Originally Posted by Basil C. Thurston III

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.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.