re: Has any band killed a genre like Nirvana killed hair band rock?

I remember listening to Nirvana a little back then but seemed like most of my friends (and myself) were listening to Pearl Jam, STP, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden much more.

When I started driving, I remember getting Pearl Jam's 10, STP's Core, and Alice in Chains Dirt and wearing those cassettes out. I can't recall if those came out before or after Smells Like Teen Spirit. I definitely remember all of the above being huge on MTV.

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i remember the night it aired on 120 minutes..the next morning every store in houston was sold out.

nothing like that would happen these days.

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Well, iTunes can't sell out, soooooooo.......

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hair band?

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Generally means "Hair metal" - more or less an American style that fused elements of 70s hard rock, particularly Zeppelin, and early metal acts (think Sabbath), mixing elements of harder glam bands (Mott the Hoople, T Rex), Queen - and is more or less the American "response" to the NWOBHM. In fact, one of the main bands of that movement, Def Leppard, always more popular on this side of the pond than in their native Britain is also considered a proto-hair metal band (although the band itself eschews such labeling).

Bands like Motley Crue, Cinderella, Ratt, Poison, Winger, Warrant, Dokken, etc., etc., that were on heavy rotation on rock stations and MTV from about 1981 through the early 1990s. Even Twisted Sister kind of fits this, although they always seemed to be an intentional parody of the "pretty" bands.

Because of style similarities, you'll often see Van Halen and even KISS sometimes (not always) lumped in with hair metal, although both of those bands clearly pre-date and influenced the genre, but should not be considered strictly part of it.

Hard rock acts that escaped this label in the 1980s were either - longstanding bands without that "teased up" for lack of a better term, Motley Crue/Poison appearance, such as ZZ Top, AC/DC and things like that, or bands who intentionally went another way (traditional metal acts like Metallica, generally much harsher than hair metal, although they did tend to tease up the hair quite a bit - they also eschewed videos until the late 80s, which helped), such as Guns 'n Roses who almost certainly would have launched a broader "sleaze rock" movement in the 1990s, were it not for, primarily, the Seattle bands (recall that Soundgarden had the first major recording contract, although it is fair to say that Nirvana's SLTS was more or less the Hiroshima of grunge.)

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hair band?

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Glam metal was Party music
Grunge was "after the party is over" music. More philosophical, serious subject manner.

Greenday was more mid 90’s. Didn’t they release their first album around 1994?

It was already on life support grunge just pulled the plug. It had a good long run, had grown pretty cheesy and needed to die.

Dookie came out around 93/94. 1,039 Smoothed-out slappy hours was 1990 I think.

i think have a pretty good idea what hair band means. I've just never considered Nirvana a "hair band".

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Bands like Motley Crue, Cinderella, Ratt, Poison, Winger, Warrant, Dokken, etc., et

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these are what i think of when i hear the term hair band.

Hair metal gets a lot of hate but that era produced a ton of great and underappreciated guitarists and vocalists.

Reb Beach from Winger is/was phenomenal.