I have been listening to Nirvana since 92, collecting every thing I could, both official on non-official. My mouth was watering over this release since I now only buy vinyl records...but then I listened to it.

My main problem is with LP 1 (Nevermind Remastered) - This is the worst of it. Compared to my 2009 pressing, the cymbals have been nearly stripped of their presence. The beauty of Dave's crashing has been flattened down. It all sounds more like a badly mixed CD than a high quality vinyl. I thought my ears were playing tricks on me so pulled the remaster off my turntable and threw on my 2009 copy. While the new one made my ears ache, the original drew me right through to the end of a side, like it always does. The new version is devoid of any depth and there are obvious clipping issues. I'm afraid to turn this thing up for fear of that awful overdriven distortion creeping in. Kurt's vocals on parts of Lithium sound especially bad, artificially distorting. I didn't believe it on the first listen, but after comparing to the original there is no mistaking it. I'm am no expert but this does not sound like it is even analog sourced. The 2009 vinyl edition was remastered from the original analog master tapes. Buy that one while you still can.

Aside from this, the track listing shows UME has no idea what a person listening to vinyl records wants. Boombox demos are unnecessary on a audiophile medium, but they took it further and split them across 2 records. Logic would tell you they could have been on one separate LP so you could listen to it once and put it aside, but hey, what do I know? Keep in mind that as someone who owned all the Outcesticide CDs I do appreciate this, the problem is just with the execution. The demos really should have been a bonus download.

For the other material, I'm willing to settle since it's the only way you are going to get this rare material on vinyl. The highlight is actually the last side of the last record. Early versions of Drain You, Something in the Way (loud as hell, in a good way) and the standard Endless Nameless.

All in all, this could have been so much better.

this nirvana set was a super let down, the boombox tracks are garbage, cool for a one time listen, other than that though, well not so much. the vig mixes were a let down as well, not hard to tell why they had it remixed before releasing it, and the remaster of the original actually hurt my ears, quailty control got away form somebody on this one. And the blu ray was out of snyc, i feel like i wasted over two hundred bucks on the whole set, bummer.

The original CD release sounds A LOT better than the remastered version (more dynamic) .

The remastered CD is over-compressed to the point where there's clipping all over the place.

Dave Grohl's drums sound flat and lifeless now. It's a shame that such a legendary album

gets such a terrible treatment.

Google "Loudness War" to find out more about the technical details.

I was 16 when it was released and I loved it then and I love it now. For me this is something I can listen to the whole way through without skipping songs. I think the 12 songs on this CD have aged quite well and fit well in any rock fans collection.

I have read the last 300 reviews and many people don't know what they are talking about. I didn't realize how polarizing this album was.

Music shouldn't be about technical guitar prowess or a 5 octave vocal range or hair spray. People shouldn't be caught up with genre labels like grunge, punk, emo, hair metal, nu-metal, alternative. Reviews of music shouldn't comment on the personal lives of the artist's drug use, death, or bizarre choice of mate. You shouldn't even care about how tastes in fashion and music changed after this (and other "grunge" acts) came onto the scene.

It should be about the songs and how you relate to them personally. If you don't like this that is fine, but the other superfluous [...]shouldn't be relevant in the discussion of the album, please feel free to get a MySpace account and [...]about it there.

Is there any doubt that this is the landmark album of the 1990's? Some might say this distinction belongs to Dr. Dre's THE CHRONIC, Beck's ODELAY, Pearl Jam's TEN, or even Radiohead's OK COMPUTER, but NEVERMIND has to be the choice. The entire genre of rock throughout the 90's was based on this record with every band trying to recapture its memorable sound and market appeal. Of course "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the anthem that started the alternative revolution, but there's quality in many other songs here besides just this. I'm not sure why, but "Something In The Way" has always stood out to me with its gentle, yet sad mood. The haunting "Come As You Are" will always remain an emotional track because of the circumstances that would follow a few years later. The true punk roots of Nirvana are shown well in "Territorial Pissings," which is possibly the most brutal and emotional song I've ever heard. "In Bloom" and "Lithium" became MTV and radio staples for good reason since they displayed with a vengenace that NEVERMIND had much more depth beyond its well-known first hit. My final favorite, among many, would be "Polly" because of its mid-tempo pace and hummable chorus that isn't buried amongst the guitars. It's a shame to see about ten copies of this CD in every used record store I walk into because it should be a part of any fan's collection who has absoluely the slightest interest at all in rock, metal, punk, or power-pop music.