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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
my recollection of first hearing nirvana was how well they articulated angst-- the fun was the release-- a kind of gallows humor, sorta..
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Thats definitely a big part of it, but think of how facetious so many of their songs are, they weren't always angst filled as much as kind of making fun of things. This was a big part of punk that was NOT part of the metalhead scene that dominated the late 80s.. Nirvana brought back that "we're actually having fun" feeling in punk in bands like descendents.. not taking it all too seriously.
Where there real fun was is their stage presence and media interaction. They were really a band of class clowns and the bigger their unintended celebrity got the more fun they seemed to have making fun of it all! Again, for me the antics from 1991 TheYearThatPunkBroke really defines this aspect of them.