On September 24, 1991, the Eighties ended and the Nineties can be said to have officially begun.

It was on this day that Nirvana’s Nevermind was released.

The opening riff of Smells Like Teen Spirit – the first offering on the album – was one of the most powerful in decades, and I challenge you to find me anything like it since.

The crunching guitars, driving percussion, sweet melodic hooks, and Kurt Cobain’s pained and disaffected lyrics lead you into an album that changed the cultural map of North America. It was a new sound. It gave voice to disenfranchised generation and made pretty much everything else instantly irrelevant.

Was it punk? Metal? Alt rock?

It was rock n' roll stupid. Reborn and re-energised.

Unlike much of what was being produced at the time, Nevermind wasn’t dogmatic. Each song was unique. But fit perfectly between the song before and the one that followed. It was an album – complete and whole.

So take an hour out of your day, sit down, smoke a bong, put on your headphones and turn it up way loud.