Jeff Buckley or Kurt Cobain

Both late artist left to early, but both created landmark albums which have defind a genreration, and have shifted the landskape so dramaticly that you can actualy Draw a line before/after, spessialy with Nevermind, but Grace is probably the single most successfull output an artist have had without getting any of the rewards for it, (exept maybe Jimi).

I'll take Jeff over Kurt easily.  Not that he's my favorite musician, as the poll asks, but I admire his output and think he had a lot of potential.

Jeff Buckley was a better singer, guitarist and songwriter.  And I do like Nirvana.  Nirvana ultimately paved the way for scores of lazy alt rock albums that were big on volume and low on expression.  The only 90s band doing something similar in spirit to Jeff Buckley - in terms of capturing a 70s like dynamism - was Dave Matthews Band and they were nowhere near as intense. The title track of Grace is one of the most incredible rock songs you could ever hear, period.  

Edited by rogerthat - November 08 2014 at 22:43

The whole Nirvana craze kind of confused me - here you had an "anti-commerical" leader of one of the most commerical bands of the era.  Those MTV videos aimed straight for the high school/frat boy crowd, yet Cobain always spoke out against just that.  Seemed Kurt wanted to have his cake and eat it too.  His suicide is even stranger, it's like it was meant to be....that there was no other way out.  I remember he had tried suicide and was unsuccessful, but instead of seeinng help or friends getting help for him, he just turned to it again.  It all seemed like a publicity stunt and that he's alive and well somewhere right now.  At least that's what I hope.  Sad to die for something you never really believed in, so I won't even entertain the thought.  Kurt is working at a convenience store in Wilkes-Barre, PA.  Yeah, that's it.