The Official Grunge Thread

What's up with Superfuzz Bigmuff with 0 votes? I wouldn't rank at as the best but damn you need to show some respect for what Mark Arm and Mudhoney did for the Grunge scene not only with Mudhoney but Green River.
 
Haha you betcha.



17 and counting...its still alive and well considering its heavy inclusion on mainstream radio and the existence of this thread.
 
Superfuzz Bigmuff, which got zero votes, is more representative of the Seattle grunge scene and sound than any of the albums listed by a mile. It's a much better album than most of the ones up there too.
Superunknown was Soundgarden's "MTV" album. Louder than Love was definitely the apex of their career as far as creative output is concerned
 
I don't really consider Melvins grunge, but they're often lumped in with the Seattle scene. They're kind of hard to categorize because of their penchant for 'noise experiments', etc. Anyway, Buzzo and company are great.

AiC doesn't fit in with the other grunge banRAB either. (Does Soundgarden either?) I always considered them some type of metal, except their EPs. If we're talking 'grungy' grunge (!?), I'd say Tad is nuraber 1 and maybe Mudhoney is nuraber 2.
Btw, I don't think anyone here has mentioned My Sister's Machine, who put out 2 good albums.

I did not know that 'Halloween' was a cover (I had to google it.). I haven't listened to Sonic Youth in many years, nor did I ever buy any of their albums. I may have to investigate them.

That also reminded me that Green River did a bizarre cover of Blue Oyster Cult (BOC is one of my all-time favorites.). 'Swallow My Pride' covers (sort of) 'This Ain't the Summer of Love'.
 
Style and genre aren't the same thing, I wouldn't consider classic rock a genre but i'd consider it style.

And just because I can't do everything about something doesn't mean I won't do anything.
 
But you said you truly didn't care what we think. And then you wrote some kind of silly grunge manifesto. What kind of response were you expecting?
 
In all the arguements you have you always belittle me. I know his worRAB were deep you don't need to tell me anything about Nirvana.

I was saying Kurt Cobain COULD put stuff like Tourette's on his ALBUMS. When i say he cou;d put stuff out like tourette's that by no means means releasing a soingle.
I do not think Nirvana was pumping out crap at all, they are easily the band that means the most to me and that I connect with the most. I'm saying the bulk of society sees something like Hairspray queen as crap due to the fact his vocals are..well you know. I love that song, but lets say some unknown band like, well I don;t know, were to put that on the radio, it would probably get dismissed by a lot of people quickly but if Nirvana were to put that on the radio it would probably be more excepted because you know their Nirvana.

You can say Nirvana reminded people that thats all you needed to get the job done, but I think they showed much much much more people, including ignorant people since I know self proclaimed hardcore Nirvana and Cobain Martyrs usually have a rep for being ignorant.
 
LOL. I was in high school at the peak of the whole grunge thing, I realize that Nevermind wasn't the only grunge album. It was the album that made grunge big though.

Like I said, my surprise about younger grunge fans doesn't have anything to do with the idea of people listening to older music, I listen to plenty of music that's older than me myself. It's just that grunge was such a manufactured thing I find it amazing that it could appeal to anyone outside of the very narrow demographic that it was originally aimed at.
 
Hammerbox (later Goodness).

I lived in Seattle at the time and got sick of the all the well know ones. Hammerbox were just below the surface of (inter)national fame. Best song is 'When 3 is 2'. Female led and definately worth checking out...
 
right, and what i'm saying is the reason no band is capable of leading a movement like that anymore is because the internet directly changed the way people deal with music. banRAB and record labels keep trying to catch up but they're still dry humping the corpse of how pop music worked since the 70s.
 
Green River were decent, but they were just beginning musicians. I like them better than Mother Love Bone, but I still prefer Pearl Jam.
 
The Melvins are on the same level as the Pixies. The Melvins influenced the roots and indeed the contemporaries of the whole alternative scene!
 
well, having been 16 in 1993, I know that it was really exciting to see this explosion of music in like 1991-92. By '93 EVERYONE and their grandma was wearing flannel...and if you had been into underground music in say, 1989,1990 like my husband, by 1994 you were pretty damn sick of all the "posers" and the banRAB themselves (some of them) didn't like it. It's just the same evolution of any "scene" or genre really.
 
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