Nirvana - Nevermind

Of the millions of albums which have been recorded, only 15 can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musician's and at number 4 we have Nevermind by Nirvana (1991)

The year 1991 is probably best remembered for the Gulf War, the collapse of the USSR, Mike Tyson's rape arrest and my brief and unsuccessful experimentation with black hair dye but it was also the greatest year for music and that comes down to a week in September when Nirvana's Nevermind was released on the 17th and the following weekend the album which sits at number 2 on my list came out, two of the best albums ever to be shoplifted from HMV.   
Nirvana were effortlessly cool and that was down to the front-man Kurt Cobain who didn't have the best voice or the skills of a guitar maestro but was the epitome of cool with the long blonde hair, the piercing blue eyes, the languid 'don't care' approach and the downplaying of his and his bands own place in music history, he really looked the part and had the songs to back up him up as the voice of a generation, whatever that means.  
Back then MTV still played music videos and Smells like Teen Spirit was played on a continuous loop and that fast and slow tempo, loud chorus and quiet verse of Teen Spirit really hit a nerve as did Lithium and the slower paced Come As You Are with it's line 'i don't have a gun' which he obviously did as we found out four years later.
The lyrics were not earth-shattering, it takes a certain genius to appreciate the mind behind: 'A mulatto, An albino, A mosquito, My libido, Yeah' but it was always about the music and the whole Grunge Scene although i am not sure what they were aiming at with their follow up Albums, especially the Unplugged Album, but whatever it was they missed.
It's testament to this album that they are remembered 30 years later although i imagine if we asked today's kids who their version of Nirvana is they would say someone like The Script or McFly, so let's not ask them. They're obviously idiots.