Technically their second album, though most of us were unaware of the first - a live album recorded at The Roxy - and their first proper one... it marked a major change in music. Like The Pixies' Surfer Rosa from 1987, Nothing's Shocking sounded unlike anything at the time, taking indie/alternative/college music back into a harder rock sound, one that would usher in the grunge era of the early 1990s.
Like Purple Rain, and later, R.E.M.'s Out of Time (1991), I heard this album everywhere. I distinctly remember, for example, a pizza delivery guy blaring this in East St. Paul. I heard it in stores... and it did not have radio airplay in the Twin Cities to speak of... it was just one of those albums that seemed to appear out of nowhere. It crossed genres... I remember a Guns 'N Roses enthusiast loving it.
Last summer we were in San Diego and we headed to La Jolla beach, and driving from our air bnb down the hills toward it, this was the perfect soundtrack. It sounds every bit as good now as it did 35 years ago. A true classic.
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