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Credit: Far Out \/ Alamy \/ Chris Cornell<\/p>\n
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For a genre that was sound mythologised as grunge, it\u2019s hard to think of Kurt Cobain<\/a> and Chris Cornell being lumped in the same category. <\/p>\n Sure, they both grew up in Seattle and had some of the best hits of the 1990s, but when you look at the way they approach their songs, it was like night and day compared to everyone else in the Pacific Northwest. They both wanted their music to sound different, and even if they didn\u2019t construct songs the same way, they at least had a common goal of what they didn\u2019t want to sound like.<\/p>\n If anything, the grunge scene was already about making things sound a little bit weird. If you look at what the other bands around that time were doing before the genre blew up, Mudhoney and the Melvins weren\u2019t exactly trying to get on the radio. It was distinctly anti-commercial, and that\u2019s how Soundgarden and Nirvana started off when they started to perform some of their first major tunes.<\/p>\n Cornell may have been the one who looked like a rockstar out of anyone in Seattle, but he didn\u2019t see himself in that way. It\u2019s no secret that he had a lot of respect for what people like Robert Plant<\/a> had done years before him, but there were also more than a few songs that seemed indebted to everything from Joni Mitchell\u2019s strange guitar tunings to whatever strange Captain Beefheart-style influences they had, making their avant-garde tunes.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t all that sophisticated, but at least it had nothing to do with what the hair metal scene was doing around the time. The Sunset Strip in Los Angeles had become the hub of every single wannabe rock and roll star out at the time, and while it was hardly a bad choice for any hopeful musician to start, Cornell got the idea that he wasn\u2019t really interested in becoming the next Guns N\u2019 Roses.<\/p>\n Soundgarden were at least gracious enough when Guns took them on tour, but Cornell felt like their behaviour was the exact opposite of what he wanted to do when he saw the \u2018Estranged\u2019 video, saying<\/a>, \u201cWho else is going to give a shit about the fact that he can afford that kind of attention? It goes beyond decadence; it\u2019s spitting in the face of the people that have put you there. I was offended by it, and I don\u2019t get offended by much.\u201d<\/p>\n And it doesn\u2019t really take a musical scholar to see what Cobain hated about Guns. Axl Rose was one of the most insufferable frontmen he had ever seen, and he would do anything to make sure they didn\u2019t get attention, calling<\/a> them \u201creally talentless people\u201d every single time he saw one of their videos on MTV. So when the Seattle scene made it above ground, it felt like everyone got a respite from Rose\u2019s antics.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n The order of the day had shifted, and now, suddenly, everyone was focusing on bands that had a lot more authenticity about them. No one was going to relate to a video where one of the biggest stars in the world jumps off a massive ship and goes to swim with dolphins, but they could reasonably hang out with someone like Cobain, who just wanted to talk about obscure rock bands and play his guitar as loud as he could.<\/p>\n
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