riverc0il
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And keep your sissy post grunge shit out of this thread. :uzi:
I don't go back to The Melvins, Green River, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone or anything... but Grunge has always and probably will always remain my favorite sub-genre of rock. That slowed down and dirty metal sound gives me a great big ironic warm and fuzzy feeling.
Alice in Chains were my favorite of the bunch. Some people say Layne made the band but I 100% disagree as the songwriting and riffs from Cantrell are what truly defined the pinnacle of the Seattle sound.
Though AIC later grew on me after the fact, during the 90s Soundgarden was my main musical fixation in the Grunge category. One of my biggest disappointments in High School was not being able to see them in concert. Unfortunately, I got "Black Holed to Death" and when I listen to Superunknown to this day, I skip over that song as well as Fell on Black Days. Given the over play back then, I still have a hard time listening to any Soundgarden to this day.
Pearl Jam was eh to me then though some of their selections have grown on me. Never cared for EV's vocal stylings. Blasphemy perhaps. I think they had a lot of great single tracks though not always their most well known hits.
Temple of the Dog was better than Pearl Jam, I thought. Not as good as Mad Season, though I never cared for Screaming Trees. Super groups in general are a big fail for the most part, IMHO.
Stone Temple Pilots had one heck of a first album, then a few good singles on Purple, and then they fell apart into whatever happened (and add to that the whole super group thing too, Velvet Revolver and Audioslave are both horrid). A grew to like Core a lot more when I revisited it years later. Nirvana was similar. Did not do anything for me when they were big but I got to really like a lot of their stuff years later.
What grunge do I listen to now more than anything else? Alice in Chains of course. BUT I have been listening to a lot of Tad lately. Talk about under rated. Wow. Now that was a grunge band.
Such a great decade for music. Too bad things have taken such a terrible turn for the worse. First, we were escorted out of the 90s by radio friendly post grunge. I find post grunge to be inexcusably offensive and completely without merit. It was a sad day for the world when Superman by 3 Doors Down first hit the airwaves. Prior to 3 Doors Down, at least the early post grunge bands had some pretense of being metal as opposed to mom/dad friendly pop radio rock. Grunge bands like Tad could kick Nickelback's ass and then rub their noses in their own excrement. Gah, don't even get me started on Nickelback.
Oh... for skiing related themes... my most listened to first track en route to ski areas is Rotten Apple off Jar of Flies. For some reason, I always associate hearing that song in the cold winter darkness of 6am with the anticipation of a killer day.
That is all. :grin:
I don't go back to The Melvins, Green River, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone or anything... but Grunge has always and probably will always remain my favorite sub-genre of rock. That slowed down and dirty metal sound gives me a great big ironic warm and fuzzy feeling.
Alice in Chains were my favorite of the bunch. Some people say Layne made the band but I 100% disagree as the songwriting and riffs from Cantrell are what truly defined the pinnacle of the Seattle sound.
Though AIC later grew on me after the fact, during the 90s Soundgarden was my main musical fixation in the Grunge category. One of my biggest disappointments in High School was not being able to see them in concert. Unfortunately, I got "Black Holed to Death" and when I listen to Superunknown to this day, I skip over that song as well as Fell on Black Days. Given the over play back then, I still have a hard time listening to any Soundgarden to this day.
Pearl Jam was eh to me then though some of their selections have grown on me. Never cared for EV's vocal stylings. Blasphemy perhaps. I think they had a lot of great single tracks though not always their most well known hits.
Temple of the Dog was better than Pearl Jam, I thought. Not as good as Mad Season, though I never cared for Screaming Trees. Super groups in general are a big fail for the most part, IMHO.
Stone Temple Pilots had one heck of a first album, then a few good singles on Purple, and then they fell apart into whatever happened (and add to that the whole super group thing too, Velvet Revolver and Audioslave are both horrid). A grew to like Core a lot more when I revisited it years later. Nirvana was similar. Did not do anything for me when they were big but I got to really like a lot of their stuff years later.
What grunge do I listen to now more than anything else? Alice in Chains of course. BUT I have been listening to a lot of Tad lately. Talk about under rated. Wow. Now that was a grunge band.
Such a great decade for music. Too bad things have taken such a terrible turn for the worse. First, we were escorted out of the 90s by radio friendly post grunge. I find post grunge to be inexcusably offensive and completely without merit. It was a sad day for the world when Superman by 3 Doors Down first hit the airwaves. Prior to 3 Doors Down, at least the early post grunge bands had some pretense of being metal as opposed to mom/dad friendly pop radio rock. Grunge bands like Tad could kick Nickelback's ass and then rub their noses in their own excrement. Gah, don't even get me started on Nickelback.
Oh... for skiing related themes... my most listened to first track en route to ski areas is Rotten Apple off Jar of Flies. For some reason, I always associate hearing that song in the cold winter darkness of 6am with the anticipation of a killer day.
That is all. :grin:
