Best Album of the 90's: Nirvana's Nevermind

There are three things I loved about being in high school in the mid-90's. One: Not having to worry about what to wear. If you were into the "grunge" look, you didn't have too much to think about. Two: Being upset, moody and pouting was okay with your peers and kinda cool. 3. The music was kick-ass, full of angst and gave way to a new outlook on finding yourself through music.

Listening to 90's music was a confusing time for me. I was stuck in the rut of what I ultimately loved, rock-n-roll, yet I yearned to hear something that was about "my-my gen-gen-eration" and not the generation of my father. I don't think most of us knew what we wanted until we heard it and then something clicked. Grunge came into the mainstream from Seattle and took out 80's bubble gum images, big hair, synthesizer tunes and replaced it with flannel shirts and strange yet truthful, creative lyrics.

There were many albums that really spoke to me in the 90's music scene, such as Nirvana's "Nevermind", Hole's "Live Through This", Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill", Pearl Jam's "Ten" and "Siamese Dream" of the Smashing Pumpkins - just to name a few. All of these 90's albums contributed greatly to the 90's music scene and to the youth of America. They were raw, genuine and fed up!

The album that I feel epitomizes that time was Nirvana's "Nevermind". This choice of "Nevermind" is in my gut and what better place to find the best album of the 90's music era. While many of the albums of this time were awesomely written, everlasting and concreted in our memory, the success of the 1991 release of "Nevermind" surpassed it's life expectancy and became a part of everyone's life. I could probably recite the lyrics to almost every song on that album and each song would remind me of a person, feeling, or place that I experienced in high school. Although that thought is extremely scary, it shows the supernatural power of this album and how the sounds hit a part of the psyche and never let go.

Not only was this album a stamped memory for me but it hit the mainstream like an atomic bomb. Even if you were "like-not into like oh-my-god-like whatever" you still knew the band, knew the "freaks" that listened to it and perhaps secretly listened to the classic album yourself. And that is good enough for me. The songs "Come As Your Are" and "Polly" hold melodies that are timeless and it is forever known that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a, if not "the", masterpiece of the decade.

This album is on my Ipod and it should be on everyone's. Believe me - I will be sure to put it on my children's Ipod or whatever new gadget holds tunes in the next ten years. I want my children to know what the music of "my-my gen-gen-eration" sounded like and the truth it held with raw lyrics and pure 90's grunge sound.

So buy this album, experience it or re-experience it and be kind - share with others. You won't regret it.

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