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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
I'm guessing but, did Kurt Cobain start Grunge music?
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Not at all.
There was a Seattle "grunge scene" before Nirvana was formed, and Cobain himself would try to distance slightly from some of the forebearers anyway (many of the Nirvana covers, such as tracks by the Vaselines, aren't exactly traditional grunge source material).
The term itself is kind of awkward - Mudhoney, Alice in Chains and the Screaming Trees. Do they all fall under the banner? Was it a regional thing or a musical thing? How do we account for the Albini influence on the Nirvana records (do we compare to the Jesus Lizard/Jesus and Mary Chain too?)? Etc.
Either way, short answer: no. Long answer: it's a pretty interesting question.