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Stateside, several music publications gave the album positive reviews. Rolling Stone wrote, "What elevates them to fab charm is not only the feedback and strumming fury of their guitarwork and the dynamism of their whisper-to-a-scream song structures, but the way their solid melodies and sing-along choruses resonate pop appeal." Billboard said of the album, "This band is primed to blast onto the worldwide scene with initial modern rock track "Sliver," a tense, guitar-dominated number that appears in unexpurgated form on this debut album. Certain tracks here may remind listeners of The Sex Pistols (thanks largely to Kurt Cobain's vocal mannerisms and overall guitar texturing), but lyrics have enough bite to make it on their own. "Blew", "Love Buzz", and "Big Cheese" all contain excitement e

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  • Stateside, several music publications gave the album positive reviews. Rolling Stone wrote, "What elevates them to fab charm is not only the feedback and strumming fury of their guitarwork and the dynamism of their whisper-to-a-scream song structures, but the way their solid melodies and sing-along choruses resonate pop appeal." Billboard said of the album, "This band is primed to blast onto the worldwide scene with initial modern rock track "Sliver," a tense, guitar-dominated number that appears in unexpurgated form on this debut album. Certain tracks here may remind listeners of The Sex Pistols (thanks largely to Kurt Cobain's vocal mannerisms and overall guitar texturing), but lyrics have enough bite to make it on their own. "Blew", "Love Buzz", and "Big Cheese" all contain excitement e
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  • Stateside, several music publications gave the album positive reviews. Rolling Stone wrote, "What elevates them to fab charm is not only the feedback and strumming fury of their guitarwork and the dynamism of their whisper-to-a-scream song structures, but the way their solid melodies and sing-along choruses resonate pop appeal." Billboard said of the album, "This band is primed to blast onto the worldwide scene with initial modern rock track "Sliver," a tense, guitar-dominated number that appears in unexpurgated form on this debut album. Certain tracks here may remind listeners of The Sex Pistols (thanks largely to Kurt Cobain's vocal mannerisms and overall guitar texturing), but lyrics have enough bite to make it on their own. "Blew", "Love Buzz", and "Big Cheese" all contain excitement enough to heat up at target radio markets." Entertainment Weekly gave the album a "C" rating, opining that it "mates Smiths-type self-consciousness with dramatic Sex Pistols-like vocals and guitar, with Iggy Pop-style heavy but crunchy." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic also drew comparisons with The Sex Pistols, writing, "Nirvana's debut album, Love Buzz, is a promising collection that blends The Sex Pistols's anthemic rock with short, instrumental passages and an enthralling single-guitar attack that is alternately gentle and bracingly noisy. The group has difficulty writing a set of songs that are as compelling as their sound, but when they do hit the mark -- such as on "Polly", "Downer", and the self-loathing breakthrough single "Sliver" -- the band achieves a rare power that is both visceral and intelligent." Erlewine named singles "Sliver" and "Been A Son", along with "Blew", as the best tracks on the album. Mario Mundoz of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "This Seattle band debut doesn't really deliver anything you haven't heard before, steering too close to Smiths-like melodies and trying ever so hard to be depressed in the way other punk bands popularized. Occasionally, though, it does offer clever lyrics and good hooks." Robert Christgau did not recommend the album, but named "Sliver" as a "choice cut".
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