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Originally Posted by Megadead2
Awesome. Between Pitchfork, other music boards, and here, I have now heard someone somewhere argue that each member of the grunge "Big Four" is not, in fact, grunge. :P
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Well, 'grunge' is a slippery genre. I cannot find common stylistic elements between all the bands which are lumped under 'grunge'.
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 bands together.
Since I've waded into the subgenre waters this far
, 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.
