Best of Grunge

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The list is basically just wikipedia "grunge music" page with Naked Raygun added by myself.

Any ommisions go there.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Nirvana 18
Melvins 15
Mudhoney 14
Screaming Trees 8
Pearl Jam 8
Soundgarden 7
Alice in Chains 6
Tad 3
Skin Yard 3
The U-Men1
Green River 1
Gruntruck 1
Love Battery 1
My Sister's Machine 0
Temple of the Dog 0
Mad Season 0
Blood Circus 0
Mono Men 0
Seven Year Bitch 0
Mother Love Bone 0
Hammerbox 0
Naked Raygun 0
Malfunkshun 0


liamail, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

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

Anyone who votes for Nirvana is a poser.

liamail, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

OOPS

s1ocki, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Real grungeheads go for TEMPLE OF THE DOG.

HI DERE, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

how is Naked Raygun grunge

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

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

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for melvins though

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

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

liamail, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

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

liamail, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

who are you

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

i'm new

liamail, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Haven't we already done a grunge poll?

Pashmina, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

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.

contenderizer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

No Thrown Ups, no credibility.

contenderizer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

WTF Naked Raygun.

contenderizer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Plus WTF.

contenderizer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Real grungeheads go for TEMPLE OF THE DOG.

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

^^^^^^^^^^

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Stiltskin.

Bodrick III, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

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.

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

yeah Nickelback sounds just like Skin Yard

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

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

Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Tad ruled

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

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

chap, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

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

nate woolls, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a poser. I guess.

Lostandfound, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Nirvana. Lock thread.

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

YEAH, LOCK THREAD

max, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

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.

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

soundgarden, for 'badmotorfinger' alone

6335, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

mother love bone lol

Gukbe, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Screaming Trees were the best of this... grouping

wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

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.

M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

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)

liamail, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Sad news from yesterday.
Blabbermouth

steampig67, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mudhoney are my pick.

steampig67, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Naked Raygun has NOTHING to do with grunge.

I vote Soundgarden.

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

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

jergïns, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Naked Raygun has NOTHING to do with grunge.

True.

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

xhuxk, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

No love for The Fluid?

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

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

zaxxon25, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

no Bush no non-credibility

latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

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.

steampig67, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

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.

MacDara, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

we need a Bleach poll

milo z, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

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

Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Can't wait for the electroclash episode in 2018!

Bodrick III, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

the scientists you cunts

electricsound, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

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

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hiding that shit is probably a good strategy regardless.

HI DERE, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

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.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

tron between mudhoney and melvins - but mudhoney

Zeno, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

is this me?

Zeno, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

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

Zeno, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

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

Creeztophair, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Saxby D. Elder, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

R.I.P. Ben

Skin Yard

steampig67, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Nate Carson, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

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

Mark G, Thursday, 31 January 2008 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

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.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

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

I don't think I can choose.

stevie, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

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.

contenderizer, Thursday, 31 January 2008 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Pearl Jam

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Love Battery is acid-damaged psych-pop.

Steve Shasta, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

With, you know, grungy guitars.

contenderizer, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

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.

chap, Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

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.

contenderizer, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

when you give a poser option you make it too easy

Billy Pilgrim, Thursday, 31 January 2008 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I hate the melvins

CaptainLorax, Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

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.

CaptainLorax, Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

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

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alex in SF, Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

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.

contenderizer, Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

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

Fer Ark, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

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

Fer Ark, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

The rest of these bands mostly suck.

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

liamail, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

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!

scott seward, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

i thought naked raygun were gettin back together...

??

liamail, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Friday, 1 February 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

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

Fuck Nirvana.

Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 February 2008 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

liamail -- you're horrible

alex in nyc -- don't stop believin'

latebloomer, Friday, 1 February 2008 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

latebloomer -- eat your fucking sandwich already

latebloomer, Friday, 1 February 2008 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

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

CaptainLorax, Friday, 1 February 2008 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

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

Some of the acoustic stuff is lovely, particularly Brother.

chap, Friday, 1 February 2008 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

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

Jeff Treppel, Friday, 1 February 2008 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

"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.

pipecock, Friday, 1 February 2008 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, grunge, man!

Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

We all poseurs!

Wot, no Supersuckers?

Mark G, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

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

ILX System, Saturday, 2 February 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Who voted for Love Battery???

sexyDancer, Saturday, 2 February 2008 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

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

FIX FIX FIX

Fer Ark, Saturday, 2 February 2008 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

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

Fer Ark, Saturday, 2 February 2008 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

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.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 16:19 (three years ago)


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