[LexBaird]

Nirvana was one of several bands, the others being Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, that forced a change for the better on the pop music industry, away from the over-produced trash of the late 70s thru early 90s.

And substituted underproduced trash. It didn't stop the overproduced crap either, as can be seen by listening to anything by any random pop diva or boi band since.

[MitchellC]

I don't know what you're referring to as "underproduced." There were actually a slew of bands that could play and write, that didn't need studio gimmickery to get by. I think that's to their credit.

As for boy bands etc., backlashes happen. The bands I'm talking about had all (except for one) been long broken up by that point and yet the industry was still riding on their coattails - I guess this left a huge unexploited gap for 9-12 year old girls, but it doesn't prove that those bands were anything less than brilliant or revolutionary.