
Anyone else definite grunge kids? Wish I could dig out my pic of me with long hair...
AtomicHyperbole wrote:Anyone else definite grunge kids?
AtomicHyperbole wrote:I've just been trippin' down memory lane thanks to, of all things, Little Nicky on the television. Starting off checking out (admittedly post-grunge) Filter's Take A Picture thanks to the film, for some reason I started chasing down some grunge-era stuff... OK, I'm talking the era here, no the actual music itself necessarily... recalling Pantera's cover of Planet Caravan (which I can't find on MP3) and then heading on over to remind myself of Blind Melon, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains et al... I'm digging what's coming out now, but its nice to delve back into that warm muddy fuzz of my teenagedom. Music was so more hardcore back then. Slipknot? FUCK OFF! Bring back Sepultura.
Anyone else definite grunge kids? Wish I could dig out my pic of me with long hair...
AtomicHyperbole wrote:I count them as grunge... I wasn't so much into them until Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness though.
Lord Voldemoo wrote:See, from top to bottom I greatly prefer Siamese Dream to Mellon Collie. I love Mellon Collie, but I prefer SD as a whole.
Kilgore wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:See, from top to bottom I greatly prefer Siamese Dream to Mellon Collie. I love Mellon Collie, but I prefer SD as a whole.
I completely agree with that Volde - but I totally disagree with the Pumpkins' inclusion in a 'grunge-rock' discussion. Just because they had a crunchier sound and were rising up at the same time doesn't put them in the same category as Green River/Temple of the Dog/ Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden and so on...not saying that 'Grunge' automatically connotates 'from the Pacific Northwest', but most of the primary leaders were from there. The Pumpkins were hard-edged alt-rock to be sure, but not grunge.
sleepflower wrote:Do wish I had got to see smashing pumpkins, hope the reunion will be a good one.
Kilgore wrote:
Lord 'Selective Memory' Voldemoo wrote:Who are they? I have never seen them before in my...hey, isn't that one guy in Band of Brothers?!
Lord Voldemoo wrote:sleepflower wrote:Do wish I had got to see smashing pumpkins, hope the reunion will be a good one.
I'm pretty curious about the reunion. Sounds like James and D'arcy wont be a part of it...Billy burned those bridges and then followed up with a nuclear strike. Still, Billy did most of the writing for TSP, so it could be good. I have NO idea what it'll sound like, earlier guitar heavy TSP or later electronica? I haven't listened much to Billy's solo album so I don't know where he is, muscially, now.
sleepflower wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote:sleepflower wrote:Do wish I had got to see smashing pumpkins, hope the reunion will be a good one.
I'm pretty curious about the reunion. Sounds like James and D'arcy wont be a part of it...Billy burned those bridges and then followed up with a nuclear strike. Still, Billy did most of the writing for TSP, so it could be good. I have NO idea what it'll sound like, earlier guitar heavy TSP or later electronica? I haven't listened much to Billy's solo album so I don't know where he is, muscially, now.
I think his solo stuff was more stripped back. When he was in Zwan, they sounded like the very last stuff pumpkins did.
If we are going more towards alternative, and not just grunge, do Nine Inch Nails get a mention?
Kilgore wrote:Lord Voldemoo wrote: I haven't listened much to Billy's solo album so I don't know where he is, muscially, now.
See:
Kilgore wrote:
'Head Like a Hole' still kicks ass btw.
ZombieZoneSolutions wrote:SONIC YOUTH is the greatest band ever. EVER.
Allow me to flex my oldeness, but I was coming of age in the mid to late
80s, so I was a huge fan of all the bands who made grunge possible, but
never really reaped the benefits -- SONIC YOUTH, BIG BLACK, BUTTHOLE
SURFERS, BOREDOMS, DEAD KENNEDYS, et al (not even close to a
complete list, I know, just a sample here) -- so when GRUNGE hit, I have
to admit I was a little pissed off. I completely worte NIRVANA off as
being a bullshit johnny come lately sell-out of all the stuff I loved as a
youngin' but never got props for...
Of course, after getting over the condescending scenester rock snobbery
of "being better than anyone else" (hey, I was young... when did
NIRVANA hit? Like '91? I was 20 at the time) I gave NIRVANA a chance
and found that I actaully really liked them; I mean, yeah, they're
nowhere near as groundbreaking as the bands of the 80s who were
blowing minds to rooms of 20 people because they loved to do it not
for rockstardom, but they still wrote good songs; they were still a good
band, and he clearly meant it; he clearly felt the pain he articulated so
well in his songs... so, after I got over my snobbery, I started to really
like them alot while also bemoaning the fact that the men and women
that made them possible never really got the props they deserved...
ZombieZoneSolutions wrote:SONIC YOUTH is the greatest band ever. EVER.
DrillerKiller wrote:Are The Melvins considered grunge? I've fucking loved that band ever since I heard Houdini, their sound just slays me, and Buzz Osbourne is one of my most respected musicians, not for his technical ability but for his passion.
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