Not to mention there were a zillion other punk bands doing exactly what they were doing for years before Nirvana ever became a band. I grew up in New York city in the 70s and 80s and was into that whole punk scene saw bands all the time who sounded just like them. The Who before ALL those punk bands was doing that kind of music. But for some reason MTV chose to promote the hell out of Nirvana in 1990 which is *the* reason they sold so many records. It wasn’t this “ground breaking new sound” that all the kids rushed out to buy. It was because someone who makes these decisions on MTV chose to rotate their videos constantly. If you promote anything that much it will sell, I don’t care what it is. Lady GaGa is a good example. She does generic disco ala Madonna, nothing new or special, yet they promoted the hell out of her. Same thing in politics, they promoted the hell out of Obama even though the guy had the experience of a knat and he ended up winning.
This is an interesting example of what I was talking about....
A punk band named “Killing joke” in 1984 recorded a song called “The eighties”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8
This is the Nirvana song “come as you are”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o
Gee how original of Nirvana