Gucci Little Piggy

Haven't heard enough of Mudhoney to say on what level they are for me. I just wanna say that Soundgarden is top dog, AiC follows pretty close behind and Nirvana's Nevermind is a piece of overrated bullcrap that does nothing but appear in everyone's top list because of its status as the groundbreaking album, while for me the evolution is what really counts when it comes to how good an album is, ya know. Nevermind is pretty good, but SO overrated it isn't funny.

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Unknown Soldier

Personally I think its rated just right. Its just a shame that every two bit music listener seems to think its great as well.

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mr dave

Can you make it any more obvious that you don't / can't remember the actual state of mainstream music before 1991 and what it was like to find new music before the internet existed?

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BastardofYoung

The comment is making me chuckle, because his name is inspired by "Ok Computer".... so I am now more interested in how "Nevermind" is overrated, and how he sees overrated. You know? What is his rating scale?

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barkjon

Sick of people saying Nevermind is overrated. That album changed my musical tastes forever.

OT: Probably Nirvana, with Soundgarden pretty high up there.

Rjinn

I can actually understand why Nervermind isn't overrated compared to Bleach, considering it was their introduction album. I'm not insinuating that I knew what happened in the 90s to be so (would be nice to know though). It just makes sense. Compared to In Utero though it is. I think in terms of commercial from what I read, Nevermind is the closest to hit the spot.

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SATCHMO

I think this comes from the I-liked-them-before-they-were-cool effect. Nevermind, in and of itself, was and is a great album, but it was also a heavily marketed album, and in the early 90's, for a major label like DGC to pick up an act like Nirvana and produce a relatively big budget album with a promotional front to match was relatively unheard of and fairly risky. Nirvana became very popular (read mainstream) very fast. Of course the natural tendency among the grungier-than-though crowd would be to downplay Nevermind as commercial clap trap and espouse Bleach as being the album you should hear if you wanted to hear what Nirvana sounded like before they became sellouts and sold their souls to David Geffen and MTV.

Obviously, or maybe it's just obvious to me, Bleach and Nevermind are two distinctly different albums. Yes, I would say that Nevermind was and still is more accessible, but I don't think it could be considered overrated. For a time it was a bit overplayed and oversold, but that happens with really great albums.

Janszoon

I think Nevermind is a good album and it certainly marked a major turning point for music from what was the 80s model to what would be the 90s model. That said, with the amount "greatest album of the 90s" and "it changed my life" praise it gets, I do definitely consider it overrated.

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Howard the Duck

i'd still say it's a tie between Mudhoney and Melvins for this category

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The biggest irony I've always found about Nirvana is that the kind of people who say 'Nevermind is overrated and Bleach is their best album' usually only discovered Bleach through listening to Nevermind anyway.

I remember when Bleach came out, they were playing every toilet in the UK playing third on the bill to bands like Silverfish & Bomb Disneyland, and those bands were making albums a hell of a lot better than Bleach was.

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