Today September 24 marks the 25th anniversary of the edition of 'Nevermind', Nirvana's second studio album, a landmark album that with its dozen memorable songs changed the course of the music of the XNUMXs and led to grunge establishing itself as the musical genre of an entire generation.
The lead single from 'Nevemind', 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', can be considered as the most important and influential song of alternative rock of the 90, as defined by a legion of music critics and journalists around the world for more than two decades.
The three members of Nirvana - Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl - weren't really looking for fame, as Grohl later recalls: "When we were working on 'Nevermind' I never imagined we were making a classic album, I just thought, 'This sounds great!'".
'Nevermind' got alternative rock to become popular, becoming the most popular genre from that moment on. A curious fact was that Geffen Records, the group's distribution label, had an expectation of selling 250 thousand copies of the album, which ended up being millions, reaching 32 in the 25 years of its publication.
Beyond any kind of explanation, it is a fact that this Nirvana album achieved such success due to its great songs. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' came as a barrage that MTV would broadcast all day at the end of 1991. This hymn of a whole generation had an overwhelming riff and enigmatic lyrics that did not go unnoticed by anyone; 'Come As You Are' sounded like a haunting and intense track in equal measure, and 'Lithium' is a song that sought to celebrate flamboyance and heartbreak.
'Nevermind' immersed itself in the reality of that generation that lived with problems of self-esteem, loneliness, misunderstanding, apathy, managing to connect with that latent anger and expose it in each of their songs.