Sacred Cows - Why I Can No Longer Listen To Nirvana's 'Nevermind'

'Nevermind' has been so over-praised for so long, it's no longer an album, it's a museum piece – literally. It's the only modern recording to be included in America's Library Of Congress, where it nestles alongside Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential radio broadcasts, Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech, and the Baywatch theme tune. OK, maybe not the last one. Such hushed reverence is appropriate – not because 'Nevermind' is an epochal work of art, but rather because, eighteen ye...

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