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re: Why is Eddie Vedder popular and Scott Stapp not?
Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:35 pm to The Third Leg
Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:35 pm to The Third Leg
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Nirvana’s In Utero album was not selling well when he died, it shot up the charts immediately after and the unplugged album was hugely popular
it debuted at #1 and sold over a million copies in the first couple months after its release (before Kurt died).
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Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:42 pm to Nutriaitch
Agree with you and never said it wasn’t, just said his suicide sold a lot of records.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:45 pm to Nutriaitch
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it debuted at #1 and sold over a million copies in the first couple months after its release (before Kurt died).
In Utero and Vs. were released close together. Vs. sold nearly 5x the copies in week 1. Was way out ahead of In Utero and only sold fewer over time due to his death.
This post was edited on 9/4/25 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:57 pm to The Third Leg
I don't care who knows it, I LIKE creed. It's great dad rock.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:59 pm to TigrrrDad
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:00 pm to The Third Leg
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In Utero and Vs. were released close together. Vs. sold nearly 5x the copies in week 1. Was way out ahead of In Utero and only sold fewer over time due to his death
Vs. absolutely outsold it, but In Utero was doing OK for itself even before he died was the point.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:27 pm to The Third Leg
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Nirvana’s In Utero album was not selling well when he died
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:30 pm to The Third Leg
Dude, you've had to crawfish on every declarative statement you've made in this thread. Just bow out.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:34 pm to Lexis Dad
They were coming off what was arguably the biggest rock album of the entire generation and sold 180,000 copies in the first week. It was widely regarded as underperforming given the momentum one would have coming off an album reception like Nevermind. The equivalent to a 10-2 season at Alabama.
Pearl Jam drops Vs shortly thereafter and breaks records and damn near sells a million in week 1. The equivalent of Joe Burrow’s run at LSU.
Pearl Jam drops Vs shortly thereafter and breaks records and damn near sells a million in week 1. The equivalent of Joe Burrow’s run at LSU.
This post was edited on 9/4/25 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:37 pm to TigrrrDad
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Though it’s irrelevant because Scott Weiland and STP ruled that era.
STP was the best band of that genre, followed very closely by Smashing Lumpkins.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:37 pm to wesfau
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Dude, you've had to crawfish on every declarative statement you've made in this thread. Just bow out.
Get fricked. We are just talking.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:45 pm to S
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It doesn’t get Eddie Vedder than this.
Damn, I thought I had a witty quip, but it turned out to just be a hanging curve for you to hit a tape measure dinger off of! Drinks are on me next time I run into you and Paul at the Ritz Cafe on the Vineyard. Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:45 pm to Meauxjeaux
Ask yourself why Eddie is alive and so many around him are dead and you’ll have your answer.
This post was edited on 9/4/25 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:53 pm to The Third Leg
quote:YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!
Stone Temple Pilots is an afterthought of that era. Handful of decent songs and a bunch of garbage.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:57 pm to FredBear
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I have always wondered how Andrew Wood and Mother Love Bone would have fared if he hadn't OD'd. He was more charismatic than Vedder imo
This is Shangrila was the best song on NCAA 06, the only game in the franchise to have ever featured licensed music. I would have never heard of MLB if not for EA Sports
Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:57 pm to The Third Leg
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Nirvana wasn’t playing the commercial popularity game
You sure? I like Nirvana.. I remember well after he had killed and having conversations with people who thought Nirvana was "too commercial" when it came to alternative.
Back then you were considered a "sell out" by some if you "went corporate" and that "the real ones" stayed underground. Nirvana was with Interscope right? That's pretty fricking "commercial".
Posted on 9/4/25 at 3:08 pm to TigrrrDad
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Nah, Creed & Stapp are much better.
Yeah. That's why Pearl Jam never had the staying power that Creed did.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 3:10 pm to FluffyBunnyFeet
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Yeah. That's why Pearl Jam never had the staying power that Creed did.
Creed had what? Maybe a solid 5 years, broke up, got back together for a short time, broke up for years then within the past few years have gotten back together.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 3:25 pm to Rico Manning
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Ask yourself why Eddie is alive and so many around him are dead and you’ll have your answer.
Because Eddie didn't kill himself?
Eddie always seemed to play it cool w media and not seem like the crazy liberal ego maniac he really is.
Whereas Scott didn't hide it, and let it drive him crazy.
Both great bands and front-men in my book fwiw.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 3:32 pm to FluffyBunnyFeet
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That's why Pearl Jam never had the staying power that Creed did.
You people crack me up. 
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