re: Best band of the "Seattle Grunge Scene" In your opinion.

You should see them at a small club instead.

I guess I caught the melvins during one of their "hey let's just play some really loud noise and feedback" sets. Unimpressed and left.

Nirvana

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Without M.L.B. The Seattle scene never explodes nationally

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This. And without Wood overdosing who knows where it goes. He was great but was a train wreck and junkie. Had he lived, he probably flames out or dies at Rock and roll death age. That would have been 1993-4 ish. His death did many things. It brought Eddie Vedder from San Diego. It grounds and fuels Gossard, Ament, McCready, and Cornell and Cameron. Producing incredible lyrics and Temple Of The Dog.

His death gave them the staying power to stick out and appreciate their fame.

Cornell's acoustic solo stuff is AMAZING.

I was very fortunate to find Seattle music in the midst of Garth Brooks dominating everything. And even more fortunate that Pearl Jam spoke to me more than anything. The Alive riff defines Seattle and "Grunge" to most ears.

I will now step away from the iPad as my Pearl Jam blind love is showing.

STP was one of the unfortunate fallouts of the grunge era.... Would they have even been signed without that movement? One would hope not... They were the antithesis of everything great about 90s indie rock...

Meat Puppets. Not Seattle. Not grunge. But the best band of the ERA, and still going strong. They belong in the R&R HOF.

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Meat Puppets.

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I consider them before that era (though they were recording then)... I think the only reason they get lumped in, is because they appeared with Nirvana on the unplugged deal, where they covered two of their songs...

But classic Meat Puppets is 80s/SST

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1. Temple of the Dog (the best guitar player from the scene, McCready, paired with the best vocalist, Cornell, is just sheer perfection)

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Vedder killed him on his own track.

Oh, and Nirvana

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Cdawg

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I will go:

1. Alice in Chains -- They have been mimicked and no one has yet to touch them. Their first two albums and both EP's are just timeless.

2. Soundgarden

3. Nirvana

4. Screaming Trees

5. The Melvins

* Never was a huge PJ fan once 1997 rolled around.

I remember back when the "grunge" tag was first being used. It certainly did not apply to a band like Alice In Chains. When KLSU had a show that would run a little section of it in the grunge theme, that was when I first heard Mudhoney. Other bands featured were Tad, The Fluid, Slovenly, Das Damen, Dinosaur Jr., etc. It was more based at that time (late 80s) on sound and not strictly geography, which makes far more sense. I mean shite, Queensryche were from Seattle and they didn't fit so why include Alice In Chains?

"Alice N Chainz" started out as a full-on hair metal band. It would have been laughable to lump them in back then. I don't think anybody has ever admitted it but Alice In Chains completely re-dressed their sound and image to come more in line with what was clearly going to be a "thing" back then. Nobody saw it coming in other parts of the world but the northwest had been grunge-happy for at least 4 years before SLTS hit. Hell, when "Man In The Box" was first put out as a single, it was strictly a Headbangers Ball thing, as opposed to 120 minutes, which wouldn't have touched it with a 10 foot pole.

Anybody remember the brief sub genre of "alt-metal" back around the turn of the 80s/90s? THAT was Alice In Chains.