The Voice of a Generation

Simon Reynolds reviewed this for the New York Times. He says smashing pumpkins lacks the zeitgeist defining edge that made Nirvana's breakthroughs so thrilling and resonant, I guess. There was just something about Kurt Cobain's voice and the pain in it and the loathing in it that somehow made it sound profound even if the words themselves were meaningless. It's very strange as a series of words that like, that's the song that defines so much of our lives. And even if you don't like that song, like your relationship to music is defined around Nirvana to an extent.