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Nevermind, an album on major chords

🎵 Back in 1991, Nevermind become an unexpected critical and commercial sensation. Its raw guitars and rough, unapologetic sound captivated listeners, though most of us simply enjoyed it without appreciating its artistry.

Its raw guitars and rough, unapologetic sound captivated listeners, though most of us simply enjoyed it without appreciating its artistry. Buried under distorted overdriven guitars, one song at the time, a music made of new innovative harmonic idioms emerges. Surely, other singers and bands, way before nirvana, had written songs using similar techniques, but those would have been a few tracks in otherwise standard rock albums.

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