twentyears

Nirvana, the 20year anniversary of Nevermind
practice out with this song in particular!
SPIN magazine put out an extensive issue all around the twentieth anniversary of this revolutionary album, check it out! I have it, its pretty awesome
here's a taste. . . . .

The word "Nirvana" has appeared 1,484 times in the pages of SPIN since 1991; Nevermind, 246 times. (Shout-out, bleary-eyed intern Carly!) Both of these numbers will spike considerably after this issue.

Sure, SPIN had been making serious mischief for six years before Nevermind's release, but the cultural landscape that the album's success reflected (and SPIN had been anecdotally documenting) needed a full-blown soapbox, and we were in a unique position. As with many symbiotic, borderline codependent relationships, ours has gone from tentative entreaties to dizzying obsessions to marriages of convenience to tawdry betrayals. Back in 2001, when we published a tenth anniversary Nevermind issue, one letter-writing wag remarked, "So, still pickin' those bones, huh?"

With this retrospective, we tried to avoid that sort of queasy, pseudo-reverent exploitation, balancing the historical and personal with the playful and forward-thinking. But above all, we just want to say thanks for sticking around and sharing this. See, after all these years, most corporate magazines may still suck, but Nevermind still doesn't, and that's the real issue.