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Old 11-24-2010, 06:20 PM
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Grunge music? Anyone?

I like Nirvana, Cracker, and Alice in Chains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v67LpSz6Ck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzKwHRbIbk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAXnEI6-4ag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYxkezUr8MQ
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Old 11-24-2010, 06:22 PM
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CG is on a mission to create the most musical threads in GC's history lol

I like Nirvana as well
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Old 11-24-2010, 06:27 PM
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CG is on a mission to create the most musical threads in GC's history lol

I like Nirvana as well
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Old 11-24-2010, 06:32 PM
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I only like Nirvana unplugged.

STP, AiC = love

I don't care for Pearl Jam in the slightest.
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Old 11-24-2010, 06:35 PM
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I don't care for Pearl Jam in the slightest.
I like Jeremy. That's about it.
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Old 11-24-2010, 06:37 PM
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I only like Nirvana unplugged.

STP, AiC = love

I don't care for Pearl Jam in the slightest.
I don't know how I forgot about Pearl Jam, because I've always liked them. I'm guessing but, did Kurt Cobain start Grunge music?
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Old 11-25-2010, 12:18 PM
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You need to watch this documentary.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116589/

I can watch it any hour of the day, and I am definitely NOT a grunge fan (I preferred Britpop in the 1990s). But it outlines where the whole scene came from (and also makes Eddie Vedder look appropriately douchey).
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Old 11-25-2010, 02:33 PM
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I'm guessing but, did Kurt Cobain start Grunge music?
Not at all.

There was a Seattle "grunge scene" before Nirvana was formed, and Cobain himself would try to distance slightly from some of the forebearers anyway (many of the Nirvana covers, such as tracks by the Vaselines, aren't exactly traditional grunge source material).

The term itself is kind of awkward - Mudhoney, Alice in Chains and the Screaming Trees. Do they all fall under the banner? Was it a regional thing or a musical thing? How do we account for the Albini influence on the Nirvana records (do we compare to the Jesus Lizard/Jesus and Mary Chain too?)? Etc.

Either way, short answer: no. Long answer: it's a pretty interesting question.
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Old 11-26-2010, 12:17 PM
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You need to watch this documentary.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116589/

I can watch it any hour of the day, and I am definitely NOT a grunge fan (I preferred Britpop in the 1990s). But it outlines where the whole scene came from (and also makes Eddie Vedder look appropriately douchey).

I was going to suggest this! The whole film is on youtube. here is part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue2l7Mzd5iw
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Old 11-27-2010, 12:45 AM
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You need to watch this documentary.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116589/

I can watch it any hour of the day, and I am definitely NOT a grunge fan (I preferred Britpop in the 1990s). But it outlines where the whole scene came from (and also makes Eddie Vedder look appropriately douchey).
33girl, thanks for posting this. That was really interesting.

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Not at all.

There was a Seattle "grunge scene" before Nirvana was formed, and Cobain himself would try to distance slightly from some of the forebearers anyway (many of the Nirvana covers, such as tracks by the Vaselines, aren't exactly traditional grunge source material).

The term itself is kind of awkward - Mudhoney, Alice in Chains and the Screaming Trees. Do they all fall under the banner? Was it a regional thing or a musical thing? How do we account for the Albini influence on the Nirvana records (do we compare to the Jesus Lizard/Jesus and Mary Chain too?)? Etc.

Either way, short answer: no. Long answer: it's a pretty interesting question.
Thanks RC. It's just that everyone always makes it seem like he started grunge music. I think that it's the voice that makes grunge music sound good, too and Cobain had that voice. You have to have the right voice. It's kinda weird, but I don't know any other way of saying it, but the voice has to sound like the guitar/music. I know, weird, but that's the only way I can put it. And what is "grunge metal"? How is that defined? Is it the same as grunge? like, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Cracker, and the like. What about Blur? Some would call their music grunge. Blur is hot, but their lead just doesn't have that voice, to me.

she's so high love this song

song 2
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Old 11-27-2010, 11:43 AM
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Blur is Britpop.
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Old 11-28-2010, 05:08 PM
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Yes. Yes. Yes.

People Magazine puts in a little memoriam at the end of each year for the celebrities that die that year. They didn't say anything about Layne Staley's death years ago and so I wrote in to them, and they printed the letter. I still have the issue.

I am a HUGE grunge music fan. I wouldn't necessarily say that the voice makes the band "grunge" or not. It's just a main style of music... just because Hole is grunge-ish, doesn't mean that old Liz Phair isn't. I listen to XM Channel 54 (which used to be called Lucy, I can't remember what it's called now) and it's disheartening that what they call "retro" is music that I listened to while growing up. Makes me feel old! But yeah, they play stuff like that all the time. Love it.
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Old 11-28-2010, 09:49 PM
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Siruis/XM Channel 24? Lithium plays 90s Alt which has a lot of "grunge".

I never thought of grunge as an actual style of music, but more as a marketing label like how indie rock is used now.
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