This is as close to a star grab as you'll get out of me. Nevermind was released Sept. 24, 1991 - I was 11 years old. It was my first "rock" album and it was a cassette*. After one listen, I flipped it back over and played it again. After about 10 listens, I began to understand that if there was stuff like this out there, then the world was a much bigger place than I'd previously comprehended. As such (and I'm not prone to hyperbole) Nirvana changed my life. Thanks for listening...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUnRITsw1o
Live at the Paramount Theater - Seattle, WA - October 31, 1991.
*Remember those? I have a 10-year-old nephew who had never seen one before last week...I almost choked.
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Awesome. So much better than the Muppets' version.
But is it better than Paul Anka's version? I'm not sure....
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oh, and to tie two threads together, Happy b-d cheaps!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICbc8DpcX3w
I have heard Corn's story about this album repeated endlessly by dozens of people. I know one guy who said this album brought him out of his suicidal haze and inspired him to get on with his life; he's now very successful and happy. That's great, but I guess a song has never inspired me to do anything, so the concept is a bit beyond my grasp.
I abhorred this song when it came out (granted, I was eleven). Like what my grandma always used to say, it just sounded like noise. It took me several years, but I eventually grew to like it. So there's that.
I, strangely, always kind of liked Nirvana but never really liked this song until recently. Give me "Drain You," please.
The song's impact on the music industry was huge, though, albeit only in the short term.
No song has really "inspired" me neither; those few songs I listen to that have lyrics, I never listen to well enough to pay attention to what they're saying anyway. To tie this in with today's video, what the heck are the lyrics to this song?!
Something about albinos and mosquitoes.
If you really want to know, I have the CD-single for "Lithium", which came with the lyrics for the full album.
I'm sure they're available on the internet somewhere, too.
Well, shoot. Look here.
I quite got into this. I first bought the cassingle (b/w "Even in His Youth") with Christmas money from Grandma S.
I later had a classmate dub me the CD onto a 45-minute blank cassette that I had. (I loved the 45-minute blanks.) Then I got the pukes for a good part of a week and listened to it over and over.
I was in 8th grade.
I think I was already heading down the path of "Modern Rock" thanks to U2's Achtung, but I didn't really have a big picture of anything. It wasn't called "Alternative" for like another year.
Just looked it up that Achtung was released in Nov 1991. I bought it in April, which means that it was 1992. So I had Nevermind first. I didn't get Metallica until Oct (a classmate stole it for me for my birthday). I know I was wary of GNR's Use Your Illusions until the next summer, too. What the hell was I listening to in Sept 1991?
i had the album on CD, but i remember buying the cassette single of lithium specifically because it came with lyrics.
Point of clarification: I was not inspired* by this song; I didn't mean to insinuate that hearing this album prevented me from suicide, caused me to develop a cure for cancer, or helped me save any families from burning buildings. When I said that "Nirvana changed my life," I meant that prior to September 1991, I was listening almost exclusively to American Top-40 radio: Paula Abdul, Michael Bolton, Whitesnake, Mötley Crüe, Bette Midler and Rick Astley.**
After hearing Nevermind, I began to explore music in a way that I never had before. I now love music - everything from Alternative to Techno: Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical, Gospel, R&B, Hip-hop, Metal and Folk, to name just a few. I can find a song in almost any genre that I really enjoy and I listen to a really wide variety of styles on a
weeklydaily basis. Secular music was not a big part of my household so it took something like this to shake me up. Perhaps if I'd heard The Beatles or Stones, Zeppelin or Miles Davis growing up, I'd be pointing to one of them to finish my VJ week. As it stands, Nirvana changed my life.*At least not in the dictionary sense - adjective 1. aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet.
**I take that back, maybe Nirvana did save my life! 🙂