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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SLTS is overrated rubbish. A one hit wonder if Cobain never died.[/quote]

It's fine if you don't like it/them but it was a massively popular song and they had 2 successful albums with a number of hits.[/quote]

Right, and I’ll add, I’m not a nirvana fan, but it’s not just the success of the albums.[b] It’s that they fundamentally were part of the culture shift with music and in terms of the whole grunge scene. They weren’t the only part of that culture shift, but they were a big part of it.[/b]

I don’t think that people are saying that SLTS is a song we should all automatically love. It was more that this song, the video, the other albums, Nirvana in general, and the grunge movement was definitive for GenX and that song sort of represented that more than any other.

The song and video was parodied by weird Al so it definitely had a cultural impact. [/quote]

NP and + 1 million. I wonder if that PP was even alive back then? It was like Mariah Carey and Madonna and a bunch of cheesy hair bands and soft rock and then suddenly…Nirvana/grunge. It was a huge cultural shift.[/quote]

No the culture shifted took place in the mid to late 1970’s with the punk music scene out NYC and London. That Sex Pistols tour had a huge impact spinning up bands. By the late 1970’s early 1980’s hardcore, punk, speed metal, alternative, rap and grunge were all over in the place but were “underground”. This is when the first genx’ers were in their late teens.

By mid 80’s these new bands were getting play on college radio and alternative stations(like 99.1 WHFS). When Madonna and etc were being pushed by the big record labels(by annoying boomers) a whole another scene had developed and the culture had changed. Even Madonna was reflecting this culture in her early style. Madonna had a bigger impact on style vs Taylor Swift.

I remember when I went to college in 1984 and got involved in college radio. The radio station was playing Little Feat, Grateful Dead, etc. By my sophomore year all that had changed. The older kids were the last boomers, were graduating and being replaced by genx. The music changed. Genx had taken over.

Soundgarden(1984) was the first grunge group followed by Mudhoney(1988 who everyone thought would make it big). Nirvana’s Dave Grohl acknowledged that the drum intro for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was taken from the Bad Brains song "How Low Can a Punk Get?". Bad Brains 1976-1986, Teenage Idles(1979-80) and Minor Threat(1980-83) all had a major impact on Grohl, Nirvana and countless other musicians. Those bands were around a few years before Madonna. Also they were DC hardcore bands.

The interesting thing was Fuguzi(1987-2003) would have been the been bigger vs Nirvana but refused to sign with a record company. [/quote]

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