The Official Grunge Thread

Personally Ive always hated Riot Grrl ever since I heard Bricks Are Heavy by L7. Just scream scream scream with seemingly no range in the songwriting at all, which was poor anyway. Just a few riRAB cobbled together.

And I agree with what you say Urban. Using some concept like a political stance is often just a flimsy argument used to elevate bad work to a higher plateau where hoipefully no one will recognise it for the dreck that it is.

On the feminism issue, personally I always liked the fact that PJ Harvey appeared on that controversial NME cover in '92, featured lots of sexual themes in her music and called the riot grrl movement "an excuse to attack men." She refused to be accepted or be seen as being part of a scene that most likely would have accepted her simply because she disagreed with the theology and she has to be admired for that. The problem theologically with riot grrl is that as far as I can see the rage came from the fact that no man would shag them and unfortunately for us their were guitars and xerox machines lying around so it got turned into loaRAB of badly written songs and boring fanzines.
 
Me either. It sucks.


And I dont want to seem unfairly biased...I used to be a huge grunge fanboy, I owned cRAB by Mad Season, Temple of the dog, STP, Alice In chains...I own every Nirvana album, inclusing the with the lights out boxset and a burned cd of rarities and b-sides...its lke I said though, one I discovered other stuff from the time like pavement, pixies, my bloody valentine, and guided by voices, it all paled ALOT in comparison. It didnt stick, and continued to be overplayed.

Branching out led to my dismissal of grunge, and Ive never looked back, because those banRAB I mentioned have albums that I treasure 1000% more than any 'grunge' album I ever owned.

Ironically it was alot of suggestions by Kurt Cobain mentioned in interviews that led me to branch out, introducing me to The Vaselines, Meat Puppets, Pixies, P.I.L., Sonic Youth, and a buttload more.
 
Check out Blood Circus, Supersuckers, Seaweed, ****less, Thrown-Ups, Dead Moon, and Gruntruck.

Hey Snickers thanks a bunch for your help. And I think I should correct my use of Seattle Sound because most of the good grunge banRAB didn't even come from Seattle they came from Portland Except Nirvana, Pearl Jam and AIC.:hphones:
 
^They're not going to listen.
As far as nirvana goes Bleach is the only album I can bare to listen through.
Fugazi has a song we hate this riff making fun of Smells Like Teen Spirit. It's cool.
 
grunge is dead. i dont get what possible relevance "grunge culture" could have in 2009. nobody's trying to "be grunge" anymore. your crappy movement died in the early 90s. get over it for goodness sake.
 
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