60.00% - Nirvana is the best band in history — Cobain's songwriting, the raw force of their performances, and the way Nevermind cracked the mainstream open gave them more impact on what followed than any other band.
40.00% - The argument about which album best encapsulates the 90s is worth having — getting it right means identifying what the decade actually was, not just what was popular.
Nevermind is the most enduring album of the 1990s.
33.33% - The argument about which album best encapsulates the 90s is worth having — getting it right means identifying what the decade actually was, not just what was popular.
22.22% - Automatic for the People is one of the most perfectly realized albums of the 90s — REM made a record about loss and quiet grief that somehow became a mainstream hit.
22.22% - Nirvana is the best band in history — Cobain's songwriting, the raw force of their performances, and the way Nevermind cracked the mainstream open gave them more impact on what followed than any other band.
22.22% - Dr. Dre's production on The Chronic established the G-funk sound and proved West Coast hip hop could define the mainstream — one of the most important albums in popular music history.
100.00% - Nevermind is the most enduring album of the 1990s.
0.00% - Nevermind is the best album of the 1990s.
50.00% - Nevermind
