Ho-leeee shit, what a post!

Nirvana gets my vote, btw.
 

Nirvana is quite possibly the most overrated band on earth. Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam are nothing to praise either, but I would listen to them. Nirvana (actually, just Kurt) is a useless piece of crap that we all could have done without. He should have pulled the trigger before the rest of the world saw him...what an attention whore (and crappy songwriter)! The grunge age still would have happened my friends - that Seattle boom was destiny...
 

musically speaking, nirvana were better than pearl jam.
 

quote: "Nirvana is quite possibly the most overrated band on earth. Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam are nothing to praise either, but I would listen to them. Nirvana (actually, just Kurt) is a useless piece of crap that we all could have done without. He should have pulled the trigger before the rest of the world saw him...what an attention whore (and crappy songwriter)! The grunge age still would have happened my friends - that Seattle boom was destiny..."

this is but stuck up bullshitting,
OK Cobain was an attention whore, but for one he didnt dissafirm that, its only a personal goal that he achiefed, 2nd in no way does that - or the fact coming with that a large part of his fans being morons - enfeeble the artistic skills he had and shared
 

Both bands started out as decent, though not amazing bands. Nirvana never got to grow, however, and Pearl Jam stuck around to expand their place in the great aural universe. For those first three records, it's close. I prefer Pearl Jam, even then, but not by much. Since 1994, though, Pearl Jam has continued to make good records.

I vote Pearl Jam, if for no reason other than that for each good Nirvana record, there are two good Pearl Jam discs. You leave the party early, you miss out. Sorry.
 

NIRVANA Love em both but LOooooooooooove Kurt way more than Eddie
 

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Wow...so far nobody has come close to answering this question correctly. First of all you're right, grunge would have happened without nirvana and pearl jam, but it wouldn't have been nearly hat it was. They were the two biggest bands to come out of Seattle. And for the person who thinks pearl jam and nirvana "started out as descent," you're wrong. They were amazing from the beginning. Ten (pearls jam's first album) was full oh hits and Nevermind (nirvana's second album) included smells like teen spirit, enough said. As for personal preference I like pearl jam, but nirvana is one of the greatest bands of all time, and the greatest when referring to grunge. So I have to give the honors to nirvana for being the better of the two bands based on their influence on the whole Seattle grunge scene from the beginning
 

fisrt f all bustin b is an unaware gud4 nothng guy.whn u dsnt knw anythng u mst not comment on it.nirvana is d greatst band of all times.dere mst not b any comparison.pearl jam is a gud band bt nowhere near NIRVANA.kurt never seekd attntion bt alws run away fm fame.
we love u kurt.u r god.
 

syd - you can be a fucken mad underground grunge fanboy all you want but the facts are that

a) the only two bands from the seattle era that have any historical relevance today is nirvana, and to a lesser extent, pearl jam and
b)with the term grunge thrown about so reguarly, no one seems to realise that out of all the "grunge" era bands, nirvana had the least amount of defining qualities that you would associate with grunge, yet were still the main posterboys. the members of the band were more comfortable with the alt pop tag and imo, it suits there music better.
 

Both bands are equally great in their own ways. I prefer Pearl Jam for their great vocals and fantastic guitar, however Nirvana gives me a sad yet inspiring feeling when I hear them. And whoever said Nirvana is super overrated, this may be true, but you CAN NOT deny the great combination of the brilliant Cobain, stonewall Novoselic, and now AMAZINGLY successful musician Dave Grohl. Sorry but Nirvana is and will REMAIN legendary. But Nirvana I feel is TOTALLY different kind of grunge. Pearl Jam sounds NOTHING like Nirvana and vice versa obviously, and so to me it seems unfair to compare the two. Both have better aspects in different places within their music. All I can conclude with about the two bands is they are both part of a great movement and have made a great mark in music history. Although I wish Kurt would have remained with us for a few more years to expierence maybe some solo works, I am pleased with Pearl Jam still to this date. I hope to hear great things from them. NOW if you compared Alice In Chains and Nirvana, it would have been MUCH more appropiate.

PS Nirvana and Pearl Jam in the beginning sounded awful, I'm talking pre- Ten & Bleach album. They matured greatly after their sophmore albums I believe. In Utero and Vs. are far better than their "well known" albums.
 

Hey losers, is this how you enjoy the music?
 

Rajat Cobain, learn to write first, then leave your cave, read a book, and listen so something with actual musical substance other than a jumble of words coming from a drugged up dead asshole. Seriously you can talk to any heroin addict or whatnot and if you put music behind their words, you have another Kurt Cobain.
 

I like Pearl Jam, but Nirvana are better, in most ways, even if they songs are simple, they sound better, smells like teen spirit is so simple yet look what it did? Nirvana are better by quite a lot if I do say so, and please Pearl Jam fanboys stop saying things like 'Kurt was just a druggy and couldn't write real lyrics' Kurts lyrics were amazing, and even Eddie Vedder said and I quote ''We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Kurt Cobain.''
 

Oh my god. Pearl Jam was way better. Kurt was a total attention hog who felt "depressed" about everything. Eddie had probably worse life than Kurt. Kurts parents divorced and then he started doing drugs and other stuff. Eddie didn't know his real dad until he was a teenager and his real dad was pretty much dead. Kurt killed himself for what? To show people how you can be a jackass and people will still like you?
 

Firstly I think without Green River, also incidentally from Seattle, there wouldnt have been either Pearl Jam or Nirvana, GR started out in 88, they reformed in late 2000's and you can hear the evident 'Grunge' signature that others tried to emulate and to some extent perfected and improved on. Either way if your going to say Nirvana is better or Pearl Jam is better, its like saying blue is better than red, both bands were brilliant, but for me there's something about Green that has that organic thing about it..
 

When I first heard Pearl Jam I thought, "Damn, I like Nirvana more!" Over the years Pearl Jam has grown on me more and more. Although I do like Nirvana's music still, I have come to terms that they were over-hyped in the 90's looking back now. Doesn't mean they don't make good music. Pearl Jam has more content, so I think that is why I also favor them more now, but nothing can take those few albums away from Nirvana. Damn I miss the 90's.
 

To be honest, I don't think Pearl Jam is that great. Most of their songs just don't sound great to me and I think it's because of Eddie Vedder. I hate his voice. Oh well. On the otherside, I think Kurt was too drugged up when he was performing to really shine, but even then I think he was better.

Pearl Jam might have been a little better with the instrumental aspect to things, but Nirvana was close.

So go ahead and call me an idiot if you want, but I think Nirvana was a lot better and that's my opinion (and many others) and nothing will change it.