Nevermind

Nirvana “Nevermind” This album review will be on Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album that was released in 1991. This was Nirvana's second album released and it sold over 30 million copies. I was interested in Nirvana once I saw it was an option in the book and also because almost everyday you can see someone in the streets wearing a Nirvana t-shirt even people my age and I was curious to listen to their music. As I said before people my age are still wearing Nirvana shirts which truly demonstrates how impactful

In 1992, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous fell from the number one spot on the Billboard music charts, replaced by grunge rock band Nirvana’s sophomore album, Nevermind, bringing alternative rock to mainstream and commercial success. Nirvana had started out in Seattle’s underground music scene and consisted of lead singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. Their sound was a subgenre of alternative rock known as grunge, a combination of punk rock and heavy metal

after the success of ‘Nevermind’, suggests productivity seemed to decrease and this could be due to not producing as good an album as ‘Nevermind’ or Kurt Cobain’s struggle with drug addiction. Con The information is provided

the local underground music scene, Nirvana experienced breakthrough mainstream commercial success since late 1991, until the suicide of Kurt Cobain in April 1994. During their eight-year career span, Nirvana released three studio albums, including Nevermind, which eventually established Nirvana into their stardom, and will went on to sell 30 million copies worldwide. Other than a considerable sales figure, Nirvana was notable for their innovative music style, as well as their reckless and rebellious

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20th, 1967 and died on April 5th, 1994. In his lifetime, he gave a voice to many young people who didn’t think they had one, contributed most to the popularization of the Grunge genre, and had a lasting impact on the music industry. Known as the “spokesman for a broken generation”, he was looked up to by many young people around the world. It was him that sparked the wave of many underground, local or well-known grunge bands all across America and Europe that

If the words “alternative” and “rock” are uttered together, chances are, Nirvana immediately comes to mind. Nirvana, lead by Kurt Cobain, intend to push messages that oppose the mainstream through their music and image. Even though, at the height of their popularity they could certainly be considered rock stars, in an interview with MTV in 1993 Kurt famously says “we’re not rock stars”, he truly doesn 't wish to be categorized as one. Nirvana made a conscious effort to be seen in a completely different

“80s” met the guillotine. In 1991 Nirvana released their breakthrough album Nevermind closely preceded by the album’s defining hit single “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The mainstream music audience wouldn’t have heard anything like Nevermind up to the point in time when it was released on September 24, 1991. It created a schism in pop culture between decades. Frontman Kurt Cobain was the main creative engine for Nevermind and the majority of Nirvana’s catalog until the band met its end in 1994 due

Kurt Cobain was a talented yet troubled musician. He was known for his band, Nirvana, as well as being one of the most famous musicians to commit suicide. Nirvana's most well known album, Nevermind, and song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit,"became the definition of grunge when they were released. Yet, while his musical career ended up highly successful, he ultimately took his own life. This was most likely due to personal struggles and drug abuse. Although Kurt Cobain died young, his music inspired and

and while doing so discovered the drummer Dave Grohl who played with the duo for the majority of the years together. In 1990, the band traded their independent label Sub Pop with major label David Geffen Company Records. Nirvana’s second album, Nevermind, came out in 1991 and was an unexpected success due to the popularity of the hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit. This hit album was held in high regards due to its credits of bringing alternative rock and grunge to the mainstream music. The band

In April , 1994, Kurt Cobain was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Cobain had been the lead singer and guitarist of the nineties band , Nirvana, who many credit as the creator of the grunge rock genre. Kurt Cobain’s extremely personal lyrics give a strong look into Cobain’s struggles with his childhood, drugs, and depression, eventually leading to his suicide. Kurt Cobain experienced an extremely troublesome childhood, inspiring many songs in his later life.