
20 years ago today Nevermind came out. 20 Fucking Years!
i was 13 years old in 8th grade listening to Guns N’ Roses and Bell Biv Devoe and then Nevermind came out and it may be cliched as fucking hell but it definitely changed everything after that. I didn’t get my copy the day it came out. I mean I was 13. I didn’t have a car or money or the fucking internet. Luckily my dad was cool and bought it for himself on tape maybe a week or so after it came out and gave me his copy after a few listens, knowing in his dad brain it was something that I was gonna care way more about than he would. On a random side note that blows my own mind, I am the same age today as my dad was then…time…it just keeps fucking going. Anyways it’s weird to actually notice a cultural shift but being from a boring nowhere place like Augusta, GA and listening to Nirvana (and later Sonic Youth) was a FUCKING HUGE way to separate myself from most of the redneck, jock, asshole kids i went to school with. they weren’t just a band. not to me. not to lots of kids like me.
Nevermind is an album that never gets played in my home, my car, on my ipod. it’s easily my least favorite of Nirvana’s 3 studio albums. it’s too slick. too polished. too overplayed. too fucking big. but i will still always love it…even if i never listen to another note ever again. so thanks for existing Nevermind. happy fucking birthday. and just think…that naked baby can probably buy beer now.
20 years !