Jesi, don’t read too much into it. Because, in honesty, it’s kinda awkward to read your comments. Especially when they read like something written at an IRC or similar means.

Relax.

Kurt Cobain: “Rape me, Rape me again” “Sit and drink pennyroyal tea, I’m aneimic royalty”
“With the lights out, it’s less dangerous! Here we are now, entertain us!”
*Smacks of those stoners that find everything that seeing their own hands reminds them off is profound

Freddy Mercury: “Mama mia mama mia mama mia, let me go. Beezlebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me-” “We are the Champions, my friends, we’ll keep on fighting, to the end”
*Smacks of trying too damned hard to be ridiculous/shatteringly unique.

Paul Rodgers: “She moves me when I get drunk, then she say I’m not nowhere.”
*Smacks of every college douchebag with a guitar and some bitch he wants to get into

Steve Marriott: why bother to list any, he belonged to a band that got better once Rod Stewart replaced him

Jimi Hendrix: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky” “You say your mom ain’t home, that ain’t my concern. Stay with me, and you won’t get burned. ” “You know you are a smooth little heartbreaker, ah, foxy.”
*While undoubtedly better than those above, they still contain a lot of poor grammer, and hold no revelations besides- gasp- drug use causes hallucinations, and sex is good.

Jim Morrison: “Blood! screams her brain as they chop off her fingers. Blood will be born in the birth of a nation. Blood is the rose of mysterious union” “The end of laughter, and soft lies. The end of days we tried to hide.” “who among you will run with the hunt?
now night arives with her purple legion. Retire now to your tents and to your dreams. Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth. I want to be ready”
*And this is only a fraction of the originality and genius in his non lyrical poetry. Besides, which of course, is his extensive philosophical notes on the Dionsysian, shamanistic, and dramatic aspects of musical performance

And wow……….someone would rank Jim below those others.
People are ignorant, na?

Those who say that Kurt was not a talented guitarist probably haven’t picked up a guitar. I learned to play Come As You Are on the day I got my first guitar. I learned Dive, All Apologies, Polly, About A Girl, Lithium within the first couple of weeks. This was the beauty of a lot of his songs. They were by no means difficult, but he dominated the first six frets of power chords in new ways that musicians 20 years his senior had not thought to.

He also covered other musicians and blew their versions out of the water. David Bowie’s Man Who Sold the World is nothing to Kurts. He makes The Vaselines’ Jesus Don’t Want Me For a Sunbeam seem cheap compared to his version…
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P.S.- To the guy who thought Rusty Cage was at the top for Soundgarden, it was a cover of a Johnny Cash song.

P.S.S.- Gladstone, if you check this again, I saw that you said you hadn’t heard an album like Ok Computer since its release. I suggest Jeff Buckley’s “Grace,” if you haven’t heard of it. If pure musical genius isn’t enough and you want some skill to go along with it, this guy is a must-hear. To this day I cannot play his songs like he could. Difficult, beautiful, and they make you wonder how he thought it up.

Like all great musicians, he died at the age of 27. In 1997.

I cant think of any right now. Dont be pissed if I forgot your favorite.

But my boy Chris Cornell can do all that and a million other things too.

At 23, I was young when this shit was going down. I still consider Nirvana my favorite band, but that’s mainly for sentimental purposes. I’m into different stuff today, but I really like popping “Bleach” or “In Utero” in my old CD-Boombox (because that’s how I remember it sounding, back when I was 10 or so) and playing some dead-serious air guitar (yeah, my girl loves that shit - I can tell by the sway of her hips as she leaves the room).

As far as the whole “Nirvana Rulez” movement goes, I would love to agree - I still think they’ve done some of the best stuff that came out of the ’90s, proof being that it still endures today as a serious topic of discussion. But c’mon - Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and yes, Sonic Youth are all as good or technically better as far as lyrical genius and song structure go. AssMaster3k had a good point though, in that simple songs by Nirvana are as good as complex songs by these other bands, and that sings volumes to their actual level of talent. I mean, “Lithium” is still a tie for my favorite song of all time, and I try to consider myself a discerning listener. As much as I wish to, the Nirvana habit is hard to break.

Best song of the 90s has to be Interstate Love Song, if we’re talking about plain-old rock and roll. How many other songs from that time period stand along-side Stairway to Heaven as simple masterpieces of Classic Rock?

Otherwise, the tune that sums up the decade entirely is probably Love Me, Love Me, which more or less lines out the vacant mindset of most GenXers still complaining that Sonic Youth never got a fair shake.

Best Soundgarden song ever? Blow Up The Outside World.

Best grunge song of the 90s? Rooster.

Best Nirvana song of all time? The Man Who Sold The World, which was a cover.

Jim Morrison was the worst frontman of the Free Love era. Stupid lyrics and sex appeal do not a legend make.