| I think some people here are overstating Nirvana's influence. The whole Sub Pop sound of that era as well as the rest of the entire alt/indie scene deciding to stop being so gay and stamp on the fuzzboxes had as much to do with it as Nirvana's mass-market sell-out. Yeah it might have affected MTV and commercial radio but what music-lover listens to that anyway?
For my money Cobain only wrote a couple of decent tunes after "Bleach" and they were on Nevermind. Everything after that was self-indulgent wank packaged for grunge-pop teens IMHO.
The lasting influence of Nirvana? Where? Musically the sounds and bands of those times left very little mark beyond 4-5 years. And stuff like Tad, Mudhoney, Flour, Pixies (of course), Dinosaur Jr, was easily as good as Nirvana at their best. They just never had the pretty-boy smackfiend up front and never signed themselves to Geffen. |