Combining the sound of his two favorite groups (The Pixies and Black Sabbath), Kurt Cobain sent shockwaves coursing through the whole music industry and earned himself a righful place amoung the musical elite. This album was the very heighth of grunge (even before the expression was coined), combining Cobain's commercial genius with his feverish lack of convention to produce perfect pieces of music such as Smells Like Teen Spirit (arguably the best song ever), Lithium, Come as You Are, On a Plain, In Bloom and Lounge Act.