Everyone has that first rock record that opens the door to a new world.....NEVERMIND was that album for me thank you Kurt

I love Nirvana. I've always been into hiphop, but they got me hooked pretty fast.

This is a cool series. Keep em coming Pitchfork.

Sooo if you want to play Endless Namelles you have to smash your guitar Thanks your for the advice!!

There's something about how this video was made that's really appealing. I wish there were more like this.

Do London Calling by The Clash

I absolutely love your video editing, keep it up!

This album was released on my 13th birthday. It really helped color this period of my life

Just listened to this album in full for the first time. I absolute love it!!

great vid... a bunch of things I didn't know! and I've been following them for 20 yrs now!

This is such a good series

I bought Nevermind on cassette right when it came out. I always thought "Something In The Way" was the hidden track, because there was a long pause right before it. Did anyone else's cassette not have any music after "Something In The Way?

Love this

I heard Nevermind at first accidentally. Now I love both Unplugged album and Incesticide.

This series is great

Who will be the next great rock band that'll change everything? Nirvana was, arguably, the last band to do it. When Nirvana hit in 1991, they single-handedly took out Los Angeles cock rock and terrible corporate pop music in one swipe. It was an amazing breath of fresh air. Terrible pop music didn't recover until 2000ish with the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. It's 2016 and there still isn't a really great rock n' roll movement that celebrates independent, underground rock.

This was pretty good but the biggest issue wasn't the tuning of his guitar but that he laid it down without a click track. Butch Vig talks about it during the Classic Album's series on Nevermind

Channing played on In Bloom too....

Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins !!!

Jesus and the Mary Chains' Psychocandy?

rest in happiness, kurt

What about some jazz for the next album? Like John Coltrane's Giant Steps or Miles' Kind Of Blue/Milestones/Sketches Of Spain

So those ten minutes after that song r supposed to be there?

Kris in that Beat Happening shirt is a great picture

have beaker in the video made it awesome!

they got kicked out for starting a *Foo Fight* ... hehehe

Please do Bergtatt by Ulver

In Utero, though.

Can you do Origin of Symmetry or Absolution in 5 minutes?

You guys should do one of these on one of Stone Temple Pilot’s first three albums

Slayer song played in video?

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

i love how he smashed a guitar on a recording. how extra lol

Was in 8th grade when this thing dropped. I was into stuff like Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth at the time, along with all of the classic rock stuff. So this thing came along at the exact right time for me. The whole grunge thing was basically marketed directly at my age group. Listening to it now (well the songs that haven't been totally worn out) I can't help but wonder why it was as giant as it became and why it's achieved it's legendary status, a sentiment I'm sure Kurt would echo. It's really good pop punk. Kurt could write a hook that's for sure. I think it was just the right album and the right band at the exact right moment. I love Kurt's voice as the whole "dirty vs clean" vocals deal I land on dirty, but he's not a particularly talented vocalist. He's also not a particularly talented guitar player, although it may have to do with the style of music and the eschewing of long, boring, noodling guitar solos than of his actual ability. The song structure isn't anything special either, it's the Beatles meet (insert punk band here). Like I said, I think it was just different enough and the industry seized on the fact that they needed a new sound to sell as the whole hair metal/glam thing had been played out by that point. Again I think Kurt was pretty confused about it himself. I don't think he wanted to be what the industry made him out to be. I think he wanted to be where music like this belongs, just on the edge of household name but never #1 on the Billboard. I shed a few tears when I heard he died over the radio and I was about as big a fan as they came back then, but looking back I can't help but think Nirvana wasn't ever supposed to be where they ended up.

In Bloom was thought up before the new takes cause Dave Grohl credited Chad with coming up with the drums at the beginning

Do Pink Season by Pink Guy

A side note to go with the video.......Endless Nameless was recorded during Lithium sessions. Kurt got frustrated and angry during the recording session for Lithium and went into a rage filled jam in which Kris and Dave joined in

That’s fucking awesome about the smashed guitar and the microwaved record, never knew about that stuff

in utero > nevermind

They didn't tell you that Burton C Bell , the singer of Fear Factory was in Smells like teen S music video.

In the Aeroplane over the Sea or Grace would be interesting.

The freshest-sounding rock music.

The problem with Nirvana is they didn't last long. It was January, 1992 and 'Nevermind" hit #1 in the USA. On 5 April, 1994 Kurt was dead. I believe that is 27 months. Not long at all.

Can you doing green day album

i honestly prefer in utero

Being kicked out your own success bash, now that is badass

🤘🏻 NIRVANA 🤘🏻

Juan Gabriel

Come for nevermind, stay for in utero

Do *Arcade Fire - Funeral* or *R.E.M - Automatic for the People*

how did they influence radiohead? especially when their nascence was coeval?

Do one like this for The Marshal Mathers LP by Eminem

Can you do "Dookie" or "American Idiot" by Green Day next?

Buddy, that album WAS an instant smash. The single and video preceded the album's release by a couple of weeks, and the original 50k pressed sold out so fast the album wasn't available for a week. Please, do your research. That data is so readily available it should be embarrassing.

Pitchfork do a video on way kanye famous is such a good song.

What's the song sung by the muppets?

The muppets should have played "Floyd the barber" haha

Nevermind does sound “too slick”

You should do die kreuzen

Nelson lol

Pretty cool, but their is nothing that new Nirvana fans need to know. All they need to know is that it's all on the music man! Plus, they had their time of their lives playing kickass songs to people.

GRANDMA TAKE ME HOME GRANDMA TAKE ME HOME

*Crazy to think I was listening to sicko mode before turning to grunge and underground punk rock...*

Endless Nameless was the result of the band not being able to record Lithium in the way that they wanted - he wanted. After a couple of days of it, in frustration, they cobbled-together and blew-out what we now know as Endless Nameless. It's a tantrum! :)

lelz, didnt know about the microwaved golden record

Kurt "microwaved a gold album that had been awarded to the band Nelson" =DD

He's not technically correct about Something in the Way. Vig did not 'convince' Cobain to to record this way.They were not getting the sound they wanted, and Vig asked Cobain how he wanted it to sound like. Cobain - with guitar in-hand - played the song in the control room and that's when Vig asked him to stop so he could put speakers in the control room. This is why the song is so quiet and you can hear every texture, strum and nuanced speech from Cobain; Vig dampened very other sound.

are there even drums on "Polly"? not much of an "appearance" for chad...

Beastie Boys License to Ill for the 30th year anniversary!!

#soakedinbleach

did they just say radiohead was inspired by nevermind? pablo honey came out the same year, they wouldn't nearly have had the time... and creep came out in 1992 there isn't a chance they were influenced until the bends

CAN WE GET SOME SYSTEM OF A DOWN - TOXICITY OR MEZMERIZE/HYPNOTIZE?

Radiohead weren't influenced by Nirvana. That would be the pixies.

Do GG Allin's entire discography

Do Alice in Chains Dirt album!

Incesticide > Nevermind > In Utero > Bleach

You don't need to know anything just listen to the music

they microwaved nelson's album? NICE!!!!

Album is gold. But lmao they didnt inspired Radiohead.😂

Oh man the guy who narrates this has he goofiest voice i’ve heard

Who are these guys? Nirvana? 😜

Ali g or butch vig?

You missed the fact that "Come as You Are" was a blatant ripoff of "Eighties" by Killing Joke even down to Geordie's special guitar tuning. There was a lawsuit about that until Kurt's death where Killing Joke dropped it.

If you mixed the Melvins, Bay City rollers, the pixies and Sonic youth...you get Nirvana..just saying

666 views when i get here :/

The production of Nevermind does sound a bit "slick" and almost synthy, the 80s were still refusing to die. If you want proof of what Kurt WANTED - listen to the production on In Utero. The raw yet close sound of the guitar strings on "heart shaped box" undistorted, then crashed against the chorus were a revelation to me at age 13. Having digested Nevermind completely, In Utero truly seemed like what they SHOULD have been sounding like the whole time.

interesting but not really enlightening. Cool or whatever

i agree with cobain, its far too slick and over produced, in eutero was the far better album

Don't really understand the likes, that was horseshit.

Bleach was better

I saw Weezer FUCK YEAH

Bleach & Fecal Matter >>>>>>>>>>>> everything else

Always liked the album, but couldn't watch their videos. Couldn't stand that Cobain guy.

Green day wasn't influenced by nirvana lmao They started becoming a band the same time nirvana did

Pearl Jam > Nirvana

This is one of the weaker episodes, unfortunately.

Bleach by far their best work

Nirvana is good but way overrated.

Useless video with some incorrect information

I hate anti-capitalists. They claim to "hate capitalism", yet they love making money, which is the point of capitalism. Kurt Cobain and the rest of Nirvana, as well as other anti-capitalist musicians/bands like the garbage RAtM, are huge tools because of this. I can respect Nirvana for their musical talents (RAtM have none), but that's all I have respect for. If you're in a position or business to make money, maybe you shouldn't decry the system that allows you to get rich through your own merits and hard work. Just sayin'.