September 24 will mark the fifteen year anniversary of Nirvana's generation- and genre-defining 'Nevermind' album.
Over the last decade and a half the album has achieved the rare feat of diamond sales in the US; that is, over 10 million copies. And its status and influence leads it to be the often unquestioned "greatest album" of the 1990s, according to Spin Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and MuchMoreMusic. It even ranked number two in VH1's Top 100 Albums and number three in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever list. Incidentally, Rolling Stone's November 1991 review only gave it three stars.MTV has cornered modern punk and rock stars from band AFI, Panic! At The Disco, Deftones, Fall Out Boy, Ok Go and Mastodon, who all heaped praise on the classic for its anniversary. David Dramain of Disturbed said, "It's very rare when one band can make the entire world stand up and notice and change the way that they think about music."
Also, despite the ubiquity of the single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', the song only reached number one in Belgium, France, Spain and New Zealand.
