Nirvana (US) United States

The best album credited to Nirvana (US) is Nevermind which is ranked number 16 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 44,978.

Nirvana (US) is ranked number 11 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 81,689.

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Nirvana (US) best albums

The following albums by Nirvana (US) are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1991
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20,493
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10,405
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1989
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Incesticide 
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1992
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2009
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1996
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2002
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134
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Total albums: 17. Page 1 of 2

This may not be a complete discography for Nirvana (US).This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Nirvana (US) bestography composition

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1980s 1 0%
1990s 8 0%
2000s 4 0%
2010s 4 0%
2020s 0 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 10 59%
Yes 7 41%
Live? Albums %
No 12 71%
Yes 5 29%

Nirvana (US) best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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Rating: 92 (1,303 votes)Comments: 33
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 91 (1,106 votes)Comments: 12
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 91 (736 votes)Comments: 12
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(from the album In Utero)
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Rating: 91 (1,027 votes)Comments: 9
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 91 (713 votes)Comments: 12
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(from the album In Utero)
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Rating: 89 (957 votes)Comments: 9
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 88 (374 votes)Comments: 7
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(from the album Bleach)
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Rating: 88 (619 votes)Comments: 13
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(from the album In Utero)
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Rating: 88 (555 votes)Comments: 11
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(from the album In Utero)
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Rating: 87 (542 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album In Utero)
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Rating: 87 (788 votes)Comments: 15
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 86 (504 votes)Comments: 6
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(from the album In Utero)
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Rating: 86 (771 votes)Comments: 11
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 86 (738 votes)Comments: 10
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Rating: 86 (778 votes)Comments: 11
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 85 (221 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album Bleach)
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Rating: 85 (735 votes)Comments: 10
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(from the album Nevermind)
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Rating: 84 (452 votes)Comments: 11
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(from the album In Utero)
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Rating: 84 (225 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album Bleach)
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Nirvana (US) ratings

Average Rating: 
84/100 (from 567 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.6/100, a mean average of 82.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.8/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.3.

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90/100
From 08/19/2022 22:57
Kurt Cobain has a nice voice and they made some pretty good songs.
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From 04/01/2022 02:09
The Unplugged and Reading albums are two of the greatest live records ever released, although I do think Nevermind is a tad overrated
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From 12/24/2021 10:22
At the time (early nineties) I wasn't really into the whole grunge hype. Of course I heard the singles, thought they were ok back then. Later on (early 2000's), when I broadend my musical taste, I re-discovered some bands, like Nirvana. Listening to them now, you can still hear why Kurt Cobain is considered such a talent, although I doubt their music would have been as strong as 'Bleach' and 'Nevermind' if they made more albums than they did.
Still, their influence can still be heared in today's rock
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55/100
From 05/13/2021 13:08
they are okay for what they did to revive rock, but overall they're average...
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65/100
From 03/10/2021 01:35
An overrated band. Not one of the greatest of all time. However, there are a lot of moments on their albums that I enjoy. Cobain has an excellent voice, and this band was a kickstarter for Dave Grohl.
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80/100
From 10/08/2020 22:42
I don't think any other band has conflicted me as much as Nirvana have over the years. At one point, I thought Nirvana were the best band from the '90s and easily the best grunge band of all time. At another, much later point, I thought they were overrated beyond belief and "a poor man's Pixies."

Nowadays, I just consider them to be a solid band overall. I believe that Layne Staley-era Alice in Chains were the best grunge band but Nirvana are not that far behind. For as overplayed as Nevermind is, I still find some of the singles and the more "deep" cuts from it like "Polly" and "Something in the Way" to be highly enjoyable listens.

In Utero and the MTV Unplugged live album are their best work imo and those are the albums that I would recommend to someone on the fence about Nirvana's music. I always wondered what their music would've sounded like had Kurt Cobain still been around but it's just one of those what-ifs in life.

So, in short, a solid band that wrote some solid music. Nothing more, nothing less.
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From 09/27/2020 02:07
Sometimes I think Nirvana is overrated, but then I remember that Kurt Cobain wrote the best rock song of all time in a cheap guitar and that feeling goes away really fast.

Actually, he wrote a fantastic album call Nevermind, more than enough to be considered one of the best bands ever. You cant forget the impact this guys had. I dont like the term grunge, to me they are rock n roll.

One of the most, if no the most influential band of the 90s.
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95/100
From 06/13/2020 17:40
Nirvana is a Great band not the best like the Beatles but for the short time they played the teenager were very amazed by the group so I was when I first saw smells like teen spirit on mtv. Now I like them altough very much.
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From 03/16/2020 06:41
Their songs feel real. We know why.
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