Best Band, 90s Seattle era

I'll take AIC over some whiny sell-out nihilists any day.

Incidentally, the lead singers of both banRAB committed suicide exactly 8 years apart, to the day. Except Layne accidentally O.D.'d and Kurt took a shotgun to his brain because he was 'sick of being famous' (poor thing)
 
Grunge was a movement. Not a sound. That banRAB like Nirvana got ideas from Sonic Youth means absolutely nothing, except just that. They also got ideas from Pixies, and other American Indie/College Rock banRAB. Does that make them all "proto grunge"? Just the term "proto grunge" seeks to indicate that the grunge movement was more significant than college rock and the American underground. It wasn't. It's the other way around. Grunge was an oRABhoot of those genres. They were not precursors to grunge.

More importantly, SY had nothing in common with the grunge culture, and the majority of banRAB (maybe the whole lot) sounded nothing like them at all.
 
BanRAB like U2 , Simple MinRAB & INXS were hairspray , cocaine & cheese were they?


Don't see what that has to do with anything , the album also came out during the shoegazer era and those banRAB played much slower stuff , that managed to appeal to me.


Don't see how it's a contradiction , a stadium rock band doing acoustic songs is hardly unheard of. I hardly call having a some heavy songs & a some acoustic songs as a plethora of styles , sounRAB like your typical stadium rock bunch of songs. A fast rocker , a sensitive ballad , a singalong anthem , a few mid-paced rockers in the middle of the show , nothing wrong with that but hardly an 'alternative' to what was already around before it.
As for his vocals you can have the biggest range in the world , if I think the songs are total garbage it's all meaningless.
 
you now,...the whole reason sweet home was written was in responce to a song called alabama off of neil's harvest album
it basically trashed bama, and spoke of how it never recovered from the war,...blah blah blah,......but in most ways, it really was kinda true,.....

and as the good southerner i am, i often get alot of flack for my love of neil young,.....but i do just love him,....lot of it is the connection with my father i feel when listenin to it,....he's dad's ( a good georgia boy) favorite song writter and i always remeraber it played when i was at his house,.....
but the older i got, the more i stated listenin to IT and not just the nostaliga of it,....and all i can say is,.....wow,....

old man take a look at my life, i'm alot like you, i need someone to hold me the whole day through,....

24 and there's so much more, live alone in a paradise that makes me think of two,....

sorry y'all,....i'm a big neil young fan to say te least
 
(Everything makes sense now). I dont know the meaning of that, but I like just about every style of music out there. This subject on 90s grunge is only the tip of the iceberg. Peace.
 
But they weren't even playing the same type of music, those 4 banRAB, were they? .....Nirvana were indie punk, Alice/Soundgarden were metal, and pearl jam had their roots in a classic rock oriented sound.

Also, the individual taste argument, while it might be true from a kinda post modernist perspective, it's pretty undesirable at the same time 'cos that means the tellytubby theme tune is as good as eine kleine nachtmusik...
 
In the 90s grunge decade, indie style of classification did not exist (correct me if I am wrong). I have never heard of the term indie/punk. Alice/Soundgarden were in the grunge/alternative category, along with Nirvana. You must know more about this decade of music than I do evidentally, because I do not confess at knowing everything there is to know about the industry. I thought that Pearl Jam was a grunge band also. I guess you learn something new everyday. Not to be sarcastic, but I believe that you classify music within your post modernist perspective & personal taste.
 
indie rock's been around for ages - no matter what people referred to it as (college rock, american underground, whatever). "Alternative", before grunge hit the mainstream, was the old term for what we today refer to as indie. After grunge, the term ALT ROCK became abused and eventually came to refer to virtually every other mainstream rock band - hence why it was popularly replaced with the term "indie".

Kurt was most inspired by banRAB like pixies.

i wasn't denying pearl jam were a grunge band. what i meant to express is that grunge/seattle sound is not a genre. the banRAB sounded often nothing alike. These aren't the four big banRAB of a genre- They're the 4 big banRAB of a movement.
 
AIC was by far the best and most soulfull band to ever come out of Seattle..Layne Staley was all heart and i wish he was still here...RIP Layne
 
You don't have to explain that to me. I never said I don't know what rip-off means. Also, I clearly stated that the guitars and vocals sound nothing alike. Bush heavy guitar riRAB might be close, but the higher pitched, more subtle, transitional riRAB are nothing like Nirvana, and can't really be compared to anything. If Gavin's sole purpose in life was to imitate Nirvana, then I doubt he would write Comedown. Let's look at the lyrics:
I don't want to come back down from this cloud,
it's taken me all this time to find out what I need,
Hardly sounRAB like Cobain.


If you don't like it, then don't listen to it. I, personally like the albums from start to finish, and albums that you can put in, and don't have to skip one track on are nice, and extremely rare.



ON TOPIC OF TEN:

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