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Dad still reeling over rock `n' roll.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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January 16, 2001
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- Shefchik, Rick
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Permit me to put on my cardigan, my slippers and my reading glasses while I allow the cranky old-timer in me to emerge:
VH1 named Nirvana's "Nevermind" as the second-best rock `n' roll album of all time?
Ahead of "Pet Sounds"? Ahead of "Highway 61 Revisited"? Ahead of Elvis Presley's "Sun Sessions"?
Ahead of all but one Beatles album ever made?
Yes, only the Beatles' "Revolver" (a wonderful choice, I might add) managed to outpoll the 1991 grunge-rock album by Seattle's Nirvana, fronted by the late cult hero Kurt Cobain.
Who voted, sixth-year seniors at the University of Washington?
All right, I'm done now. I feel a little better having gotten that off ...