Hi dedvendies
I think it's how you approach the music. When Kurt wrote "Smells like Teen Spirit" it is unlikely that he would have followed a pattern to make it pleasing on the ear. He is more likely to have formed the chords within the key he could sing and gone for impact. the solo is quite discordant and he yet again probably gone for impact. Not aware of the Rage against the Machine song but I'm guessing the guitarist is Tom Morello?? form what I've read he has a pretty unusual ways of approaching songs and that's probably the impact he is looking for.
I think what Kirk is saying is that generally a more "traditional artist" would look for a different approach as they are looking for something more pleasing on the ear. For example a song like "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd has that more traditional approach. ie the song is in the key of G minor and David Gilmour chooses notes from the G Blues and the G Minor scale to do his (many) solo's in the song
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