Artistic Temperaments - Neatorama

This isn't the result of a quantitative study.* Jimmy Chen expressed his opinions of the value of various musicians, rappers and fiction authors using a Cartesian coordinate system. You can view them all here.

Kurt Cobain's placement looks about right. What do you think of the others?

-via Ace of Spades HQ

*Could you quantitatively assess arrogance? What would be a unit of measurement?

Kurt Cobain ahead of Miles Davis on the genius scale?
Hello, perspective calling!
Cobain's work redefined a narrow portion of popular music.
Miles Davis redefined music itself - at least three or four times.

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Pretty sweet! That took some thought!

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Ah, I wondered where Kanye West was. I see that rappers are on another grid.

And regarding the grid of writers: Ain't nobody more arrogant than Ayn Rand. Sorry.

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"Kurt Kobain's placement looks about right." Well, his *spelling* looks about right, but his placement on the genius scale - at least relative to most of the other names on this list - is preposterous. I love his music, but come on.

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Neil Young will tell you that Jerry Garcia not only humbly took his place in American music, but that he did so with a vision and expertise that places him firmly in the genius level. And I will tell you that stopping to measure the genius of Axl Rose is like measuring the bounce of a flat tire.

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Okay... WHERE are the female artists??? jeez!

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I guess he must've left Frank Zappa off because neither the genius or arrogance scales go high enough.

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As usual, such things say more about the charter than the chartees.

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Prince is way too low on the Arrogance meter. Here we have a guy who took on the Big Label (Warner Music) and officially changed his name to a symbol just to get out of a contract. In Stipe's case (REM), he sold out by signing an 80 million contract with Warners…I don't think Prince and Stipe should be even near each other; they belong in different quadrants (or universe)!

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Jimi Hendrix should have a dot -_-'

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Jerry Garcia most of the way over toward mediocrity? I beg to differ...

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