Seems like it took a long time to get to this no-brainer. The seminal band of the Pacific Northwest grunge movement will be forever linked in my mind with a very strange advertising moment. Right after they perform their first song on Saturday Night Live there was a commercial for a deodorant called Smells Like Teen Spirit. Who thought hits up? Let's pair the most anti-commercial band around with a deodorant, very strange.
Anyway a total digression. Nirvana's first major label release is epic. Almost every song on the record got some amount of airplay and will be well know even to the most casual rock fan. It is also the record that spawned hundreds of imitators and influenced the way we dressed, talked and thought about the world. It is truly one of those industry changing events. Music was boring, record sales were down. Along comes Nevermind and all of a sudden things are fun again. To me this is as important a moment as the birth of punk.
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