As I have already had the opportunity to tell you about my musical adolescence, in the 90s the influence of grunge music was very strong on me and my peers and among the bands that most represent this genre, in addition to Alice in Chains of which you I have already spoken, there is Nirvana.
I doubt that there is anyone who does not know Nirvana today, perhaps the youngest ones with musical tastes far from rock, so I speak of a group of friends from Seattle who know each other at school and decide to form a band and try to communicate a little the malaise of that adolescent age that troubled a generation perhaps victim of the capitalism of the years 80 and 90 and that felt on the sidelines.
The most famous song is Smells Like Teen Spirits, an anthem of that generation that shook the whole musical world and beyond. Kurt Cobain drew inspiration for the title during a night dedicated to alcohol and vandalism in the company of his friend who spray-painted "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on the wall of Cobain's house with the intent to ridicule him. The phrase referred to a teen deodorant very popular at the time, the "Teen Spirit" precisely.
Kurt, who was unaware of the deodorant until the single hit the block, read it instead as an appreciation of the discussion about anarchy and punk rock they had had that night, concluding that it still smelled of a "teenage spirit" and "revolutionary".
Nirvana were a symbol that will probably never fade, like their leader Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994, consumed by drugs and by a society that no longer conveyed emotions, feelings and inspiration to him. I listened a few hundred times to Unplugged in New York, the band's last live concert, a few months after their leader's death, a record full of pathos, Kurt Cobain's farewell letter to all his fans