re: The 40 Greatest Musicians Of The Last 40 Years

Christ on a cracker, half these folks on this list aren't even proficient with the instruments they claim to play.

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The best thing Kurt Cobain did for his musical legacy was die.

I like him and I like Nirvana. But he is so overrated, as are most musicians/athletes/actors who die young. You only see them at their best and don't see them decline.

He was the third best guitarist in Nirvana and the second best singer. When the drummer is a better guitarist and singer than you, then perhaps you are not that great.

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I truly don't get it and never have. Aside from dying young, the only other thing he has in his favor is being on teh ground floor of a "movement" of radically changing musical tastes. People think early 90s, they think grunge, they think the seattle scene. I get it! It makes sense. But people talk about him as if he's some sort of musical legend when he wasn't all that musically advanced in any capacity. It's madness.