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Originally Posted by The Batlord
But was anything GNR did after Appetite in '87 as big as Nevermind in '91? I've certainly never heard the Use Your Illusion albums spoken of in the same not-so-hushed tones.
So after the eighties, wouldn't they have been been replaced by Nirvana and Pearl Jam, even if they were still relatively equally popular?
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They were replaced in a different demographic, IMO. Nirvana and PJ were part of a alternative or grunge crowd, whereas GNR was always hard rock. GNR was lumped into the hair metal thing but really weren't, and younger people were tired of classic rock, heavy metal and hair metal. They wanted their own thing that spoke to them, and grunge was it. But nobody turned off the tap when it came to GNR. Every GNR release sold platinum, right up to 1993. Both the Illusion albums (7X each) and Spaghetti sold platinum. So did Chinese Democracy, 15 years later. That pretty much tells you how big these guys were- 15 years after their prime ended, they sell a million albums. Their fans stuck with them. While Nirvana was really big but had a very short shelf life, what, 3 years? They are looked at with reverence but never impacted worldwide the way GNR did, IMO.