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Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

To me SY came first and after that Nirvana. I heard GOO first time about half year it´s release. But reason why I like it so much is that it reminds me many of the sixties stuff I loved. So the reason I started to love it wasn´t any "this is music I´ve never heard before" it´s more like "really great some today´s band have made an album that is so much the music I love".

But I also really remember when I heard "Smells like teen Spirit" first time. It had pure energy that I hadn´t heard a long time. My brother bought Nevermind and I brought it to some our school´s party. Of course the most of the people didn´t understand it at all, but there were maybe three guys who went absolutely grazy about it and asked me what´s this, it´s really great! Even that song has become some kind of Stairway to Heaven of grunge, I still remember that my first feeling always when I hear it. Later of course I met guys, who had been Nirvana-fans already in Bleach-time (you know there are always guys who heard great bands from their first demos, Metallica was playing in a very small Place in Finland after they had made Kill Em All, there were guys watching it, but not me).

I think those were great times, I think grunge was the last true youth movement. Year after hearing Smells like teen spirit like many other fans in Finland I went to see Nirvana in a Ruisrock-festival. It was a little bit disappointment to me, but I think I will remember it rest of my life.

Anyway Nirvana become a band almost everybody of my friends listened, SY was never as popular here. But even I liked Nirvana then and has liked it also later, it never became as important to me as SY.

About Nirvana & the Beatles, I have always thought Nevermind is kind of Beatles-album made in the nineties way.

Great post, i love a European perspective on nevermind