Nevermind
1991
The baby on the cover was paid two hundred dollars. Four months after release it knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the chart.
★ 9.7
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MTV Unplugged in New York
1993
Cobain asked for lilies and candles on the set, refused to play the hits, and was dead five months later.
★ 7.5
Superunknown
1994
Singer Chris Cornell wrote Black Hole Sun in about fifteen minutes. Much of the rest is in time signatures that make nodding along hard.
★ 7.4
Ten
1991
The band were called Mookie Blaylock after a basketball player until the label objected, and the album is named for his shirt number.
★ 7.4
Dirt
1992
Singer Layne Staley wrote most of it about his own heroin addiction, and the band recorded it in Los Angeles while the city was burning.
★ 6.1
Badmotorfinger
1991
It came out two weeks after Nevermind and got buried. Soundgarden spent the tour opening for Guns N' Roses instead.
★ 5.5
Vs.
1993
The band refused to make videos for any of it, and it sold nearly a million copies in five days anyway.
★ 4.8
Vitalogy
1994
It came out on vinyl two weeks before the CD, and the sleeve reproduces an 1899 medical book the band found and liked.
★ 4.8