perfectly support. The alternation of the melodic verse with a chorus symbolizing the generational ordeal of the early 90s ("With the lights out it's less dangerous/ Here we are now, entertain us/ I feel stupid and contagious/ Here we are now,