I'm not saying that SLTS didnt throw grunge into a whole nother level....it did, but the songs on Bleach were better and off Nevermind...almost everysong is better. I'm saying why was SLTS chosen to be the defining song and not another, better song

MTV didn't force nirvana to put out smells like teen spirit it was their choice to record that video and release that song as a single.

I understand that. That song is not good though....they have better. Why was that song chosen...

Nothing to do with the lyrics reaching out to the youth of course :rolleyes:

And their other songs don't.......and that are better

EDIT:WTF am i trying to say......let me re phrasse...

They have other songs that do as well....and that are better

List them and they have to be from nevermind.

Sonic Youth are not grunge.

Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Greenday - Amreican Idiot, Boulevard, Jesus, basically the whole of American Idiot.
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Audioslave - Be Yourself
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, the album.
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Coldplay - Speed Of Sound, Fix You, pretty much all their hits:(
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Rammstein - Du Haast

You really put a lot of thought into that one didnt you? :rolleyes:

My point is...

Nirvana may have been the first band to take grunge to the mainstream, but they did not invent it. Others did it earlier and better. Smells like Teen Spirit became their revolutionary, ground-breaking single...but really, what ground did it break. The only thing that changed was the label on the CD case. Green River and Soundgarden were making grunge music 6 years before Nirvana and they have songs just as good if not better than SLTS.