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best 90's grunge bands. ?

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Mad Season was an American rock supergroup formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994 by members of three popular Seattle-based bands: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees.
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I hate it when people require you click on the link to find out what they are looking at.

For the benefit of everyone else, Temple of the Dog Hunger Strike is the first link and Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit is the second link.

Temple of the Dog was never really a band. Their album is essentially current Pearl Jam minus Eddie Vedder with the exception of this one song, with Chris Cornell as the lead singer. At the time though, it was sort of half Soundgarden half Pearl Jam. Matt Cameron is the drummer for Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Temple of the Dog.
 
Do we have to couch them as actual 90s bands or can we pull from whenever?

A lot of the best 90s grunge all had 80s roots.
 
Bush is criminally underrated when it comes to 90's music. I still hear Machine Head and Glycerine on the radio quite a bit, but no one ever talks about them as being one of the great 90's bands.
 
GRIP said:
Bush is criminally underrated when it comes to 90's music. I still hear Machine Head and Glycerine on the radio quite a bit, but no one ever talks about them as being one of the great 90's bands.
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It's actually somewhat hilarious how much airplay they still get, while at least where I live, you never hear anything by Oasis on the radio. (Not that Oasis is grunge, but they were like the biggest British band of the '90s)


Anyway, let me throw in King's X.

They're kind of a strange band, sorta Christian, but I first heard them when they opened for AC/DC, so probably not really that Christian. Their sound isn't quite grunge, but it the bassist of Pearl Jam cited them as one of the inventors of grunge.
 
GRIP said:
Bush is criminally underrated when it comes to 90's music. I still hear Machine Head and Glycerine on the radio quite a bit, but no one ever talks about them as being one of the great 90's bands.
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Gotta disagree here. They're way, way, WAY overrated. They're one of the worst successful rock bands in history in my opinion. Gavin Rossdale might be the worst lyricist I've ever seen. They were my least favorite band at the time, and years haven't softened my opinion of them.

Can't forget Live Through This by Hole. It was a pretty decent Nirvana record that just happened to be performed by Hole.
 
Melvins
Tad
Mudhoney
Love Battery
Seaweed
Gruntruck

acheron_xl said:
Can't forget Live Through This by Hole. It was a pretty decent Nirvana record that just happened to be performed by Hole.
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I'm not going to say it's better, but I listen to Live Through This a hell of a lot more than Nevermind.
 
Temple of the Dog's only release is absolutely one of my favourite albums. Cornell is godlike on that album.
 
Soundgarden is weird in a really good way. Wacky time signatures and all sorts of cool stuff. And of course Chris Cornell is one of the best rock singers in any era.
 
GRIP said:
Bush is criminally underrated when it comes to 90's music. I still hear Machine Head and Glycerine on the radio quite a bit, but no one ever talks about them as being one of the great 90's bands.
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Bush is a 90s band but they aren't a grunge band. They would be more post-grunge that rode the success of other bands into success in the mid-90s (like Stone Temple Pilots). Sixteen Stone came out in late late '94, which is after grunge's peak and more than half a year after Cobain killed himself. Bush doesn't happen without Nirvana's success.

I like Bush but can easily recognize that they were a product of the times.
 
I love how grunge music has aged so well. Alice in Chains is by far my favorite. Followed up by Nirvana and Soundgarden. Pearl Jam was cool but the dude's voice gets old. They're also indirectly responsible for Creed existing, so they lose some points there.
 
ATF487 said:
Soundgarden is the best grunge band, Badmotorfinger and Superunknown are perfect.
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This is the correct answer.

Its funny having been a teenager in the '90s and watching MTV, Road Rash for the Sega CD is what got me into Soundgarden, even with the time they got on MTV.

Another band from the Road Rash CD I liked was Paw. Never found an album by them, but they had one of the best songs on that game.

And also really enjoyed Monster Magnet on that game. Damn, that game had a great soundtrack.

Sadly, none of the videos work on mobile, and that is all I have right now, so no links.
 
noquarter said:
This is the correct answer.

Its funny having been a teenager in the '90s and watching MTV, Road Rash for the Sega CD is what got me into Soundgarden, even with the time they got on MTV.

Another band from the Road Rash CD I liked was Paw. Never found an album by them, but they had one of the best songs on that game.

And also really enjoyed Monster Magnet on that game. Damn, that game had a great soundtrack.

Sadly, none of the videos work on mobile, and that is all I have right now, so no links.
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Yes.

That's exactly how I discovered Soundgarden too, playing Road Rash on PC in late 90s.

I'm gonna break my rusty caaaaage.....and run!
 
Mudhoney were my fave back in the day. Also Melvins, Fudge Tunnel (grungey enough to mention imo), Sonic Youth (grungey enough to mention) and Temple of the Dog.
 
EVOL 100% said:
Sonic Youth is a grunge band if Goo and Dirty are the only parts of their discography that you heard of I guess
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At a push, and then only if you squint really hard and hang upside down to look at a completely different band.

Christ, Confusion is Sex is grungier than those two albums. XD
 
No one mentioned Mudhoney yet? For shame.

EVOL 100% said:
Sonic Youth is a grunge band if Goo and Dirty are the only parts of their discography that you heard of I guess
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I'm even more confused as to why Sonic Youth is mentioned in a thread about 90's bands. The same goes for that guy that mentioned Jane's Addiction for whatever reason.

EDIT: Oh, good job Fusebox.
 
I think it's cool if people wanna look back in hindsight and say Sonic Youth were actually art rock or whatever genre you want to pigeon-hole them into but at the time they were considered grunge and they played at grunge concerts with other grunge bands and they felt like a huge part of the grunge scene.
 
Fusebox said:
I think it's cool if people wanna look back in hindsight and say Sonic Youth were actually art rock or whatever genre you want to pigeon-hole them into but at the time they were considered grunge and they played at grunge concerts with other grunge bands and they felt like a huge part of the grunge scene.
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You can put a pig in a wig, slap some quality make-up on it's face, put it in a really nice fitting Versace dress, maybe even get it to trot around with other similarly dressed pigs. Heck, you can call it Marylin Monroe, if you really want; at the end of the day, it's still a fucking pig.
 
Screaming Meat said:
You can put a pig in a wig, slap some quality make-up on it's face, put it in a really nice fitting Versace dress, maybe even get it to trot around with other similarly dressed pigs. Heck, you can call it Marylin Monroe, if you really want; at the end of the day, it's still a fucking pig.
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When I say Thurston Moore wrote the book on grunge I'm not speaking figuratively:

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But I'm curious, what's your definition of grunge and why do you think Sonic Youth are so far from that definition that it's worth getting excited about?
 
The thread looked for '90s grunge bands and Sonic Youth started in the '80s as a post punk/no wave band. Even if you look solely at their '90s output they released 3 albums (Jet Set, Washing Machine and A Thousand Leaves) which were as far from grunge as you can get

It's just a weird position to take
 
Fusebox said:
When I say Thurston Moore wrote the book on grunge I'm not speaking figuratively:

michael-lavine-thurston-moore-book-1.jpg


But I'm curious, what's your definition of grunge and why do you think Sonic Youth are so far from that definition that it's worth getting excited about?
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THURSTON MOORE WAS A FAN OF GRUNGE. HE LOVED IT. HE INTRODUCED KURT TO GEFFEN.

SONIC YOUTHS MUSIC ISN'T GRUNGE. JUST STOP.
 
EVOL 100% said:
The thread looked for '90s grunge bands and Sonic Youth started in the '80s as a post punk/no wave band. Even if you look solely at their '90s output they released 3 albums (Jet Set, Washing Machine and A Thousand Leaves) which were as far from grunge as you can get

It's just a weird position to take
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Goo came out in 1990 and Dirty was 92 and their later output doesn't retroactively change the scene they were in at the time anymore than Cat Stevens finding religion changes the fact he was a folk musician back in the day. They even call Kim Gordon the godmother of grunge!

I think the problem is grunge can mean different things to people who were or weren't there.
 
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