Editing Nevermind (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| title = Contemporary professional ratings
| rev1 = ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://chicagosuntimes.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB373736D0B6AB3 |title=Robertson lacks happy ending for 'Storyville' |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=October 13, 1991 |access-date=May 10, 2024 |last=Corcoran |first=Michael |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-10-10-9104010478-story.html |title=Nirvana: Nevermind (DGC) |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=October 10, 1991 |access-date=October 27, 2015 |last=Kot |first=Greg |author-link=Greg Kot |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204113425/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-10-10-9104010478-story.html |archive-date=February 4, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score = A−<ref name="ew review">{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/1991/10/25/nevermind/ |title=Nirvana's 'Nevermind': EW Review |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=October 25, 1991 |access-date=August 11, 2009 |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108200407/https://ew.com/article/1991/10/25/nevermind/ |archive-date=January 8, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev4score = 5/5<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Mind over splatter |magazine=[[Kerrang!]] |issue=359 |date=September 21, 1991 |last=Gitter |first=Mike |page=22}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-06-ca-136-story.html |title=Power Trio, Pop Craft |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 6, 1991 |access-date=October 27, 2015 |last=Gold |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Gold |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422201602/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-06-ca-136-story.html |archive-date=April 22, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6score = 9/10<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-7371-308229 |title=Nevermind – The Bollocks! |magazine=[[NME]] |date=September 21, 1991 |access-date=January 17, 2023 |last=Lamacq |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Lamacq |page=36 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117181919/https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-7371-308229 |archive-date=January 17, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=8269%26ss=Nirvana%26cs=artist%26st=cn%26stars=NaN%26cp=1 |title=Nirvana: Nevermind |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=62 |date=November 1991 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=King |first=Sam |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000519121226/http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=8269%26ss=Nirvana%26cs=artist%26st=cn%26stars=NaN%26cp=1 |archive-date=May 19, 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="rs review">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nirvana/albums/album/238528/review/6068092/nevermind |title=Nirvana: Nevermind |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=November 28, 1991 |access-date=February 14, 2012 |last=Robbins |first=Ira |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223155942/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nirvana/albums/album/238528/review/6068092/nevermind |archive-date=December 23, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
| rev9score = 4/5<ref name="select review">{{cite magazine|url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2017/10/albums9.jpg |title=Nirvana: Nevermind |magazine=[[Select (magazine)|Select]] |issue=16 |date=October 1991 |last=Perry |first=Andrew |page=68}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10score = A−<ref>{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv1091-91.php |title=Consumer Guide |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |date=November 5, 1991 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209171250/https://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv1091-91.php |archive-date=February 9, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

Geffen's press promotion for ''Nevermind'' was lower than that typical of a major record label. The label's publicist primarily targeted music publications with long lead times for publication as well as magazines in the Seattle area. The unexpectedly positive feedback from critics who had received the album convinced the label to consider increasing the album's original print run.<ref name="BerkCross113"/>

At first, ''Nevermind'' did not receive many reviews, and many publications ignored the album. Months after its release and after "Smells Like Teen Spirit" garnered airplay, print media organizations were "scrambling" to cover the phenomenon the album had become. However, by that point, much of the attention fell on Cobain rather than the album itself. The reviews that did initially appear were largely positive.<ref>Berkenstadt; Cross, p. 116-117</ref> Karen Schoemer of ''The New York Times'' wrote, "With ''Nevermind'', Nirvana has certainly succeeded. There are enough intriguing textures, mood shifts, instrumental snippets and inventive word plays to provide for hours of entertainment ... ''Nevermind'' is more sophisticated and carefully produced than anything peer bands like [[Dinosaur Jr.]] and [[Mudhoney (band)|Mudhoney]] have yet offered."<ref name="nytimes review">Schoemer, Karen. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6DD143EF934A1575AC0A967958260 "Pop/Jazz; A Band That Deals In Apathy"]. ''The New York Times''. September 27, 1991. Retrieved on September 27, 2007.</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave ''Nevermind'' an A− rating. The reviewer, [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]], wrote that Nirvana "never entertain the notion" of wanting to sound "normal", compared to other contemporary alternative bands.<ref name="ew review" /> Concluding his enthusiastic review for the British ''[[Melody Maker]]'', [[Everett True]] wrote that "When Nirvana released ''Bleach'' all those years ago, the more sussed among us figured they had the potential to make an album that would blow every other contender away. My God have they proved us right."<ref name="MelodyMaker review">True, Everett. ''Nirvana: The Biography''. Da Capo Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-306-81554-6}}. p. 233.</ref> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' gave ''Nevermind'' a favorable review stating that "you'll be humming all the songs for the rest of your life—or at least until your CD-tape-album wears out."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zrzfgLFgUYC&pg=RA1-PT44 |title=Nirvana: Nevermind |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=7 |issue=9 |date=December 1991 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |last=Spencer |first=Lauren |page=112 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422205119/https://books.google.com/books?id=5zrzfgLFgUYC&pg=RA1-PT44 |archive-date=April 22, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]'' compared the band to [[Jane's Addiction]], [[Sonic Youth]], and [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]], stating that the album "proves that Nirvana truly belong in such high company."<ref name="select review" />

Some reviews were not entirely positive. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album three out of five stars. Reviewer Ira Robbins wrote, "If Nirvana isn't onto anything altogether new, ''Nevermind'' does possess the songs, character and confident spirit to be much more than a reformulation of college radio's high-octane hits."<ref name="rs review" /> ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' was less enthusiastic about the album; reviewer Steve Morse wrote, "Most of ''Nevermind'' is packed with generic punk-pop that had been done by countless acts from [[Iggy Pop]] to the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]," and added "the band has little or nothing to say, settling for moronic ramblings by singer-lyricist Cobain."<ref name="BerkenstadtBG">Berkenstadt; Cross, p. 117</ref>

''Nevermind'' was voted the best album of the year in ''[[The Village Voice]]'' [[Pazz & Jop]] critics' poll; "Smells Like Teen Spirit" also topped the single of the year and video of the year polls.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres91.php |title=The 1991 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |date=March 3, 1992 |access-date=May 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804040829/https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres91.php |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Nevermind'' topped the poll by a large majority, and ''Village Voice'' critic [[Robert Christgau]] wrote in his companion piece to the poll, "As a modest pop surprise they might have scored a modest victory, like [[De La Soul]] in 1990. Instead, their multi-platinum takeover constituted the first full-scale public validation of the Amerindie values—the noise, the toons, the 'tude—the radder half of the [Pazz & Jop poll] electorate came up on."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj91.php |title=Reality Used to Be a Friend of Ours |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |date=March 3, 1992 |access-date=September 29, 2007 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220911224600/https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj91.php |archive-date=September 11, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, the album was ranked number one on [[NME]]'s Best Fifty LPs of 1991.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 21, 1991 |title=NME's Fifty Best LPs of 1991 |work=[[NME]] |url=https://postimg.cc/phT9SW1h |page=56 |access-date=June 16, 2022}}</ref> The album garnered the band three [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] nominations in total at the [[34th Annual Grammy Awards|34th]] and [[35th Annual Grammy Awards|35th Grammy Awards]].<ref name="Grammys">{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/nirvana/8026|title=Nirvana |access-date=April 3, 2022 |website=www.grammy.com}}</ref> Among the nominations was the [[Best Alternative Music Album]] award.<ref name="Grammys" />