Best of Grunge

I can't decide between Raygun and 'garden...

Anyone who votes for Nirvana is a poser.

OOPS

Real grungeheads go for TEMPLE OF THE DOG.

how is Naked Raygun grunge

also Bleach is as good a "grunge" album as almost any of these

i voted for melvins though

yeah but most would say Nevermind is the best nirvana one....which it sure ain't

and Bleach ain't even close to Superunknown, most Melvins albums or maybe Ten

who are you

i'm new

Haven't we already done a grunge poll?

Melvins, 'cuz I think I've liked 'em best over the long haul, especially as a live band. Second choices woulda been (early) Mudhoney and Green River.

No Thrown Ups, no credibility.

WTF Naked Raygun.

Plus WTF.

Real grungeheads go for TEMPLE OF THE DOG.

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:24 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^^^^^

good grunge threads from the past year:
grunge revival: real or imagined?
Best Grunge Record based on AMG's Top Grunge Albums

Stiltskin.

I can't stand listening to old grunge, all that nu-metal shit fat, wallet-chain wearing dorks in the suburbs listen to sounds exactly like the old stuff.

yeah Nickelback sounds just like Skin Yard

Tad and Mudhoney are the only ones I still own but I'll vote for Tad just because.

Tad ruled

lately I've been involved in the super-nerdy pursuit of trying to figure out my favorite albums of the 90's, and it's kind of depressing how STILL after all these years later a huge fraction of my favorite 91-94 albums are by Seattle bands.

Alice In Chains. Nirvana probably my second favourite (maybe joint with Soundgarden), though. Call me a poser if you will.

I was torn between Tad, Nirvana & Mudhoney, but went for Mudhoney.

I'm a poser. I guess.

Nirvana. Lock thread.

YEAH, LOCK THREAD

All grunge bands were hopeless sellouts by the time they even got record deals. For the real stuff, you gotta check out Kurt's guitar rehearsal tapes from junior high.

did anyone else watch that new Simpsons episode this week where Homer invented grunge?

soundgarden, for 'badmotorfinger' alone

I have seen almost every one of these bands and Nirvana were the best. I voted for Skin Yard though, so as not to be a poser.

mother love bone lol

Screaming Trees were the best of this... grouping

how is Naked Raygun grunge

-- latebloomer, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:25 PM (1 hour ago

^^^word! Naked Raygun is from the mid-80s hardcore/post hardcore scene, not grunge at all.

also, I voted my conscience: although their catalog is all up n down, to me Mudhoney is grunge in a way no other band is.

yeah I couldn't really be bothered to comment but Naked Raygun belong on a best of Chicago HC thread.

XXXX

I would do one if I knew how.

click "more..." and then "new poll"

I expect (hope) melvins get it, and that's why i'm voting for one of Chris Cornells groups instead of them (clue: it ain't TOTD or Audioslave, the second of whom suck dick, and they made Down On the Upside)

Sad news from yesterday.
Blabbermouth

Mudhoney are my pick.

Naked Raygun has NOTHING to do with grunge.

I vote Soundgarden.

this thread is total shit but i have a soft spot in my heart for love battery

Naked Raygun has NOTHING to do with grunge.

True.

I'm going to go with Skin Yard, for some reason.

No love for The Fluid?

Sponge? Silverchair? STP? Where's the poser-grunge?

no Bush no non-credibility

I used to play the Fluid's "Clear Black Paper" constantly back in the day. When my cassette wore out it took me years to get it on vinyl. By the early nineties it was already hard to find.

Tad. Or TAD. I'm never quite sure which way to write it. Is it one for the band and one for the person? Anyway, Tad.

we need a Bleach poll

I hate to say it quite like this but TAD WERE HEAVY!

Can't wait for the electroclash episode in 2018!

the scientists you cunts

if they do an electroclash episode in 2018 I'll have to hide my neon blue and yellow jacket and armbands from my kids. "d4d d1d th4y reaaly DresS liEK THat B ack THeM? " n owsond

Hiding that shit is probably a good strategy regardless.

I'm voting Mudhoney, but to keep this post from being totally redundant, I just want to let people know that Love Battery's classic album Dayglo is available for download on Amazon. Just if you couldn't find that shit on itunes or the subpop website or whatever.

^Just discovered this last weekend is why.

tron between mudhoney and melvins - but mudhoney

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/mudhoney-grp1-0506-1.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/Ex45TronUpCloseRot.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/648746_356x237.jpg

is this me?

http://www.themelvins.net/discography/singles/symptomof/symptom1.jpg

i didn't see the melvins on the list and voted for nirvana.
oh well...

yeah Melvins belong fo sho!! I never (even at the time) thought of Love Battery as "grunge". But then, that was before anyone who was actually into buying this stuff ever called it grunge (with all its attendant media connotations that are now impossible to expunge) so it's something of a conundrum.

I can indeed confirm that they were on Sub Pop.

R.I.P. Ben

Skin Yard

Green River did it first and best. Never made a bad record. Broke up before they could sell out or embarrass themselves. Green River wins.

Anyone who doesn't vote Nirvana is also a poseur.

I never (even at the time) thought of Love Battery as "grunge".

Yeah, but what are you gonna call them? I mean, they're pretty power-poppy, but also really distorted. I think that the crucial difference between Love Battery and same-era Mudhoney or Screaming Trees is the vocal melodies, which don't have that drugged-out drawl going for 'em.

Alice in Chains / Melvins / Mudhoney / Nirvana / Pearl Jam / Screaming Trees / Skin Yard / Soundgarden / Tad

I don't think I can choose.

But then, that was before anyone who was actually into buying this stuff ever called it grunge (with all its attendant media connotations that are now impossible to expunge) so it's something of a conundrum.

-- Saxby D. Elder

Bruce Pavitt was using the word grunge to describe local music he liked (U-Men, 64 Spiders, Bundle of Hiss) in his Sub Pop column for The Rocket before the record label ever existed. When the label was launched in '86 - w/ tons of shrewd and "ironically" professional-seeming marketing - the word grunge was a big part of the sales pitch. This circa the Sub-Pop 100 comp, early 45s, Green River and Soundgarden EPs.

In the early days, it seemed like grunge described a Northwestern version of post-punk hard rock: a mixture of 60s garage and 70s metal, delivered through a wall of distorion and noise. Loud, ugly, dirty and fucked-up. Later on, shitheads with money turned it into something else.

Pearl Jam

Love Battery is acid-damaged psych-pop.

With, you know, grungy guitars.

I think grunge was always made out to be more of a unified movement than it was - the 'big four' didn't actually have much of a sound in common except for noisy (but quite differently textured) guitars and certain (broad) lyrical preoccupations.

Wasn't ever a movement, just a way of joking about what a bunch of local bands were doing. Grunge seemed like a local version of the pigfuck noise rock you read about in zines. Less arty, more dumb-ass redneck. Folks were doing similar stuff elsewhere (Halo of Flies, Reverb Motherfuckers), but it still felt like a NW thing.

when you give a poser option you make it too easy

I hate the melvins

Sometimes I contemplate what grunge would sound like if they got rid of the redneck-like hooks. If it's the melvins I wouldn't be interested.

"and Bleach ain't even close to Superunknown, most Melvins albums or maybe Ten"

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Anyway voted Melvins. Mudhoney 2nd. Poserband 3rd. The rest of these bands mostly suck.

I kinda miss the redneck, HM Parking Lot aspect of Seattle (& urban NW) culture. Used to be really big around here, and it seemed true to the city's Wild West logging/fishing roots. Had this unpretentious, underdog appeal.

Gone now, at least gone marginal, replaced by the much more upwardly-mobile youth culture of creative/professional types. Like my city has decided it no longer wants to be what it grew up as, and has adopted this new, more sophisticated identity. Nothing wrong with that, but it bums me out sometimes. Part of getting older, I guess.

Naked Raygun - easily the best band on the list, - sadly not 'grunge' to these ears.

Jesus, I must have hated 'grunge' more than I thought.This really hurts

Nirvana

Tad for shitting his shorts on stage at the Duchess of York (RIP) in leeds
- yes, it was a beautiful sight.

The rest of these bands mostly suck.

No. They don't. Tell you what DOES suck though - In Utero.

i've only heard 9 out of these 23 bands. and i'm not a real big fan of the 9 i've heard. the only grunge stuff i ever owned was touch me i'm sick 12 inch, superfuzz EP, and first Mudhoney full-length. and out of those three things my favorite song would be "when tomorrow hits" by Spacemen 3. hahahahahahahaha. no, really. i no longer own the 12 inch or the album, but i do still own the EP, so i guess i'll vote for Mudhoney!

OH WAIT! Hold the presses! I used to have that acoustic Alice In Chains thing on tape. And I liked their rooster song. actually, i kinda like alice in chains a little bit. the only other grunge things i liked were nirvana's heart-shaped box song and the smells like video and that unplugged thing.

i guess i'll still vote for mudhoney. although alice in chains were ratt fans, so that's in their favor....but mudhoney created an entire sound around my favorite squirrel bait song...or nirvana did...hmmmm, yeah, i can't vote. oh wait, i'll vote for naked raygun! they were awesome!

i thought naked raygun were gettin back together...

??

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Anyone who doesn't vote Nirvana is also a poseur.

Fuck Nirvana.

liamail -- you're horrible

alex in nyc -- don't stop believin'

latebloomer -- eat your fucking sandwich already

I didn't pick nirvana but I'm not proud of it

I used to have that acoustic Alice In Chains thing on tape.

Some of the acoustic stuff is lovely, particularly Brother.

I saw someone wearing a My Sister's Machine T-shirt at a High On Fire concert in Silverlake in 2005 or so. It was probably ironic, but it still blew me and my friend's minds for the entire evening.

Like, where the hell does one even FIND a My Sister's Machine T-shirt?

"I used to have that acoustic Alice In Chains thing on tape.

Some of the acoustic stuff is lovely, particularly Brother.

-- chap"

i actually listen to both Sap and Jar of Flies pretty frequently, both are extremely awesome and have held up very well.

http://www.metalsludge.tv/main/modules/subjects/pages/ExposedLayne2.jpg

Yeah, grunge, man!

We all poseurs!

Wot, no Supersuckers?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Who voted for Love Battery???

I voted for Naked Raygun - the only non grungio entry.

FIX FIX FIX

Or praps i'm too stupid to guide a mouse and click. That's the reason why they didn't storm it

Stumbled on the only full-length from Chicago band God's Acre, Ten Gospel Greats recently and I'll be damned if this isn't one of the better grunge albums I've heard. John Herndon, later of Tortoise, was an early drummer for these guys but didn't play on the album.

Had they been from Washington, they probably woulda been huge. Should have been anyway.