Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Unplugged
Radiohead - The Bends
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
1. The Tragically Hip- Day for Night
2. Buffalo Tom- Let Me Come Over
3. Tom Waits- Mule Variations
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
Is it surprising that people on a Pearl Jam message board would gravitate toward "grunge" albums? One likes what they like...
It may have been a little pretentious, and if that's what ya like best, that's what ya like best. It's like asking what someone's 3 favorite foods are and getting a reply of "barbecued shrimp, shrimp kebab, and shrimp creole." All different and wonderful in their own way, but have you have ever tried chicken? Know what I mean Gene?
Nirvana-Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream
Nickelback-Curb (honestly, although very derivative of early grunge, this album rocked and was long before they repeated the same song over and over)
C'mon...the 3 best albums of music released over an entire decade did not all come out of the "grunge" scene, branch out a little.
Sorry, this is directed to no one in particular.
Actually, I'd say that the best albums of the 90s did come out of the "grunge scene". Best of all the music I've heard, but I am a rock fan.
Soundgarden - BMF
Soundgarden - SUK
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Those are the ones, other than PJ.
Hon mentions would be: Temple of the Dog, Toadies, RH - bends or OKcomputer, Smashing Pumkins - Infinite Sadness, STP - Tiny Music, some others that are escaping me.
It may have been a little pretentious, and if that's what ya like best, that's what ya like best. It's like asking what someone's 3 favorite foods are and getting a reply of "barbecued shrimp, shrimp kebab, and shrimp creole." All different and wonderful in their own way, but have you have ever tried chicken? Know what I mean Gene?
maybe they did try chicken but no matter how you cook it it doesnt compare to shrimp.
i think i only listed one band that would be considered grunge though most of my favorite albums from the era are grunge. id say a top 10 would be 6-8 grunge albums for me. and i listen to alot of 90's stuff that isnt grunge though. the 90's were such a great period for rock music.
maybe they did try chicken but no matter how you cook it it doesnt compare to shrimp.
i think i only listed one band that would be considered grunge though most of my favorite albums from the era are grunge. id say a top 10 would be 6-8 grunge albums for me. and i listen to alot of 90's stuff that isnt grunge though. the 90's were such a great period for rock music.
only 3 albums leaves alot of great stuff out.
I hate the term 'grunge' and this is exactly why. People automatically close their minds to otherwise great albums because of an assumed stereotype. Within the 'grunge' scene you have bands producing punk, metal, pychadelia, prog rock. Its one of the most diverse music scenes I could think of and it doesn't deserve this lame tag.
Besides its an MTV term, and at the end of the day its all just rock 'n' roll
1) Soundgarden - Superunknown
2) Radiohead - OK Computer
3) U2 - Achtung Baby
honorable mention:
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Peter Gabriel - Us
Blind Melon - all three albums
STP - Purple
Mad Season
Tool - Lateralus
Alice In Chains-Dirt
Ministry-Psalm 69
Soundgarden-Superunknown
honerable mention:
Marilyn Manson-Portrait of an American Family (this record is amazing)
Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral
Fugazi-In On The Kill Taker
Pantera-Far Beyond Driven
Nirvana-In Utero
some amazing records that came out in the 90s but that i didn't get into until years later:
Far-Water & Solutions
Only Living Witness-Innocents
Smile-Maquee
F#A# (Infinity) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
Nirvana - Unplugged
Radiohead - The Bends
U2 - Achtung Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Radiohead - The Bends
2. Buffalo Tom- Let Me Come Over
3. Tom Waits- Mule Variations
-Tom Waits
Toadies- rubberneck
Radiohead- the bends
Nirvana- nevermind
EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
2) Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
3) U2 - Pop
Is it surprising that people on a Pearl Jam message board would gravitate toward "grunge" albums? One likes what they like...
the Flaming Lips - the Soft Bulletin
the Rheostatics - Whale Music
and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
yeah that and the fact all music made after 1996 sucked monkey balls.
It may have been a little pretentious, and if that's what ya like best, that's what ya like best. It's like asking what someone's 3 favorite foods are and getting a reply of "barbecued shrimp, shrimp kebab, and shrimp creole." All different and wonderful in their own way, but have you have ever tried chicken? Know what I mean Gene?
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream
Nickelback-Curb (honestly, although very derivative of early grunge, this album rocked and was long before they repeated the same song over and over)
Actually, I'd say that the best albums of the 90s did come out of the "grunge scene". Best of all the music I've heard, but I am a rock fan.
Soundgarden - BMF
Soundgarden - SUK
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Those are the ones, other than PJ.
Hon mentions would be: Temple of the Dog, Toadies, RH - bends or OKcomputer, Smashing Pumkins - Infinite Sadness, STP - Tiny Music, some others that are escaping me.
maybe they did try chicken but no matter how you cook it it doesnt compare to shrimp.
i think i only listed one band that would be considered grunge though most of my favorite albums from the era are grunge. id say a top 10 would be 6-8 grunge albums for me. and i listen to alot of 90's stuff that isnt grunge though. the 90's were such a great period for rock music.
only 3 albums leaves alot of great stuff out.
I hate the term 'grunge' and this is exactly why. People automatically close their minds to otherwise great albums because of an assumed stereotype. Within the 'grunge' scene you have bands producing punk, metal, pychadelia, prog rock. Its one of the most diverse music scenes I could think of and it doesn't deserve this lame tag.
Besides its an MTV term, and at the end of the day its all just rock 'n' roll
Blind Melon.....Soup
Alice in Chains......Facelift
2) Radiohead - OK Computer
3) U2 - Achtung Baby
honorable mention:
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Peter Gabriel - Us
Blind Melon - all three albums
STP - Purple
Mad Season
Tool - Lateralus
i think i have to go with you on this one....
and still jonesing for another show....
"the waiting drove me mad..."
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
NIN - The Fragile
Tool - Aenima
I keep the Illusion albums together because I couldn't decide between The Fragile or Aenima.
Not in my top three but probably in my top 15 or so. Excellent album front to back.
Blind Melon
Sarah McLachlan-Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Garbage
tool - aenima
smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
badmotorfinger
siamese dream
looking over some other peoples choices... im gonna have to add:
the fragile
grace
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live- throwing copper
megadeth- rust in peace
soundgarden- badmotorfinger
I'm so high I hold just one breath here within my chest,
Just like innocence."
SG - Superunknown
Toadies - Rubberneck
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Grace - Jeff Buckley
those will do for now
Nirvana - Nevermind
U2 - Achtung Baby
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan