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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
no that is your interpretation of how popular they were.. they were very popular at the time and hailed as pioneers and yes it did improve after..
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Well, results may vary especially in the localized nature of pop culture back then. However, it was the era where I was very alert to music and I was into them and being somewhat fascinated by their rise. In the lead up to his death they were getting a ton of MTV play, I particularly remember Heart Shaped Box being on silly frequent rotation and have always mentally sliced in reports of his death with the health scare he had a couple months prior.
So, in my area at the time, they were certainly very popular in certain groups and becoming more well known with the mainstream but they weren't the wide spread favorite they became. Like I said, at that time the jocks were all about Pearl Jam in our area and they certainly out numbered the types of kids that were into the Nirvana side of things.