Anyone who grew up in the nineties knows Nirvana was fucking popular. It's easy as a musician to get pissed at those guys because they were truly garage rock. It isn't really difficult to play that kind of music.
I think Cobain's true musical calling was not in grunge. If you watch the unplugged MTV performance, the last big concert before Cobain's suicide, you'll see a totally different side of Nirvana that never came through in their radio songs. This alone proves to me that you can't just overlook Nirvana as some "lucky" guys that brought the right sound in at the right time and scored big fame. They did that...but they wanted to do more. Unfortunately their career was cut short. But the drummer Dave Grohl went on to form Foo Fighters. I don't know if that project was supposed to be a continuation of Nirvana's ideas, but it does show another side of the story. I remember feeling connected to Kurt's angst-ridden lyrics as a tormented middle-schooler, and I felt I had to defend him. I'm not saying Nirvana was a great influence on me, but they can't be overlooked. There's something there. As for the Ramones and The Clash, I don't really have any opinion.
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