“Stay Away” has that great Dave Grohl drumroll beginning to get things started, so it’s a fun alternate start. But I also think it’s better to build up to it, get some kindling burning first. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is the band’s anthem, and sure, starts the album off strong. It seems to me that Nevermind, in its existing form, blows its wad a little too quickly.
And when you add a couple rarities and b-sides to the mix, what you get is an album that’s far more interesting to my ears.
But looking back, after not listening to it very much (because you can hear these songs on the radio all the time, anyway), I’ve come to realize that there are definitely some clunkers, and for that matter, the tracklist order might work better if changed up a little. Once upon a time, I thought this was a perfect album. But then again, we’ve all heard Nirvana’s Nevermind so many times, is it really so wrong to want to make it more interesting? I wouldn’t think so. Three albums into this project and I’m already committing acts of sacrilege.
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