History Music / Nirvana

** From "Serve the Servants": There's "Serve the Servants, oh no".

** ''Bleach:'' "Love Buzz" by Shocking Blue.
** ''MTV Unplugged in New York:'' "Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam" by The Vaselines, "Plateau", "Oh, Me", and "Lake of Fire" by the Music/MeatPuppets; the {{title track}} of ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' by Music/DavidBowie; and the folk song "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (a.k.a. "In the Pines"), which was famously recorded by Music/{{Leadbelly}}.

Although the band disbanded following [[AuthorExistenceFailure Cobain's death]] in March 1994, the band still remained popular, releasing many compilation and live albums, and Grohl would go on to form Music/FooFighters, one of the most respected and successful alt-rock acts of the genre.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At rehearsals for the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, Nirvana announced to the MTV executives that they were going to play their brand new song; it just so happened that the song was "Rape Me". MTV refused to let them play the song, even threatening to throw ''Nirvana'' off the show if they so much as even tried to play the song on the air. What did ''Nirvana'' do? They played "Lithium" -- [[WriterRevolt but not before Kurt played the opening riff of "Rape Me" at the start of their on-air performance.]]

* EleventhHourRanger: Pat joined the band so soon before Kurt's death that even most Foo Fighters fans don't know that he was in it.

** From "Rape Me": There's "I'm not the only one".

Nirvana was a {{grunge}} band formed in Aberdeen, Washington up in the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest Pacific Northwest]][[note]]'''not''' UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, as is commonly assumed, though Seattle is where they first hit it big[[/note]], regularly considered among the upper echelons of modern rock music for bringing the Seattle grunge sound to the mainstream with 1991's ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' and deeply influencing the AlternativeRock scene of the decade.

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

A {{grunge}} band coming from Aberdeen, Washington -- not UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, as is commonly assumed, though Seattle is where they first hit it big -- up in the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest Pacific Northwest,]] Nirvana became the breakthrough in AlternativeRock, with their smash hit album ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' in the early years of TheNineties. The trio of guitarist and frontman Music/KurtCobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and a revolving door of drummers, until Chad Channing, and subsequently Music/DaveGrohl 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 often being labeled a Generation X phenomenon (which is also inaccurate in the sense that a much larger number of Gen-X'ers grew up with the hair metal and flamboyant pop that ''Nirvana'' ushered out in the early '90s -- only the Gen-X'ers born from 1974 through 1979 would've likely been exposed to the band before reaching adulthood), and thus, their music is often considered to be in the upper echelons of influential rock music. Even after [[AuthorExistenceFailure Kurt's death]], the band still remained popular, releasing many compilation and live albums. After the group split up, drummer Dave Grohl formed Music/FooFighters, who have gone on to be one of the most respected, and successful {{alternative rock}} bands in history.

* DeadArtistsAreBetter

* AmbiguouslyBi:
** [[WordOfGod Kurt]] said he was "gay in spirit" and "probably could be bisexual", and "If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle."
** He once had a homosexual male friend who tried to kiss him, but Kurt backed away and told his friend he was not gay but would still be friends with him.

Nirvana was one of the first bands many members of Generation Y got into, despite the band often being labeled a Generation X phenomenon (which is also inaccurate in the sense that a much larger number of Gen-X'ers grew up with the hair metal and flamboyant pop that ''Nirvana'' ushered out in the early '90s -- only the Gen-X'ers born from 1974 through 1979 would've likely been exposed to the band before reaching adulthood), and thus, their music is often considered to be in the upper echelons of influential rock music. Even after [[AuthorExistenceFailure Kurt's death]], the band still remained popular, releasing many compilation albums. After the group split up, drummer Dave Grohl formed Music/FooFighters, who have gone on to be one of the most respected, and successful {{alternative rock}} bands in history.

** [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042033/Baby-cover-Nirvanas-Nevermind-album-turns-20.html It made the news in 2011 when Spencer Elden ("the baby") turned 20 and spoke about his young brush with fame.]] He even posed for an updated underwater picture -- wearing swimming trunks, though.

* Pat Smear - Guitar (1993-94)

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Nirvana was one of the first bands many members of Generation Y got into, despite the band often being labeled a Generation X phenomenon (which is also inaccurate in the sense that a much larger number of Gen-X'ers grew up with the hair metal, and flamboyant pop ''Nirvana'' ushered out in the early '90s -- only the Gen-X'ers born from 1974 through 1979 would've likely been exposed to the band before reaching adulthood), and thus, their music is often considered to be in the upper echelons of influential rock music. Even after [[AuthorExistenceFailure Kurt's death]], the band still remained popular, releasing many compilation albums. After the group split up, drummer Dave Grohl formed Music/FooFighters, who have gone on to be one of the most respected, and successful {{alternative rock}} bands in history.

* TransatlanticEquivalent: A band influenced by punk hailing from an economically depressed (at the time) northern city, with a depressed lead singer who commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and a young daughter. The drummer forms a new band that turns out to be a long runner. We could easily be talking about Nirvana or Music/JoyDivision.

** Though there are suggestions that Kurt ''meant'' to say the modern meaning of the word.

* IndecipherableLyrics: "Tourette's". And don't bother looking at the lyric sheet on ''In Utero'' for help, it just says "Cufk, Tish, Sips."

** It's also noted that their touring guitar player, Pat Smear was a former member of the hardcorepunk band, The Germs.

* '''Music/KurtCobain''' - Lead vocals, guitar, bass, drums, percussion (1987–94, died 1994)
* Music/DaveGrohl - Drums, backing and lead vocals, guitar, bass (1990–94, 2014)
* '''Krist Novoselic''' - Bass, vocals, guitar, accordion (1987–94, 2014)