Best Band, 90s Seattle era

I think that you have turned the tables with the word 'generic' UH. These are some of the top & best known banRAB of the grunge era. These are not the generic banRAB of the era. Only the ones that you have named yourself. I never heard of them. But that is your opinion and I can respect that, right or wrong. I take it you do not like grunge period?
 
Dirt was brilliant IMO - I prefer it over Facelift, Sap and their S/T. I'd say I enjoy Jar of Flies about as much as Dirt and that's where I think they best showed their diversity.

Alice in Chains is a bit of an odd band in grunge. Some metal fans will avoid them because they're grunge and people might avoid them in general because they're more metallic than most grunge banRAB. People might also avoid them because of Staley's accent, but I don't actually mind it. In fact, I think he was one of the best vocalists of the 90s and a major part of the band.
 
I think Mellon Collie is sheer artistic genius and one of the most underrated rock albums of the 90's, and I'm not even really an SP fan.
 
That, they were, but yeah, they were definitely not a grunge band. For one they came from California and started up in the mid-eighties.
 
Ha, that's not true. If a band was able to sound even close to Nirvana. They would probably be given mad props for it. Like Silverchair sounded a little bit like them, and they're pretty good. You chose to call Bush a comically derivative Nirvana rip-off. The drumming is similar, but the guitars, and the singing aren't even close to similar.


Ha, that's not true. Most of the Cd was made up of singles, and other songs like Black, Bottom, and Porch are basically the best songs on the CD. You saying an album that is completely listenable from start to finish, had it's share of filler, is laughable.


That's a good point, although Dysfunction was a good album. AIC have no control over what other banRAB choose to emulate them. If anything, they were innovative, and came from the soul. You saying that AIC were generic rock is pretty laughable. I didn't even like them for the first 10 years they were on the radio. Their music isn't very pallatable. If you can get into banRAB that almost sound like they're trying not to sell recorRAB. I.E. Rush, Pink Floyd, then you will probably like Alice In Chains.
I refrain from comment where Soundgarden are concerned. I still have to listen to Badmotorfinger.[/QUOTE]
 
am i going to get crapped on if i say i like pisces iscariot best of all the pumpkins discs? and that mellon collie was about 1/3rd filler (which is still a much better margin than most of the other double discs of the 90s)
 
My personal opinion is that grunge is one of the biggest fallacies in music history.

I don't have a problem with the ideal of grunge, The thought of someone putting Black Sabbath style riRAB with punk/indie ideals & attitudes appeals to me.

Grunge was supposed to be the great break out of the American Underground , but that wasn't what happened. All that happened was record labels signed up any scruffy band that looked and sounded miserable , in a lot of cases ex hair metal banRAB (EG Alice In Chains & Pearl Jam) There were a few exceptions like Mudhoney who run out of ideas shortly after their first album came out , and Soundgarden who despite showing some signs of promise on Ultramega OK decided to be some crappy Sabbath tribute band instead.

But other than that the whole grunge thing led to the whole 'alternative' thing where people actually believed that by listening to major label **** like the Smashing Pumpkins & Bush that they were under the deluded impression that they were listening to the alternative to the mainstream when in reality real alternative labels and banRAB struggled to compete against the growing monopoly of the big 4 labels.
The whole thing was a lie , and the music was mostly rubbish and thats why I hate it.
 
Well done for understanding what "rip-off" means!

Firstly, I never said they were similar to Nirvana. I said they had a small nuraber of songs that ALMOST sound as if they could have been lost Cobain tracks. As for them being a Nirvana rip-off, not that I thought I'd ever have to EXPLAIN something so elementary, but the meaning is that they were TRYING to imitate Nirvana and to sound like them in every way. It was Gavin Rossdale's vision. His inspiration. His heart and soul.


The point that you don't think it's filler doesn't change anything at all. It's totally listenable from start to finish... to you. Others think much of it is bland crud. And it is ;).



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Why Go, Porch, Garden, and Wash are all work songs. "Release" is just dull.
 
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