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Nirvana's not directly responsible, but since we can pretty much agree that they (along w/ Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc.... altho Nirvana was prolly the biggest of 'em all, & certainly the most "grungy") were the first grunge band and grunge was the beginning of über-seriousness in rock music (after all, it killed hair metal... what's more fun than that?). and when bands like Creed, POM, 3DD, Nickelback, etc etc etc saw they could make huge bucks by writing serious filth 24/7, it just proliferated and escalated into post-grunge and alt-metal and nü-metal.... ahhhh, 3 cheers for the death of the unique, exciting, interesting guitar solo!
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