Due to this belief, Nirvana came to be known as an iconic or exemplary grunge band.
During the 1990’s Kurt Cobain became one of the most well known grunge artists of all time. In the past grunge was irrelevant to people around the world until Nirvana’s second album ‘Nevermind’, grunge became an immense part of people's lives. The Rolling Stones Magazine and several other music reviews classify Nirvana as the best grunge band of all time. Grunge bands, such as Nirvana, were born in Seattle where the most famous grunge venue was The Crocodile Cafe. There are a considerable amount of things that influenced Nirvana into such a well known band.
It’s hard to argue against Nirvana being the best band considering they knocked Michael Jackson off the top of Billboard 200 album tally, and stayed there for 252 weeks.
Nirvana embraced punk’s characteristics like anyone can play an instrument and that music should be rebellious; these characteristics became very significant for all grunge bands. Nirvana took these beliefs and created something phenomenal making them the best grunge band to exist.
Sadly Kurt Cobain died and the band ended no longer being able to bless our ears with their music. Even though they’re no longer producing music their songs reached iconic status and are listened by several; including myself. There are a handful of people that believe Nirvana’s music is so distinct and exceptional due to Kurt Cobain's drug addiction; that may be true, but their dominance and addictive music was what attracted the crowd. Nirvana prevailed over the grunge industry in the early to late 1990’s. There are several reasons as to why no other band can top Nirvana, but their second album, ‘Nevermind’, is the main reason that they reached iconic status. That album is what put grunge and Nirvana on the map. Their greatest hits come from that album; if it weren’t for ‘Nevermind’ Nirvana wouldn’t have been able to knock Jackson of the Billboard tally mark. Kurt Cobain died at a young age and due to that Nirvana ended and they weren’t able to produce more music, but their music fascinated several people that after such a tragic
occurrence they are still known as the best of the best. It can’t get better than Nirvana.