If you could bring a dead rock star back to life

[Liquorpuki]

Like I said though, I was born in '93 so I might have had to really live in the 90's as a teenager to see what was so special about Nirvana.

Nirvana blew up the Seattle grunge scene and made it mainstream. After Smells Like Teen Spirit came out, there was a period of half a decade where if you turned on the radio, you were gonna hear grunge. Ton of bands (IE Pearljam, Alice and Chains, Soundgarden) became popular because of what Nirvana did. Cameron Crowe ended up making Singles because grunge was everywhere, and the Singles soundtrack ended up becoming one of the best soundtracks of all time.

What Nirvana did for Seattle grunge was kinda like what Dr. Dre did for Los Angeles G-Funk - took a style of music nobody knew about and blew it up overnight.

 

[SpyderBite]

Brad Delp of Boston.

 

[anonymouslurker]

...Ton of bands (IE Pearljam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden) became popular because of what Nirvana did...

Not to be nitpicky, but fixed the name of the band.

And their first major album came out a year before Nirvana's did.

 

[Liquorpuki]

Not to be nitpicky, but fixed the name of the band.

Thx

And their first major album came out a year before Nirvana's did.

They didn't blow up grunge though. It's like how Above the Law did G-Funk before Dr Dre put out the Chronic but they never got that style of music played on the radio on both coasts

 

[Don't panic]

top 4, in no particular order:
jimi hendrix,
kurt cobain,
freddy mercury,
nick drake

still a lot of great and innovative music in their chords.

closely behind:
jim morrison and bob marley

 

[Flux.Capacitor]

One vote for Hendrix.

 

[rrl]

John Bonham

Keith Moon

John Entwistle

This, and I'd add:

Lennon

Hendrix

Morrison

and Ian Curtis

 

[SkyBell]

Not one mention of Bon Scott? AC/DC has made some great music since his death, but it will never be as good as the stuff from his era. It just feels like the two singers make them two different bands in my mind.

 

[UpOver]

Nirvana blew up the Seattle grunge scene and made it mainstream. After Smells Like Teen Spirit came out, there was a period of half a decade where if you turned on the radio, you were gonna hear grunge. Ton of bands (IE Pearljam, Alice and Chains, Soundgarden) became popular because of what Nirvana did. Cameron Crowe ended up making Singles because grunge was everywhere, and the Singles soundtrack ended up becoming one of the best soundtracks of all time.

What Nirvana did for Seattle grunge was kinda like what Dr. Dre did for Los Angeles G-Funk - took a style of music nobody knew about and blew it up overnight.

+1. Kurt Cobain really had a big impact on mainstream rock and youth music during the early through mid 90s, and that impact is still influencing bands today. At the time Nirvana was so different to what had been on mainstream (and some not-so mainstream) radio before their arrival. Would have loved to have seen them live.

So yep, Kurt Cobain gets my one-concert reincarnation vote.

 

[Mito]

I can not decide, it would be:

Freddie Mercury
or
Jim Morrison

 

[Michael383]

My choice is Kurt Cobain.

 

[ucantgetridofme]

Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain was a talentless overrated POS poser douchebag heroin addict in comparison. Where is grunge today? it's dead and buried where it belongs. Bunch of losers whining through a song with no guitar solo.