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Which famous musician's legacy was helped most by an early death?

Intuitively I feel like Cobain is the right answer here, but...
splenetic ticket booth genital piercing
  04/23/18
Cobain for sure I don't know enough about Jim Morrison, b...
Glittery magical meetinghouse
  04/23/18
i think it's either Joplin or Morrison. both were already i...
pearl gaping
  04/23/18
Jim Croce is still alive as a guitar teacher in Fairborn, Oh...
Red box office
  04/23/18
Elvis
disgusting internal respiration
  04/23/18
Jimi easily. Had he stayed alive, he would've gone the Mile...
Rose heaven party of the first part
  04/23/18
Hendrix is a possibility, but his play was so unique and sou...
splenetic ticket booth genital piercing
  04/23/18
No way. It's not like Miles Davis's popular music is conside...
cracking cordovan boistinker den
  04/23/18
it's obscure to most non-musicians, particularly his albums ...
Rose heaven party of the first part
  04/23/18
I don't know about that.
Glittery magical meetinghouse
  04/23/18
not having a Jimi/Santana Grammys "mashup" in 2003...
pearl gaping
  04/23/18
like prince
Lavender foreskin
  04/23/18
hank williams has to be up there. he was popular during his...
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  04/23/18
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appetizing twinkling institution
  04/23/18
Wrong. Johnny Cash wasn't pop-country and remained relevant...
Cocky parlor
  04/23/18
lol, don't be silly. songs like "walk the line" a...
motley corner gunner
  04/23/18
Johnny Cash's career was at a point of very high irrelevancy...
swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story
  04/23/18
Joplin or cobain
dashing international law enforcement agency mood
  04/23/18
Cr
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  04/23/18
how was joplin's career helped by her death? she sucked bef...
Rose heaven party of the first part
  04/23/18
lol no, she's idolized by ugly fat boomers who love ugly fat...
pearl gaping
  04/23/18
btw, the musicians i listed are just some suggestions. certa...
splenetic ticket booth genital piercing
  04/23/18
I always forget buddy holly even existed
dashing international law enforcement agency mood
  04/23/18
the Big Bopper was supposed to be on that plane. You're prob...
Avocado Base
  04/23/18
holly was wildly-popular when he was alive and had a massive...
motley corner gunner
  04/23/18
Buddy Holly was cr and on his way to being huge
Mahogany know-it-all candlestick maker bawdyhouse
  04/23/18
Buddy Holly is an interesting choice - he released a stunnin...
apoplectic becky center
  04/24/18
Morrison.
Federal native hominid
  04/23/18
Joplin wouldn't be anywhere close to as famous if not for he...
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  04/23/18
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Abnormal purple alpha abode
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Sublime is another example of an early death drastically inc...
dashing international law enforcement agency mood
  04/23/18
that's probably true
splenetic ticket booth genital piercing
  04/23/18
I heard an obscure sublime song last weekend that I had neve...
Glittery magical meetinghouse
  04/23/18
Sublime are HUGE among the appropriate age group.
Cocky parlor
  04/23/18
Morrison. He was on his way to becoming a has-been fat boome...
concupiscible wild sound barrier
  04/23/18
Jim Morrison, easily. He was already in a steep decline. ...
Exciting Theater
  04/23/18
Buddy Holly had a lot of future potential. Richie Valens an...
Cocky parlor
  04/23/18
janis joplin
Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king
  04/23/18
Sid Vicious, because he was a shitty "musician" an...
Olive lodge son of senegal
  04/23/18
I don't think he has a musical legacy though.
Cocky parlor
  04/23/18
well, OP said "musician's legacy", not musical leg...
Olive lodge son of senegal
  04/23/18
this is pretty cr. look what became of johnny rotten post se...
Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king
  04/23/18
Actually Public Image Ltd was a great band who made some rea...
Olive lodge son of senegal
  04/23/18
Cr
swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story
  04/23/18
Rotten had Public Image Ltd which was far superior to the Se...
Avocado Base
  04/23/18
Public Image Ltd is pretty cr, faggit.
Cocky parlor
  04/23/18
listen guys i never heard this public image or whatever band...
Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king
  04/23/18
I'd say that he didn't have nearly as much fame with PiL as ...
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  04/23/18
...
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  04/24/18
Cobain easily, give nirvana two more albums and he's not the...
hilarious nudist space mother
  04/23/18
Cobain had future potential. He was actually talking about ...
Cocky parlor
  04/23/18
...
Olive lodge son of senegal
  04/23/18
Sure, sure. It would have sucked
hilarious nudist space mother
  04/23/18
lol
Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king
  04/23/18
What about Bob Marley? He's revered as almost a religious, ...
Olive lodge son of senegal
  04/23/18
Naw. He died at 36 from natural causes. I think his popula...
Cocky parlor
  04/23/18
speaking of him, that's kind of what happened to robert john...
motley corner gunner
  04/23/18
Nah, reefer Bob was legit
Poppy Principal's Office Chad
  04/23/18
Scott Weiland
Lavender foreskin
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The Scott Weiland story is what would have happened to Kurt ...
swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story
  04/23/18
cr. scott weiland would be held in far higher esteem had he...
pearl gaping
  04/24/18
The guy who sang la bamba
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  04/24/18
Richie Valens, already mentioned.
Cocky parlor
  04/24/18
Isaac Brock
hyperactive cream jew
  04/24/18
morrison is prolly most cr but Elliott Smith is pretty clos...
heady field
  04/24/18
My moniker is partly an homage to E. Smith but I don't reall...
swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story
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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:08 PM
Author: splenetic ticket booth genital piercing

Intuitively I feel like Cobain is the right answer here, but what about people like Buddy Holly, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Notorious B.I.G., etc?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902653)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:11 PM
Author: Glittery magical meetinghouse

Cobain for sure

I don't know enough about Jim Morrison, but the Doors had like 9 studio albums plus multiple live albums. If he lived, he would just be another boomer musician who gets fat and dies at like 70

Notorious B.I.G. was helped, but if he were still alive I think he would still be somewhat relevant today, in the way that Jay Z and Snoop Dogg are today (not a ton of big hits anymore, but still around)

I don't know shit about Janis Joplin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902687)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:12 PM
Author: pearl gaping

i think it's either Joplin or Morrison. both were already in steady decline at time of death and got revived with publicity from death.

jim croce is probably another option. he was planning to quit music and become a screenwriter when his plane crashed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902699)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:27 PM
Author: Red box office

Jim Croce is still alive as a guitar teacher in Fairborn, Ohio

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902839)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:13 PM
Author: disgusting internal respiration

Elvis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902706)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:14 PM
Author: Rose heaven party of the first part

Jimi easily. Had he stayed alive, he would've gone the Miles free jazz route into obscurity rather than remain a perennial rock god.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902720)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:14 PM
Author: splenetic ticket booth genital piercing

Hendrix is a possibility, but his play was so unique and soulful that he would have continued to be revered as a guitar icon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902727)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:14 PM
Author: cracking cordovan boistinker den

No way. It's not like Miles Davis's popular music is considered obscure now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902729)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: Rose heaven party of the first part

it's obscure to most non-musicians, particularly his albums after bitches brew.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902749)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:18 PM
Author: Glittery magical meetinghouse

I don't know about that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902762)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:45 PM
Author: pearl gaping

not having a Jimi/Santana Grammys "mashup" in 2003 was probably the saving grace of our (((culture)))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904974)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:18 PM
Author: Lavender foreskin

like prince

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905199)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:15 PM
Author: motley corner gunner

hank williams has to be up there. he was popular during his lifetime, but his style of "country-western" was actually getting overtaken by pop country near the end of his run. his death turned him into a cultural icon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902737)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: appetizing twinkling institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902760)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:45 PM
Author: Cocky parlor

Wrong. Johnny Cash wasn't pop-country and remained relevant right up to his death.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904977)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:52 PM
Author: motley corner gunner

lol, don't be silly. songs like "walk the line" and "ring of fire" (his biggest early hits) were much more pop-country than anything hank williams did aside from maybe "hey good lookin'". HW was doing weird, jittery songs like "kaw-liga" or singing plaintively about how he wasn't going to make it out of the world alive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905020)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:06 PM
Author: swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story

Johnny Cash's career was at a point of very high irrelevancy before he linked up with Rick Rubin to do the American albums

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905094)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: dashing international law enforcement agency mood

Joplin or cobain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902741)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:16 PM
Author: Ruby legal warrant

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902747)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: Rose heaven party of the first part

how was joplin's career helped by her death? she sucked before she died and didn't really get any more popular or revered posthumously

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902758)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:45 PM
Author: pearl gaping

lol no, she's idolized by ugly fat boomers who love ugly fat singers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904978)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:21 PM
Author: splenetic ticket booth genital piercing

btw, the musicians i listed are just some suggestions. certainly not meant to be exhaustive.

Buddy Holly certainly gets a lot of cache from dying in that plane crash. who knows if he'd have ever made it really big

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902789)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:23 PM
Author: dashing international law enforcement agency mood

I always forget buddy holly even existed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902807)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:52 PM
Author: Avocado Base

the Big Bopper was supposed to be on that plane. You're probably thinking "who the fuck is the Big Bopper". Exactly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905021)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:54 PM
Author: motley corner gunner

holly was wildly-popular when he was alive and had a massive #1 hit in 1957 with "That'll Be the Day." richie valens is probably a better example of someone who became a lot more popular as a result of that crash, and then again after that 80's biopic came out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905035)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:06 PM
Author: Mahogany know-it-all candlestick maker bawdyhouse

Buddy Holly was cr and on his way to being huge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905096)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 6:11 AM
Author: apoplectic becky center

Buddy Holly is an interesting choice - he released a stunning number of classic songs in an extraordinarily short period of time - like 18 months. There's no way he could've kept up anything like that pace.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906923)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:18 PM
Author: Federal native hominid

Morrison.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902763)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: charismatic black woman associate

Joplin wouldn't be anywhere close to as famous if not for her death. Her most well-known album, with pretty much the only songs people know from her, was released posthumously

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902783)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:23 PM
Author: dashing international law enforcement agency mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902803)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: Abnormal purple alpha abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905080)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:24 PM
Author: dashing international law enforcement agency mood

Sublime is another example of an early death drastically increasing their popularity. Not on the same level as some others, but certainly worth mentioning

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902816)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: splenetic ticket booth genital piercing

that's probably true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902828)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:28 PM
Author: Glittery magical meetinghouse

I heard an obscure sublime song last weekend that I had never heard before (not one of the usual ones you hear on the radio). it was awesome.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902844)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:46 PM
Author: Cocky parlor

Sublime are HUGE among the appropriate age group.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904987)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: concupiscible wild sound barrier

Morrison. He was on his way to becoming a has-been fat boomer when he died.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35902875)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:42 PM
Author: Exciting Theater

Jim Morrison, easily. He was already in a steep decline.

Could maybe argue Ian Curtis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904948)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:44 PM
Author: Cocky parlor

Buddy Holly had a lot of future potential. Richie Valens and the Big Bopper OTOH are only remembered for dying.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904958)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:46 PM
Author: Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king

janis joplin

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904983)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:47 PM
Author: Olive lodge son of senegal

Sid Vicious, because he was a shitty "musician" and an utter retard who wouldn't have been able to go onto anything else and basically did nothing else but die. Instead he became an icon, on t-shirts, had movies made about him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35904991)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:56 PM
Author: Cocky parlor

I don't think he has a musical legacy though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905041)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 9:57 PM
Author: Olive lodge son of senegal

well, OP said "musician's legacy", not musical legacy in particular

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905049)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:01 PM
Author: Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king

this is pretty cr. look what became of johnny rotten post sex pistols. just a bloated rat faced brit with nothing interesting to say.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905070)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: Olive lodge son of senegal

Actually Public Image Ltd was a great band who made some really good albums in the 80s. And Rotten was a clever guy. But Sid Vicious was a literal retard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905073)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905078)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: Avocado Base

Rotten had Public Image Ltd which was far superior to the Sex Pistols

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905074)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:02 PM
Author: Cocky parlor

Public Image Ltd is pretty cr, faggit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905075)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:07 PM
Author: Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king

listen guys i never heard this public image or whatever band so i stand by my post.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905098)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:27 PM
Author: swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story

I'd say that he didn't have nearly as much fame with PiL as he did with the Sex Pistols

But they still put out some good music

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905286)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:14 AM
Author: hyperactive cream jew



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906078)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: hilarious nudist space mother

Cobain easily, give nirvana two more albums and he's not the "voice of a generation" they're just another grunge band

Morrison was basically done already when he died and Hendrix would have done at least a couple more cool things

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905081)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:05 PM
Author: Cocky parlor

Cobain had future potential. He was actually talking about moving on from grunge before he offed himself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905088)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:06 PM
Author: Olive lodge son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905091)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:09 PM
Author: hilarious nudist space mother

Sure, sure. It would have sucked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905111)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:19 PM
Author: Ivory Garrison Philosopher-king

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905206)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:07 PM
Author: Olive lodge son of senegal

What about Bob Marley? He's revered as almost a religious, mystical figure thanks to his early death. Would he have turned into a boring old GC faggot later in life?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905102)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:14 PM
Author: Cocky parlor

Naw. He died at 36 from natural causes. I think his popularity is based on a solid catalog of hits.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905151)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:21 PM
Author: motley corner gunner

speaking of him, that's kind of what happened to robert johnson. going from a regional celebrity to some kind of "blues saint," in large part because he died young.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905224)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 11:34 PM
Author: Poppy Principal's Office Chad

Nah, reefer Bob was legit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905840)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:19 PM
Author: Lavender foreskin

Scott Weiland

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905202)



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Date: April 23rd, 2018 10:29 PM
Author: swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story

The Scott Weiland story is what would have happened to Kurt Cobain had he lived that long

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35905295)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:13 AM
Author: pearl gaping

cr. scott weiland would be held in far higher esteem had he not turned into an insufferable junkie twink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906073)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:08 AM
Author: trip kink-friendly athletic conference library

The guy who sang la bamba

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906044)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:10 AM
Author: Cocky parlor

Richie Valens, already mentioned.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906053)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 12:15 AM
Author: hyperactive cream jew

Isaac Brock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906079)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 3:03 AM
Author: heady field

morrison is prolly most cr

but Elliott Smith is pretty close

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906676)



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Date: April 24th, 2018 3:20 AM
Author: swashbuckling gold school cafeteria background story

My moniker is partly an homage to E. Smith but I don't really agree with him being a candidate for this thread. He hit a certain level of popularity in the early 2000s and just kinda maintained it. Didn't really increase it much posthumously IMO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3957604&forum_id=2#35906736)