Rolling Stone asks "What is the best grunge album?"
Grunge... hate that title but it does present an interesting debate.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... m-20121109
By Rolling Stone
November 9, 2012 3:35 PM ET
Soundgarden return this month with King Animal, their first album since way back in 1996. They broke up right around the time that grunge music went the way of the dinosaurs, but their return has gotten us thinking about that era of rock history, when a ton of great albums were released in a very short period of time.
Now we have a question for you: what is your favorite grunge album of all time? We realize this is bound to cause some controversy, as the term "grunge" has never been properly defined. Many bands that blew up in the early 1990s found themselves attached to that label, though in the case of groups like the Smashing Pumpkins or Red Hot Chili Peppers, it made very little sense. Then there's a whole wave of post-grunge bands that claimed to be carrying on the legacy. (We pity the person that votes for a Creed album here.) But don't let us define the term for you. Vote for whichever grunge album you like best. Just please only vote once, and only for a single album.
You can vote here in the comments, on facebook.com/rollingstone or on Twitter using the #weekend rock hashtag.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... m-20121109
By Rolling Stone
November 9, 2012 3:35 PM ET
Soundgarden return this month with King Animal, their first album since way back in 1996. They broke up right around the time that grunge music went the way of the dinosaurs, but their return has gotten us thinking about that era of rock history, when a ton of great albums were released in a very short period of time.
Now we have a question for you: what is your favorite grunge album of all time? We realize this is bound to cause some controversy, as the term "grunge" has never been properly defined. Many bands that blew up in the early 1990s found themselves attached to that label, though in the case of groups like the Smashing Pumpkins or Red Hot Chili Peppers, it made very little sense. Then there's a whole wave of post-grunge bands that claimed to be carrying on the legacy. (We pity the person that votes for a Creed album here.) But don't let us define the term for you. Vote for whichever grunge album you like best. Just please only vote once, and only for a single album.
You can vote here in the comments, on facebook.com/rollingstone or on Twitter using the #weekend rock hashtag.
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This one gets my vote, because I'm pretty sure it's the first album I ever heard the word "grunge" used to describe and then two years or so went by before I ever heard that word attached to any other music.
Nevermind (Nirvana) seems to be the one that brought it into the mainstream.
TEN
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Smashing Pumpkins, Screaming Trees
I vote Singles
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
and this
Says Ed: "You're not really grunge[y] unless you've got a sty in your eye."
Seattle, 12.7.93
Salt Lake, 6.21.98
Mountain View, 10.30.99
Mountain View, 10.31.99
Boise, 11.3.00
Portland, 9.26.09
ragged glory owns! good choice.
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but Singles is a close second or maybe even a tie
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Oh yeah! Ragged Glory- the glorious return of great "garage rock". One of my all-time favorites. When the record came out and I saw the poster in a record shop with the words "feed back is back" on it I begged the store owner to sell it to me.
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So how about TEN?!
Nevermind- biggest impact
DIRT- best GRUNGE
AIC - Dirt
Nirvana - Bleach
Mudhoney - Piece Of Cake
Soundgarden -Badmotorfinger
Tad - 8 Way Santa
Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12
I always found AIC to be metal with Facelift, and then turned to what I call sludge-metal (no, I'm not saying I coined the phrase, I must have heard it somewhere, but it sounds like it fits).
most bands fit many or no labels at all. most bands hated the term grunge. Metallica fought for years not to be called speed metal. so pearl jam are grunge, they aren't grunge, who cares. grunge doesn't even really describe a musical sound as it actually really describes a scene, a period of time in musical history in a certain geographical location where the most awesome bands came out.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
gotta agree
ditto.
1. Ten
2. Nevermind
3. Dirt
4. In Utero
5. Superunknown
6. Badmotorfinger
7. Bleach
8. Vs.
9. TOTD
10. Superfuzz Bigmuff
I can't believe Singles didn't make the cut.
Here ya go, with the RS commentary:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictu ... en-0007178
PJ: 2011-09-03 2011-09-04