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Published 22:28 28 Sept 2015 BST
Updated 18:59 24 Sept 2016 BST
Show me somebody, for example, who attended a teenage disco in Ireland anytime from 1992 onwards that claims to have never heard Smells Like Teen Spirit and I’ll show you a liar.
Soon after its release, songs like the aforementioned Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come as You Are and Drain You were regularly heard in my house, usually when the folks were out because it’s not exactly a soundtrack you want to come home from work to of an evening.
As was once said of the Smashing Pumpkins in The Simpsons, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel and there’s no doubt that Nevermind appealed hugely to adolescents full of angst, who bought it in their droves.
But Nevermind was so much more than that.
Nirvana didn’t start the grunge movement in Seattle in the late 80s/early 90s (by all accounts, Kurt Cobain was growing a little tired of it) but they were the most prominent representation of it.
Despite some smashing stuff from bands that were a huge influence on Cobain and company like the Pixies and Sonic Youth, Nevermind was easily the most important album to emerge from that genre and that period.
25 years on, it still sounds as good as ever and hard as it is to choose from such a stellar list, here are my five favourite songs from the album.
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