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

which at the time needed killing.

 

And Pixies UMass didn't even get a video. Nirvana pulled an Apple on that one.

 

I never disliked nirvana. And there is actually a song on insecticide or bleach that is great I need to track it down.

But I always liked pearl jam/stone temple pilots/Alice in chains/red hot chili peppers better.

I probably do like nirvana more then soundgarden though.

 

They sound just like Hüsker Dü. So I guess they're unoriginal too.

Every band sounds like another band. Very few create their own genre. Doesn't (necessarily) make them unoriginal.

I don't think anyone ever credited Nirvana with inventing melodic punk. They just brought it to the mainstream.

 

Are they better than One Direction?

 

I went through a 3-month long Nirvana phase when I was about 17. I bought 4-5 Nirvana CDs and listened to nothing else. I still find some of their songs listenable, others not so much. I'm not the biggest fan of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

 

True. This is a meaningless thread

 

I loved Nirvana as a high school kid but their music to me hasn't stood the test of time as much as others from around the same time (AIC, PJ and even Soundgarden).

In any case Nirvana when I was a teen for some reason was better than them all and it sucks that we never got to see them evolve beyond the teen angst/drug days and write a more socially conscious.

Their unplugged album was a glimpse into more of what I think they could have become, it's a shame we never got to hear it.

 

rock is dead anyway

 

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No Nirvana is just a lame band that old people hold onto for nostalgia.
One Direction all the way!

 

pearl jam is the better grunge band imo... saw them live in the 90s... ill never forget the crazy mosh pits n body surfing...

 

till today i still listen to pearl jam music alot more than nirvana.. even RHCP's old songs r better...

 

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Nirvana never really had a chance to mature to make music listenable to by an audience aging along with them. Their music is stuck in a time warp that is really only applicable to a college (or earlier) age listening audience and I would say it was really only relevant to the audience when it came out. Do kids growing up these days go through a Nirvana binge like those days? I doubt it. I would say that it really was only applicable for a short time window from when "Nevermind" shot them to the stratosphere to maybe a year after Kurt's death. It would have been really interesting to see how their music progressed if they were still around. This particular song and video was what made them take off if I remember correctly. But, I can't even listen to it today without cringing. I think Kurt despised this song at the end. He understood its importance at the time to the band but I truly believe he came to hate it and hated playing it. I thought he basically said as much later on. The most interesting question one could ask of Nirvana is what would have become of them in the late 90s and beyond had Kurt been a stable person who still enjoyed it because he obviously didn't enjoy it for a while before the end. He said it felt like "punching a time card" and he wasn't having fun. He wasn't getting the thrills or highs from performing live and he seemed to yearn for the simpler times before the band's success but knew he couldn't go back.

 

For the record, I also think Squirrel Bait is mediocre, it's just that Nirvana is super mediocre. Husker Du, on the other hand, is one of the greats.

 

not really - they just helped turn Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains into the New **** Rock.

As far as those mentioning Husker Du... here ya go

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Krist Novoselic is a dork.

 

I disagree but more importantly, I'm impress there are other Squirrel Bait fans on the board.

Bastro, Gastr Del Sol, Squirrel Bait, David Grubbs could do no wrong.

 

Nirvana was always ridiculously overrated.

yeah I don't want to listen to a song with a dude screaming incomprehensibly