2000s Street Punk First Listen Reaction to: Nirvana "Nevermind"
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Elliot has somehow made it 30 years without ever hearing Nirvana's Nevermind...
We listen to the album track by track together and give our thoughts.
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Lounge act is the best song on there in my opinion.
Undoubtedly
Song is dope. Played it on violin last year with a guitar player and cello player. Came out good. Not as good as the original of course.
Y’all are crazy with your assessment of Lounge Act. That one and On a Plain are my two favorites from this album. Pure power pop goodness
Agreed, one of the best on the album.
Ok. But you are just wrong. Cause you are wrong. Second half of this album blows.
@@WheresWaldo05bro when an opinion, plus second part of the album is great
Great album, but Bleach and especially In Utero are both better imo.
Nirvana was at their best when they were being noisy and heavy
The radio edit of Smells Like Teen Spirit got cut down to 4:38. Which is still kinda long
Can you guys make a new Rancid tier list with The PUNK ROCK REVIEW ?
I feel like the perspective on this record is truly skewed by it's cultural presence, rating the songs objectively becomes hard when music has already largely moved past the groundbreaking aspects of this record, which is why i feel like a lot of these tracks didn't necessarily cause the same degree of praise as Teen Spirit, when you break down these songs they're still incredibly well written, so it's shame you guys were so lukewarm on a lot of these tracks.
Teen Spirit 10. In Bloom 10. Come As You Are 8. Breed 9.5. Lithium 9. Polly 6. Territorial Pissings 10. Drain You 9. Lounge Act 9. Stay Away 8.5. On a Plain 8.5. Something in the Way 7.
That’s more like it!
I love Alec Chains the Dirt
Same brother lol
I was like who the hell is Alec Chains The Dirt lol
@@scottblockowicz6259Cmon man, I was still sick when we recorded this 😂
If The Replacements get considered, my vote is for Let It Be
Let It Be is a great record, in my top 50 of all time
Great choice! The Mats don’t get enough props.
14:19 - If you ever played the first Rock Band game, In Bloom was an on-disc song. You might have heard it from that.
This is a very relatable weird gap in pop culture knowledge. I know the main hits, and have probably heard the majority of the album somewhere or other, but I was largely restricted to the christian adult contemporary my parents had at the time, and as far as I can remember have never knowingly listened to an entire Nirvana album.
My friend's highschool ska band, followed by MXPX, Five Iron Frenzy, etc were my first intro to punk/adjacent music. Lyrics had to be read by parents, (who were neck deep in Focus on the Family literature), before I was allowed to have anything and they were restrictive enough that I was disallowed from playing the last track from FIF's debut on speakers because "slick as snot her spandex, and blacker than some coal, she set her gaze upon my booty with disco in her soul" was too scandalous for my younger brother to hear. By the time I eventually figured out that I could just not tell them what I was listening to, I was a skapunk kid hiding Rancid cds, and it never really occurred to me to tape or burn anyone's copy of Nirvana.
I had and liked the 2002 self titled best of collection for a while, but never really dug into the original releases.
My father would base it off the parental advisory sticker for awhile, which allowed me get by with some Fat and Epitaph records, but I couldn't buy major studio albums. But once he remarried, my step mother would read the lyrics as well, she ended up throwing out all my Fat and Epitaph collection in high school. It was a depressing day lol.
@@ergoth154 my collection never got significantly raided, but my friend who had gone to a catholic elementary school got caught with MU330's Crab Rangoon, and his mom read the lyrics to Father Friendly, so his collection got hit pretty hard. I think the only album I ever got confiscated was Bounder: All Out, over the song If I Were Gay.
And this is your first grunge exposure it looks like. No punk here whatsoever.
@@WheresWaldo05 Not my first exposure to grunge, or Nirvana, which you would know if you bothered reading the comments you reply to, and I didn't call them a punk band, just implied that they were punk adjacent. If you knew enough about music to be all over these comments condescending to strangers, you would know that grunge was an offshoot of the Seattle punk scene that took on a life of its own, and Smells Like Teen Spirit got its name from Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, a punk band) saying that Kurt smells like teen spirit, Tobi Vail's (Bikini Kill, a punk band) perfume, because they were friends and peers in the same music scene. You would also know that Kurt was initially disappointed with the production on Nevermind because it didn't sound enough like a punk record, and that it was hugely influential in punk, not only with the musicians, but also by spurring major labels to scout underground/punk scenes for the next big thing, leading to record deals for bands like Green Day, Bad Religion and Jawbreaker (who toured with Nirvana).
Polly is an amazing song. The faster version is even better.
Gotta listen to in utero and bleach next
I've heard some of Bleach but never In Utero
@@ergoth154In Utero is a way better album. The B side of that thing is unbelievable
@@williamz7011I’m a huge Bleach & Incesticide fan
Lounge Act and On a Plain are both great. The only filler is Stay Away and it’s high quality vintage filler.
Next you should do Alice In Chains - Dirt
SLTS 8.5
IB 9
CAYA 7
Breed 9
Lithium 10
Polly 7.5
TP 10
DY 8
LA 10
SA 9.5
OAP 9.5
SITW 8.5
I was a kid in the 90s and holy shit, when 'Teen Spirit' came on the TV I was stunned. No one I watched with from my small home town could cope with it. They all had no idea what the fuck was happening. This changed verything.
I've definitely heard several of the songs from this album, because they're super popular, but I've also never listened to this album because I never got into them back in the day
Finally, someone else 😂
Oh boy, someone who has never heard Nevermind in 2024 is rating the album Nevermind, starts with an 8.0 with the game-changing "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Perhaps our strengths are better served elsewhere, no gentlemen?
Most Nirvana fans would probably give it a 5
Lounge Act is one of the 3 best songs on the album.
Can you guys do a first listen reaction video to Acceptance - Phantoms. Curious on your opinion if that album really should be in that top 50 greatest pop punk albums list
Wouldn't be a bad idea
I'm a huge Caper fan too E...respect.
lounge act and on a plain are really great
WTF? This is the best album.
I am that old. 18 when this broke! WHAT A FUCKEN TIME FOR LIVE MUSIC IT WAS TOO. But I missed Nirvana when they toured down here. :( I got the tour EP Hoarmoning though :)
Fun fact: Pennywise covered "Territorial pissing" il live shows a lot of times, there's videos of it on UA-cam
Love lounge act
Now we gotta listen to Paramore
No you don't.
Yea you do
I have one of the worst attention spans too, but 'Teen Spirit' does not feel long. Just one of those songs. 10/10.
I was 11 when this album came out. I was definitely blown away.
Without Nevermind punk would never have exploded in 1994 with Dookie and Smash
It probably would have
No, it wouldn’t. Nirvana got the Major Labels to start plucking the Underground for commercially viable bands, and after Kurt died they moved away from Grunge towards a different part of the underground, melodic punk. Without Nirvana Green Day and Offspring don’t end up on MTV and don’t get any mainstream popularity
You guys gotta watch the Smells Like Teen Spirit video - it's a huge part of the mythos.
I've seen it, after school, I used to watch a channel that played music videos all day, always hoping to catch Green Day, The Offspring, Unwritten Law or anything punk, before my parents got home. Never cared for grunge back then, usually just disappointed lol
I grew up similarly. And….even became a youth pastor for 10 years nirvana was my gateway into punk. Friends in high school were really into them and introduced me. From there I got introduced to Lagwagon, Pennywise, face to face, and Strung Out.
Nirvana is grunge. Not punk. Huge difference.
@@WheresWaldo05 subjective and grunge doesnt mean anything, they can be both
You gotta see the video for 'In Bloom'. :D
Never watched it 😂 I'll check it out
All of those 90s punks bands featured on this channel have Nirvana to thank for anyone even knowing them.
Yep. Gotta love a grunge band for breaking the music industry by ending the hair/thrash metal bands, starting a new genre in grunge and also uplifting the pop punk scene 3 years later when green day came aided it in 94.
Ergoth, my dude, how did you manage, Nevermind is a classics for punks. grunge, and 90s fan alike!
In 2004, when I started finding my interest in music, I was never introduced to Nirvana. I heard Green Day & Simple Plan, then I got into Slipknot, Korn & A7X, then in High School I found 80s hardcore & street punk music. No one ever told me to check out Nirvana, I just assumed they were overrated Radio rock from the 90s, like RHCP or Pearl Jam lol
@@ergoth154 My Intro into the alternative was Reel Big Fish, Bad Religion, and Green Day in 2019, but even I have listened to nevermind for my short period of have punk credentials because I'm not the oldest person here by any means
@Murdaholix I found no reason to listen to them. I assumed it was probably good, but I'd rather spend my time listening to random punk bands. Anything highly praised, I usually have no interest in listening too, it's either the contrarian in me or I just like hearing things no one talks about.