The Official Grunge Thread

[BTown]

Originally Posted by mr dave

i don't belittle people. i call a spade a spade. as for arguments, you haven't even pissed me off yet...

try re-reading and revising your posts before hitting submit if you don't like the holes i poke through your statements. make sure what you're posting reflects what you mean and actually makes sense. what did nirvana show to much much much more people???

hell, i even goofed in my last comment, tourette's was never a single, it was aneurysm that was the single for the live disc.

Haha now that I look back I was really pissed last night at you because you were right, along with the other arguments I have gotten into with you. You're just really good.

[Zer0]

Alice In Chains are probably the only band mentioned above that i listen to anymore, their old stuff still sounds fantastic.

You should go a little bit further back into the 80's when it was still underground. Green River and early Nirvana and Mudhoney really defined the grunge sound then.

[Necromancer]

Soundgarden is one of my favorite bands from the grunge era (especially when considering the way they applied chord structure), and the distinctive way Soundgarden would 'drag' the chords 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 listening to.

[Railton]

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!!

[Necromancer]

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.

[mr dave]

Originally Posted by VocalsBass

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.

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 kids 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 stands to reason that the youth coming of age in the 10s would draw influence from the 90s.

[Howard the Duck]

the poll's already closed, but I would vote for AIC's Dirt

and also bumping an od thread

[Unknown Soldier]

Originally Posted by Il Duce

the poll's already closed, but I would vote for AIC's Dirt

and also bumping an od thread

I can`t believe crap like Bush even got one vote! and that Afghan Whigs album Gentleman is a forgotten gem.

[Zer0]

Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen looks very out of place in that list. It's a fantastic album but I never got why people always lump it in with grunge. I know they were signed to Sub Pop for a while but that shouldn't be enough to pigeonhole them.

[Howard the Duck]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I can`t believe crap like Bush even got one vote! and that Afghan Whigs album Gentleman is a forgotten gem.

Sixteen Stone is total crap, but I have a fondness for Razorblade Suitcase