rank the songs on nirvana's "nevermind"

related thread: your fav Nevermind single

01 on a plain
02 smells like teen spirit
03 drain you
04 in bloom
05 lithium
06 come as you are
07 something in the way
08 polly
09 lounge act
10 stay away
11 territorial pissings
12 breed

1. Endless Nameless
2-13 everything else

surprised anyone would rank "Breed" last!

My answer is mostly due to overdosing on Nevermind several times.. Endless Nameless just makes the most sense to me at this point.

surprised anyone would rank "Breed" last!

well the last four are pretty much = but breed in particular just sounds like poorly-executed jerry bruckheimer soundtrack fodder to me

ha there's an awesome scene in the movie Shoot 'Em Up set to that song

wow a lot of ppl hate Polly; is consensus that KC's ironic postmodern shouldn't tackle something as legitimately shocking and awful as rape?

i just don't like quiet nirvana as much as loud nirvana personally

whatever your feelings on polly you must agree it is better than new wave polly

i actually heard that version first (my order of hearing their albums was perversely In Utero > Incesticide > Nevermind > Bleach) and kind of prefer it!

but doesn't it bug you how non-new wave it is?

i didn't have the slightest idea what new wave was when i was 12 so...no

as a dumbass grunge-loving preteen i don't even think i heard the phrase "punk rock" that much until Dookie or, hilariously, The Spaghetti Incident

haha i don't even know what new wave is now, but "new wave polly" seemed a little too generic to warrant any kind of genre affix.
like there's this peanuts cartoon where violet or patty has a hi-fi jumprope. then charlie brown goes, "HI-FI jumprope?"

1. breed
2. in bloom
3. smells like teen spirit
4. lithium
5. drain you
6. on a plain
7. lounge act
8. come as you are
9. territorial pissings
10. something in the way
11. polly
12. stay away
13. endless, nameless

^ last five are more or less arbitrary, like them all about the same

1. On a Plain
2. Breed
3. Stay Away
4. Lithium
5. Territorial Pissing
6. Smells Like a Teen Spirit
7. Drain You
8. In Bloom
9. Polly
10. Lounge Act
11. Come As You Are
12. Something in the Way

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Lounge Act
3. In Bloom
4. Breed
5. Lithium
6. On a Plain
7. Stay Away
8. Territorial Pissings
9. Something in the Way
10.Drain You
11.Come as You Are
12.Polly

should be noted I don't really dislike any of these...

1. In Bloom
2. Drain You
3. SLTS
4. Lounge Act
5. Lithium
6. On a Plain
7. Come as you Are
8. Stay Away
9. Polly
10. Territorial Pissings
11. Breed
12. Something in the Way

Lithium
On a Plain
Drain You
Lounge Act
Breed
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In Bloom
Polly
Come as You Are
Something in the Way
Territorial Pissings
Stay Away

"Stay Away" is the only one on here I don't have time for

i'm glad this thread exists because it's making me listen to nevermind for the first time since the 90s

Here is informal tally of ILX's rankings (lower score is better):

on a plane : 1
slts : 3
: 5
territorial pissing : 5
years pass .. : 6
smells like a teen spirit : 6
teen spirit : 8
endless nameless : 9
everything else : 13
endless, nameless : 13
smells like teen spirit : 45
drain you : 52
(6 years ago) [35]permalink : 53
in bloom : 57
on a plain : 60
lithium : 61
breed : 73
territorial pissings : 89
lounge act : 91
something in the way : 107
come as you are : 112
stay away : 124
polly : 152

It turns out Polly is the most hated!

I misread slts as 'Slits' and was all like 'hellyeah, ILX totally rules! On a Plain and the Slits!'

(6 years ago) [35]permalink : 53

can't believe this placed where it did

Side B >>>>>>>>>>>> Side A

On a Plane
Drain You
Lounge Act
Stay Away
Breed
Territorial Pissings
Lithium
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In Bloom
Polly
Come As You Are
Something in the Way

Lounge Act is the shit

respect

how's the 20th anniv going for you guys? Man, this Kurt Andersen radio show on it is terrible.

well, I guess you are ignoring it

this album hasn't aged well for me; the production makes too many of the songs sound super-generic.

i enjoy the handful of overlooked songs on side b -- 'on a plain,' 'lounge act' -- more than any of the singles.

I had no idea this record was recorded in Van Nuys, CA right around the corner from Dr. Hogly Wogly's Texas BBQ.

i havent heard ANYTHING about it Morbs...

JD otm: except for Lithium, my three favorites are Drain You, Lounge Act, and On a Plain

I wish there was something like The Stooges "The Complete Funhouse Sessions" except it would be 1 CD with 10 different versions of "Endless Nameless."

I read somewhere that Endless Nameless was improvised live in the studio [citation needed]

It might have been, but they've played it live plenty of times

The second side >>> first, because the production and the songs are married perfectly.

From this excerpt:
http://read.mtvhive.com/2011/09/19/everybody-loves-our-town-an-oral-history-of-grunge/?all=1

BUTCH VIG The afternoon we tried to track “Lithium,” we had done a few passes, and for whatever reason Dave kept speeding up and it didn’t feel good. Like halfway through the fourth take Kurt says, “Stop! Stop!” He started playing “Endless, Nameless,” and I just kept the tape rolling. Kurt was singing so hard I thought he was gonna kill somebody. The veins in his neck were bulging out, he just was pouring sweat, strangling his vocal chords, and at the end of song, he started smashing his guitar. I was in the control room and didn’t even know what to say. I went out and asked, “Are you okay?” He just got up and walked in the other room, and Krist sort of looked at me like, Whoa! I’ve never seen so much rage in someone in the studio that came out that instantaneously. It was scary to watch him play that song. I’m not kidding.

right on.. the parts where they switch to the quiet section seem sync'd up as if they had played it before, or at least had noise-jam'd a million times prior..

Nevermind is the best album ever...

... for falling asleep to the soothing closing track, only to be rudely awoken for the awesome noisejam hidden track 15 minutes later.

preferring Lounge Act to the hits = the very definition of trying too hard

"Lounge Act" is as effortless as the hits!

you like debbie gibson tho

who doesn't?

Would love to hear Debbie Gibson cover 'On A Plain' tbh

Snakes on a Plane! Mmmm-mmmm!

i just can't snake
your plane

Yes it's true
I'm on a
I'm on a
I'm on a
I'm on a pla-a-a-n-n-e.

doll SNAAAAAAAAAKE
test PLAAAAAAAAANE

waht

Lounge Act is fun to play on bass

irl lols at "goaltending"

didn't do a very good job of it from teh looks of it!

offensive goaltending

u can say that again

Exactly

there's a point where you want to protect your child, your own self as a child (in elden's case), and children in general from predators. just because you don't have sexual thoughts when looking at naked babies doesn't mean there aren't others looking for this kind of imagery in public, which is why unfortunately these kinds of restrictions need to exist.

here's the thing -- there is actual pornography involving children where they are being sexually exploited ... groomed, coerced, money changing hands for explicit sexual content. There are also pictures of children that pedophiles find sexually stimulating that were not created with pornographic intent. Like a random family photo album from the 70s or 80s that one finds at a yard sale or charity shop.

This also includes plenty of commercial images

Should diaper ads depicting a baby or toddler getting their diaper changed be considered p0rn?

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kurt cobain would never resort to a juvenile argument

― symsymsym, Thursday, August 26, 2021 7:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol, i guess i was asking for too much

Speaking to the Sunday Times about the lawsuit over the weekend, Dave Grohl hinted that there are plans to “alter” the album cover ahead of its forthcoming 30th anniversary.

“I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover but we’ll see what happens...We’ll let you know. I’m sure we’ll come up with something good.”

https://img.discogs.com/hzodGGZSp9P67i0X4uN_oGXwXXk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3756184-1343119519-1245.jpeg.jpg

in bloom
lounge act
breed
lithium
drain you
on a plain
come as you are
teen spirit
stay away
pissings
something in the way
polly

the shouted third verse & chorus in Lounge Act is possibly my favourite sequence of the whole album.

morrisp, your check from Grohl is in the mail, excellent work.

Lithium
In Bloom
Drain You
Lounge Act
Breed
Something in the Way
Come As You Are
Smells Like Teen Spirit
On A Plain
Stay Away
Endless Nameless
Territorial Pissings
Polly

the shouted third verse & chorus in Lounge Act is possibly my favourite sequence of the whole album.

Yes! There's something about some of the uptempo tracks on here, that Cobain probably conceived as relative throwaways, that convey a more original and individual point-of-view than the big "production numbers".

Side B >>>>>>>>>>>> Side A

On a Plane
Drain You
Lounge Act
Stay Away
Breed
Territorial Pissings
Lithium
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In Bloom
Polly
Come As You Are
Something in the Way

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

are Drain You and Territorial Pissings conceptual cousins?

Territorial Drainings

Lounge Act was my favorite as a kid and I still love it. one time in high school I recorded myself playing the song and I got to the third verse and was shrieking and my mother stormed into the garage, horrified, thinking I was dying

Lounge Act and Drain You were my favorite ones in here. It really is a very radio-friendly album. It’s slighty edgier power-pop. You could’ve released almost every song in here as a single and it would’ve made sense. Hell, I think “something in the way” is probably the only song that wouldn’t work as a single. And Territorial Pissings to I guess.

In Utero is my favorite but you can tell the label were really struggling to find a single in there when Nevermind did the job for them so well. They fucked up by not releasing “serve the servants” as a single though.

Several years ago we had a shortly-lived "Classic Alternative" station on the dial that spent about half of its existence seemingly fully-automated (including the programming), and it was weird af to hear "Polly" on the air during drive time.

no matter how many times i hear this album i cannot get my brain to match "Lounge Act" and "Territorial Pissings" to the songs in question. a widespread alt-rock problem, admittedly. i'm sure the album would have a pinch less mystique, especially among teenagers at the time, had they been titled "I Got This Friend" and "Gotta Find A Way!".

Cobain was a great "by degrees" singer, seemingly always capable of taking it up a notch to elevate the tension of a song at any given point in time.