Hey! Its been awhile...
On this day, 20 years ago Nirvana released Nevermind, the album that catapulted the band from Aberdeen, Washington to mainstream success. Feel old yet? Of course this is a mostly EDM blog, but we have to celebrate our musical roots and how electronic artists can take quintessential 90s rock hits to a another dimension. For me, rock music, specifically the genres of the early and mid-nineties, grunge and alternative, personified my musical experience growing up due to the heavy influence of my older siblings. They were really in the thick of it, exploring their adolescent age and sporting Doc Martens, oversized plaid shirts, and unruly hair (sound familiar?). Nirvana definitely shaped this burgeoning era of new rock music and styles, and Nevermind was no exception. Kurt Cobain's writing was never prized as the most complex or most sophisticated or most poetic, but he, along with Krist Novoselic and eventually Dave Grohl created a genre all their own, made of catchy riffs, heavy distortion, and angst-riddled lyrics. Predictions for sales of the record were around 100,000 in the first week which it surpassed, and by January of 1992, over 300,000 copies of Nevermind were flying off the US shelves every week. Out of Nevermind came the songs that every child of the 90s (and even 80s) still know the words to, such as Lithium, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and Come As You Are. Below you can enjoy some of the better remixes done by acts like DJ's from Mars and Pretty Lights. Some of these tracks weren't on the record but hey, it's Nirvana, I'll take what remixes of their work I can get. Enjoy.
Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit (Dual Dubstep Remix)
Sick sick Pretty Lights mash-up including All Apologies
Pretty Lights Pretty Lights vs Radiohead vs Nirvana vs NIN
Nirvana Rape Me (Indiekid Remix)
Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirits (DJ's From Mars Bootleg Remix)
Cheers!
~MAR
P.S. Ever wonder who that album cover baby was? Well, he's some random, 20 years older now.
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