Nirvana
by Nirvana

Nirvana by Nirvana
(Compilation album)
Year: 2002
Release date: 2002-10-29
Overall rank: 7,613th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 218 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (146th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,322nd)
Award Best albums of all time (7,613th)

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Nirvana bestography

Nirvana is ranked 7th best out of 17 albums by Nirvana on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Nirvana is Nevermind which is ranked number 13 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 36,231.

Nirvana album bestography « Higher ranked (5,072nd)
Live At Reading
This album (7,613th)
Nirvana
Lower ranked (8,011th) »
From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

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Nirvana track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Nirvana rankings

Nirvana rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,613th | 2000s rank: 1,322nd | 2002 rank: 146th  Overall chart history
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Nirvana ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 218 votes)
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06/08/2026 05:53 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,27670/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.5.


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Not my go-to-Nirvana album and there are other greatest hits/complication albums that are better than this…but it’s a still a good introduction to Nirvana even if I highly recommend Nevermind or In Utero over this. You could do a lot worse than this album.
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90/100
From 11/23/2016 21:42 | #179022
disco recopilatoria con buenas canciones y You Know You're Right
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A good compilation from Bleach to Nevermind to In Utero, and some nice singles in between.
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60/100
It's worth it just for You Know You're Right, but if you're a beginner pass on this and get Nevermind.
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One of the most balanced best of albums Nirvana could have put out.
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