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Best Classic "Grunge" Bands |
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yogev 
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 Topic: Best Classic "Grunge" BandsPosted: March 10 2021 at 23:35 |
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Its really hard to choose. I go with Alice in Chains.
You also can recommend grunge bands that don't found on the poll. Edited by yogev - September 24 2021 at 08:14 |
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A Crimson Mellotron
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Posted: March 10 2021 at 23:50 |
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Maybe ask on GrungeArchives!  As I said about Oasis yesterday, Grunge should be banned, sorry. |
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Posted: March 10 2021 at 23:57 |
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Alice in Chains. I dislike most grunge (I could not escape it back in the 90s
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 00:05 |
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Nirvana, by far.
Alice In Chains isn't bad either and I like a few Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins songs. Tad and Melvins are great, but were never as big as the listed bands. Edit: +Mudhoney!! Edited by Hiram - March 11 2021 at 03:34 |
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 00:08 |
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Smashing Pumpkins.
1995 (or 1979) was their year.
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 00:27 |
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Nirvana
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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mathman0806
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 01:03 |
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Voted Nirvana. I liked and still like all those bands. Seen all them live except for Nirvana. Another band that I liked from that period are the Screaming Trees.
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A Crimson Mellotron
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I was not taking it seriously, two LOLs emoticons proof of that.  I survived the grungy and alt 90s discovering music from the 60s and 70s and then the rise of progressive metal, gothic metal, doom metal and so on.
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interesting selection. I’m glad you put “grunge” in inverted commas, because it’s one of the most bs labels that exist. So many of the bands grouped together under than label really had nothing much to do with each other musically. Some of them might have been related to each other by geographical proximity and/or friendship, but that’s about it.
The “Big Four” have always been listed as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, and that alone shows how disparate and varied the sounds and style of music were by those who were labelled “grunge”. For me, never having been a big fan of Nirvana, the big four for me were Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees and Pearl Jam. What’s interesting, however, is how much of a gravitational pull Seattle had in this period, so that many musicians and bands moved across the country to be part of that scene. I’m inclined not to include Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots, as much as I like their music, because they did always try to remain apart from the “grunge” scene, no matter how close in sound they sounded to other bands within the scene at times. Having a quick look through my iPod, here are the bands and artists in my collection associated with Seattle - by which I mean music by bands and artists either from that area, or who moved to the area to further their musical career, and have become associated with it. I will put a ** beside their name if I have ever seen them described as “grunge” in the media. And this is me being judicious. Queensryche”s Q2K album was described as grumge, but I won’t ** them based on one album. (Both Michael Wilton and Chris DeGarmo have played on releases with “grunge” artists, and those have also been described as “grunge”, but again, that is not as Queensryche.) **Alice in Chains **Beat Happening Best Kissers in the World **Brad **Built to Spill Matt Cameron **Candlebox **Jerry Cantrell **Caustic Resin **Chris Cornell Critters Buggin Warrel Dane The Dark Fantastic Jeremy Enigk The Fire Theft Foo Fighters **Stone Gossard **Green Apple Quick Step **Green River **The Halo Benders **Hater Jimi Hendrix **Mike Johnson **Mark Lanegan Lotus Crush Duff McKagen **Mad Season **Malfunkshun Barrett Martin Kevin Martin Doug Martsch **Mother Love Bone **My Sisters Machine Nevermore **Pearl Jam Mark Pickerel Queensryche **Redlightmusic Robert Roth **Screaming Trees **Second Coming **Skin Yard Sky Cries Mary **Soundgarden **Spies4Darwin Sunn O))) Sunny Day Real Estate **Sweet Water **Temple of the Dog **Three Fish Treepeople **Truly Tuatara **Eddie Vedder **The Walkabouts Walking Papers Wayward Shamans **Wellwater Conspiracy |
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 03:35 |
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Soundgarden for me - Superunknown is one of my favourite albums.
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While grunge is generally bereft of any progressive elements (not a bad thing, I love grunge, just stating a fact) Soundgarden is the one exception to this. They had a knack for odd time signatures and, thanks to their use of bizzare guitar tunings and love of psychedelia, they actually produce some fairly progressive moments. Certainly not enough to be considered for the archives, but still enough to warrant a discussion on the forums
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Of the big four, Soundgarden are definitely one of the proggiest, thanks a lot to Matt Cameron. Once he joined Pearl Jam, he definitely made that band more interesting, too. I already liked Pearl Jam, but pretty much all my favourite PJ albums are with Matt Cameron onboard. I think Truly are pretty proggy, too. Their debut full length, “Fast Stories...From Kid Coma”, is easily one of my most favourite “grunge” albums. Certainly the most Mellotron I’ve heard on a “grunge” album, anyway. And I love the way they have structured the (concept) album, so that it gets progressively (no pun intended) stranger the further through you get. The first couple of songs give a quite false impression of the album in general, and my favourites all tend to come from closer to the end. The way the album effectively crescendos as a whole, and collapses in a glorious and melancholy climax is amazing. If I were ever to play one “grunge” album for a prog audience, it would probably be Truly’s. That said, they might well get bored before the more proggy parts begin. For me the payoff is worth it, but then I like “grunge” as much as prog, so..... 🤷🏻♂️ And not that I’ve ever heard Sunny Day Real Estate/The Fire Theft called grunge, given they were active in Seattle at the same time as the “grunge” explosion, I think it’s worth noting that they, too, had their fair share of proggy moments. Definitely one of my most favourite Seattle bands. |
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 04:48 |
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I CANNOT wait to check out this album. Thanks for recommending it!
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I’ve not heard the remaster, and I have the “missing track” on the Twilight Curtains compilation cd, so no idea how this sounds compared to the original - but here you go: The rhythm section is Hiro (ex-Soundgarden) and Mark (ex-Screaming Trees). I have their debut ep, this album, the follow-up, and the compilation on cd. I don’t think they have anything else, so I think I have it all. Oh, and also Robert Roth’s solo album. |
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 05:08 |
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I like all of these bands. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden being my favorite of the bunch. I've probably heard/own albums from about 1/3rd of the bands that Nick listed. Looks like I could have some exploring to do. Truly truly sound like they'd be interesting to hear.
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 05:16 |
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top 3 (no order) Nirvana Pearl Jam Soundgarden
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 05:26 |
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Alice in Chains have some progy moments too, with odd time signatures and strange chord progressions. Sometimes Grunge can be very experimental and "progy" in that sense.
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Posted: March 11 2021 at 05:40 |
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Nice list from Nick. I have about half of those and heard about 2/3. A couple of other Seattle bands from that time that I liked were Gruntruck and Love Battery, and also Satchel (RIP Shawn Smith).
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