GRUNGE...for lack of a better word.

[illVAIN]

So yea, Ive never once seen a forum topic on this genre or subculture. I know the term, especially in the 90s was hated amongst those who created it, and by most of those who were into it...but you know what? Fuck it! Everythings got to be called something, and if it wasnt called grunge they would of called it something else....so whatever, call it the Seattle sound if you wish, or if you want a really long one you can say the "punk/metal hybrid sound that came out of the pacific northwest during the late 80s and early 90s".

Some great bands that came out of this movement are Green River, The Melvins, Malfunkshun, TAD, Mudhoney, Love Battery, Pond, L7, Babes in Toyland, Seaweed....then of course the 4 mainstream bands that most everyone knows...Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam.

If you know more, talk about them! If you dont know anything about it, ask! Lets get this shit going!

[Carsten]

I was into grunge when I was sixteen. I loved nirvana and later sonic youth, TAD ,Mudhoney and likes the Melvins too.



I think that it does not matter what you call it other than the sound that came out of seattle. its just a other form of rebellion against something existing and it did catch on around the world too.

thanks for brining this topic up- :)

[illVAIN]

I was into grunge when I was sixteen. I loved nirvana and later sonic youth, TAD ,Mudhoney and likes the Melvins too.



I think that it does not matter what you call it other than the sound that came out of seattle. its just a other form of rebellion against something existing and it did catch on around the world too.

thanks for brining this topic up- :)

Oh yea man, thats pretty cool, I wish I was old enough to really enjoy it when it was really happening. I was like 4-8 in its prime XP. Great bands, all of them XD. Of course I love Nirvana, but TAD and Mundhoney both were some of the best bands out in that time, sucks that they never got the recognition they deserved. The Melvins are awesome, so fucking heavy, I love that droning sound. Have you ever heard The Fluid? There pretty good.

[David Joseph]

I personal did not get too caught up with what most say would be signature grunge. Being Nirvana. I preferred the Pearl Jam or Sound Garden. My brother Sean has been involved with the "Seattle Sound" in one way or another for years. Now he is focused on acting.

[illVAIN]

I personal did not get too caught up with what most say would be signature grunge. Being Nirvana. I preferred the Pearl Jam or Sound Garden. My brother Sean has been involved with the "Seattle Sound" in one way or another for years. Now he is focused on acting.

Thats cool. I personally was never a big fan of Soundgarden or Pearl Jam, but I do like Alice in Chains quite a bit. Some of Soundgardens early shit was pretty good. Thats cool about your brother though, what kind of movies is he interested in working in?

[David Joseph]

Thats cool. I personally was never a big fan of Soundgarden or Pearl Jam, but I do like Alice in Chains quite a bit. Some of Soundgardens early shit was pretty good. Thats cool about your brother though, what kind of movies is he interested in working in?

Alice in Chains, great band.

Sean is working on a Scify series right now. This July he starts a fearture film. He said it is like The Prophacy but really violent.

[TWiTCHtheBiTCH]

Alice in chains kicked ass until Layne died and was replaced by that black dude. If a vocalist dies and you must replace them, please change your band's name.

[Dickbutt McGilicutti]

Surprised no one has mentioned grunt truck

[Adam Rebelius]

Never understood the term. To me a lot of "Grunge" sounded like a lot of teenagers trying to sound original, but were, in reality influenced by their older sibling's/parent's Led Zepplin/Aerosmith albums. Never cared for it. However, that being said, I liked Nirvana, cos I could here the "Doolittle" era Pixies in their music. (And "Territorial Pissing" sounded like a Social Distortion song that should've been on "Mommy's Little Monster") and I liked Alice in Chains cos that was one of the best Black Sabbath ripoffs I had heard in a long time. And I like L7 because they reminded me of The Runaways if they had been a bad, cheesy 3rd rate metal band, plus I basically grew up w/Dee Plakas.

[safetypinsam]

Soundgarden and Alice in Chains was cool, the rest was kinda hit and miss.

[PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE]

Screaming Trees were the shit...check them out if you haven't...just saw Mudhoney recently and they still kick ass. The Adolescents opened up for them so it was a super bad ass show. The same night Osama got a bullet in the head...so it was a memorable show for a bunch of reasons.
Oh yeah, Bikini Kill was another great band from that area.
I always considered most of those bands either punk or metal. The term grunge was just a publicity stunt so the corporate labels could sell shit like Stone Temple Pilots and Bush.

[illVAIN]

Surprised no one has mentioned grunt truck

Is is just me or does Gruntruck and Skin Yard sound really similar?

[illVAIN]

Screaming Trees were the shit...check them out if you haven't...just saw Mudhoney recently and they still kick ass. The Adolescents opened up for them so it was a super bad ass show. The same night Osama got a bullet in the head...so it was a memorable show for a bunch of reasons.
Oh yeah, Bikini Kill was another great band from that area.
I always considered most of those bands either punk or metal. The term grunge was just a publicity stunt so the corporate labels could sell shit like Stone Temple Pilots and Bush.

Thats bad ass that you actually got to see Mudhoney live. I dont think theyve ever played in VA, and if they did I had no way of getting there coz it was probably in VA Beach or whatever. Screaming Trees are ok, I like a few of there songs.

But yea...technically Mark Arm from Mudhoney was the one who first used the term Grunge to describe the music....pure noise, pure grunge, pure shit! lol

[Carsten]

i was sixteen or so when Nirvana broke here in Denmark. I would listen to Sex pistols and Nirvana all the time. I like Nirvana , harvey milk, melvins,TAD, Sonic youth , meat puppets , Mudhoney ,Flipper , honey lung. but not alice in chains or soundgarden. even though they played with neil young who I love. thats a other story.

I think Grunge was a extended form of the punk era in its own right. off course I do not now anything about how it was elsewhere and to for me as being the only one I knew that was into this it was a lonely life for the most part.

I had been raised under the time where punk where sort of beginning to become mainstream and a more commercial product instead and the punk era where sort of echoes from a past where I would have love to have been twenty yrs old instead of the eighties and nineties.

My mother where into different stuff all the time so I had bikers and hippies and punks and all sorts of strange people influencing me in my childhood so it was sort of natural to start growing my hair and listen to heavy metal. punk was also background music so to speak since I saw it on television and my mother had some post punk albums she played a lot and Grunge sort or united all these things in the Seattle sound. it was only natural to like nirvana and similar bands at that time.

I was the only one I knew that loved them until they where on MTV with the unplugged album. I had the first two albums Bleach and Nevermind when nevermind where released in Denmark from the start and the album Hormoaning where send to the shop by mistake so it was a rare album to find here as it was intended to be for the japan audience. see if you can find this somewhere since there is some great songs on it for all the nirvana fans to collect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormoaning

later I started listening to beck when I got a copy of the tape from a friend that had gotten it from a trip to usa .. that was a year before Beck appeared on MTV and became Known here in Denmark as a artist. I started to find more old Punk bands and after Kurt Died I decided that Grunge where Dead,.. I am now just listening to mostly punk bands. also shaved my head completely about eight years ago and stopped being the longhair guy . I got tired of both punk and grunge Fashion and started to listen to a lot different music but not as much grunge anymore as I used to .