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Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo
They were the first 'rockstars' to be anti rockstars and basically "rock" has been dead since.
Not the first artists to be anti rockstars, but the first to get that much success and still keep it raw.
They were the white wu tang. As far as Im concerned.
Flannel was their Wu Wear.
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that is not true, but they were perhaps the most elaborately mainstream of the anti-heros. There were plenty of punks, rappers, soul singers, reggae artists, even orchestral composers who were anti-heroes but not quite as mainstream, and there were plenty of other anti-heroes who were a bit less
extremely anti-hero, Nirvana was the perfect storm of both mainstream coverage and original and sincere anti-hero antics, which is precisely what music needed at that time when it was at the absolute peak of having its head up its ass!