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View Poll Results: Best band: 90s Seattle Era
Nirvana 47 31.13%
Alice In Chains 40 26.49%
Soundgarden 15 9.93%
Pearl Jam 18 11.92%
Stone Temple Pilots 6 3.97%
Mudhoney 6 3.97%
Other 17 11.26%
Tad 2 1.32%
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Old 11-16-2012, 11:38 AM   #781 (permalink)
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Songs like "The Rooster" come off as arena rock to me. Just that whole big sound thing. I'm not married to calling them arena rockish, though.
I'm proud of you for avoiding the obvious pun of calling that song cock rock.
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Still don't understand the AiC hate. Unique, dark-sludge-grunge suited vocals, and vocals suited lyrics. Their sound stands out compared to PJ, STP, for sure. Their "sludge" sound doesn't sound like any other sludge band I've heard. Or at least give me an example.

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Old 11-16-2012, 11:42 AM   #783 (permalink)
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Gah, as much as I love Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, Nirvana beats all.
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Old 11-16-2012, 11:47 AM   #785 (permalink)
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Still don't understand the AiC hate. Unique, dark-sludge-grunge suited vocals, and vocals suited lyrics.
I sort of can't stand Layne Staley's vocals at times. It sounds like he's trying to be Axl Rose at times, and I never liked Axl Rose. They way they both put on these voices just bugs me. He can definitely sing when he's not doing that though.

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Their sound stands out compared to PJ, STP, for sure. Their "sludge" sound doesn't sound like any other sludge band I've heard. Or at least give me an example.
They can be as different a sludge band as they want, but a sludge band needs good riffs, and AIC just don't have them.
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Old 11-16-2012, 12:02 PM   #786 (permalink)
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They can be as different a sludge band as they want, but a sludge band needs good riffs, and AIC just don't have them.
They're not even generally considered sludge. Just a dark-grunge band. Bands don't have to focus on riffs to be good, and I don't think that's the most important thing they were trying to pull off. They just played along with the feel of it.
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Old 11-16-2012, 12:02 PM   #787 (permalink)
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They were better than Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam, but other than that, I'd take the other bands over STP. Though Purple was pretty awesome.
I certainly agree with the AIC bit.

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STP better than PJ and AIC? Wow. I couldn't disagree more. STP were trash compared to those bands, but that's just me.
Certainly they were better than AIC, but not as good as Pearl Jam.

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Scott Weiland makes me cringe. Boring arena rock would be exactly how I would describe STP, Not PJ or AIC.
How tastes vary, I think he's one of the greatest American vocalists of his generation.

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Still don't understand the AiC hate. Unique, dark-sludge-grunge suited vocals, and vocals suited lyrics. Their sound stands out compared to PJ, STP, for sure. Their "sludge" sound doesn't sound like any other sludge band I've heard. Or at least give me an example.
AIC were true artists when it came to making repetitive and boring music, and also having a lead singer that spent most of his time whining about self-hate and disgust, in fact few bands have done it better than them.
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They're not even generally considered sludge. Just a dark-grunge band. Bands don't have to focus on riffs to be good, and I don't think that's the most important thing they were trying to pull off. They just played along with the feel of it.
As far as I know, they were never a grunge band. They were a metal band that started out playing Slayer covers. Before they made it big they toured on the Clash of the Titans tour with Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax for god's sake. They may have had a grunge influence, but they were never grunge. And whenever they tried to be sludge, they just ended up sounding melodramtic or just plain boring. They had their moments where they could rock out, but in general they were much better when they played melodic.
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How tastes vary, I think he's one of the greatest American vocalists of his generation.

You're gonna be locked outside at my backyard bbq's.


AIC were true artists when it came to making repetitive and boring music, and also having a lead singer that spent most of his time whining about self-hate and disgust, in fact few bands have done it better than them.[/QUOTE]

I'm not the hugest AIC fan, but I think they were far more eclectic then STP. I can see we will always disagree on their importance to the Seattle scene.
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How tastes vary, I think he's one of the greatest American vocalists of his generation.

You're gonna be locked outside at my backyard bbq's.


AIC were true artists when it came to making repetitive and boring music, and also having a lead singer that spent most of his time whining about self-hate and disgust, in fact few bands have done it better than them.

I'm not the hugest AIC fan, but I think they were far more eclectic then STP. I can see we will always disagree on their importance to the Seattle scene.
You don't seem to be able to master the quote button, you're hardly a newbie here

AIC eclectic!!! Well you don't know about quote buttons, but you do have a great sense of humour

STP were not really part of the Seattle scene, they dressed to well and looked like they washed at least once a week.

BTW thanks for the BBQ invite.
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