Word: nirvanas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...onto the national charts. The lyrical metal band Queensryche has sold more than 2 million copies of its album Empire. Alice in Chains, which lays down a kind of altered- consciousness heavy metal -- the Doors, slamming -- is approaching platinum-level sales with Facelift. Nevermind, by the Seattle-area trio Nirvana, has sold 3.5 million, and the group's single Smells Like Teen Spirit, with its arch lyric ironies and crusher guitar chords, hit Billboard's Top 10 and helped get the band on Saturday Night Live...
More than any other group, it is Nirvana that typifies the new Seattle heat. "I feel stupid and contagious/ Here we are now, entertain us," is one of Teen Spirit's more memorable lyric refrains, fully characteristic of the band's spiky style. The core members of Nirvana, lead singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Chris Novoselic, teened together in Aberdeen, Wash., and teamed up to form Nirvana in 1987 (drummer David Grohl signed on later). Both were fans of the brooding postpunk musical musings of Husker Du, as well as of the shameless theatricality of Kiss. Nirvana's first...
...best thing of all is that you can hear each instrument individually. The Olivz swim against the Nirvana-inspired grundge rock current of blur and amplifyer feedback. "Our music has balls, but our sound is clean," says Chambers...
...they seem to have reached their popularity peak, hovering in a musical purgatory, unable to produce a breakthrough to catapult them into the upper stratosphere of the Hit Heavens. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" demonstrated that it only takes one smash to accomplish this, but among the long and undistinguished song catalog that this middle-aged outfit drags behind them, such a gem is nowhere to be found...
...There's a lot of great bands making great records," Lahr comments. "We're competing with Nirvana, Metallica and Guns N' Roses. We can't sell ourselves short and play half-ass on the album. It's a good push on us to do well...