What can you say about this album other than to say, it's ten out of ten perfect. I'm not even going to try and critique it. What's the point. Instead I'll tell you that my personal favpurite track is number seven, 'Territorial Pissings', and just enlighten you with some geeky Nevermind triv...
15 facts about NEVERMIND that you might not have known:
1. It knocked Michael Jackson's Dangerous off the top of the billboard album charts. Hooray!
2. The working title for their album was originally 'Sheep'
3. Track 'Breed' was originally named Imodium.
4. Cobain was embarrassed by the final album mix saying that it sounded "closer to Mötley Crüe record than it is a punk rock record."
5. The first 20,000 copies of the album didn't feature the hidden track 'Endless, Nameless' because of cock up at mastering.
6. The album cover features an image of three-month-old boy Spencer Elden. However, there was some concern because Elden's penis was visible in the image. Geffen Records prepared an alternate cover without the penis, as they were afraid that it would offend people. They relented when Cobain made it clear that the only compromise he would accept was a sticker covering the penis that would say, "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile."
7. Now defunct UK music magazine Select gave the album four stars, but made Blur's debut album Leisure album of the month. Rolling Stone only gave it 3 stars. Idiots.
8. Geffen records expected it to sell at best 250,000 copies. It's now sold 30 million.
9. Being a proper geeky Nirvana knob is sometimes quite useful. I won a holiday for six people on tie breaker question which was which was "what was the highest position Smells Like Teen Spirit reached in UK charts...
10. ...the answer was No. 7. Though Smells Like Teen Spirit never reached No. 1 in the US either (best position was no 6) it did reach the top spot in Belgium! Well done the Belgians
11. Although he's not credited, Chad Channing, Nirvana's drummer before Dave Grohl, does actually appear on the album. He plays cymbals on the track Polly.
12. Kurt didn't want 'Come As You Are' released as a single because he was concerned about possible legal action by Killing Joke whose track 'Eighties' it bears a very close resemblance to. Check it out here...
13. Based upon the aggregated reviews of 2,700 different charts across magazine, websites and radio stations, NEVERMIND is rated the 6th best album of all time beaten only by Sgt. Peppers (5), Abbey Road (4) Revolver (3), Dark Side Of The Moon (2) and, yawn, O.K. Computer (1).
15. In memorial tribute to Cobain his home town of Aberdeen have added the name of one of NEVERMIND's songs to its city limits sign. They read "Welcome to Aberdeen: Come as you are"
TERRITORIAL PISSINGS
COME AS YOU ARE
BREED
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