Final Nevermind post, I promise (probably).
I've seen a few people suggest that the album has lost its magic or lustre for them due to overfamiliarity or simply the passage of time. Not for me. Listening to 6 Music's Deep Dive, I marvelled at the fact that it still sounds as fresh and powerful as it did on release, when it blew my 13-year-old mind.
The Deep Dive features various musicians sharing memories of interactions with the band at the time or speaking about the impact that Nirvana, Nevermind and specific songs had on them. Brix Start Smith, then in The Fall, recalls offering Kurt and company a tray of sandwiches from their rider when the two bands played the same Berlin venue because they looked so poor and hungry. Meanwhile, Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley of tourmates Teenage Fanclub describe how they found themselves "in the middle of this phenomenon". Nevermind's producer Butch Vig felt much the same way, realising from the reception the album got when he played it at a party (with Smashing Pumpkins among the attendees) that "this album was going to be a zeitgeist moment".
Nirvana gave the young Natasha Khan aka Bat For Lashes the confidence to express herself artistically, and the young Wu-Lu "the confidence to not care" and just be himself, while John tubthumper John Newton singles out 'Stay Away' for illustrating "how powerful and potent they were as a band" - not surprising, really, given how incredible Dave Grohl's contribution to that track is.
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