Washed Up?

Precisely.

I can listen to Outshined by Soundgarden and not think "90s grunge.". I can't do that with Nirvana.

-AC

Having said that, they did stop making music the furthest back.

Originally posted by SlimYout
Is it possible that all artist dead or alive will/would eventually lose their greatness?

For example:

Micheal Jackson
Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
Aretha Franklin
Beethoven
Tupac Shakur
The Beatles
Bob Marley

Feel free to add or remove anyone you believe is or is not washed up

Under the right circumstances, No, none of the listed artists would have become washed up. If they were all still alive or hadnt been disbanded. They would have contued to create great music.

However, I do not understand how you can put Beethoven in a catagory like this. The man was always considered washed up LOL He did not get his fame and recognition until the end of his career. Which may have been found by sheer happenstance. Many speculate that it was his deafness That caused him to over and under compensate his composures of the romantic era.

Kurt Cobain, Was nothing more than an half hearted, half talented artist that gained his fame by the legend which was created around his death

Tupac, Another example of the legend preceeding the man

Micheal Jackson, Well, I guess the boy was talented and started a pop movement so yeah he always has that, but yeah, he's washed up

Every artist that has appeared on the Surreal life, except Da Brat.

Originally posted by Triple Six
Every artist that has appeared on the Surreal life, except Da Brat.

Robert plant ?

Nobody can truly say where any of the artist that passed on would be today. But going back to what another poster said, "Did those artist reach their peak?" Or would the first few albums they made be their greatest work, never to be duplicated?

Also who do you believe deserves more credit. The artist who has the most influence, or the artist who creates good music consistently?

nirvana is more timeless to me because--when you strip away the "grunge hype"--they were actually just a really good punk band. soundgarden and especially alice in chains had to much of the man voice/over distortion for me to accept them beyond the early nineties.

Originally posted by §P0oONY
Jeff Buckley...

Get it?

LOL single greatest comment that ever graced this thread. 😆

Originally posted by Nellinator
I never said it makes him the best. There is far more to it than that. However, album sales do indicate whether you are good and what you do or not.