re: Alice in Chains 90's Grunge Rock

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A rough time for rock music

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Yeah. Things only got better from there, right? Look at all of the incredible rock music that has been released in the last 25 years.


Here's a complete list of classic albums that have been released since 1995...

Sound? Grunge isn’t a sound. It describes the Seattle scene. Mother Love Bone was glam, AIC is metal, Nirvana is punk, PJ is rock. Calling a San Diego band,STP, grunge is more comical than saying a band actually from Seattle wasn’t a part of the grunge scene.

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They were as commercial as commercial gets

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And Nevermind wasn’t? Superunknown?

Pop punk > grunge































But Yellowcard, Sum 41, etc are all pretty cool. Not a big STP fan and can only listen to so much AIC in one sitting, but Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were both huge influences on me growing up. And while I don’t jam to Nirvana as much as I did back in 8th grade, they definitely were a big part of my musical development as well.

No, but they all sound sad, angry, and brooding. It’s a real contrast from the happy, sex-romp nonsense hair metal of the 80’s and the silly, juvenile pop punk of the early 2000’s.

I listened to Dirt quite a bit in HS and still dig the sound.

In late 2017, my father was scheduled to have brain surgery so I went to visit. It was emotional and he was nervous about the surgery risk.

I had to work Monday morning so left around 4am to make it back to Houston in time. I drove with no music or talk radio, just thinking deep thoughts until I got to the LC bridge. Finally, I turned the radio on and it was on the Sirius Lithium channel. The 1st words that I heard were from Rooster 'You know he ain't gonna die ; No, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die'. Just as I was at the peak of the bridge.

The surgery didn't go very well but he lived another year so at least got to say my good-byes. Probably just a coincidence but always think about how eerie it was to hear those lyrics at that exact moment, after 1.5 hours of wondering if he was going to survive the surgery.

AIC cover I found on YouTube. LINK

“I stay away” off of Jar of flies is one of my favorite songs ever.

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Jar of flies is just a sick EP

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That it is. It's pretty much perfect.

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Mother Love Bone created the "seattle sound."
those bands perfected it though

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They were huge! But Woods vocals would have limited them I think. He sounded like an 80’s hair metal singer which he started out as. The guys in that band of course go on to be Pearl Jam. If he doesn’t OD there is no Pearl Jam and Pearl Jam certainly doesn’t stay together this long. Those guys tasted fame, had it snatched away. I think it made them appreciate it more.

The riff to Alive is the Seattle sound to me. That riff and Cornell wailing and Staley/Cantrell 2-part harmony. Teen Spirit riff too. Just because it was the first thing to reach SE Texas. Unless your group of friends had the guy with a Sub Pop bootleg. Having the Sub Pop cassette (in my case) allowed you to be smug. Lol

I just finished reading "Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge". It covers all of the bands mentioned. "Alice In Chains: The Untold Story" is pretty good too.