{"id":484968,"date":"2019-04-22T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T21:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=825308"},"modified":"2019-04-22T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T21:09:25","slug":"why-is-nevermind-the-greatest-grunge-album-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/why-is-nevermind-the-greatest-grunge-album-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is \u2018Nevermind\u2019 the Greatest Grunge Album Ever Made?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a><\/em>, breaks down our list<\/a> of the greatest grunge<\/a> albums of all time. How did Stone Temple Pilots \u2014 once considered faux-grunge at best \u2014 make it all the way to number eleven with Core<\/em>? Why did Soundgarden<\/a>\u2019s Badmotorfinger<\/em> end up beating out Pearl Jam<\/a>\u2019s Ten<\/em>? How did the Stooges\u2019 Fun House,<\/em> Neil Young and Crazy Horse\u2019s Ragged Glory<\/em> and Black Flag\u2019s My War<\/em> make it on? And can the Smashing Pumpkins really be considered grunge? digs into the decision-making process, and re-introduces some of the list\u2019s lesser-known music. Three of the writers behind the list \u2014 Suzy Exposito, Kory Grow and Angie Martoccio \u2014 join host Brian Hiatt to discuss the greatest moments of grunge and discuss some of their personal favorites.<\/p>\n

To hear the entire discussion, press play below or download and subscribe on iTunes<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on iTunes<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>, and check out two years worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Sebastian Bach, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, Gary Clark Jr. and many more \u2014 plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions and debates with Rolling Stone\u2019s critics and reporters. Tune in Fridays at 1 p.m. ET to hear the show broadcast live on Sirius XM\u2019s Volume, channel 106.<\/p>\n

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A new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, breaks down our list of the greatest grunge albums of all time. How did Stone Temple Pilots \u2014 once considered faux-grunge at best \u2014 make it all the way to number eleven with Core? Why did Soundgarden\u2019s Badmotorfinger end up beating out Pearl Jam\u2019s Ten? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 18:18:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}