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re: Best band of the "Seattle Grunge Scene" In your opinion.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 1:57 pm to saint amant steve
Posted on 8/6/15 at 1:57 pm to saint amant steve
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. The Melvins (better live act than studio performers)
was really disappointed by them at voodoo. I had super high exceptions after hearing from so many people that i trust saying they are the goat live show.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:00 pm to Dire Wolf
You should see them at a small club instead.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:06 pm to Brosef Stalin
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You should see them at a small club instead.
Exactly what I was about to post. Of course I prefer that with most any band.
Caught them here last November in a 300 capacity bar. Great show!!
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:00 pm to LSU Jax
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
Nirvana
Posted on 8/6/15 at 5:06 pm to SEClint
AiC by far for me
Staley > Cobain
Staley > Cobain
Posted on 8/6/15 at 11:12 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Without M.L.B. The Seattle scene never explodes nationally
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.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 1:15 am to LSU alum wannabe
I was really too young to experience the grunge scene myself, but I'd have to go with Alice in chains. Man in the box is always going to be on my playlist. I like all the other bands too, especially pearl jam. I wish they still had music like this nowadays, because it seems like any type of rock music is non-existent. It's all moved to the commercialized pop-country artists, along with rappers, who most likely don't write most of their stuff in the first place.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 8:34 am to Deuces
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...
Posted on 8/7/15 at 9:41 am to SEClint
Nirvana is the only band I like out of most of the bands being mentioned so I’m gonna go with them.
But honestly, I hate the term “grunge” and don’t even know why these bands are grouped together other than geography.
Nirvana is like an alt/punk band.
AIC & Soundgarden are hard rock bands.
Pearl Jam is like a rock band with some obvious 70s rock inspiration.
But honestly, I hate the term “grunge” and don’t even know why these bands are grouped together other than geography.
Nirvana is like an alt/punk band.
AIC & Soundgarden are hard rock bands.
Pearl Jam is like a rock band with some obvious 70s rock inspiration.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 9:43 am to SEClint
Meat Puppets. Not Seattle. Not grunge. But the best band of the ERA, and still going strong. They belong in the R&R HOF.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:06 am to Tigerwaffe
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Meat Puppets.
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
Posted on 8/7/15 at 10:10 am to TFTC
yeah, Meat Puppets are pretty squarely in 80s hardcore. They stuck out like a sore thumb on SST, as their music is really different than the rest, but that was sort of the point. They were weirdos even amongst their fellow weirdos.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 2:22 pm to saint amant steve
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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)
Vedder killed him on his own track.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 2:23 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Cornell's acoustic solo stuff is AMAZING.
Seasons is his best song.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 2:28 pm to Bayouboogaloocrew
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There are hundreds of talented bands that never hit it big. MTV promotion of Nirvana is not a ridiculous concept at all. Remember...they actually played videos back then. If Smells Like Teen Spirit wouldn't have been played 100 times a day I don't think they would have ever made the splash that they did. There really isn't an argument that MTV was a huge key to their success.
There's a very good reason that song played 100 times a day.
Posted on 8/8/15 at 8:54 am to Cdawg
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Cdawg
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.
Posted on 8/8/15 at 10:52 am to Kayhill Brown
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I hate the term “grunge”
I agree - "grunge" as a term is more of a reaction term - to describe hard rock that rejects the excesses of hair metal of the late 80s, early 90s.
The genre is supposed to eschew guitar solos, but most of the traditional "grunge" acts have some degree of soloing.
They're supposed to wear flannel and jeans (I guess that is fashion in the Pacific NW), and I guess that is subjective - certainly the Seattle bands did that to some degree.
For that matter there is little to distinguish the traditional "Seattle" sound "grunge" acts, from contemporaries such as RHCP and RATM - musically. RHCP is more funk based and RATM has a rapper frontman, but musically - very consistent with AIC, Soundgarden, PJ, Nirvana, etc.
This post was edited on 8/8/15 at 10:54 am
Posted on 8/8/15 at 11:15 am to Ace Midnight
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.
"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.
Posted on 8/8/15 at 11:34 am to RockAndRollDetective
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Anybody remember the brief sub genre of "alt-metal" back around the turn of the 80s/90s? THAT was Alice In Chains.
Yeah - something like Korn fit into that bucket as well. Weird how terms and labels evolve as it gets nailed down, branded and marketed.
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