History Music / Nirvana

* There also three official live albums:

A rock band coming from Aberdeen, Washington -- not UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, as is commonly assumed, though Seattle is where they first hit it big -- up in the [[TheOtherRainforest Pacific Northwest]], Nirvana became the breakthrough in alternative rock with their smash hit album ''Nevermind'' in the early [[TheNineties 1990s]]. The trio of Music/KurtCobain (guitar, lead singer, lead songwriter), Krist Novoselic (bass) and Music/DaveGrohl (drums) would become the face of the {{grunge}} movement of the '90s; the group is most well known for the songs "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are", "Heart Shaped Box", and "You Know You're Right". Nirvana was one of the first bands many members of Generation Y got into (despite the band labeled a solely Generation X phenomenon), and thus, their music is often considered to be in the upper echelons of influential rock music. Even after [[TooGoodToLast the death]] of Cobain, the band still continued to remain popular, releasing many compilation albums. After the group split up, drummer Dave Grohl formed the band known as the Music/FooFighters, who have gone on to be one of the most respected and successful alternative rock bands in history.

* PopCulturalOsmosis: Nirvana are ''much'' more popular and well-known than many bands who inspired them, e. g. TheMelvins, BlackFlag, CelticFrost and ThePixies.

* LongTitle: From ''In Utero'', ''Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle''.

* LongTitle: From ''In Utero'', ''Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle''.

A rock band coming from Aberdeen, Washington -- not UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, as is commonly assumed, though Seattle is where they first hit it big -- up in the [[TheOtherRainforest Pacific Northwest]], Nirvana became the breakthrough in alternative rock with their smash hit album ''Nevermind'' in the early [[TheNineties 1990s]]. The trio of Music/KurtCobain (guitar, lead singer, lead songwriter), Krist Novoselic (bass) and Music/DaveGrohl (drums) would become the face of the {{grunge}} movement of the '90s; the group is most well known for the songs "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are", "Heart Shaped Box", and "You Know You're Right". Nirvana was one of the first bands many members of Generation Y got into, and thus, their music is often considered to be in the upper echelons of influential rock music. Even after [[TooGoodToLast the death]] of Cobain, the band still continued to remain popular, releasing many compilation albums. After the group split up, drummer Dave Grohl formed the band known as the Music/FooFighters, who have gone on to be one of the most respected and successful alternative rock bands in history.

A rock band coming from Aberdeen, Washington -- not UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, as is commonly assumed, though Seattle is where they first hit it big -- up in the [[TheOtherRainforest Pacific Northwest]], Nirvana became the breakthrough in alternative rock with their smash hit album ''Nevermind'' in the early [[TheNineties 1990s]]. The trio of Music/KurtCobain (guitar, lead singer, lead songwriter), Krist Novoselic (bass) and Music/DaveGrohl (drums) would become the face of the {{grunge}} movement of the '90s; the group is most well known for the songs "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are", "Heart Shaped Box", and "You Know You're Right". Nirvana was one of the first bands many people of the current generation got into, and thus, their music is often considered to be in the upper echelons of influential rock music. Even after [[TooGoodToLast the death]] of Cobain, the band still continued to remain popular, releasing many compilation albums. After the group split up, drummer Dave Grohl formed the band known as the Music/FooFighters, who have gone on to be one of the most respected and successful alternative rock bands in history.

[[caption-width-right:300:[-[[FaceOfTheBand Kurt Cobain]], [[TheLancer Krist Novoselic]], and [[Music/FooFighters Dave Grohl]].-] ]]

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally 5 to 7. Their softer stuff is usually a 2 or 3. On the other hand, "Endless, Nameless" is an 8, and might even go up to 9 if not for the quiet parts. Several ''In Utero'' songs ("Scentless Apprentice," "Tourette's," etc.) are also 8.

** In their cover of "Do You Love Me" by {{Kiss}}, they replaced the lyric "And all the money, honey, that I make" with "And all the {{Music/Mudhoney}} that I make".

* RefugeInAudacity: Cobain screams "God is Gay" at the end of "Stay Away". [[TheUnintelligible They probably avoided controversy because nobody could understand what Cobain was screaming.]]

* WordSaladLyrics: Kurt himself lampshaded this in "On a Plain", with the line ''What the hell am I trying to say?'' Then again, that is a song about writer's block...

** "Smells like Teen Spirit" smells like Music/{{Boston}}'s "More Than a Feeling", though Cobain always insisted he intended the song to be a "{{Pixies}} ripoff" (possibly of "U-Mass") and called it "a stupid riff... a 'Louie Louie' riff".

** "Smells like Teen Spirit" smells like Music/{{Boston}}'s "More Than a Feeling"

** ''Nevermind'' (1991)

** "Come As You Are" sounds like Killing Joke's "Eighties"

-->-- '''Kurt Cobain''', quoting NeilYoung, in his suicide note

* {{Bowdlerise}} The version of ''In Utero'' sold in WalMart changes the title of "Rape Me" to "Waif Me" and alters the artwork on the back. It's still the same inside, though.

** As is the box set With The Lights Out. Luckily, most of the songs had previously been bootlegged and so the bootlegged versions don't suffer from this issue.

* RefugeInAudacity: Cobain screams "God is Gay" at the end of Stay Away. [[TheUnintelligible They probably avoided controversy because nobody could understand what Cobain was screaming.]]

* ShortLivedBigImpact: He helped define the image of rock the late 80's and early 90's, and set the stage for the rock scene in the next decade. He died at age 27.

** "Come as You are" sounds like Killing Joke's "Eighties"

* TitleOnlyChorus: Something In The Way.

** Appropriately titled ''Smells Like Nirvana''.
* UnpluggedVersion: Nirvana's performance on ''MTV Unplugged'' contains several of these. Pretty much any pop culture TV show featuring the band will feature the clip of Cobain singing "All in all is all we are" from the UnpluggedVersion of "All Apologies."

* BiTheWay: Kurt was bisexual, not that it really affected anything.
** [[WordOfGod Kurt Said]], "If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle."

* ConspiracyTheory: Several surround the circumstances of Cobain's death. Especially suspicious are A) He had enough heroin in his system to kill a horse, and he had shot up twice. Even a hardened addict like Cobain shouldn't have been coherent enough to administer the second dose, let alone pull off the suicide without help. B) There were no fingerprints on the shotgun he allegedly used. Zero, zip, none. Also there's the fact that the shell casing was on the floor on the opposite side of the gun from the ejection port.

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* ConspiracyTheory: Several surround the circumstances of Cobain's death. Especially suspicious are A) He had enough heroin in his system to kill a horse, and he had shot up twice. Even a hardened addict like Cobain shouldn't have been coherent enough to administer the second dose, let alone pull off the suicide without help. B) There were no fingerprints on the shotgun he allegedly used. Zero, zip, none.