Nirvana: Nirva Mind The Bollocks
John Robb, Siren, August 1992
JESUS H. CHRIST! This is turning into some sort of modern-day fable. Out there, an uncompromised riffola outfit from an arse end of the US, burst out and sell seven million albums: three scruffs with cool attitude and a burning six string spirit rubbing shoulders with the sad and pathetic, slouching centre stage and selling more albums than the pantomime of Guns N' Roses ('Rebels'? come on!), or the Disneyland fantasy of Michael Jackson.
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