The 90's

I prefer to remember Pavement, Sebadoh, Nick Cave, Superchunk, Tribe Called Quest, early Outkast, Pj Harvey, Oasis, Portishead, Built to Spill over those folks.

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Blind Melon the day Cobain died

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God damnit! Watching shite like that and thinking about what could have been with Blind Melon. Shannon Hoon is one of my favorite artists of all time.

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21 of the people shown in the Runaway train video were found because of the video.

That's pretty cool.

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love that song

that song is proof that REM music in the 80's led us thankfully into the 90's


here's some Collective Soul, who would obviously be fans of both

Shine

Mother Love Bone was probably about to be huge when the singer died of an overdose. I can’t think of his name off the top of my head but he died either 2 months or 2 weeks before the bands first album was released. They would have probably been the first really big band to come out of Seattle and take the country by storm.

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Mother Love Bone was probably about to be huge when the singer died of an overdose. I can’t think of his name off the top of my head but he died either 2 months or 2 weeks before the bands first album was released. They would have probably been the first really big band to come out of Seattle and take the country by storm.

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they were after they recruited Eddie Vedder


Mother Love Bone is Pearl Jam

I gotta say, and history of the band proves this correct IMO, most people outside of Seattle who say they were big Mother Love Bone fans from 1988 to 1990, are lying their asses off and actually had never heard of them until Wood was dead



ETA: I actually know people IRL who are in their early
40's who pretend they were huge MLB fans before Pearl Jam


their first album was a local Seattle thing and wasn't even a year old when Wood died

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I had heard of them when I was younger but can’t say I gave them a serious listen until later in life.

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same with me on Mudhoney - never heard of them until Nirvana gave them so much credit for influence, then became a fan of them after the fact


it's just funny to hear some people who talk about bands "they loved" and then you do the math and those people were 7 years old


I loved Zeppelin at that age, but Zeppelin was worldwide when I was that age, not some local sensation 2000 miles away

Well the whole grunge movement was pretty much contained to Seattle until Nirvana scores big. If MLB had not lost Woods I think they probably would get the credit for taking the grunge movement nationally.

You are right about the whole “Grunge” label but when someone says Alt Rock that could be a band from anywhere in the country with a similar sound as the bands we are talking about. When you say grunge that kinda narrows the conversation down to the Seattle area. That why I used it even though Cobain would hate me right now lol.