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Originally Posted by peter12
Nirvana is just famous because Kurt Cobain blew his head off. I think Nirvana was being brutally outshone by other innovators, like Pearl Jam, before Cobain died.
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I don't get the PJ and Nirvana comparisons, the only real tie I see is Seattle. Nirvana had a way harder edge with way more punk and metal styled sounds mixed in. PJ was always closer tied to folk type sounds than it was to the harder stuff. I guess there's some cross over in the middle, but to me it's 2 bands coming from really different places.
Cobain's death is definitely a big part of the legacy, but it almost seemed inevitable from the start. It was a band built to end just as quickly as it exploded.