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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 sex offender
  04/23/18
Cobain for sure I don't know enough about Jim Morrison, b...
Gay razzle-dazzle brunch
  04/23/18
i think it's either Joplin or Morrison. both were already i...
Primrose Community Account Goyim
  04/23/18
Jim Croce is still alive as a guitar teacher in Fairborn, Oh...
Cordovan Crackhouse Travel Guidebook
  04/23/18
Elvis
Wine lodge
  04/23/18
Jimi easily. Had he stayed alive, he would've gone the Mile...
180 buff cruise ship idiot
  04/23/18
Hendrix is a possibility, but his play was so unique and sou...
splenetic sex offender
  04/23/18
No way. It's not like Miles Davis's popular music is conside...
wild double fault
  04/23/18
it's obscure to most non-musicians, particularly his albums ...
180 buff cruise ship idiot
  04/23/18
I don't know about that.
Gay razzle-dazzle brunch
  04/23/18
not having a Jimi/Santana Grammys "mashup" in 2003...
Primrose Community Account Goyim
  04/23/18
like prince
yapping ivory masturbator
  04/23/18
hank williams has to be up there. he was popular during his...
thriller rambunctious knife
  04/23/18
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translucent piazza
  04/23/18
Wrong. Johnny Cash wasn't pop-country and remained relevant...
Ocher whorehouse
  04/23/18
lol, don't be silly. songs like "walk the line" a...
thriller rambunctious knife
  04/23/18
Johnny Cash's career was at a point of very high irrelevancy...
cobalt vigorous library chad
  04/23/18
Joplin or cobain
ebony national mood
  04/23/18
Cr
Violet Half-breed Step-uncle's House
  04/23/18
how was joplin's career helped by her death? she sucked bef...
180 buff cruise ship idiot
  04/23/18
lol no, she's idolized by ugly fat boomers who love ugly fat...
Primrose Community Account Goyim
  04/23/18
btw, the musicians i listed are just some suggestions. certa...
splenetic sex offender
  04/23/18
I always forget buddy holly even existed
ebony national mood
  04/23/18
the Big Bopper was supposed to be on that plane. You're prob...
blathering black woman new version
  04/23/18
holly was wildly-popular when he was alive and had a massive...
thriller rambunctious knife
  04/23/18
Buddy Holly was cr and on his way to being huge
Purple hunting ground
  04/23/18
Buddy Holly is an interesting choice - he released a stunnin...
brilliant international law enforcement agency
  04/24/18
Morrison.
smoky medicated sweet tailpipe
  04/23/18
Joplin wouldn't be anywhere close to as famous if not for he...
infuriating jew
  04/23/18
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ebony national mood
  04/23/18
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Mauve turdskin rigpig
  04/23/18
Sublime is another example of an early death drastically inc...
ebony national mood
  04/23/18
that's probably true
splenetic sex offender
  04/23/18
I heard an obscure sublime song last weekend that I had neve...
Gay razzle-dazzle brunch
  04/23/18
Sublime are HUGE among the appropriate age group.
Ocher whorehouse
  04/23/18
Morrison. He was on his way to becoming a has-been fat boome...
blue vibrant milk
  04/23/18
Jim Morrison, easily. He was already in a steep decline. ...
drab floppy business firm
  04/23/18
Buddy Holly had a lot of future potential. Richie Valens an...
Ocher whorehouse
  04/23/18
janis joplin
Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage
  04/23/18
Sid Vicious, because he was a shitty "musician" an...
Seedy jet stock car mexican
  04/23/18
I don't think he has a musical legacy though.
Ocher whorehouse
  04/23/18
well, OP said "musician's legacy", not musical leg...
Seedy jet stock car mexican
  04/23/18
this is pretty cr. look what became of johnny rotten post se...
Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage
  04/23/18
Actually Public Image Ltd was a great band who made some rea...
Seedy jet stock car mexican
  04/23/18
Cr
cobalt vigorous library chad
  04/23/18
Rotten had Public Image Ltd which was far superior to the Se...
blathering black woman new version
  04/23/18
Public Image Ltd is pretty cr, faggit.
Ocher whorehouse
  04/23/18
listen guys i never heard this public image or whatever band...
Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage
  04/23/18
I'd say that he didn't have nearly as much fame with PiL as ...
cobalt vigorous library chad
  04/23/18
...
Big milky degenerate
  04/24/18
Cobain easily, give nirvana two more albums and he's not the...
Irradiated mentally impaired lettuce
  04/23/18
Cobain had future potential. He was actually talking about ...
Ocher whorehouse
  04/23/18
...
Seedy jet stock car mexican
  04/23/18
Sure, sure. It would have sucked
Irradiated mentally impaired lettuce
  04/23/18
lol
Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage
  04/23/18
What about Bob Marley? He's revered as almost a religious, ...
Seedy jet stock car mexican
  04/23/18
Naw. He died at 36 from natural causes. I think his popula...
Ocher whorehouse
  04/23/18
speaking of him, that's kind of what happened to robert john...
thriller rambunctious knife
  04/23/18
Nah, reefer Bob was legit
filthy bossy senate boistinker
  04/23/18
Scott Weiland
yapping ivory masturbator
  04/23/18
The Scott Weiland story is what would have happened to Kurt ...
cobalt vigorous library chad
  04/23/18
cr. scott weiland would be held in far higher esteem had he...
Primrose Community Account Goyim
  04/24/18
The guy who sang la bamba
Diverse site son of senegal
  04/24/18
Richie Valens, already mentioned.
Ocher whorehouse
  04/24/18
Isaac Brock
Big milky degenerate
  04/24/18
morrison is prolly most cr but Elliott Smith is pretty clos...
opaque menage yarmulke
  04/24/18
My moniker is partly an homage to E. Smith but I don't reall...
cobalt vigorous library chad
  04/24/18


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Date: April 23rd, 2018 4:08 PM
Author: splenetic sex offender

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: Gay razzle-dazzle brunch

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: Primrose Community Account Goyim

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: Cordovan Crackhouse Travel Guidebook

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: Wine lodge

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: 180 buff cruise ship idiot

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 sex offender

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: wild double fault

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: 180 buff cruise ship idiot

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: Gay razzle-dazzle brunch

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: Primrose Community Account Goyim

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: yapping ivory masturbator

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: thriller rambunctious knife

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: translucent piazza



(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: Ocher whorehouse

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: thriller rambunctious knife

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: cobalt vigorous library chad

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: ebony national 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: Violet Half-breed Step-uncle's House

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: 180 buff cruise ship idiot

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: Primrose Community Account Goyim

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 sex offender

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: ebony national 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: blathering black woman new version

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: thriller rambunctious knife

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: Purple hunting ground

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: brilliant international law enforcement agency

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: smoky medicated sweet tailpipe

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: infuriating jew

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: ebony national 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: Mauve turdskin rigpig



(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: ebony national 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 sex offender

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: Gay razzle-dazzle brunch

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: Ocher whorehouse

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: blue vibrant milk

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: drab floppy business firm

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: Ocher whorehouse

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: Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage

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: Seedy jet stock car mexican

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: Ocher whorehouse

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: Seedy jet stock car mexican

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: Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage

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: Seedy jet stock car mexican

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: cobalt vigorous library chad

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: blathering black woman new version

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: Ocher whorehouse

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: Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage

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: cobalt vigorous library chad

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: Big milky degenerate



(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: Irradiated mentally impaired lettuce

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: Ocher whorehouse

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: Seedy jet stock car mexican



(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: Irradiated mentally impaired lettuce

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: Alcoholic Irate Theater Stage

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: Seedy jet stock car mexican

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: Ocher whorehouse

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: thriller rambunctious knife

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: filthy bossy senate boistinker

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: yapping ivory masturbator

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: cobalt vigorous library chad

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: Primrose Community Account Goyim

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: Diverse site son of senegal

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: Ocher whorehouse

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: Big milky degenerate

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: opaque menage yarmulke

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: cobalt vigorous library chad

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)