I'm sure I've gotten into this before, but for the benefit of the newer people, I'll do it again. As you mentioned, Nirvana pretty much signaled the end of hearing/seeing what I consider good music, on radio/MTV. Poor Kurt got too popular! He never wanted to be popular, He could have done some of us a favor, & stopped at any time. Give me a break. Fuck him. I didn't care for the music, the image, or the slacker mentality that was breeding in society at the same time, then becoming the most dysfunctional music family with Courtney, and actually reproducing. If he hated being popular, he should have hung it up, disappeared. He could have lived out his life with his wife & child. He gets ZERO respect from me. Taking his life, and depriving his wife & child of their husband/father makes him a piece of shit in my book. I barely tolerate suicide in cases terminal sickness, or the 9-11 jumpers. I'm sure as hell not going to respect him for offing himself because he was too popular. If given the chance, I'd shit on his grave. Fuck him harder! Hey Kurt NICE shot!
Any respect for Cobain's music is flushed away by his shit attitude, and self inflicted gunshot wound.
...and before ANYBODY goes all "You don't understand....the tortured soul...blah blah blah" Let me tell you personally that sometimes you don't appreciate life until you've been knocked all the way down to rock bottom, and maybe you might even find yourself sucking on the barrel of a gun. I've been there, and I am NEVER going back. Suicide is for cowards...with VERY few exceptions. Kurt Cobain was a PUSSY! IMO (just as this whole rant has been), Cobain & Co. contributed NOTHING positive to music.
/end rant