What made him so great?

What made him so great?

childhood is idolizing a druggie who couldnt take care of his kid

adulthood is realizing Billy Corgan is GOAT of the 90s

The musicians backing him.
The musicians influencing him.

If we're giving dumb answers to GOAT of the 90s then the right answer is Trent Reznor

He had a great voice and a real knack for melody and songwriting. His lyrics were vague and captured the feelings of his generation pretty well.

>He had a great voice

Catchy, energetic songs that could appeal to multiple audiences.
Also he was really handsome, which helps anyone with fame.

fuck off dave you had a chance to shine on marigold and u fuckin blew it

He killed himself at the peak of his popularity.

And the peak of his musicianship. Goddamn, he was getting good. It's so frustrating that we'll never get to know where he would've taken it.

he took what was fun and unique about 80's underground punk and what was catchy about arena rock and heavy metal and put them together and eventually had butch vig polish them for normies to like

He was probably going to quit Nirvana and go off and work with Albini.

He'd make Nirvana's White Album and then break up the band and do acoustic ballads for a while before reuniting the band and headlining Coachella, coming up with a disappointing but still pretty good reunion album before splitting up again but not before a big 'last concert ever' in the Seahawks stadium.

They'd promptly reunite a few years later.

That still would have been pretty great. It seems like he had a lot of projects lined up that he never got to do. A few demos that never got a proper studio version, recording blues covers with Greg Sage, recording together with Michael Stipe, and probably leaving Nirvana like you said. Who knows how many of these would have actually been done or how they would have turned out, but it's a shame it all ended so soon.

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Imagine if you had everything you ever wanted and your life was still shit though.

You spelled Aaron Freeman wrong

wow its almost like people write music that the general public can relate too, instead of writing songs solely about their personal lives

that couldn't be true either

also materialism isn't happiness

i guess he never realized or understood what he really wanted

the legions of drooling morons who were overjoyed at someone as talentless as themselves becoming famous

It's almost like you replied to a fake quote

>wow its almost like people write music that the general public can relate too

Isn't that entirely his point? How do the general public relate to somebody with everything yet are still unhappy?

God damn I hate him so much. He's like the absolute personified stereotype of an aggressive British guy