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Originally Posted by Daradon
Funny enough a lot of people consider Nirvana groundbreaking, but that's a discussion too. They were they best at what they did, they popularized grunge, but far from the first or most experimental.
The most obvious example is Pearl Jam's 'X' came out nine months before Teen Spirit. It only started selling after. Of course, Nirvana themselves had a short play before that.
Shoot, it could be argued Courtney Love was singing grunge far before she met Cobain or they even hit it big.
Music history can be interesting.
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Yeah, "groundbreaking" is such a tough term in music. I mean, when you really start analyzing artists/styles/albums etc, you can run down the list and dismiss almost every artist/band as being groundbreaking by pointing to others who did something similar, but not quite the same, etc.
But I'd say the biggest confusion tends to be the difference between being groubdbreaking and being the band/artist who made something popular and became the poster child for the "birth" of something. In that respect you look at Nirvana. Where they the first? No. Are they who everyone thinks of when they think of the grunge? Yes. Did they blow up and make grunge the most popular style of music for awhile? Yes.
Music is so interesting to discuss, imo. I just wish more people could discuss it rationally. Instead it tends to get discussed like sports, where everyone takes a side and battles with bias and a desire to "win" in support of their favorite styles/artists.