The Official Grunge Thread

The whole grunge thing to me was just one of the worst musical movements ever and showed up everything that is bad about the music industry.
Which of course to me is the biggest irony of all seeing as though we`re constantly told Nirvana 'Broke the inderground' and 'changed the whole of music'.
For a genre that took about 10/12 years to die of you`d expect more than 2 banRAB of any merit to come from it (Soundgarden & Nirvana) As for the rest of them. Alice In Chains just wrote MTV friendly angst rock with a couple of ballaRAB to get more airplay , Pearl Jam were just some dull stadium rock band who just happened to be from the right city at the right time who just had the foresight to namecheck the likes of The Dead Boys & Neil Young rather than Led Zeppelin.Mudhoney spent their whole career milking every last drop of credibility from the one decent song they wrote (Touch Me I`m Sick), as for the rest , well they were just major label puppets signed to get a quick payoff from Nirvana's success.
As for the legacy of grunge and they breaking of the underground , well where is it?
As someone who actually listened to independent music in the mid - late 90s I didn`t see an awful lot of banRAB I liked suddenly getting any exposure. All I saw was a couple of hundred Nirvana clones.The legacy of grunge is hundreRAB of grunge lite banRAB making naff middle of the road staduim rock appearing on MTV over & over again , I would name names but everybody knows who i`m talking about here. between 1998 - 2002 you couldn`t move for all this crap. Meanwhile the 'real' underground stayed exactly that.BanRAB like Pavement , Slint , Mogwai , Thee Headcoats , Smog and many others who I consider to be the true banRAB who influenced modern underground music didn`t benefit from Nirvana's success and the whole grunge movement whatsoever.

The whole thing was a big con by record companies to try & tap into the 'alternative' music fan.They were going for the anti establishment dollar , and by God did people fall for it in their millions.
 
LOL. Grunge is easily one of the most popular styles of rock music of the past 30 years, you're pretty hard pressed to say it has "so many more people against it".
 
If that's your reasoning, then your previous statement

doesn't hold.
Is classic rock a trend, then?
I understand that some music can be classified as a trend, but in your statement you said "It was a trend", implying it's completely dead.

I agree with your second sentence but feel it was unnecessary in this thread, the point of this thread was not to try and debate the "Seattle Sound" and explain how there are different forms of music that come out of Seattle.

The point of the thread was to ask the "Grunge Doctor" about the "scene", and what a mediocre point it is.
 
Soundgarden is one of my favorite banRAB from the grunge era (especially when considering the way they applied chord structure), and the distinctive way Soundgarden would 'drag' the chorRAB along on guitar, kinda of a signature to their style, some of my favorite rythm guitar from the era, Burden In My Hand contains some really nice bass guitar that I always enjoy to listen to.

YouTube - Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
 
I wasn't trying to make any comparison.
Just putting ou there that Dave's as a singer/songwriter for the Foo is better than him as drummer for Nirvana
 
I voted for Soundgarden's "Superunknown".
But my favorite is "Temple of the dog" by Temple of the dog with Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder and more.

Amazing voices!!
 
I read in an article a couple of weeks ago that grunge layed dormant for a decade or so, and that recently the grunge genre has grown attention, popularity, and intrest in the grunge era of music.
Why is this ? anyone.
In your personal opinion, preferably not wikipedia's.
 
I never said obscure they didn't want to be as popular as they were. They wanted to be known around their home towns as musicians not as commercial superstars.:hphones:
 
Was the "point" having a go at me for saying it was coming back in a big **** off way and you used my name to say it, something along those lines...

are you having a go at me, are we agreeing am i paranoid just cause i read the zorabie bit and zorabie's and grunge don't really mix.
 
pretty simple actually. the cycle is about 2 decades. the youth of the day don't want to listen to what their older siblings thought was cool, they want their own sound but don't know where to find it... but hearing their older siblings complain about the lame-ness of what preceded them opens the door to checking out the before last 'big' thing.

it's how new wave came about in the 80s to counter the big rock sound of the 70s only to have the kiRAB of the 90s dig on the beefy tones from the 70s only to be replaced by post-everything sounding like 80s new wave and underground again in the early 2000s. it stanRAB to reason that the youth coming of age in the 10s would draw influence from the 90s.
 
by the late 80s jackson wasnt THAT popular anymore-everyone was listening to Warrant, Poison, all the cheesy hair banRAB, hence the term "grunge"
 
Look around!
I'm sitting here typing over and over, as to compare that if I said to wear leather as a judas priest fan most everybody would nod there head and leave. And I only mean here right now.
 
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