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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
Nirvana is a band that made not only a career but an entire movement out of being mediocre. They overplayed their counterculture status and instead became representative of a generation of lost souls. They were vastly overshadowed in technical, musical, and songwriting ability by bands like Blind Melon and survived only because Kurt decided to bite the bullet instead of life.
All you people who venerate Kurt, ask yourselves: would he had as great an impact upon modern music if he didn't blow his head off?
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By the time of Kurt's death, he was already worth multi-millions and was a huge name musically and globally. His death didn't make him big, he was already big.