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Every generation has it's key band. That's fine, and I appreciate that you aren't one of those that tries to ram their significance down people's throats. I'm sure that they did open doors for loads of people to discover new things. I'd never put them down on any level like that. But up until they released Nevermind they really were considered a second-rate sub-pop act by an waful lot of people. Then, when they released Nevermind, and in particular SLTS, we just sort of shrugged our shoulders, muttered something about Killing Joke and carried on with our lives. Our loss maybe, but that's how it was for lots of people.
We knew about bands like The Melvins, Killdozer, Mudhoney, Dinosaur Jnr, etc. But at the time they just went under the heading of Noise. We'd never even heard the term Grunge until much later after the fact.
I love the way a band like Nirvana have managed to capture so many people's imagination. But I know I can speak for at least a few other British posters pushing the wrong side of 30 when I say they meant next to nothing to us.
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