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Originally Posted by SpongeBub
Ummm, which song was it that "forever changed music"? I must have never heard that one. Hey, I liked Nirvana - that one album was nice grunge pop and very listenable. But changed music forever? Puhleeze.
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He probably means Smells Like Teen Spirit. That song pretty much put the entire glam-rock/glam metal phase that had been ruling rock radio for the previous decade into retirement. Bands like Poison, Winger, Slaughter, Europe, The Scorpions, Warrent even to some degree Motley Crue and Guns and Roses as well as dozens of others were suddenly not the sound of rock. Smells Like Teen Spirit comes out and within months Eddie Vedder is on the cover of Time magazine and bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are having their records debut at #1 on the Billboard chart and in some cases are breaking sales records.
Check out a movie called Hype. It is about the Seattle music scene during this time. It is very cool, funny and gives a lot of insight into just how influential Nirvana and the bands that came from that area were.