Biography

Prior to Nirvana, alternative music was consigned to specialty sections of record stores. After the band's second album, 1991's Nevermind, nothing was ever quite the same, for better and for worse. Nirvana popularized punk, post-punk, and indie rock, unintentionally bringing it into the American mainstream like no other band to date. Since Nirvana was rooted in the indie aesthetic but loved pop music, they fought their stardom while courting it, becoming some of the most notorious anti-rock stars in history. The result was a conscious attempt to shed their audience with the abrasive In Utero, which only partially fulfilled the band's goal. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• About A Girl

• All Apologies

• All Apologies [acoustic]

• Aneurysm

• Been A Son

• Blandest

• Blew

• Breed

• Come As You Are

• Curmudgeon

• Dive

• Do Re Mi

• Drain You

• Endless, Nameless

• Even In His Youth

• Heart Shaped Box

• If You Must

• In Bloom

• Lake Of Fire

• Lithium

• Love Buzz

• Marigold

• Negative Creep

• Oh, The Guilt

• Old Age

• Opinion

• Pen Cap Chew

• Pennyroyal Tea

• Polly

• Sappy

• Sappy [aka Verse Chorus Verse]

• Serve The Servants

• Sliver

• Sliver [single Version]

• Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Son Of A Gun

• Son Of A Gun [bbc John Peel Session 1990]

• Spank Thru

• The Man Who Sold The World

• They Hung Him On A Cross

• Verse Chorus Verse

• Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

• You Know You're Right

Discography

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• MTV Unplugged in New York

  DGC

  1994

• Nevermind

  DGC / Geffen

  1991

• Bleach

  Sub Pop

  1989