Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament has resented the label grunge since day one — and the Temple of the Dog credits tell you exactly why.
Ament knew Krist Novoselic long before Nirvana existed. When they blew up and the scene got labeled and packaged, he had a specific grievance: Temple of the Dog was billed as "members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden" — but Chris Cornell wrote those songs, so the credit order should have been flipped. That's not a minor complaint. That's the whole point. Thirty years later, with Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, and Mark Lanigan gone, the resentment has become something closer to grief — and a lot more pride than he expected.
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