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15 unusual facts about Nevermind


Bandwagonesque

Bandwagonesque became famous by beating Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind to be voted 'album of the year' for 1991 by American music magazine Spin.

Bullet LaVolta

A year later, they recorded and released their follow-up, Swandive, which debuted the same day as Nirvana's classic, Nevermind.

Framing Hanley

The band also contributed a cover of the Nirvana song In Bloom for Kerrang!'s cover album of Nevermind, released in their special edition issue celebrating the 20th anniversary of the grunge act's breakthrough release.

KNDD

Within six weeks of The End's first broadcast, three albums by local artists — Ten by Pearl Jam, Nevermind by Nirvana and Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden — were released.

Mark Goodier

A further session recording was "Something in the Way", released on the 2011 edition of Nevermind.

Mark Kemp

Kemp became the editor of Option in 1991, the year Nirvana's breakthrough album Nevermind stormed the pop charts.

Murder of Polly Klaas

The Nirvana song "Polly" off of their album Nevermind, has been erroneously attributed to the Klaas murder.

Rose Bowl Aquatics Center

The famous cover art to Nirvana's Nevermind album, a photo of a baby floating in a pool, was shot at the center.

Screaming Trees

Late in 1991, Nirvana's Nevermind became an unexpected commercial success, opening the gates for the rest of the Seattle scene.

Steve Pavlovic

Nirvana were on tour in Australia when Nevermind went #1 on the US Billboard 200 chart in 1992 and helped to make a name for Pavlovic.

Trip Shakespeare

Trip Shakespeare's commercial failure has been attributed to the band's poor timing: "1991 was the great embrasure of the grunge movement when Nirvana's Nevermind set the decade-long trend for the popular music charts," wrote AllMusic.com.

Urge Overkill

After opening for Nirvana on the American Nevermind tour and Pearl Jam on the Vs. Tour, Urge Overkill returned to the studio to record another EP, Stull, in 1992 which featured the tracks, "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" (produced & mixed by Kramer) and "Goodbye to Guyville."

WFNX

At 7 pm on August 29, 1991, WFNX DJ Kurt St. Thomas gave Nirvana's album Nevermind its world premiere by playing the album from start to finish.

Wishkah River

The song "Something in the Way" on Nirvana's album Nevermind refers to the experiences of its lead singer Kurt Cobain living under a bridge on the river, during a period of homelessness after dropping out of high school and being kicked out of his mother's home.

WZBC

When rock band Nirvana (band) released its breakthrough album Nevermind on Tuesday, September 24, 1991, the group was in Boston that day.


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Clockcleaner

Nevermind was a departure from the band's punk sound, having more in common with many of the mid-to-late '90s Siltbreeze bands such as Harry Pussy and The Dead C.

Drain You

According to Nevermind producer Butch Vig on the Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind DVD, "Drain You" had more guitar overdubs than any other song on the album: one clean track and five distorted tracks; two tracks of the Mesa Boogie, two tracks of the Fender Bassman, and one that they called the "Super Grunge" track.

Monster Rancher 2

Nevermind by Grunge band Nirvana is the only disc that unlocks the rare monster Swimmer.

Siamese Dream

Entertainment Weekly reviewer David Browne praised the band for living up to industry expectations of being the "next Nirvana" and compared Siamese Dream favorably to Nirvana's Nevermind.