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Originally Posted by escorpio
Mudhoney spearheaded the scene that made Nirvana possible. How exactly did Nirvana change the scope of music? Cobain's songwriting was highly derivative of the Beatles and he played the soft verse/loud chorus thing to death. They are legends because Cobain blew his brains out at the top of his game. It was a good career move.
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I think you are missing the forest because you don't see the trees. No one is arguing that mudhoney wasn't first. The point is Mudhoney didn't make it on a national level. Nirvana is what opened up the Seattle scene for the world to see and brought what was coined grunge rock to the forefront at that time.
No one out side Seattle would have heard of Mudhoney on a remotely large scale if it wasn't for Nirvana bringing the light to the seattle scene. MudHoney sure didn't bring that light to it, so it doesn't matter if they were first.
It's like saying Elvis made no impact and was overrated because Hank Williams, Roy Brown and Jimmy Preston sang Rock & Roll before he did. Elvis did essentially the same thing as Nirvana he brought it to the general public which greatly impacted that music scene.