anyone into the grunge music/asthetics etc? im a big fan of all the grunge bands, from mainstream (nirvana pearl jam, soundgarden) to underground (bikini kill, mudhoney,MLB, green river etc) i dunno what it is about it, maybe the freedom of it, the attitude of we will be free, even if its in death, the honesty, the fact that it had multimillionaires getting married in pajamas, idk. but i love that shit so, talk about grunge here
I love grunge, dude. I agree that the attitude was awesome. It was so real. That's what gets me about the scene kids nowadays... everything so fake. God, I sound like an old man. I'm only 19 haha. My favorite first-wave grunge bands are Ednaswap, Nirvana, Hole and the Nymphs. I also really like Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, and I'm etting into Green River and Mudhoney. Then we had Post-Grunge, which pretty much sucked.. and post-post-grunge (Creed, Nickelback, some of the worst bands ever formed) But you know what? Grunge is really coming back. Pagoda is a pretty awesome neo-grunge band, and I've heard good things about Awesome Color, although I don't know if they're exactly grunge, but that's the good thing, you can't just do exactly the same thing everyone else did. You've got to do it your way or it's not grunge at all.
Yall should check out Acid Bath its thrash metal. They sound like Alice in Chains but heavier and darker. They where around from 93-96.
Yeah, I'll make sure to check them out. I've never really listened to any metal since I'm more punk-oriented so that should be interesting.
Then you would love their song Cheap Vodka. Its their only punk type song and it goes heavy, that song is the reason i started listening to them and now they are my favorite band.
man grunge was a genre that really opened up my eyes, it was l;ike hardrock with ounk attitude. so good and so deep. i think my favorites are bands like TAD, AIC, the melvins (not really grunge, but hey they got me into sludge metal), early nirvana, sonic youth and mad season. in the time i really was into this music and i was still trying to find new bands i really hoped to find some kind of scene with this kind of music, like really this kind of music,. of course i didn't, but happen to have visited some really cool bands that were heavily influenced by the seventies hard/space rock (basically just like grunge, those videos are really trippy sometimes aren't they?) so basically i think that in general rock is still alive somewhere to me grunge has been an eye opener to the underground hardrock scene that still is out there today. grunge is only a part of it that hit mainstream for a little while. mind you that by 1994 grunge already was accepted to such an extend that it wasn't anything truely underground anymore
man, i love grunge rock. so authentic... there was definitely something there that served as a root for more 'generic' bands of today. but hey, talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
"Grunge" is kind of like punk in that it's pretty hard to define exactly what it is musically. For me, it's always been about distorted guitars, more rock oriented song structures, generally downbeat lyrics. Some people consider Smashing Pumpkins grunge but there's a pretty big difference between them and a band like Alice in Chains. But yeah, OP, I also liked the freedom of the grunge philosophy. I always thought flannel shirts were kinda cool.
Grunge is awesome, but I think it's only just starting to recover from the backlash is copped when it become "big". It got a little clich'ed after that, and I think a lot of people tend to judge it based on the records that came out after Nevermind got so huge, instead of the earlier period which is where all the good stuff came from. Superfuzz Bigmuff and the Touch Me Im Sick/Sweet Young Thing Aint Sweet No More EP and single are landmark recordings. I think everyone should listen to them at least once.
