I don't think Nirvana are overrated... if anything, history has played down their significance by writing off Kurt Cobain as a psycho, manic depressive druggie and pointing to the fact that Dave Grohl has gone on to bigger and better things in his solo career.

If you ask most kids these days who "Nirvana" are or who Kurt Cobain is you'd get mostly blank looks and statements like "who is that? who are you talking about?"

I think Cobain's death overshadows the music quite considerably, as everyone tries to read " pre - suicidal behavior out of cobains lyrics, and then pick to pieces his writing around the time of his death for meanings and insights into why he committed suicide...

It's all about Cobain and why he died... not much about the band and its music - so in that regard it feels like the "band" Nirvana are slightly underrated. Against the myth and mystery of suicidal death, the music gets kinda overlooked.

Would love to have a "best of" album, with tracks especially selected by Dave Grohl and Krist Novelesic - that would make for a good compilation, actually!

They already released it in 1992. It's called Nevermind.

At the risk of sounding pedantic it was 1991

Considering Nirvana made 3 very good albums as oppose to 1 a greatest hits without You Know You're Right, All Apologies, Negative Creep, Aneuryism, Pennyroyal Tea, About a Girl, Scentless Apprentice, Heart Shaped Box, Rape Me, Blew... it just wouldnt be a 'best of'. Simple as.

In Utero was unmeasurably better in every way.

I'll take it you've never listened to Melvins?

God, give me any grunge band anytime now... I;d take them over 99.99% of today's so called "alternative" rock...

Now if you're looking for a real overrated band or two...

'unmeasurably' (or should i say immeasurably?) is a strong word, Nevermind is a top album regardless of its popularity, which some people inexplicably use against it, but i would have to agree that In Utero is better.

In Utero just worked better as an album. Every song was good except for Tourettes and the songs actually flowed together, while Nevermind had some great tracks(Lithium, In Bloom, something In The Way)but you just can't compare them.

Thuis conversation takes me all the way back to high school and a big discussion i once had with a friend bout the extra merits of In Utero over Nevermind - I eard it was more experiemntal, less power pop based sorta stuff - for that reason allone I think I'd like it more than Nevermind...

One of the four words in the English universe I would never use to describe anything by Nirvana.