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Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam

In 1992, after Nirvana had broken through to the mainstream with a raft of imitators nipping at their heels, Kurt Cobain famously denounced their closest competitors, Pearl Jam, calling the band “a corporate, alternative and cock-rock fusion.” Although Cobain never came around to Pearl Jam’s music, he eventually explained in an MTV interview that he had gotten to know Eddie Vedder a bit and liked him. In fact, the pair even slow-danced together before the year was out. A few years ago, when asked to reflect on the feud, Vedder said that Cobain “didn’t understand us at the time” and that he believes, “If he were around today, I know he’d say to me ‘well, you turned out OK.’”