Editing Nevermind (section)

==Legacy==
===Cultural impact===
[[File:KristNovoselic2011.jpg|alt=Novoselic playing bass guitar on stage|thumb|upright=0.75|Bassist [[Krist Novoselic]] at a ''Nevermind'' 20th anniversary show in 2011]]
''Nevermind'' popularized the Seattle [[grunge]] movement and brought [[alternative rock]] as a whole into the mainstream, establishing its commercial and cultural viability<ref>Olsen, Eric. [http://www.today.com/id/4652653 "10 years later, Cobain lives on in his music"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622170917/http://www.today.com/id/4652653 |date=June 22, 2013}}. MSNBC April 9, 2004. Retrieved on September 27, 2007.</ref> and leading to an alternative rock boom in the music industry.<ref name="Hogan">{{cite magazine|last=Hogan|first=Marc|author-link=Marc Hogan|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/ok-computer-at-20/10038-exit-music-how-radioheads-ok-computer-destroyed-the-art-pop-album-in-order-to-save-it/|title=Exit Music: How Radiohead's OK Computer Destroyed the Art-Pop Album in Order to Save It|magazine=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=March 11, 2010|date=March 20, 2017|archive-date=December 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223111434/https://pitchfork.com/features/ok-computer-at-20/10038-exit-music-how-radioheads-ok-computer-destroyed-the-art-pop-album-in-order-to-save-it/|url-status=live}}</ref> Though a short tenure from the album's release to the [[Suicide of Kurt Cobain|death of Cobain]], the album's and singles' successes propelled Nirvana to being regarded by the media as the biggest band in the world—especially throughout 1992.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=September 22, 2021 |title=My Time with Kurt Cobain |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-time-with-kurt-cobain |access-date=April 3, 2022 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref> As a grunge act, the band's success over the popular [[hair metal]] acts of the time drew similarities to the early 1960s [[British Invasion]] of American popular music.<ref name="Congress" /> The album also initiated a resurgence of interest in [[punk culture]] among teenagers and young adults of [[Generation X]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=March 5, 2013 |title=How Nirvana Made 'Nevermind' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/how-nirvana-made-nevermind-194556/ |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019092506/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/how-nirvana-made-nevermind-194556/ |archive-date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref> Journalist [[Chuck Eddy]] cited ''Nevermind''{{'}}s release as roughly the end of the "high [[album era]]".<ref name="Eddy">{{cite book |last=Eddy |first=Chuck |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wl0rlx7DoeIC&q=%22album+era%22 |title=Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-82235010-1 |page=283 |access-date=June 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613061600/https://books.google.com/books?id=wl0rlx7DoeIC&q=%22album+era%22 |archive-date=June 13, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] writer William Goodman lauds the album, particularly in comparison to the music and image of hair metal acts: "Instead of the chest-beating, coke-blowing, women-objectifying macho rock star of the ’80s, Cobain popularized (or re-invigorated) the image of the sensitive artist, the pro-feminism, anti-authoritarian smart alec punk with a sweet smile and gentle soul."<ref name="Goodman-2016" /> In its citation placing it at number 17 in its 2003 list of the [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 greatest albums of all time]], ''Rolling Stone'' said, "No album in recent history had such an overpowering impact on a generation—a nation of teens suddenly turned punk—and such a catastrophic effect on its main creator."<ref name="nevermind rs500" /> Gary Gersh, who signed Nirvana to Geffen Records, added that "There is a pre-Nirvana and post-Nirvana record business...'''Nevermind''<nowiki/>' showed that this wasn't some alternative thing happening off in a corner, and then back to reality. This is reality."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=November 14, 1993 |title=Nirvana, the Band That Hates to Be Loved: The Band That Hates to Be Loved |work=[[The New York Times]] |id={{ProQuest|109121712}}}}</ref>

The album had an enormous impact towards [[youth culture]]. Goodman says that ''Nevermind'' "killed off hair metal, and sparked a cultural revolution across the globe".<ref name="Goodman-2016" /> Speaking to the [[BBC]], Brazilian cultural studies academic Moyses Pinto stated that he was struck by ''Nevermind'', saying "I thought: 'this is perfect'; it sounded like a bright synthesis of noise and pop music."<ref name="Haider-2021">{{Cite web |last=Haider |first=Arwa |title=Nevermind at 30: How the Nirvana album shook the world |date=September 23, 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210922-nevermind-at-30-how-the-nirvana-album-shook-the-world |access-date=April 3, 2022 |agency=BBC News |language=en}}</ref> In similar praise, Kgomotso Neto says that the impact of Nirvana, as well as MTV, during the time of ''Nevermind'', caused a new youth who listened to the same music and dressed similarly ([[grunge fashion]]). Neto further remarks that "there was a cultural homogeneity probably never experienced before" and that "grunge culture became dominant very quickly; all that had been 'cool' suddenly became ugly and exaggerated, and Kurt [Cobain] was the symbol of transgression."<ref name="Haider-2021" /> [[Michael Azerrad]] argued in his Nirvana biography ''[[Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana]]'' (1993) that ''Nevermind'' marked an epochal generational shift in music similar to the rock-and-roll explosion in the 1950s and the end of the dominance of the [[Baby Boomer Generation]] on popular music. Azerrad wrote, "''Nevermind'' came along at exactly the right time. This was music by, for, and about a whole new group of young people who had been overlooked, ignored, or condescended to."<ref>Azerrad 1993, p. 225</ref>

The success of ''Nevermind'' surprised Nirvana's contemporaries, who felt dwarfed by its influence. [[Fugazi]] frontman [[Guy Picciotto]] later said: "It was like our record could have been a hobo pissing in the forest for the amount of impact it had ... It felt like we were playing [[ukulele]]s all of a sudden because of the disparity of the impact of what they did."<ref>Azerrad, 2001. p. 493</ref> Karen Schoemer of the ''New York Times'' wrote that "What's unusual about Nirvana's ''Nevermind'' is that it caters to neither a mainstream audience nor the indie rock fans who supported the group's debut album."<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Art Behind Nirvana's Ascent to the Top: Not many bands come up from the underground to hit No. 1 as fast as this Seattle trio – or make so few musical concessions.|last=Schoemer|first=Karen|date=January 26, 1992|work=[[The New York Times]]|id={{ProQuest|108871606}}}}</ref> In 1992, [[Jon Pareles]] of ''The New York Times'' described the aftermath of the album's breakthrough: "Suddenly, all bets are off. No one has the inside track on which of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of ornery, obstreperous, unkempt bands might next appeal to the mall-walking millions." Record company executives offered large advances and record deals to bands, and replaced their previous strategies of building audiences for alternative bands with the attempts to achieve mainstream popularity quickly.<ref>Pareles, Jon. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3D71531F937A25755C0A964958260 Pop View; Nirvana-bes Awaiting Fame's Call"]. ''The New York Times''. June 14, 1992. Retrieved on June 3, 2008.</ref>

===Reappraisal===
{{Music ratings
| title = Retrospective professional ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/nevermind-mw0000185616 |title=Nevermind – Nirvana |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=April 9, 2015 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322044122/https://www.allmusic.com/album/nevermind-mw0000185616 |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The A.V. Club]]''
| rev2score = A<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/nirvana-nevermind-1798169729 |title=Nirvana: Nevermind |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=Hyden |first=Steven |author-link=Steven Hyden |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316040538/https://www.avclub.com/nirvana-nevermind-1798169729 |archive-date=March 16, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/54978/nevermind.html |title=Nirvana: Nevermind |magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |volume=7 |issue=3 |date=April 2008 |access-date=August 15, 2022 |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |author-link=Douglas Wolk |page=88 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420043006/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/54978/nevermind.html |archive-date=April 20, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev4score = A<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Nirvana: Nevermind |chapter-url=https://robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2584 |access-date=April 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209175039/https://robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2584 |archive-date=February 9, 2022 |url-status=live |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |title-link=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |publisher=[[St. Martin's Griffin]] |year=2000 |isbn=0-312-24560-2 |page=227}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/8781291/Nirvana-Nevermind-20th-Anniversary-Edition-CD-review.html |title=Nirvana: Nevermind (20th Anniversary Edition), CD review |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=September 22, 2011 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=McCormick |first=Neil |author-link=Neil McCormick |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923094438/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/8781291/Nirvana-Nevermind-20th-Anniversary-Edition-CD-review.html |archive-date=September 23, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6score = 10/10<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15854-nevermind-20th-anniversary-edition/ |title=Nirvana: Nevermind [20th Anniversary Edition] |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=Harvell |first=Jess |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416193619/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15854-nevermind-20th-anniversary-edition/ |archive-date=April 16, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Nirvana: Nevermind |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=303 |date=October 2011 |last=Segal |first=Victoria |page=133}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/nevermind-20th-anniversary-252448/ |title=Nevermind 20th Anniversary |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=Rosen |first=Jody |author-link=Jody Rosen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926161912/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/nevermind-20th-anniversary-252448/ |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Nirvana |last=Young |first=Charles M. |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-743-20169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/588 588–589]}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev10score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUm4Cp2ZFOEC&pg=PA78 |title=How to Buy: Heavy Metal |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=22 |issue=8 |date=August 2006 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=Dolan |first=Jon |page=78 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707091241/https://books.google.com/books?id=EUm4Cp2ZFOEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78 |archive-date=July 7, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

''Nevermind'' has continued to garner critical praise, having been ranked highly on lists of the greatest albums of all time. The album was ranked number 17 on ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]],<ref name="nevermind rs500">[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/nirvana-nevermind-20120524 17: Nevermind – Nirvana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309091004/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/nirvana-nevermind-20120524 |date=March 9, 2013 }}. ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved on February 12, 2012.</ref> maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/nirvana-nevermind-50643/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=September 23, 2019| archive-date=July 4, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704091937/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/nirvana-nevermind-50643/| url-status=live}}</ref> and upgrading to number 6 in the 2020 and 2023 revisions.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=September 22, 2020 |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020 Edition) |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/nirvana-nevermind-3-1063227 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922163506/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/nirvana-nevermind-3-1063227/ |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |access-date=September 25, 2020 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=December 31, 2023 |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2023 Edition) |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/nirvana-nevermind-3-1063227 |access-date=February 21, 2024 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> In 2019, ''Rolling Stone'' also ranked ''Nevermind'' number one on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the '90s, calling it the "album that guaranteed the nineties would not suck."<ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-nineties-20110427/nirvana-nevermind-20110517 1: Nevermind – Nirvana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828233709/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-nineties-20110427/nirvana-nevermind-20110517 |date=August 28, 2017 }}. ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved on October 7, 2013.</ref> Also in 2019, ''Nevermind'' was ranked number one on ''Rolling Stone''<nowiki/>'s 50 Greatest Grunge Albums list.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-grunge-albums-798851/|title=50 Greatest Grunge Albums|date=April 1, 2019|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403080245/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-grunge-albums-798851/|url-status=live}}</ref> The magazine ranked the album number 10 in its list of 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time too.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-greatest-punk-albums-of-all-time-75659/nirvana-nevermind-1991-2-171736/|title=40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time|date=April 6, 2016|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=October 15, 2019|archive-date=October 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015151401/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-greatest-punk-albums-of-all-time-75659/nirvana-nevermind-1991-2-171736/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2001, [[VH1]] conducted a poll of more than 500 journalists, music executives and artists which judged ''Nevermind'' the second-best album in rock 'n' roll history, behind [[the Beatles]]' ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicBeatles/jan4_beatles-ap.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041113105505/http://www.canoe.com/JamMusicBeatles/jan4_beatles-ap.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 13, 2004 |title=Beatles' 'Revolver' judged best album|access-date=April 18, 2020}}</ref> ''Time'' placed ''Nevermind'', which writer [[Josh Tyrangiel]] called "the finest album of the 90s", on its 2006 list of "The All-TIME 100 Albums".<ref name="Time100_2006">Tyrangiel, Josh. [https://entertainment.time.com/2006/11/02/the-all-time-100-albums/ "''Nevermind'' by Nirvana"] . ''Time''. November 13, 2006. Retrieved on September 29, 2007.</ref> ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' named the album the sixth best of the decade, noting that "anyone who hates this record today is just trying to be cool, and needs to be trying harder."<ref>[https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/10/ "''Top 100 Albums of the 1990s''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622023306/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/10/ |date=June 22, 2009 }}. Pitchfork.com. Retrieved on November 25, 2009.</ref> In 2004, the [[Library of Congress]] added ''Nevermind'' to the [[National Recording Registry]], which collects "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" sound recordings from the 20th century.<ref>MTV News staff. [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1499693/20050406/stefani_gwen.jhtml "For The Record: Quick News On Gwen Stefani, Pharrell Williams, Ciara, 'Dimebag' Darrell, Nirvana, Shins & More"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231020011/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1499693/20050406/stefani_gwen.jhtml |date=December 31, 2008 }}. MTV. April 6, 2005. Retrieved on July 16, 2009.</ref> On the other hand, ''Nevermind'' was voted the "Most Overrated Album in the World" in a 2005 [[BBC]] public poll.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/overrated/shortlist.shtml |title=Most Overrated Album in the World |date=2005 |publisher=[[BBC Radio 6 Music|BBC 6 Music]] |access-date=May 17, 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051111201904/http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/overrated/shortlist.shtml |archive-date=November 11, 2005 }}</ref> ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]'' ranked the album at number 88 on their list of the "500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time".<ref>{{cite book |last=Rensen |first=Michael |title=Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten |publisher=[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]] |year=2005 |isbn=3-89880-517-4 |editor-last=Rensen |editor-first=Michael |pages=188–189 |language=de |trans-title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |chapter=Nevermind |access-date=June 25, 2024 |chapter-url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/nirvana-nevermind}}</ref> In 2006, readers of Guitar World ranked ''Nevermind'' 8th on a list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Recordings.<ref>"100 Greatest Guitar Albums". ''Guitar World''. October 2006.</ref> ''Entertainment Weekly'' named it the 10th best album of all time on their 2013 list.<ref>[https://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20712079_20711843,00.html#21221826 "Music: 10 All-Time Greatest."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122060536/http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20712079_20711843,00.html#21221826 |date=January 22, 2015 }} ''Entertainment Weekly.'' Retrieved April 8, 2013.</ref> It was voted number 17 in the third edition of [[Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=All Time Top 1000 Albums|editor=[[Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2006|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=42|title-link=All Time Top 1000 Albums}}</ref> Christgau named it among his 10 best albums from the 1990s and said in retrospect it is an A-plus album.<ref>{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|date=May 19, 2021|url=https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-may-2021|title=Xgau Sez: May, 2021|work=And It Don't Stop|publisher=[[Substack]]|access-date=May 23, 2021|archive-date=May 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523142808/https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-may-2021|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/nirvana|title=Nirvana|date=November 19, 2019|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en|access-date=March 26, 2020|archive-date=June 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622014754/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/nirvana|url-status=live}}</ref> In October 2023, the [[Official Charts Company]] revealed that ''Nevermind'' was the fourth most streamed album from the 1990s in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ainsley |first=Helen |date=October 6, 2023 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/national-album-day-2023-most-streamed-albums-90s/ |title=BBC Radio 2 announces the Official Most Streamed 90s Albums Chart for National Album Day |work=[[Official Charts Company]] |access-date=October 9, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=KA |date=October 7, 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/radio-2-official-most-streamed-90s-albums-chart-national-album-day |title=Oasis win the Streaming Chart Battle of the 1990s as BBC Radio 2 announces the Official Most Streamed 90s Albums Chart for National Album Day |work=[[BBC Online]] |access-date=October 9, 2023}}</ref> In 2024, Paste Magazine ranked ''Nevermind'' number 65 on its list of the greatest albums of all-time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Paste Staff |title=The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/greatest-albums/the-300-greatest-albums-of-all-time-2 |website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|date=June 3, 2024}}</ref>

===Reissues===
In 1996, [[Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs]] released ''Nevermind'' on [[Gramophone record|vinyl]] as part of its ANADISQ 200 series, and as a 24-[[karat (purity)|karat]] gold CD. The CD pressings included "Endless, Nameless". The LP version quickly sold out its limited pressing but the CD edition stayed in print for years.<ref>Berkenstadt; Cross, p. 148–49</ref> In 2009, Original Recordings Group released ''Nevermind'' on limited edition 180g blue vinyl and regular 180g black vinyl mastered and cut by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes.<ref>[http://www.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/nevermind_and_original_recordings_group/index.html "Nevermind and Original Recordings Group] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215054550/http://www.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/nevermind_and_original_recordings_group/index.html |date=December 15, 2013 }}". Stereophile.com.</ref>

In September 2011, the album's 20th anniversary, [[Universal Music Enterprises]] reissued ''Nevermind'' in a two-CD "deluxe edition" and a four-CD/one-DVD "Super Deluxe Edition".<ref>[http://www.upvenue.com/article/1400-deluxe-edition-of-nirvana-s-nevermind-coming-out-this-year.html "Deluxe Edition of Nirvana's Nevermind Coming Out This Year"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006154656/http://www.upvenue.com/article/1400-deluxe-edition-of-nirvana-s-nevermind-coming-out-this-year.html |date=October 6, 2011 }}. UpVenue.com. June 22, 2011. Retrieved on June 23, 2011.</ref> The first disc on both editions features the original album with studio and live B-sides. The second discs feature early session recordings, including the Smart Studio sessions and some band rehearsals recorded with a [[boombox]], plus two [[BBC]] session recordings. The "Super Deluxe Edition" also includes Vig's original mix of the album and CD and DVD versions of ''[[Live at the Paramount (video)|Live at the Paramount]]''. [[IFPI]] reported that as of 2012, the 20th anniversary formats of the album that were released in 2011 had sold nearly 800,000 units.<ref>{{cite news |year=2012 |title=New Nirvana footage helps drive interest |url=http://www.snepmusique.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/RIN-2012-SNEP-copie.pdf |work=Recording Industry in Numbers - The Recorded Music Market in 2011 |publisher=[[IFPI]] |page=19 |access-date=June 15, 2021 |archive-date=July 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727140246/http://www.snepmusique.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/RIN-2012-SNEP-copie.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In June 2021, Novoselic revealed that he and Grohl were compiling the 30th-anniversary edition of the album.<ref>{{cite news |last=Richards |first=Will |date=June 16, 2021 |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/nirvanas-krist-novoselic-teases-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-2971174 |title=Nirvana's Krist Novoselic teases 'Nevermind' 30th anniversary reissue |work=[[NME]] |access-date=June 21, 2021 |archive-date=June 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619155532/https://www.nme.com/news/music/nirvanas-krist-novoselic-teases-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-2971174 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Carter |first=Emily |date=June 17, 2021 |url=https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/nirvana-krist-novoselic-confirms-30th-anniversary-reissue-of-nevermind/ |title=Nirvana: Krist Novoselic hints at 30th anniversary reissue of Nevermind |work=[[Kerrang!]] |access-date=June 21, 2021 |archive-date=June 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619181521/https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/nirvana-krist-novoselic-confirms-30th-anniversary-reissue-of-nevermind/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=September 18, 2021|title=Nirvana Nevermind 30th Anniversary Album Review|url=https://www.rabbitholemusic.com/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-album-review/|access-date=October 11, 2021|website=Rabbit Hole Music}}</ref> In September 2021, it was announced that [[BBC Two]] in the United Kingdom would celebrate the 30th anniversary with a documentary titled ''[[When Nirvana Came to Britain]]'', which featured contributions from Noveselic and Grohl.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 3, 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/bbc-music-mark-30-years-nirvana-nevermind?at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=@bbcpress&at_custom4=8D558EC2-0B00-11EC-8FE7-C72D0EDC252D&at_medium=custom7 |title=BBC Music to mark 30 years since the release of Nirvana's Nevermind |work=[[BBC Online]] |access-date=September 5, 2021 |archive-date=September 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905163821/https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/bbc-music-mark-30-years-nirvana-nevermind?at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=@bbcpress&at_custom4=8D558EC2-0B00-11EC-8FE7-C72D0EDC252D&at_medium=custom7 |url-status=live }}</ref> That same month, a 30th-anniversary edition of ''Nevermind'' was announced, which became available in eight-LP and five-CD editions and contained 70 previously unreleased live songs. The CD edition also included a [[Blu-ray]] of ''Live in Amsterdam''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Kreps|first=Daniel|date=September 23, 2021|title=Nirvana Pack 'Nevermind' 30th-Anniversary Reissue With 4 Unreleased Concerts|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/|access-date=September 23, 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|archive-date=September 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923194019/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/|url-status=live}}</ref>