Nirvana‘s ‘Nevermind’ has now spent 700 weeks on the Billboard 200 Chart.
The seminal 1991 album is just the ninth to attain the feat, and solely the fourth studio LP if best hits compilations aren’t counted. It means the album has spent 13.4 years non-consecutively on the chart, the place it presently sits at Quantity 120.
Different albums to achieve related lengths are Pink Floyd’s ‘The Darkish Aspect of the Moon’, which has spent 990 weeks on the chart, Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ at 767 weeks, and Bruno Mars’ ‘Doo-Wops & Hooligans’ (706 weeks), per Consequence.
Elsewhere, greatest-hits collections have a tendency to stay round, with one from Bob Marley and the Wailers staying for 865 weeks, Journey for 835 weeks, Creedence Clearwater Revival for 724 weeks, Eminem at 714 weeks, and Weapons N’ Roses for 704 weeks.
‘Nevermind’ was launched in September 1991, and reached the Billboard 200 high spot in January the next 12 months, knocking off Michael Jackson’s ‘Harmful’. It has offered greater than 30 million copies to this point.
in 2021, on the document’s thirtieth anniversary, Dave Grohl spoke to NME concerning the writing means of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, the album’s – and Nirvana’s – most recognisable hit.
“I favored the riff that Kurt got here up with as a result of it’s percussive. These muted, stabbing strums inbetween the chords actually leant to the sample of the drum riff,” he advised us. “To be sincere, at that time, we had been listening to plenty of Pixies – it was ‘Bossanova’ [era]. And we had been simply having enjoyable, actually. We had been simply developing with new tune after new tune day-after-day. Krist Novoselic, I consider, has increase field recordings of all of those – riff concepts that had been by no means used, songs that had been formed into songs for ‘Nevermind’ (a few of them).
“In fact, no-one had any psychic foresight to think about that the tune would go on to do what it did,” he continued. “We simply fuckin’ rocked it in slightly rehearsal area that was like a barn. I didn’t know what the lyrics had been; Kurt’s melody sample modified each different time we performed it and it wasn’t actually till we acquired into the studio to document it that I realised the ability of the tune. And never simply lyrically or musically, however the groove of the tune – it was actually highly effective. I believe everybody was extra centered on songs like ‘In Bloom’ or ‘Lithium’ or ‘Breed’; no one actually paid an excessive amount of consideration to ‘Teen Spirit’ whereas we had been recording it. We simply thought it was one other cool tune for the document.”
Steve Lamacq reviewed ‘Nevermind’ for NME upon its launch in 1991, giving it a rating of 9 out of 10. “‘Nevermind’ is a document for individuals who’d like to love Metallica, however can’t abdomen their lack of melody; whereas however it takes a few of the Pixies‘ nous with tunes, and offers the concept new muscle. A shock to the system,” he wrote. “Tracks like the superb ‘In Bloom’ and better of the lot, ‘Come As You Are’, present a dexterity that mixes each a stress and a laid-back vibe that work off one another to supply some cool, constructed twists and turns.”
In different information, former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic’s new band The Bona Fide Band just lately performed Nirvana’s debut single ‘Love Buzz’ in Cobain’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington.
Final 12 months, Novoselic advised NME concerning the probabilities of a reunion from the surviving Nirvana members sooner or later.
“I’d prefer to,” he mentioned. “There was a time after Kurt died once I mentioned to myself, ‘I’m by no means going to play these songs once more’. That was a part of the grief I went by. We don’t need to overdo it, we attempt to make it particular and be grateful.
“When the chance comes, we do it if it feels proper. Within the meantime, we simply bear in mind Kurt and do our factor.”
Tony Hawk just lately mirrored on listening to ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for the primary time in 1991. “Everybody stopped what they had been doing and everybody regarded round,” he added. “And also you simply knew. You knew this was it,” he mentioned.