Nevermind. Do you remember when...

you first heard anything off this album? Even if you're not a Nirvana fan?

For me it was at The Entertainer in Hereford. I was on the door (taking the money - my brothers a promoter) and 2 guys I knew (Joe and Stuart) were 'DJing' they'd always end on 'Enter Sandman' by Metallica for the pre band 'disco'. Of all tracks the they chose from Nevermind it was 'Something in the Way'

It blew my mind - it wasn't really until a few weeks after that i'd managed to absorb the whole album and realise just how awesome a band Nirvana were.

Then everyone jumped on the fact and they became 'kewl' when Kurt topped himself

Where were you?

 

listening to proper american rock.

 

I dunno when I first heard it, but I was on Easter Camp with my scout group when I found out about his death.

 

I bought nevermind from ourprice the day it arrived there . I was a massive fan and had been in every day for a week asking if they had got it yet.

I ran a mile home to listen to it and when I got there my brother had borrowed my cassette player to record something on the radio and was half way through I new better than to mess with him so I took it out side and listened to it in my mums car. I sat there and played the whole album twice in the dark.

good times

 

Not my cup of tea. Always thought they were over-rated.

 

Sounds corny but that album changed my life i was 17 at the time n bored with the music scene! Cobain made sense to me at the time. God rest his soul

 

It gently seeped into my consciousness.... I was 13 and beginning to think outside the box of popular music and I found myself humming Come as You Are at the bus stop. a friend said I didn't know you liked Nirvana and I was like "who?"

A cool kid a school approached me a little later, he had broken his leg and wanted me to draw something on his cast, I suggested that I draw the album cover from Nevermind on it. I took the CD home to practice my drawings and from there on it changed everything! I learned to play guitar, grew my hair long, rebelled, became disenfranchised, etc... maybe this would have happened being a teenager, maybe it wouldn't, but it truly influenced who I became.

20 years later I've joined another band and I'm playing bass instead of guitar for the first time love it. I've gone back through a number of albums to properly listen to the bass and Nevermind is one that has been on the iPod several times in the last few months. The only downside is that I listen to albums like Nevermind and think this is a very high standard to achieve!

 

Nirvana were one of my fav bands ever and defined my youth.

 

I never understood the hype around them or that album and kinda got in to listening to them when he'd done himself in. At that time i was heavily in to the Rave scene rather than teenage angst music. I was about reaching for the lazers rather than the razors.

I did however start getting in to their material after he done himself in and can appreciate their work. I will always love the Bowie cover of The Man Who Sold The World off of the MTV Unplugged album.

 

I would have just started 6th form ... thought it was 'alright' at the time ... I was too busy listening to Skid Row, Motley Crue, Guns n' Roses, Metallica, to name but a few!

 

Yes, I remember that time well, we went to see them at Edwards No 8 club in Birmingham, it should have been at the Barrel Organ but it was changed for some reason, it was before Nevermind as it was October 89 but they did play some stuff of it. They had equipment problems all night and ended in a fight, Kurt, manager, public all scrapping, brill night. Was any of you lot there? Happy days. O0

 

first album I bought for Kai my 10 year old son was Nevermind. So when he's asked what was the first record you owned...
My first album was a herb Alpert thing, scarred me for life....

 

I saw Nirvana supporting Tad at the Duchess of York, Leeds, in 1989 - I have the set list Kurt Cobain wrote and taped to the stage

 

Huge influence on me at the time and possibly the first whole album I bothered to learn to play. I was in a Goth band at the time and Nirvana's stuff was just awesome. Kurt wrote some crackin' songs. I still have Bleach on blue vinyl.