Originally Posted by: LohrtarThat's just wrong. It was new. It was something people hadn't seen before. It's tough to compare the two, but too many people seem to think this is a 'who's the better guitarist' thread, og 'who influenced guitar the most'. I don't like Cobain's music, but it was revolutionary. People who say that Cobain has had no influence are just in denial, because they hate his music.

Nirvana was influential, absolutely, but it was not new.

The Melvins and a number of other Seattle bands (especially Mud Honey) were doing what Nirvana did well before them.

Nirvana, however, was the band that managed to find mammoth commercial success and so therefore are the band most of us think about when we think about "Grunge."