Too often, underground bands squander their spunk on records they’re not ready to make, then burn out their energy and inspiration with uphill touring. At the album’s stylistic extremes, “Something in the Way” floats a translucent cloud of acoustic guitar and cello, while “Breed” and “Stay Away” race flat-out, the latter ending in an awesome meltdown rumble. Last year, Elden sued Nirvana’s surviving members. Rounding out the Top 5 is the Nevermind album cut Polly (680.1K pageviews), a deeply unsettling song inspired by the real-life abduction and rape of a 14-year-old girl in Washington State in. When he was four months old, Spencer Elden posed on the cover of Nirvana’s iconic 1991 album. Cued in with occasional (and presumably intentional) tape errors, most of the songs - like “On a Plain,” “Come as You Are” and “Territorial Pissings” - exemplify the band’s skill at inscribing subtlety onto dense, noisy rock. The former Nevermind baby is still trying. Nirvana’s undistinguished 1989 debut, Bleach, relied on warmed-over Seventies metal riffs, but the thrashing Nevermind boasts an adrenalized pop heart and incomparably superior material, captured with roaring clarity by coproducer Butch Vig. If Nirvana isn’t onto anything altogether new, Nevermind does possess the songs, character and confident spirit to be much more than a reformulation of college radio’s high-octane hits. When Cobain revs into high punk gear, shifting his versatile voice from quiet caress to raw-throated fury, the decisive control of bassist Chris Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl is all that keeps the songs from chaos. A dynamic mix of sizzling power chords, manic energy and sonic restraint, Nirvana erects sturdy melodic structures - sing-along hard rock as defined by groups like the Replacements, Pixies and Sonic Youth - but then at-tacks them with frenzied screaming and guitar havoc. Given the small corner of public taste that nonmetal guitar rock now commands, the Washington State trio’s version of the truth is probably as credible as anyone’s. – Rappler.Led by singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain, Nirvana is the latest underground bonus baby to test mainstream tolerance for alternative music. The defendants include Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, late lead singer Kurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love, several record labels and the photographer, Kirk Weddle.Ī hearing before US District Judge Fernando Olguin is scheduled for February 24. They quoted from a 2003 interview with Rolling Stone magazine in which Elden, then 12, said: “Every five years or so, somebody’s gonna call me up and ask me about Nevermind… and I’m probably gonna get some money from it.” Nevermind, which features the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” had album sales topping 30 million.Įlden’s latest complaint included details he hoped would show he filed the August 2021 lawsuit within the federal 10-year statute of limitations.īut Nirvana’s lawyers said Elden did not identify any “new victimization… which he reasonably discovered for the first time after August 2011 to re-start the clock.” Time included Nevermind on its list of 'The All-TIME 100 Albums' in 2006, labeling it 'the finest album of the 1990s'. The Nevermind album cover depicted Elden swimming naked toward a dollar bill pierced with a fish hook.Įlden has said the photo caused him “lifelong damages” while letting Nirvana reap tens of millions of dollars at his expense. The same three Nirvana albums were also placed on Rolling Stone's 2011 list of 'The 100 Best Albums of the Nineties', with Nevermind ranking the highest at number 1, making it the greatest album of the decade. There really isnt much to say as the greatness of the record is self-explanatory after one listen. Those revolutionising riffs and life-changing lyrics it possesses make it 'that' album. This case must end.”Ī lawyer for Elden did not immediately respond on Tuesday, February 1, to requests for comment. 'Nevermind' is 'that' album that all-mighty and perfect culture defining classic. “While there is no serious question that the photograph is not ‘child pornography,’ Elden’s case is long barred by the statute of limitations,” the band’s lawyers wrote. In a filing in Los Angeles federal court, the band said Spencer Elden waited too long to claim it sexually exploited him, dooming the third and latest version of his complaint. Ranked number nineteen on Rolling Stones Greatest 500 Albums list, Nevermind is filled with distorted guitars, memorable lines, and catchy overall songs.
Elden has said the photo caused him lifelong damages while letting Nirvana reap tens of. Nirvanas rampant success is usually attributed to this album, and rightfully so, as its the album that launched them into the mainstream. Nirvana has urged a US judge to dismiss for good the lawsuit by the man claiming that his depiction as a naked four-month-old baby on its 1991 album Nevermind was child pornography. The Nevermind album cover depicted Elden swimming naked toward a dollar bill pierced with a fish hook.
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