Let's rank the best 90s vocalists once and for all and why you ranked them that high. Not more than 5 allowed. I'll start.
>Layne Staley > Shannon Hoon >> Chris Cornell >>>>> Mark Lanegan >>> Eddie Vedder
>Layne Incredible vocal power, heartbreaking lyrics and a death that's so tragic he should have been the face of grunge not Kurt. >Shannon Hoon Instantly good mood when I hear his voice. Not one song I dislike and his songwriting ability was out of this world. Also best buddies with Layne Staley which is cool. >Chris Cornell Met him once, incredible range and absolutely down to Earth. >Mark Lanegan Soothing and recognizable voice. His work with the Screaming Trees and Mad Season is great. >Eddie Vedder His 90s performances were amazing. I would have given Kurt this spot but the older I get the more I realize Nirvana was mediocre if it weren't for Kurt's looks.
Lanegan>POWER GAP>Layne>Cornell>who the fuck cares
Blake Thomas
This guy killed the late 80's, early 90's comfy era. I Just don't hate him because i'm almost sure he was abused as a kid.
Kayden Reed
His suicide was unironically an incredible achievement. Think about it. He killed himself at the height of his fame. Young, beloved, forever good-looking and with a (back then) net worth of 150 million USD. He has achieved EVERYTHING an artist would want to achieve. Sure, there were things planned like Do Re Mi and work with R.E.M., but it wouldn't have gone anywhere. He met Burroughs, his favorite author, so even his childhood dream came true months before he killed himself.
He was depressed. Bipolar. Suffered body dysmorphia. Had a trapped nerve. Scolliosis. TMJ. Larynghitis. Bronchitis. Probably brain damage from the OD in Rome. Shit and puked every night. A heroin and coke addiction. He only suffered by the end. He wouldn't be remembered as cool and what not if he ended like Staley (although I prefer his voice over Kurt's by a mile, but the thing is just that Layne's death was so sad it was actually too sad to reach the mainstream. Kurt's was a poetic end to a story.).
He did. He tried to OD 3 goddamn times when he was 26 and every time either Krist or Courtney saved him. When he was 16 he already tried to jump in front of a train and chickened out.
And dear god please don't give me the retarded too much heroin to handle to pull the trigger argument all retards get from Soaked in Bleach. You build up a tolerance over time. Kurt's was goddamn high considering he's been doing it since 1990 with endless financial resources.
Kayden Ortiz
Based
Matthew Campbell
Based posts. In fact, the only worthwhile poster in this awful thread
Owen Wright
Ah-bloo-bloo
Julian Gutierrez
>NOOOOO IT HAS TO BE HECKIN' COURTNEYTINO!!!!! NO WAY AN INCREDIBLE DEPRESSED YOUNG MAN WHO ACCOMPLISHED ENTIRE LIFE GOALS AND SPANNED AN IMMORTAL LEGACY WITHIN 3 YEARS WOULD KILL HIMSELF AFTER JOURNALISTS TRY TO TAKE AWAY HIS DAUGHTER AND SHITTALK HIM AND HIS WIFE AS HIS ADDICTION AND PHYSICAL AS WELL AS MENTAL HEALTH SPIRAL COMPLETELY OUT OF HEALTHERINO!!!!! HE ONLY HAD BAD TUMMY ACHES!!!! KURT WOULD NEVER HECKIN' COMMIT STOP EXISTING!!!!!!
I get chills down my spine every time I listen to Layne's live performance of God Am or his lisp in Died/Class of 99
In terms of Unplugged he really had the best as well. I wish he wouldn't have to go through so much and still be with us considering Jerry and Sean aged gracefully as well (RIP Mike)
But don't shit on Shannon. Listen to Drive, Soup, Mouthful of Cavities and Mother and then you won't be shitting on him anymore. Dude was amazing.
I agree man, just the thought of him sitting there, weighing less than a Holocaust victim with no teeth in his mouth and the TV being on as his cat starts to eat parts of his face since Sadie didn't want to starve is incredible depressing.
Jerry is a good soul, took care of Sadie until she died of old age at 18.
Levi Reed
>the older I get the more I realize Nirvana was mediocre if it weren't for Kurt's looks Problem is: Nirvana, back then, was a completely different thing than what Nirvana is in hindsight. In 91/92 they were like truck at full speed running over simply anyone and anything in their way: the simplicity, the energy; they were completely original and something you hadn't ever heard before. Nowadays, the originality is long gone, the simplicity is annoying, the quality of their records besides "Unplugged in NY" is incredibly bad (I mean, honestly, you can't listen to them anymore, even a 12yo would do a better job at audio engineering and producing). And whatnot.
It's like falling in love and then - over the years - realizing all the faults your girl has until you simply can't stand her anymore. All those faults are definitely true and they can absolutely make you forget why you fell in love with her at the beginning. But without that part, the story isn't complete anymore.
don't suppose you know of any decent books or documentaries about him do you? this isolation shit is killing me, i've beaten my dick to a pulp so i'm gonna abuse some pills and enjoy my depression properly
Owen King
I think Nirvana only got to that point because Kurt Cobain was incredible marketable, especially to females and the teenager audience. The simplicity back then must have been groundbreaking (wasn't alive when Kurt was), but I've come to realize that he copied a damn lot from Mudhoney. And others, obviously.
When you talk about Nirvana today, it's always about Kurt. You'll get people saying Nirvana wasn't just Kurt but also Krist, yet nobody listens to Giants in the Trees. His death basically immortalized him, there'll always be this atmosphere teenagers are drawn to during their ""depression"" phase and he made sure nobody else will ever take it away.
But I still appreciate him. I enjoy his paintings. I enjoy his demo stuff, Unplugged and a lot of his In Utero and Incesticide tracks.
the quality? you mean audio quality or the quality of the songs?
Lincoln Ramirez
ignore that just read the bit about production
Austin Lee
Angry Chair was a good book about him, there's unfortunately not much of him in terms of biographies and such. Class of 99 comes to mind and his last Radio Interview, even though all he does there is joke about all the girls on his porch and how much he misses the dead Mad Season members and wanting to get rid of the Demri tattoo on his back since it reminds him of her death and has been for years.
It's a shame he never got to experience modern vidya since he loved Metal Gear and Mario 64 according to his mom
so many shit-tier books and documentaries about kurt and elliott smith but none of him, damn shame
Ryan Allen
Also stay strong friend. Layne isolated himself for close to 6 six years (all he did was shoot up at a nearby restaurant and the bartender said Layne started crying when a guest mentioned he turned green and then told him to leave Layne alone).
In 2000 people contacted him because he was supposed to be the singer for Audioslave but obviously that didn't work out.
Brayden Gray
Kurt just had more appeal because edgy teens can relate. Layne's problems were too niche to market them (which is good in a way)
extremely nice trips. I'll admit to being a Nirvana fanboy, and for all their flaws, they could write a fucking good pop song. Serve the Servants is so gloriously catchy
Isaac Barnes
Scott Stapp > God > Everyone else.
James Martinez
As long as we're talking there five:
Layne and Kurt had amazing gravelly voices with pretty unique tone, and Layne had a pretty impressive range too. Eddie and Mark have insatiable baritones that can either be completely booming or downright soothing depending on how they use them. Shannon had a really wily high register and is continually lost among the others in the conversation, especially when you add other iconic 90s vocalists in there too.
Chris was on a different planet entirely and was removed to such a degree that everyone else officially fights for a resounding silver medal as far as I'm concerned. The others couldn't do half the things he could no matter how great they were.
Justin Reyes
Agreed my friend His Mad Season performances were great as well
Justin Evans
the live versions of wake up are so good, he had so much left to give
Sebastian Butler
This photo (and others that are implied to have been taken at the end of Kurt’s life) were touched up by Courtney Love and her personal team in Photoshop
William Cooper
>Mario 64 Source?
Zachary Morales
>NOOOOO MY TEEN IDOL WASN'T A HECKIN' JUNKERINO!!!
"It is early February in 1994 and Kurt Cobain has come to Paris with the rest of Nirvana to perform several European dates. One evening he accepts an invitation from his band members and road crew to join them at a pizzeria close to their hotel just off the Champs-Elysées. But he mistakes the address and stumbles instead into a different pizza parlour where the employees, alarmed by the bedraggled appearance of the rock icon they fail to recognise, demand that he vacate the premises.
Suddenly the diminutive Cobain becomes transfixed with blind rage. He produces a bunch of money from his pockets and tosses it dramatically into the air. Then he pulls out a loaded gun and fires a round into the pizzeria ceiling before dashing out of the restaurant and hightailing it back to his room at the Warwick Hotel, where he remains in a highly agitated frame of mind. He’s still seething the following day. “Paris is a city of discrimination,” he keeps repeating to his new drug buddy, a heroin dealer and guitarist in a Parisian rock band who, to preserve his anonymity, we’ll call Gabriel D. Cobain had overdosed at his apartment the night they met.
When Cobain arrived in France he was dazed, confused, depressed, angry and strung out. His beloved grandmother Iris had just been sent to hospital and - according to at least one biography - “the idea of her death scared him worse than [the idea of] his own”. Although he was insistent about not wanting to tour to promote Nirvana’s latest album In Utero he was under pressure to do so because they were headlining that summer’s Lollapalooza Festival and $9 million, £6 million at the time, was at stake."
Kurt was based
Josiah Jenkins
Based
Jeremiah Myers
Lanegan = Staley > Cornell POWER GAP Vedder > Cobain > Weiland
Juan Bailey
Mike Patton>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GOD TIER POWER GAP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Lanega
