re: Would Kurt Cobain have been more successful than Eddie Vedder?

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My comments were about grunge, and the critiques were about the genre itself.

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Grunge is a subgenre of punk concocted out of thin air by Sub Pop. It's just a cross between metal and punk, and the Seattle bands all came up through the punk scene.

I think Cobain's later career would've looked like Mark Lanegan or Evan Dando's. Either a series of acclaimed but small albums that are essentially folk records or a disappearances/reapparance with the comeback album being surprisingly good.