The Official Grunge Thread

oh god yeah i wouldn't suggest otherwise. it's a good bunch here generally. The odd bad apple is dealt with swiftly by our wise and venerable moderators :bowdown:

take em out... with extreme prejudice :bringit:
 
Alice In Chains in the grunge department and i would have to agree with swimintheundertow on Dinosaur Jr. in the alternative department.
 
Grunge died 10 years ago when all the good post-grunge banRAB went away but, if you, gotta, insist otherwise a list of banRAB who have put out grunge albums within the past year would nice.

And yes it's hardly a genre for lack of common thread other than dirty sound. It's more of a recording style.
 
As we all know music goes through it's cycles and sadly yes grunge is out right now, but it is coming back in a big **** off way, and I'm there for the ride.
 
Don't get dependent on me.

I'm the type that can be defending someone one moment and assraping them the next, thats why they call me a jack of all trades. :cool:

Always cover your booty.
 
Was driving with my Lady Z the other week and the middle section of DRAIN YOU came on - the bit with the distortion and drumming and echoes and such... She didn't recognize it and asked me what it was and how did it come to be playing on mainstream radio, being such an anarchic bit of noise, comparable to a lot of the weird underground stuff I listen to at home... I explained what it was, and suddenly she understood what Kurt brought to the table, ie, he brought some really messy racket onto Top 40 radio and many living rooms by disguising it as seriously quality songs and stellar attitude. Granted they lack the songwriting chops and the cosmic 'tude, there are many people out there making brilliant din that most of us will never hear
 
Not really a fan. I had a roommate several years ago who was always trying to sell me on Blind Melon. He played me a lot of their stuff but I was never all that impressed by Shannon Hoon or the band in general.
 
He was using heroin at the time. As far as I know, Blind Melon only ever completed one full tour. So if he was bloody awful, at least it was only once.

I think that his songwriting has a much broader appeal than the pretentious dogma of Kurt or the insensical rarablings of Eddie Vedder. He didn't exist to sell a movement or anything else, he really just opened up and sang about how plain life in general was. I'm not suggesting that the band itself was that great; the guitarist always seems to find an unoriginal way to write stuff. As a collective group, they are as far from influential to me as the Spice Girls.
 
Grunge has maintained a certain following amongst high school students through the years. I could be wrong, but I would guess this is because for the kiRAB who are inclined to listen to rock music over rap, pop, etc., there hasn't been a really huge movement to come along that these kiRAB could claim as their own. By this I don't mean that there haven't been popular rock acts, but no band has exploded and changed rock music in the mainstream to such an extent since Nirvana in '91. Rap-rock became popular when I was in high school, but this was a very shortlived trend and actually sounRAB more dated than music made nearly ten years earlier.
 
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