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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
He was a bigger deal than any of them long before he killed himself.
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Exactly. I find it funny when people want to attribute Nirvana's success with Kurt Cobain's suicide. He was already considered a creative genius of sorts when he was alive. Their popularity and critical acclaim was massive before his death Let's not forget, grunge would've remained some underground seattle scene until smells like teen spirit knocked Michael Jackson off number 1 spot in the charts. That's no small feat given the musical landscape at the time.
Anyhow, I think Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Soungarden are all great bands in their own right, and none of them were really doing the same thing, they all brought their own sound to the "grunge" scene. I think Pearl Jam is one of the bands that will be respected for a long time, and Alice in Chains will always be criminally underrated.