Smells Like Teen Spirit has 150,000,000 Youtube views

Can't believe how overrated Nirvana has become. I'm glad I don't wear my Nirv. shirt anymore either.

 

Its still a 10000x better than the other music vids with top hits on youtube though.

 

Most popular songs have stats in that range. Sorry, nostalgia notwithstanding this is meaningless observation.

 

I'm not a music editor but promotionally and aesthetically they permanently altered or at least segmented rock music.

 

Translation: They killed **** rock.

 

Overrated? You have to be kidding.

 

If anything I should change my stance from "has become" to "has been".

Nirvana is a great band but is always heralded as one of the GOATs by so many. As a nirvana minion when I was in my teens, I can testify to it from first hand experience.

 

Alice in chains>>>Nirvana..

 

I typed "coldplay" in and some paradise song has 270 million. On the sidebar there's some Adele song with 489 million; actually most of the sidebar is 100 million plus hits, including some Guetta guy with 237 million and some C. Perri chick with 163 million.

 

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Can't believe people still can't let go of the fact that the last mainstream standout in music achieved the mainstream success it did with so "technically" little...

Oh, his value was only elevated because he died young.... A lot of artists have died young, up to the new millennium, mainstream ones as well... and haven't had this kind of impact...

Oh, he and his grunge ilk kept the spotlight off more deserving artists of the 90's.... How is this their fault..? To reach mainstream success, you have to reach a wide audience.... They pulled this off with a an awkward looking lanky tall bassist, a troll-ish Dave Grohl (before facial hair magically made him "sexy" to women) and as much as you could say Kurt was marketable for his looks... Yeah, he was a handsome individual, but he was short, frail/scrawny, soft spoken, introverted and constantly covered his face with his hair, which seemed to be rarely washed... Not to mention, the man was a constantly depressing sight, particularly on stage...

And I hate to break it to you "indie" elitists.... Music NEEDS unlikely and genuine standouts like this to be mainstream, whenever possible... however much their style may clash with your preferences.... Look at what we have now...

I'll always understand someone saying a band like Nirvana isn't their cup of tea.... I'll never understand someone calling them overrated... There have been superficial artists/groups prefabricated to achieve this kind of mainstream success.... and fail... Look at how these guys got there, and what they had to work with...

They're still referenced today by today's youth and today's music... even in hip hop... Obviously, their music is valid... as it reached a lot of people...

Lastly...

 

From a purely technical perspective, yes.... A lot of bands were and are...

In this case, it's simple... Alice in chains had a metal lean... a genre more centered on technique... Nirvana had a punk lean... a genre more centered on expression....

 

Great song, but ever since Weird Al got a hold of it, I can't help but laugh a little every time I hear it!

ENJOY !!!.....


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Well deserved

 

Nirvana is the most unoriginal "influential" band of all time. Super, super overrated.

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^this song was recorded in the mid 80s, I challenge any of you guys to name me a substantial difference between this and the stuff Nirvana churned out.

 

1991.