Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’: An album forged by contradictions | Malay Mail

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LOS ANGELES, Sept 21 — Released 30 years ago this week, Nevermind was a generation-defining milestone that sold 30 million copies and made a tragic icon of Kurt Cobain. Ranked the most influential band of all time by US magazine Spin last year, Nirvana’s ethos continues to reverberate in...

was a generation-defining milestone that sold 30 million copies and made a tragic icon of Kurt Cobain.last year, Nirvana’s ethos continues to reverberate in artists as varied as Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey and Frank Turner.was back in the news last month when the man who was photographed when he was a baby for the cover sued the band for sexual exploitation.

He was pictured naked, swimming after a dollar bill on a fish hook, in an image that became another iconic aspect of an album whose lead trackAt the heart of the album’s success were the strange contradictions of Cobain, who was torn between apathy and rebellion, sweetness and rage.Nevermind united musical tribes that had been largely separate — punk, indie, metal — and added a pop element that made them accessible to everyone else.

“It’s been building up through the years... Nirvana came along and delivered the goods,” said Thurston Moore, of fellow grunge outfit Sonic Youth, at the time.In doing so, Nirvana made all the permed-hair, spandex-wearing posturing of 1980s rock look ridiculous. “It was the album that made hard rock obsolete — the rock that was popular at the time: superficial, misogynistic, less intense,” Charlotte Blum, author of a recent book about the grunge movement, told AFP.Cobain was ambitious, his diaries filled with intricate plans, ruthlessly firing drummers until they found the perfect fit in Dave Grohl .He was traumatised at the idea that “yuppie scum in BMWs” were listening to“I haven’t listened to it since we put it out.

Producer Butch Vig pointed out that Cobain had no problems with it in the studio: “If it had only sold 50,000 copies, he probably wouldn’t have had any comments on whether it was too slick.”But it was Cobain’s monomaniacal dedication to the punk cause that gaveFrom the immediately catchy riffs of

 

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