It's Time for Grunge
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 12:01AM It's time.
That's right. It's time.
It's time to bring back grunge.
Are you like me? Are you burned out with stadium rock? Music that objectifies women? Worthless party tunes?
Grunge is the music of my generation. Despite forming in 1987, Nirvana became the signature band of the 90s – creating the so-called grunge sound. Their formation in Seattle helped replace the Sunset Strip as the mecca of popular rock.
While some would argue Nirvana killed all other forms of rock – this isn’t entirely true. Nevermind was released in 1991. That year was pretty diverse for rock: people hadn’t taken sides yet. By 1994 it was all over but the shouting for bands like Poison and Britny Fox. At this point, Nirvana were kings of the grunge world and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were filling stadiums – and the rock charts.
Surely this deserves some respect. After all, Nirvana and Alice in Chains changed the course of music history. Maybe the grungers had it right: the days had come and gone for the L.A. hair farmers.
Grunge was so big when I was in high school, we actually had “flannel day” during spirit week. I never saw Nirvana live, but I do know one person that was so obsessed with Seattle she called the city her “holy land.”
If you’ve missed grunge, here’s a link that has lots of tips to bring back the 90s music phenomenon.
Reader Comments (35)
Not nice to play trix on the old folk (like me)... :)
I mean, come on, I love this shit as much as the next guy - maybe even moreso, (www.tyr-online.com), but grunge did have it's place in things. Ofcourse, you won't see a complete revival of that genre the same way we've seen a revival of 80's hair metal music... but it was a logical progression from where we were to where we are.
Having said that, I still personally don't like several of the bands that were labled grunge.
as for retrospect records, well you've just guaranteed i will never buy any of your cds. not for the release you're talking about. to each his own but your comments are completely off base.
flame away but i'm done posting here because it's getting very negative if you don't agree with the group in everything they say and there are too many people posting crap about being glad people are dead because they don't like their music or other ridiculous things like that. we all have opinions but some of them need to be kept to yourselves.
i know i've made some of the posters day by saying i'm done posting but i'll still read what allyson has to say because she does put out some good info, especially about rocklahoma. too each his own.
Now I don't mind Nirvana (overrated as hell, though), but I can't help but feel blinding rage when people lump all Seattle bands together with them. None of the so-called "grunge" bands had anything in common besides being from Seattle. Nirvana, Green River and Mudhoney were punk bands, Pearl Jam was 70's rock, Soundgarden was metal with a touch of psychedellic and art rock later on, Alice in Chains was metal with a bit of glam (second half of Facelift had some, anyway) and gothic post-punk (Dirt) thrown in, TAD was straight-up Sabbath, Melvins are Sludge Metal, Screaming Trees were neo-psychedelia, Malfunkshun was arena rock with some metal, Mother Love Bone was glam, and Love Battery... ummmm...(I don't have a clue what the hell they are, but they're awesome and have some of the best live performances I have seen. Still around, BTW). There is no grunge genre. It was just a case of a bunch of bands coming out of one place and the media needed a new thing to sell when the general public got tired of glam metal. Look what that label got us: a slew of watered-down, talentless copycat bands like Hinder, Creed, Nickelback, Bush, Breaking Benjamin, Puddle of Mud, Three Day's Grace, etc. (more or less the same thing happened to glam metal when the genre became a parody of itself when shit bands like Bon Jovi and Stryper appeared and got lumped in with good ones like Motley Crue and Def Leppard). On the positive side of the Seattle influence however, there's Soul Coughing.
But I digress. I'm probably wasting my breath here. People here will continue to spout the spout the same crap about "grunge". Being one of the few people who enjoys both glam and "grunge" (my iPod has Motley Crue, GNR, Van Halen, Kiss, and W.A.S.P., as well as Nirvana, Alice in Chains, TAD, Soundgarden, Malfunkshun and Love Battery), I'd take either over the shit we have now. And besides, we all know thrash metal is the best!