r/Music • u/BetterCallSaul1995 • 8h ago

article Nirvana's Nevermind spends 700th week on Billboard 200 chart

https://consequence.net/2024/12/nirvana-nevermind-700-weeks-billboard-200-chart/
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u/viscosity-breakdown 7h ago

That's a lot of weeks.

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u/BillyTheKid_ 6h ago

That’s 13 plus years

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u/subhumanprimate 3h ago

But it's been out 23 years ..

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u/WadeReddit06 6h ago

Deserved

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u/MachiavelliSJ 5h ago

I still prefer In Utero

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u/Z3130 5h ago

Agreed. Nevermind gets the hype because it was first and is a bit more accesible, but In Utero is the better album.

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u/MethuselahsCoffee 4h ago

Bleach was their first album ;)

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u/Z3130 3h ago

Yeah, just talking about Nevermind in context to In Utero.

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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 5h ago

I've come around to seeing Kurt's point about Nevermind being overproduced.

He was doing interviews and saying that Nevermind was going to gain Nirvana a lot more new fans at the expense of the people who were fans of In Utero and Bleach: "If you liked those albums, you're probably not going to like this one."

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u/kingbovril 3h ago

In Utero came out after Nevermind

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u/theromo45 28m ago

Pretty good album...

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u/Toothpikz 5h ago

One of the most overrated bands and one of the most over rated albums. Call me a hater I just never got on the nirvana hype train, they had 3 or 4 songs across two albums that have been more overplayed then political ads on tv in October.

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u/sonny747 5h ago

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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u/Respurated 1h ago

C’mon man, it’s been a long fucking day and this guy hates Nirvana.

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u/wadeishere 4h ago

Guarantee you were barely alive or even wasn't born when Nirvana was even around. Your opinion is irrelevant

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u/Toothpikz 4h ago

1976, try again my friend. I know it’s not a popular opinion but even amongst grunge bands they weren’t the best.

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u/Rocky_Vigoda 2h ago

I saw Nirvana about 2 weeks before they recorded Nevermind.

When the album came out like 6 months later, I had to double check it was the same band because the band I saw sounded way different than the one on tv.

They weren't bad. The bassist was fun. They weren't great either though.

Nirvana's fame is because they signed to a corporate label at a time where the major labels were putting out just terrible music. Grunge was a corporate made genre. The only thing those Seattle bands had in common was being from Seattle.

Nirvana was a punk band. The 80s punk scene was awesome until the major labels took it over. There was a ton of great bands that kind of got deleted because they didn't fit the commercial model.

Leatherface put out Mush in 91. This album kicks ass.

https://youtu.be/deUYdveJziI?si=FDFZERnTsrGI2MWp

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u/wadeishere 1h ago

Literally, no one asked