Listening to NEVERMIND for THE FIRST TIME in 2022! NIRVANA REACTION & Commentary
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00:00 - Introduction
00:59 - Smells Like Teen Spirit
03:55 - In Bloom
07:18 - Come as You Are
09:40 - Breed
11:49 - Lithium
14:50 - Polly
16:25 - Territorial Pissings
18:33 - Drain You
21:17 - Lounge Act
23:21 - Stay Away
25:30 - On a Plain
27:44 - Something in the Way
30:06 - Endless, Nameless 
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I’m really enjoying your comments, you are natural, and unpretentious.👍😄
I don’t think anyone has said yet, but “Endless, Nameless” apparently came out of an aborted recording of the track “Lithium”. The band was getting annoyed over repeated failed recordings and Kurt just suddenly burst into an improv that ended up turning into the track. You can actually hear him smashing his guitar at the end.
They did the song live a lot, usually at the end of the set and he always destroyed his guitar at the end, in Kurt’s words “so we don’t have to play an encore”. If you wanna see a good version, the Paramount concert is a great one cause it’s the only footage they have that’s in HD.
I’d recommend Bleach or In Utero, they both give an interesting dive into the band before/after they got so popular so fast. Kurt literally went from sleeping in his car to outselling Micheal Jackson in a week.
They’re both a lot rawer than Nevermind. In Bleach’s case, it’s because they haven’t quite perfected their sound yet, In Utero’s being that they are actively trying to do something different off the back of Nevermind :)
Ooo that’s so interesting! Thanks so much for letting me know about all that
Oh wow you learn something new everyday
endless,nameless is a jam /failed Lithium.
@@blowingfecesintoyourface yeah man. That’s what I said…
Well said
The "K" shield tattoo Kurt was for "K" records in Olympia where he was living/ and he got it to remind himself to always be a kid. I had the same one by a friend with Indian ink and a beer and some weed as a tribute to him when I was 16. One poke at a time. He was my inspiration in every way after my parents divorced. Learned how to play by ear and just watching his hands.
Great reaction...i love it
I think this is a very nice reaction, i like the genuine curiosity and exploration of the themes and lyrics of the album.
I'll say, usually when the topic of Nirvana lyrics comes up, you'll have a set of people who'll disregard everything as having no rhyme or reason, while another group argues that everything meant something, and well, despite Kurt himself confirming that he didn't think about words as much as songs, they all came from him and his personality and beliefs.
So i would say, you take what you get, some lyrics are more significant than others, some just point to a feeling or an idea, either way they're all drenched in irony and attitude, something consistent with Kurt is that he was always willing to say something different and contradictory.
Regarding the gun references, it probably came up as a running theme because it fit the sound of the album, but also because guns are associated with a heavily tough and masculine ideal, which Kurt specifically rejected, he was extremely pro feminist and progressive and hated machismo, which is why he talks about a guy that likes the pretty songs and shoots his guns while not getting what they're about on In Bloom, it's critiquing a subset of their own fanbase.
A lot of these songs where written after a breakup with his at the time girlfriend, which devastated him emotionally and caused a lot of the lovesick lyrics, like on Drain You and Lounge Act, even Teen Spirit itself is a reference to a line spray painted on his walls by his ex-girlfriend "kurt smells like teen spirit" which was actually in reference to a deodorant.
That's all i had to say, this comment is way too long but i wanted to write down those thoughts here, thank you for your video!
I'm pretty sure that Kurt wasn't that happy when he wrote Lithium
He wrote it while chad was still in the band.
It was written about his "relationship" with heroin
@@tdatrim that's not true at all
Even after knowing the lyrics, I still hear that line from In Bloom as "don't know what it means."
We need your insight on In Utero!!! I really liked your video, this album changed my life when I discovered it
Old man here, I saw Nirvana at Al's Bar in L.A. on their first trip down south and it was insane! I walked outta that place dumbfounded. It usually takes me a few hearings of a band to be hooked on them, but they got me from the jump.
I'm jealous that you got to experience this album for the first time only now....
I still remember the day I first heard this. I was young...it was 1994, so I was only 10, on a bus headed to Washington DC on a 3 day field trip. The kid in the seat next to me let me borrow his disc-man...and his 3 CDs: Nevermind, Green Day's Dookie, and Michael Jackson's Dangerous. SO early 90s lol. I loved it all...but Nevermind blew my mind wide open. I'd NEVER heard anything remotely close to that. I was only 10....I'd really only heard the music my parents played on the radio or what was on TV commercials.
And to go from that....to hearing Nevermind, on full blast, on headphones? Honestly....it was terrifying. I remember being freaked out actually....it felt overwhelmingly intense. And I didn't understand a good deal of what it was "about" at 10....but I knew it was utterly vital....and I knew it made me feel hyper alive. I had shivers running up and down my spine....and I'd never had music do that to me.
That was a very good day lol....
I'm a huge Nirvana fan, they were one of my all time favorite bands. It's interesting seeing you try and analyze the lyrics, hehe. I think Kurt was very much into the "word salad" method of song writing, the lyrics really don't mean anything (for the most part), it was always more about the music than it was about the lyrics for him. But for sure, it is fun to watch you go through them and get your interpretation. Loved it!
Hi Bruna,
seeing your reaction to the nevermind album made me cry and took me back in the years to when I first heard this cd, although now I'm 43 and I've never stopped listening to Nirvana and playing the drums.
The lyric “It's okay to eat fish/‘Cause they don't have any feelings” from “Something in the Way” is tongue-in-cheek and a reference to Kurt’s Sun sign, Pisces. Pisceans are notoriously sensitive, something Kurt references multiple times in his writing, including in his suicide note (“There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. The sad, little, sensitive, unappreciative Pisces, Jesus man.”) 💔
Thank you for sharing this perspective with me, I really appreciate it ❤️
Awesome reaction! Endless, Nameless is a bonus hidden track. My version of the album only contains Tracks 1-12 ending on Something in the Way. It’s just a really good album with amazing melody writing from a genius artist.
In Utero is totally different, but I love it just as much. Worth checking out. And also the unplugged show.
Thanks so much for checking out the video and for your comment!
At least you're honest about actually having heard some of this already. I can't stand it when people act like they've lived under a rock just for RUclips views. This was a HUGE band, absolutely massive. You've heard this
Right!? Like we are suppose to believe there are all the people that claim to be movie lovers and yet they haven't seen all the major classic movies of all time? I call cap on every single one of them. I also am a movie buff/lover. I own over 2000 movies. Seen probably close to 3000 movies in my life. What does that mean exactly? I cant make a movie react channel cause i have seen far too much worthy ofgetting views. Also the stuff i havent seen is far more lilely to be low tier quality that i am more apt to dislike. Speaking of..... dont you find it funny how every reactor seems to like every single movie? Again, i call cap.
Breed
Drain You
Lounge Act
Underrated gems 💎
Most songs can be interpreted how you'd like.....but Kurt has explanied what each songs meaning was.
love this band
Hi Bruna. You are so good at this. You’re so into the music and the lyrical observations were very interesting. That was such a seminal time for rock music led by this album.
Thanks so much for saying that, that’s very kind! Glad you enjoyed the video!
It's Not Rock It's grunge
Love your giggles reacting to this album ❤❤❤
Welcome to the world of grunge music. The early years of the 1990's produced some of the most raw and emotional music ever, and it changed the world of rock music forever. Bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and of course, Nirvana unleashed the hidden rage and energy that the youth and teenagers back then had with their music and lyrics.
Great reaction by you, Bruna, and I hope that you continue your exploration through this genre.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! I appreciate that!
Lovi 4 veces en concierto 3 en España. 1 en roma
I think Kurt wrote that line "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings" ironically because people will often not eat meat but they'll still eat fish, as if fish don't feel pain or aren't sentient beings.
They don’t feel pain tho stop with the woke shit lol
Interesting! Thanks for sharing, I didn’t think about it this way
He actually lived under a bridge when this album was recorded.
Spot on regarding Drain You. It's about toxic co-dependent relationships.
Few nice bits of imagery with the lyrics:
One baby to another says "I'm lucky to have met you" = two lovers laying in bed in the FETAL position. one BABY to another.
Chew your meat for you; pass it back and forth; etc. - Chew your meat for you is both a sexual innuendo for a woman giving man oral, and the pass of "it" back and forth in a passionate kiss afterwards....well. yeh.. you can guess. But also metaphorical in that co-dependency sense of the entire song.
Verse 2
poison apple: eg Adam and Eve. and the temptation of women. (sex)
My water is so yellow I'm a healthy student - eg, urine is not cloudy. I passed the STD test
vacuum out of the fluid. eg/ "suck" out the "fluids". another oral metaphor
My favorite Nirvana song is Lounge Act, followed by Something In The Way, Come As You Are, Polly, Drain You, and Lithium :)
I think Drain You is about the abusive relationship Kurt's mom was in. He witnessed him break her arm.
I’ve listen to this album for years but watching you and sharing your thoughts gave me new perspectives on how I view this album now, thank you.
You could probably write a book analyzing Kurt's lyrics. He was a weird guy.
Bleach incesticide and in útero are my faveesss, i grew Up listening to nirvana and Kurt cobain has a Big place in my Heart♥️
Hes lyrics are very cryptic and satire but his writing was amazing
The name of the song Lithium refers to a depression remedy. This song even though it has a happy touch, it's actually quite sad. I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends
They're in my head. That is, he has no friends, they are all imaginary.
The live at Reading version of Territorial Pissings is absolute insanity and i love it. It's the end of the show, everyone's exhausted, Kurt is literally bleeding on his guitar, and they just play until there's nothing left. And then they destroy the stage so no one can ask them for an encore. 🤣
Drain You is about the relationship between a mother and her unborn child. The lyrics will make more sense if you know that.
The song is sung from the unborn baby perspective
Oooh thanks so much for letting me know!
Yay! I loved the reaction, haven't listen that album in years :) also Kurt's lyricism was very open to interpretation, also funny at times.
Thanks so much for your comment!
You have a great ear for music. You break the songs down so well and feel them I can tell. Glad I found your reactions
Thanks so much for saying that, that’s very kind of you!
29 years gone by after loosing this band. There will never be anything close to this impact. I miss my youth and the feelings listening Nirvana first time. Will carry the memories and Kurts voice in head my whole life.
The line about "Why I taste" is a reference to a particular method of using heroin, which Kurt was unfortunately addicted to at the time.
Wow, thanks for letting me know about that. I appreciate it!
Everyone should do this
This is my favourite album of all time. It changed so much in the culture and I’m not sure I’ll see something like it again in my lifetime.
DAN!! So cool to see you in the comments! ❤️❤️❤️
Tottaly right , it even changed the music industry, got rid of 80s poodle posing metal rock .
Yes, it's so true.
I really feel like grunge died with him.
I find myself craving grunge.
Nirvana will always be the best but I would love to see someone new cause a grunge revival.... kinda like what's happening right now with pop/punk.
I have this crazy need for it
Era como 2 generación hipyy
So much of this album was part of my childhood. Its amazing what a few riffs can do and impact my life so much even if i wasnt alive when the album originally came out.
My favourite album of all time
masterpiece ❤
Thank u very much!
I'm an old Nirvana fan. Love to see how u interpreter the songs.
Please react to In Utero.
Love from Sweden
Nirvana.... cómo los echo de menos, pero su música estará para siempre
It's important to remember Kurt Cobain never put too much thought into his lyrics. He would often change lyrics to songs until he found the right melody. He really loved music but he also never took himself too seriously. Great reaction by the way
Thanks so much!
La mejor banda con los Alice in chains Layne Staley eran buenísimos la. Voz de Layne es insuperable I muy difícil de imitar
Thank you. This was Awesome
Thanks for watching!
@@BrunaClaas Any chance of you doing "In Utero" as well??
7:10 Due to the song title In Bloom and the other mentions of reproduction in the song, I’ve always assumed the lyric ‘He likes to shoot his gun’ is a metaphor for male orgasm.
Drain you is about a baby's relationship with their mother.
Thanks for sharing that with me!
You have great taste in music..Great video👍
Falta aquellos valores Kurt movió a todo el mundo con su música y canbio todo todo lforma de vestir la forma. De todo no se fue como un dios para la gente que lo amamos y lo llevamos dentro respectando a dios pero fue alucinante y muy emocionante como las cosas eran antes
Kurt Cobain is one of the last great icons he'll could never be forgotten. RIP
Thanks so like use niece vai 😂😂😂❤
Please check out 12 Point Buck by Killdozer.
Me encantaba la gente de aquellos tiempos paz amor y empatia como dice en una de sus frases la gente de hoi está enferma con la tecnología cuandas tocas nirvana con la guitarra solo me Dan ga as de desttrozarla
I think Breed is supposed to be a wife talking to her husband, who is having an existential crisis, and reassuring him that they don't have to do everything the way it is usually expected. Also, the connection to guns is sad, since he committed suicide by shotgun in 1994. (Although some believe he was murdered).
You should check out some of the other Seattle bands of this era: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Temple of the Dog.
Thanks for sharing that with me, Gary! Would love to check out some of these other bands as well ❤️
This album is probably towards the bottom of my Nirvana album rankings but goddamn, Lounge Act is so fucking good
Lounge Act is seriously so awesome and overlooked compared to some of their other songs.
Lounge act def has to be the most underrated Nirvana song
A lot of people will say this about Nevermind and I think it's a reaction to how popular it is.
But go back and REALLY listen to it. Listen to the rhythm of the songs. Listen to the drums, the flam on In Bloom. How the drums DRIVE the faster songs. The slight pause in Teen Spirit that helps give the guitar that "OOMPH". That song feels like a rollercoaster. She even said, "Now I can breathe again".
Listen to how Kurt's voice accents the songs. A record producer on RUclips, Rick Beatto, points out that Kurt's voice plays a note in the guitar chords. Listen to how the bass adds a really heaviness to the songs and just keep the rhythm going when the guitars aren't playing.
And listen to how Kurt's voice is absolutely perfect for each part he's singing. How he hits the "A denial" exactly the same way. The "Oooohhh" that leads up to the chorus on In Bloom. His repeated "I'm not gonna crack" on Lithium, almost as if he's trying to convince himself. How he harmonies the guitar and vocal in Stay Away, "I don't know why."
Once you've moved past your preconceived notions of the album and really break it down and then bring it back together, it's a goddamn masterpiece of an album. Just perfect.
@@dvs620 I've heard all of Nirvana, front to back even down to isolated tracks and what have you. I just feel like In Utero is more raw and Incesticide is more fun and experimental
@@EvanSchatz But that doesn't make them better. You're hearing them based on your tastes. I'm not talking about that. You can like what you like.
But theory wise, production wise, composition wise, Nevermind is far superior. It's the best album of the 90s and one of the greatest ever. I love In Utero, but once I heard this fact about it, I couldn't NOT hear it.
The band hates the original mix. The 2 singles, Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies were remixed, to sound better. If you listen to them, they sound different from the rest of the album. That's why there's the "2013 mix" version of it. It's not just a remaster, but a different mix of it.
On a plain is about his parents divorce and his dad leaving the family home
Great rundown of the album and lyrics, most of the nevermind lyrics are very cryptic but krist novoselic said most nevermind lyrics Kurt wrote was about Kurt's ex girlfriend Tobi Vail , the tattoo is a shield with a k inside it , it's actually the logo for k records which is an independent label that Kurt was a big fan of and probably wanted to be on the label til the big majors came knocking, apparently he got the tattoo to impress Tobi Vail. Edit plus Kurt's mum used to get beaten up by her then boyfriend so some people attach the lyrics my mother died every night , the part were he says don't quote me on that was an inside joke by nirvana as they would ask or get asked questions then answer and jokingly after say don't quote me on that , sorry for the long comment but as you can probably tell I'm a nirvana fan and have been since the early nineties.
Well, thank goodness she knew Smells like Teen Spirit! If she hadn't I would have been a little worried!
Hasta el día de hoi son los mejores Kurt canbko la música I eso se aprecia en otras bandas ya será muy difícil que puedan superar a Kurt cobain son de esos artistas que nacen cada 100 años. Si. Es. Que sale
In Bloom is Kurt making fun of those “macho men” that suddenly started paying attention to Nirvana, like “he knows not what it means”, he doesn’t get our music, he’s not looking deeper, he’s not a real fan.
about the gun lyric - from what I heard that lyric is just about his friend Dylan(?) that likes guns 😂 maybe Kurt was making fun of him too kinda
Thanks so much for letting me know about this! So helpful to understand the context of the songs!!
Gun means syringe. Kurt uses this recurring metaphor for drug use. A lot of his lyrics are literal references to drug use, but they also can be interpreted as detachment from reality and isolation from others.
In "In Bloom" each line of the first verse corresponds to a line of the second verse.
For instance "sell the kids for food" "we can have some more"
Thanks for letting me know about this!
I read that “In Bloom” wasn’t meant to make sense except for the chorus which is basically saying a lot of people like all their “pretty” songs but they don’t really know what they’re about. I think the “he likes to shoot his gun” part is supposed to represent the idea of the average American. It’s sort of making fun of all the people who just like the songs without knowing what they mean or trying to find their own meaning for the lyrics. I don’t know how true that is but it sounds like it could be right.
Very interesting!! Thanks so much for sharing that with me!
Actually "Teen Spirit" was deodorant that was very popular in the states at this time ☝️😉
Lithium is used as medication for example on depression of which Cobain heavily suffered!
...and I cannot imagine listening to the songs live... but I can remember 😉
Jealous of you!!!!
Thanks so much for sharing that!
Underneath the bridge=below modern society
Tarp has sprung a leak=the thing I'm using to cover myself is broken
And the animals I've trapped=the people down here who look to me
Have all become my friends= have all become my friends
And I'm living off of grass=literally the things that grow
And the drippings from the ceiling=whatever little bits fall down to me
It's ok to eat fish because they don't have any feelings=it's ok to exploit those if us down here who are new because if they could see life as we do they wouldn't be new.
Kurt was well known to hit a town and immediately go find the homeless kids. It's where he felt comfortable. This was before homelessness in America skyrocketed and those living on the streets were more like beat poets, train jumpers and hitchhikers. The classical sense of the concept instead of the modern sense.
Endless nameless was made after the band screwed up lithium
'Something in the way' is the last song of Nevermind.
Endless Nameless is a bonus track added onto the CD release and then digital releases, it isn't on the original releases.
Thanks for letting me know!
Well it's on the original releases just not the first 100,000 copies
In Bloom mostly is a rebuke to their fans who have no idea what their lyrics mean. I am so happy to hear you react to Nirvana as a Seattle native. I came to you because of The Weeknd reactions but now I am a true fan forever. As far as the gun references, Kurt grew up in a rural part of Washington in Aberdeen where joblessness was really an issue after the jobs disappeared. Sadly he ended his life with a gun. A Shotgun
We are all waiting for you to react to the other Nirvana albums, In Utero is great and very heavy, in Bleach you can see the mixes and potential of them, Inscesticide is a very good weird album, Unplugged is EPIC.
I feel you were being a little too optimistic about the first few songs but you totally nailed Drain You. I always thought Drain You just meant nothing like a good amount of Kurt’s lyrics but you had some really good insight.
I think "Drain you" is about a mother talking to her baby when she's in labor...
A los Alice in chains no tuvimos la oportunidad de verlos
primeiro album do nirvana que ouvi, very good
I've always thought that 'Smells like teen spirit' depicts a spin the bottle game gone wrong.
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With the gun thing. Theres actually less gun regulation today then there was in the 90's.
So i dont know where you got that info but i would not get info from that there again.
Lithium is actually a lot deeper then people realize, it’s about being bi-polar, and manic depressive, lithium was a drug pre-Prozac given for depression and bi-polar disorder
Thanks for letting me know!
"wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." my Fav Kurt Cobain Quote! the YT vide "Nirvana - Live at the Paramount - 10/31/91" is amazing also, superbly shot!!! and the MTV Unplugged session 1993 is in a class all by it's own!!
Thanks for the recommendations!
@@BrunaClaas yeah, it's awesome , some full concert vids on YT, I've seen 5-6 times, "Nirvana - Live at the Paramount - 10/31/91" I've seen 30+ lol, the audio quality is really good also, this 1991 concert really shows the 3 in their best live form. solid!!
Now you gotta react to "Bleach", Nirvana before Nevermind
Thanks for the recommendation!
teen spirt is a deodorant brand and thats where he got the name
Btw It's grunge Not Rock
Hmm..
Good Reaction overall! He likes to shoot his gun is because it’s fun to shoot guns. Like at a shooting range. He mentions the fun part of guns and not the pain or possible death.
I’m glad you appreciate the guitar and drums.
And the clever and cryptic lyrics.
And he sang, I’m not gonna Crack but he did later so that wasn’t true.
Good Review!
Thanks so much for the kind comment!
You should check out their unplugged album.
Thanks for the recommendation!
the song smells like teen spirit was called that because one ok Kurts (the singer) girlfriends spray painted on a wall “Kurt smells like teen spirit” witch was a deodorant brand and he wore it and he needed a song name so he thought of smells like teen spirit
and the song in bloom was about thier old school bullys
Sooo interesting , thanks so much for letting me know!
Lithium was a medication for bipolar depression.
Thanks for sharing that!
Fun fact about Kurt.. .. He was a feminist!
by Territorial P*** The word in the Intro isn't Kurt... it is Krist
Hi , I have a question:
Has anyone heard any news about Dave Grohl signing My Evil Erica ?
I really want to know what's "On a plain" meaning.
On a Plain is about a heroin high "i got so high, i scratched till i bled"-This isn't uncommon to heroin addicts. "Love myself, better than you."-Heroin produces an incredible feeling of euphoria. "On a plain, I can't complain" means he's wasted as F
The "it's ok to eat fish" line to me means he's very empathetic and is trying to convince himself. I've had similar thoughts. Trying to convince yourself to avoid guilt. What level of sentience means it's ok to kill and eat? He's a guy battling his own feelings and sensitivity towards these things
Cry on command I think he referred to when your a baby and u learn that crying gets what you want. Therefore crying on command was him learning that he could achieve that so it was his finest day once he realized that’s all you have to do is cry.
Interesting!! Love that interpretation
A lot of people found irony in the gun lyrics due to Kurt’s eventual death being suicide, where he died to a self inflicted shotgun blast
Me personally It hurts every time I hear those lyrics being such a big fan
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"it's okay to eat fish cuz they don't have any feelings" is a line which is such a contradiction especially when kurt has always mentioned that he's a proud pisces and pisces are such an emotional sign
Interesting!! Thanks for sharing that