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THE TONE OF TEEN SPIRIT

he effect that Nirvana’s sophomore album had upon popular music a few months after its release on September 24th, 1991 cannot be overstated. By January 11, 1992, it knocked Michael Jackson, ‘the king of pop’, out of the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart, while simultaneously hammering a

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