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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The fact you hear more GnR replayed today than Pearl Jam is supports this as you rarely ever hear a Pearl Jam song on mainstream radio.
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You're likely to hear a whopping 3 GNR songs consistently on radio (Paradise, Jungle, Child). Pearl Jam? They at least get to 4 (Even Flow, Jeremy, Alive, Black). So mostly wrong point here.
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To be the in the talk of greatest you have to transcend your genre and GnR did that while Pearl Jam has not.
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GNR was irrelevant withing 5 years of making their debut. Pearl Jam is still one of the biggest bands in rock. I don't think either band is transcendent. GNR was also never the best band in their genre (Metallica...), while Pearl Jam kinda was for a few years.
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Their music as a band was okay but as a lead singer Vedder had yodel shtick but zero range as he's not even remotely in the league of a guy like Chris Cornell or even Axle who can pull off more than one trick. Hell I look at guys like Scott Weiland as more talented as he did a lot of different ranges and styles compared to Vedder's one trick which IMO isn't even a great one.
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Saying Weiland is better? Lol Weiland is perhaps the single worst offender at ripping off Eddie's style. I'm sorry but GNR simply aren't that influential musically. I think the bands you can most say they influenced are bands like Nickelback and Hinder and Buckcherry, primarily again through attitude. And that's obviously a group of bands best described as horrible.