№ 30 of 100
Nevermind
Nevermind by Nirvana (1991), № 30 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Nirvana doesn't 'change rock' in the abstract. It changes the specific A&R math that determined which records got signed for the next ten years.
Read the full deep dive — pressing guide, session reconstruction and scoring data — on The Lead-In.