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Last uncontrolled gasp of a musical genre that has ultimately fallen in line (rock), the grunge movement, which started in Seattle, disappeared with the death of Kurt Cobain. But here it is, the singer-guitarist of the most important band since the Sex Pistols did not commit suicide for nothing. The mark he left, in three studio albums, on the popular music of the late twentieth century is one that will never fade. By bringing indie rock to the pinnacle, by composing a handful of definitive and irresistible songs, Nirvana, like the Stooges or the Velvet Underground, has inspired an impressive number of vocations: the current resurgence of basic rock, through all the bands with "The" in their name that are scratching their noses in the charts, is mainly due to heirs of the angel with worn-out romanticism Cobain. Marketed like the rest, despite any artistic ethics, the last great nihilist band had to be compiled sooner or later (Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Rape Me, they are all there) and the obligatory unreleased track (You Know You're Right), quite decent by the way, is mainly there to melt the reluctance of completists who already own the complete works of the band.