Nevermind

Geffen expected this to sell maybe 250,000 copies. In January 1992 it knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard chart. Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic came out of Aberdeen, Washington; Dave Grohl had joined on drums less than a year before. They recorded with producer Butch Vig at Sound City in Los Angeles for around 65,000 dollars, and Smells Like Teen Spirit did the rest. The cover is a baby swimming after a dollar on a fishhook, which turned out to be the most honest comment on the whole phenomenon.