Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (1967-1994) was the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana. Known for getting deeply into drugs and finally offing himself. Much of the fandom blames his wife, Courtney Love.

Discography:

Fecal Matter

Illiteracy Will Prevail

Nirvana

Sub Pop 200 (1988)
Bleach (1989)
Blew (1989)
Teriyaki Asthma, Vol. 1 (1989)
The Grunge Years (1991)
Kill Rock Stars (1991)
Nevermind (1991)
Heaven And Hell: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground, Volume 1 (1990)
Hard to Believe: KISS Covers Compilation (1992)
Hormoaning (1992)
Incesticide (1992)
Where Were You In '89 (1992)
In Utero (1993)
No Alternative (1993)
The Beavis and Butthead Experience (1993)
Eight Songs for Greg Sage and The Wipers (1993)
MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
Singles (1995)
Fender 50th Anniversary Guitar Legends (1996)
Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense (1996)
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996)
Saturday Night Live: The Musical Performances Vol. 2 (1999)
Downtrodden (2000)
Music of the Millennium (canadian release only) (2001)
Nirvana (2002)
With the Lights Out (2004)
Sliver: The Best of the Box (2005)
Jarhead Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2005)
Live at Reading (2009)
Theme Time Radio Hour Season 3 With Your Host Bob Dylan (2010)
Icon (2010)
Nevermind: The Singles (2011)

The Go Team

Scratch It Out/Bikini Twilight (1989)

Mark Lanegan

The Winding Sheet (1990)

Earth

Extra-Capsular Extraction (1991)
A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge (1991)
10.1990 (2000)
Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars (2001)

William S. Burroughs

The "Priest" They Called Him (1992)

Melvins

Houdini (1993)

His life and work contain the following tropes:

Ascended Fanboy: Helped his favorite obscure Alternative Rock and Punk Rock bands (like The Vaselines) reach a larger audience.
Ate His Gun: How he (officially) died. There's a large chunk of his fandom, as well as Love's own father, that believe otherwise.
Broken Ace: A rock star adored by millions of fans who suffered from a depression that lead him to suicide.
Byronic Hero
Cute but Troubled
Deadpan Snarker: Had a dry, sarcastic sense of humor apparent in most his interviews.
Dreadful Musician: In his early days.
Driven to Suicide: Most sane theories of his death.
Fake Ultimate Hero: Was well aware he was this, despite what his fans thought.
Freudian Excuse: Blamed many of his psychological and emotional problems on his bitterly unhappy childhood.
Goodbye, Cruel World: His famous suicide note (which quotes Neil Young).
Grunge: Well, duh.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Believed his family would be better off without him.
Never Suicide, Always Murder: What the worst of the Fan Dumb thinks.
Perma-Stubble
Snark Knight: A good real life example.
Someone to Remember Him By: Left behind his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Testosterone Poisoning: He wrote songs mocking Macho culture, and he publicly lambasted those who epitomized it.
The Southpaw: He played left-handed.
Three Chords and the Truth
Word Salad Lyrics: He even admitted he was more concerned about the music.