RIP Cliff Burton.
As for grunge... Nirvana? They would have been nothing w/o The Melvin's & Dale Crover, literally. Nobody would take Kurt serious, Buzzo lent him his drummer (Dale). I stood proudly next to Krist Novoselic (all 7 ft. of him) at numerous shows.
I personally helped boo Kurt off the stage when he had the nerve to show up to a gig w/ so much heroin in him he did not even know what a guitar was. Olympia, Evergreen State College... before the mainstream grabbed a hold of them and trumpeted that loser as the "face of grunge".
Grunge was born w/ Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, then taken to full realization by The Melvins.
NO ONE changed music forever like My Bloody Valentine, IMO
Indie? Dinosaur, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, The The, Pixies, Smiths... ugh, I am sorry about the tangent. /crawls back under rock