Punk or Grunge - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Two music scenes/genres that were both great in their own right.
Although there were a lot of great punk bands, I'll definitely go with grunge. Much better overall

Though they are somewhat related, I can't stand punk but I enjoy some grunge.

Depends on what Punk you're talking about.

I like a lot of Grunge actually. Kind of grew up on it, Alice In Chains, Pearl jam, you know the usual. I still regularly listen to Melvins and Mudhoney though.

Fugazi's another great one.

At The Drive In were great. Almost like them more than Volta now.

PUNK, absolutely. I admit to liking grunge circa 1991. I had all the albums - not just Nirvana and Soundgarden but also Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, the Singles soundtrack, etc etc etc. Maybe I over-dosed on it, because long before 2000, I hated it, and have never felt the need to go back and listen, and find it all rather shameful and embarrassing now, LOL. (I think it was because the long Reagan/Bush Dark Ages was ending, Clinton was now the American prez, suddenly the sun came out, the sky was blue, the birds sang and hope filled the air... That's how it felt to me, and music seemed rejuvenated at the time... Now, though, grunge seems depressing, hopelessly backward looking and so out of step with the innovations being made in British music in the 90s - and when I started to discover that in the mid-90s, I never listened to grunge again.)

I just came across this in Pitchfork yesterday (Top 200 Songs of the 1990s), and it sums up perfectly my feelings on the matter:

#168. Alice in Chains: "Would?" [Columbia; 1992] - What caused the mass hallucination that made us all believe that grunge was anything other than straightforward hard rock sludge disguised in flannel shirts? Few songs from the genre can survive the harsh light of hindsight, but "Would?" holds up. It's a song very much of the Seattle scene but one that rises above its lumbering, melody-free brethren. Most of the credit is due to grunge's Simon & Garfunkel-- Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell-- whose harmonies over the nearly subsonic bass rumble grant the verses an exotic spookiness. The harmonies push Staley's caterwauling on the standard arena-rock choruses (and a killer bridge) to true catharsis. --Rob Mitchum

And I also came across this great quote on an album review of an Oasis album: 'Fearless optimism reins on the group's best-ever track, "Live Forever", a quasi-reaction to the nihilism of grunge. Talking about the song,... Noel dismisses some of Kurt Cobain's heroin-laced diatribes while backing up the careful hope of his signature track: "That was a guy that had everything and was miserable. We had f**k all and I still thought getting up in the morning was the greatest f**kin' thing ever 'cause you didn't know where you'd end up at night."'

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7854-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-200-151/4/?utm_campaign=search&utm_medium=site&utm_source=search-ac

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9683-stop-the-clocks/

Edited by jude111 - April 19 2013 at 23:57

Fox On The Rocks wrote:

You'd like Refused Andrew:

sorry to say that I didn't enjoy much of that

What one? You didn't tell us the name

While I'm fond of a couple, I can't name a true grunge band I consistently listen to. Whilst punk has tons of bands I listen to lots, (The Dead Kennedys, NoMeansNo, Husker Du, and Refused probably being my favourites). Easy choice for me.

Poll Question: Punk or Grunge
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Punk	9	[56.25%]
Grunge	7	[43.75%]
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