Song of The Day: "Ain't got no how watchamacallit"

In the Spring of 1990, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic entered Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin  with producer Butch Vig and set about recording the follow up to their 1989 debut Bleach, tentatively titled Sheep. One year, Dave Grohl and a naked baby swimming after a Dollar bill later and the entire American musical landscape was changed forever.

Nevermind (eventually recorded at Sound City Studios, North Hollywood) saw Nirvana evolve from merely another grunge band into the leaders of the MTV Generation. It wasn't just an evolution in sound either, but for grunge as a whole in the eyes of mainstream America. The scene was no longer restricted to being the Seattle sound, but the sound for, what was described at the time as being "a sea-change in rock music".

Dethroning Michael Jackson's Dangerous from the top of the US album charts, Nevermind paved the way for an influx of other grunge bands to enjoy mainstream success as the major labels signed them up by the barrelful. Come 1992, and Nirvana were performing at the MTV VMA awards, despite Cobain's wishes that "famous is the last thing I wanted to be". Two decades on and the effects of Nevermind are still being felt.

It is with this in mind that The Soul Kitchen presents to you five days of tracks from Nirvana's finest hour. Between tonight and Sunday the top five songs from this era defining record will be chronicled. Starting with, perhaps the most obvious, yet nevertheless most important song of their career;

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Keep on Keepin' on,

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