This is a very good album, even great. And I totally see why it would be an album that diehard fans would get all up in arms about when someone says that it's overrated. It's not top ten all-time though. Top fifty, probably.

Best tracks: Lithium, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are

Rock at its finest!
Favorite tracks: Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Come as You Are, Breed, Lithium, Polly, Drain You, Lounge Act, On a Plain, Something in the Way
10/10

If you're calling this album overrated or not great, obviously you don't understand the album. This album deserves top 10 of all time easily. Lyrically, it's all there. Musically, it is arbitrary but the music does speak for itself retrospectively speaking about its sustained influence as well as how many people still are listening to it. Smells Like Teen Spirit challenges listeners to start a revolution. In Bloom conveys the meaning of what shooting a gun is for, Come As You Are (sounds like water) and moves it's listeners to come to reality and the revolution. Breed and Territorial Pissings, sound like lightning in a bottle with the addition of Drain You and Something In The Way, all refer to aliens on earth affecting/infecting humans . Polly sums up the broken political system of left wing and right wings both dirty and broken wings while stating polly wants a cracker as a metaphor for people being told what they will be given but ending in Lounge Act explaining "don't tell me what I want to hear, afraid all I know is in fear, I'll arrest myself and wear a shield" which further states to protect oneself from the entities. Stay Away reiterates the "monkey see, monkey do" concept. Kurt is a genius and he knew what he was talking about. If you say this album is less than top 10 material lyrically, why don't you challenge the BEA listeners who rated this album as high as it is based on popular opinion? Additionally this lyrically, beats OK Computer but OK Computer is more about the subsequent aftermath of what Nevermind's immediacy is trying to prevent.

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A little overrated. Not good enough for the top 10, but still a fantastic album.

Reading through the comments I see tons of people whose opinions are that this album is overrated- and it is, but why is it rated so high in the first place, if everybody seems to think it's overrated? For me, it's a decent album released at the right time. I can't blame the album for its songs being overplayed, but half the album is forgettable and overall it just does what other bands were doing before them, and better than them. I hate to say it (I really do), but if Kobain were still alive, this album would not be in the top ten. It'd be in the top 200 where it belongs.

Appealing to refrain and repitition, Nirvana is at it's core sugary pop for tough people; and I love it! The 2nd half is a little derivative of the first half with less success, or maybe it's that they stick so closely to one concept that after a while I'm worn out. "Cohesive" is a nice way to put the vision of Nevermind. It is, however, for better or worse a landmark album in rock history. I say "rock" because I don't really see a huge substantial difference between "grunge" and the alternative rock and punk that preceded it. To my ears maybe Nirvana "fixed punk"

I do prefer In Utero but I can't deny it's importance in music history. It's grunge defining statement. I still play Lithium constantly.

Probably the album of the 90's. Started a movement, and the music isn't too bad either.

Highlights- Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Come As You Are, Breed, Lithium, Something in the Way

Maybe a little overrated in my opinion, or perhaps overplayed, but its influence is undeniable, and the first half is really good. My favorite is In Bloom.