Originally Posted by Raine

Same genre, similar sound plus the Melvin's did a cover up smells like teen spriit which in my opinion clearly means that Nirvana was far better and they (the melvins) know it.

and in answer to the thread question. Nirvana didn't kill music. In fact they didn't kill anything.
And I'd hardly think of their lyrics as nonsense or their music as depressing.