Had to google to know WTF this was about.

Then I realized Nevermind is considered the definitive Nirvana album and was confused.

In Utero Fertilization is better than ahh fuck it Never mind.

Discus..

Discus what? WTF is this about? My brain hurts. Must be a music thread. Off to Google I go.

A smaller number of people consider it to be one of the greatest albums of all time.

I have always been partial to In Utero, the album they made after the success of Nevermind. And I tend to believe IU is a much better work of art.

Almost funerary even with outbursts of rage and alienation. While more cohesive from beginning to end, it's nearly unlistenable. One gets the impression that Cobain had come to dislike the attention fame had brought, felt he was misunderstood by the fans and was finding it increasingly difficult to not want to say fuck it and disappear.

Nevermind is by-far the more-listenable album, more frenetic, more catchy and fun. Half the album could have been hits. It was the soundtrack of high school for me, perfectly capturing the angst and wonder of being a teenager. It was an aggressive rebuttal of the pop rock that came before it and changed everything after it...but for all that, it feels more compiled and less unified than their later work. Incesticide says something. In Utero says something. Every track on Nevermind says something different.

On what criteria are we measuring? IU is a work of art, but its brutal art like a Goya. Nevermind is enjoyable but it's not their creative peak, even if it is the peak of their success.

It probably says something that my two favorite tracks on Nevermind are Territorial Pissings and Something in the Way.

Maybe I'm being too harsh with Nevermind. It's a great album. But it sounds so much different from IU.

And "School" and "Negative Creep" are arguably Cobain's definitive statements.

You can hear the genius obscured behind a lot of sophomoric stuff.