Poll of the Day > Which of these grunge rock icon deaths impacted you the most?

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probably cornell. the others i was too young to really grasp the weight of their deaths. cornell was recent enough that it really made me feel sad, ok?
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I know my cousin was distraught over the loss of Kurt Cobain.

I didn't really follow music at the time.
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Layne Staley

One of my favorite vocalists of all time.
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None of them impacted me directly. Closest it did was some of my high school classmates crying about Cobain.

I like AIC the most by far but it would seem weird to say I was retroactively "impacted" by Layne Staley's death since I didn't even really know about it or know who he was or listen to AIC at the time it happened.

I guess I'd say Chris Cornell by default since he was actually recent enough for me to really know about it. I know Scott Weiland was recent too but he was known to have issues for years, so Cornell's was more of a shock
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Never heard of any of them except for Nirvana vaguely.

None impacted me much but Staley had some damned good pipes.

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Probably nirvana, only because my stepdad was obsessed with them and Cobains suicide

Which means I cant stand the band even to this day
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None - I never really gave a shit about grunge even when it was at the height of its popularity, and I certainly never tied my sense of self-identity to any musicians who were part of it.

I suppose in theory Layne Staley impacted me the most because Alice in Chains was one of the few bands from that era I actually liked, but it still barely impacted me at all in any meaningful sense.

I've never really been the sort of person who idolizes famous people or otherwise feels so emotionally connected to a celebrity that their death impacts me. I think I've been more moved by the deaths of fictional characters than I ever have anyone in real life who wasn't an actual friend or family member of mine.
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Chester Bennington was the biggest "surprise" death for me in the music industry although even that wasn't that surprising given his personal life.
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Aculo posted...

probably cornell. the others i was too young to really grasp the weight of their deaths. cornell was recent enough that it really made me feel sad, ok?

Pretty much this for me as well.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Chester Bennington was the biggest "surprise" death for me in the music industry although even that wasn't that surprising given his personal life.

Didn't include him because he came up after the grunge movement.
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