Thirty-five years after its release, Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind is still huge. The RIAA Diamond-certified record turned Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl into global stars and helped define ’90s grunge. Producer Butch Vig says the album changed his life, but he rarely listens to it alone now. Still, he hears it everywhere — in coffee shops, on T‑shirts and in public playlists. Songs like “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “In Bloom,” “Come as You Are” and “Lithium” remain instantly recognizable. Nirvana followed Nevermind with 1993’s In Utero and broke up after Cobain’s death in 1994. The music keeps finding new life: “Something in the Way” resurfaced after appearing in the 2022 movie The Batman. “There’s incredible energy and mystery in that record,” Vig says. “Kurt’s voice has so many things going on, and it still affects people.”
