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There\u2019s practically nothing that Kurt Cobain<\/a> and Axl Rose ever saw eye-to-eye on. <\/p>\n Both of them certainly loved the rock and roll music that they played every single time they performed live, but each of them was coming from a completely different angle whenever they put their emotions down on record. Cobain was the one looking to take rock and roll out of its superficial phase, and all he could see was Rose epitomising all of the misogynistic tendencies that he despised whenever he turned on MTV.<\/p>\n Granted, it\u2019s not like Cobain doesn\u2019t have a small point. Rose did live up to his title of being in \u2018The World\u2019s Most Dangerous Band\u2019, but hearing him have such disrespect for women, men, and almost everything in between wasn\u2019t going to earn him that many fans in the grunge scene. Soundgarden had already made a quasi-parody of them on \u2018Big Dumb Sex\u2019, but given that Guns N\u2019 Roses would eventually cover the tune on one of their later records, it\u2019s safe to say that Rose didn\u2019t exactly get the joke.<\/p>\n And when listening to Cobain\u2019s music, all of it was a lot more sympathetic to those who were cast out by society. Rose could complain all he wanted about being an outsider, but when Cobain talked about real problems that happened out in the world, like \u2018Polly\u2019 or when he went inside his own mind on \u2018Something in the Way\u2019, you could tell that all he was saying was entirely genuine. There was a lot of posturing in what Rose did, but posturing was never a bad thing in rock and roll.<\/p>\n After all, the greatest frontmen of all time were posturing whenever they played live, and in between the bluesy songs that he grew up with, Rose always had a friend in Freddie Mercury whenever he put Queen records on the turntable. Mercury was a far better singer than any of us could ever hope to be, but when he performed onstage, he always wanted to bring some sort of joy to the world whenever he got thousands of people on their feet.<\/p>\n Rose could usually be cutthroat when it came to any band that he talked about, but he felt that no one could ever touch what Mercury did, saying<\/a>, \u201cFor me, it\u2019s easy \u2013 Queen is the greatest band and Freddie is the greatest frontman of all time. The band is the greatest because they embraced so many different styles.\u201d And despite all of their differences, Cobain seemed to share the same sentiment when he heard Queen long before he discovered what punk rock was.<\/p>\n