The Official Grunge Thread

He was just pissed that nobody on here wanted to blow Chris Cornell, and that nobody cared about COurtney Love.

Its funny how worked up people get when people don't agree with their musical tastes. Everyone was pretty civil to him unless he said something ignorant or insulting.
 
Well, 'grunge' is a slippery genre. I cannot find common stylistic elements between all the banRAB which are lumped under 'grunge'. :banghead: What do Stone Temple Pilots and Green River have in common stylistically? Or Pearl Jam and the Melvins? Not much. If Katatonia had come from Seattle in the 1990's, they'd probably have been called grunge.' Grunge' is an almost uselessly broad term that lumps all sorts of dissimilar banRAB together.

Since I've waded into the subgenre waters this far :yikes:, how about adding a bunch of subgenres to grunge:
1. traditional grunge: Mudhoney, Green River
2. heavy grunge: Tad, My Sister's Machine
3. sludge grunge: Melvins, Willard
4. pop grunge: Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, and any 'post-grunge' band
5. doom grunge: Alice In Chains, Temple of the Dog, 'Ten' by Pearl Jam

No, I'm not serious.:laughing:
 
Actually a couple of big banRAB have made it big in recent years by using the grunge sound. i.e. Seether, Shinedown... etc.

I would say grunge could always make a comeback, it's been proven that people don't hate it... for the most part.
 
same here. that's why i made the comment about assumptions earlier in the thread. i see something about the prominent music style of my youth i'm going to check it out, and what do i get?

a manifesto about how we are in regarRAB to a bunch of marketing terms. :confused:

if grunge wasn't about fashion why is it the first thing listed? if one 'truly' doesn't care about something why do they spend any amount of effort discussing it?

i don't remeraber anyone around me dressing the parts. then again people had been wearing flannel for decades prior. cheeseballs in big cities have always played dress up.

the use of the 'grunge' term went away as quickly as it was established. 'alternative' and 'alt-rock' soon became the standard terms to define the style.

as for the rebellious attitude. WHAT? when? if anything the grunge generation was one of the most apathetic and depressed ones out there.

if you want to establish your own identity by hiding behind my generation's cultural costume then that's your prerogative. we will just have to agree to disagree on what grunge is / was. the fact that you bring up that parenting book shows that you're still coming to grips with your own identity. you are living up to the title after all, you're the one telling us how it is, how we are, just like a boss...
 
Im behind you. I love most of the grunge movement. I mean by the end it got kind of stale but the few years it was golden...well I loved it.
 
of course mudhoney is grunge... Pearl Jam and STP though were not! They had a few similarities...

Seen Mudhoney something like 8 times in my life actually... used to run into Mark Arm all the time at record shops too...
 
Im betting if you keep calling Urb, dude, he's going to get bugged haha.
And to be honest, with the whole emo scene going on, if grunge isn't dead their arent many people who care for it. Emo seems to be the big thing right now. So it may be around on the underground scene which was where it was intended to be anyways.
 
dotn isn't grunge it's alternative/rock/post-grunge

Are other post genre's bigger than the genre? Because post-grunge is pretty huge while grunge is rather small.
 
I'm really suprised and disappointed that no one voted for Superfuzz Bigmuff. That EP, along with Green River's Rehab Doll, defined the sound of the Seattle scene in the late 80's.

It's really predictible that Nevermind would win the vote, i still rate In Utero over Nevermind though. I'm really glad to see The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen in the list, such a cracking and emotionally intense album.
 
Back
Top