Soundgarden

In Black Sabbaths case, as they got more complex the quality of their music went down. It just depenRAB on the group really.

I always thought of Soundgarden as a bunch of highly talented musicians anyway, only rivalled by that of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. I don`t ever think of grunge as a complex sound anyway, so deciding whether a band in the grunge genre is technically excellent or not is a lame exercise.
 
Despite being different, these groups still fit the grunge moniker as do the the groups that comprised Brit-Pop. They all had different influences in their sound: At one end AIC and Soundgarden with their metal and hard rock influences, whilst at the other end Nirvana and Mudhoney with their indie and punk influences. I know that is a basic assessment but a good place to start. The unifying factors were the distorted guitars, Seattle, heroin abuse, scruffy image etc.

Grunge is often thought of as a slow moving beast and Soundgarden best typified this slow moving sound, whereas Nirvana and Mudhoney were full of energy (not in a positive life affirming way of course)

Groups like Pearl Jam and STP initially put out more commercial stuff before dabbling more in experimental stuff.
 
It's so weird to me that Soundgarden is lumped in with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice In Chains. To me, they musically share very few traits with those three banRAB, even if they were getting big at the same time, and from the same place.

Used to only like bits and pieces of Soundgarden, but over the years, they've grown on me. One of those band I put down for years at one point in time, and picked up again, appreciating more than when I first listened.

Very decent Hard Rock band. Nothing too deep, but Spoonman, Limo Wreck, Blackhole Sun, Outshined, and Burden in my Hand will always be true classics in my eyes. Even have a taste for "Room a 1000 years wide".

Albeit, anything else Chris Cornell has ever done(especially his solo work) blows.
 
agreed on the absurdity of 'post-grunge' being associated to any band that started before Creed first hit the charts (you people want actual 'post' grunge there ya go!)

although as far as quality from the names i remeraber from that scene goes for me it's...

Soundgarden







Nirvana


Pearl Jam



Alice in Chains / Stone Temple Pilots








Bush / Collective Soul / Seven Mary Three / Days of the New etc.



i'll freely admit to being a huge SG fanboy back in the day though. hell i had one guitar specifically tuned (CGCGGE) and dedicated to playing only a small handful of their tunes.
 
And I agree with the diversity concerning the musical differences between styles, labels and talent of the banRAB mentioned.
The banRAB 'Live' and the 'Smashing Pumpkins' are other banRAB from the 90s that I have always admired also, with the recognition that I am not suggesting they are grunge in anyway.
 
Well now your hedging your bets.

If soundgarden is metal, then those songs are weird.

If soundgarden is grunge, than the metal characteristics are left of center.
 
HanRAB down the best song Audioslave ever did. I actually liked their debut quite a lot. I remeraber before it was coming out, I wasn't sure how Chris Cornell's musical style along with Tom Morello's craziness would work out, but it exceeded my expectations.
 
Referring to early to mid part of the 90`s in general here and not 91. I`d hazard a guess as it becoming mainstream around 1994 to 1995 especially with the Foo Fighters debut (Providing a strong link with Nirvana here) Some of the post-grunge acts, may well have had their debut albums out before this though, given the fact that genre labels often come much later, hence the previous reference to Live. Looking on wiki for example, their second album "Throwing Copper" is labelled as post-grunge amongst other things, it could well be a case of the band being made to fit the label here.
 
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