Grunge recommendations?

sonic juice

Just wondering if any of you have any recommendations for grunge bands,besides Nirvana and Mudhoney.I'm in the mood for some grunge

Beastieboy

pixies? velvet underground?

Goodshape

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream.

You know you want to.

JC 2K3

Alice in Chains - Dirt ?

melekalikimaka

L7- smell the magic
babes in toyland - nemeister

Attractive Nun

Tad!

But seriously, never listen to Tad. Awful band.

I'm not a grunge fan at all, and Dinosaur Jr. aren't really 'grunge' per se, but most grunge fans like them. So that's my recommendation.

Stay away from Willard too. Disaster.

ifumust82

Soundgarden of course!!!

Great band,the above suggestions are all good too,esp Babes in Toyland

Earthhorse

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

Can't go wrong with them.

bowsie casey

First time I've seen Velvet Underground referred to as "grunge".....

John

bowsie casey wrote:

First time I've seen Velvet Underground referred to as "grunge".....

I think by the fact he mentioned Pixies too that the OP should avoid grunge and go straight the classics.

Not a grunge band but without them there would probably not be a Seattle scene as we knew it: Melvins Houdini, Bullhead and Lysol.

fillmore jive

screaming trees 'dust'. nuff said.

-Lithium-

Pearl Jam, my favourite grunge band. Start with the first album, "Ten" and work your way through in the right order. Very enjoyable.

Soundgarden, as mentioned above. Class band, but possibly the dullest of the big four. Took me a bit longer to get into them but they're great.

Alice in Chains - Very grungy. Very good.

While the Smashing Pumpkins aren't grunge by definition, they are not far off. If Corgan had Seattle roots they'd have been classed as grunge. Try them. You'd be mad not to.

sonic juice

I have ten,yeah that's a great album.

-Lithium-

The next Pearl Jam album after "Ten" - it's called "Vs." - is great. Supposedly their most political album too, if you care about that kind of stuff. Either way, it's a great album. Sounds great.

JC 2K3

-Lithium- wrote:

While the Smashing Pumpkins aren't grunge by definition,

In fairness, you could say the same about a lot of Pearl Jam's stuff, which is really just modern rock rather than "grunge"

Grunge isn't really a genre in a musical sense anyway.

Beastieboy

-Lithium- wrote:

While the Smashing Pumpkins aren't grunge by definition, they are not far off. If Corgan had Seattle roots they'd have been classed as grunge.

Smashing Pumkins put out there first or second single on sub pop so they have definite associations with the early 90's grunge movement......

dr.bollocko

No. 4 the stone temple pilots?
And why in the **** are mudhoney so famous? They su-hu-huck and always have. Go with the mtv unplugged alice in chains album. Puts me to sleep but all my friends love it.

DadaKopf

Hows about Mother Love Bone?

Anyway, why 'Grunge'? How about other things that sound deadly in the same way, like Pussy Galore and that whole Washington DC 'Pig F*ck' scene?

BleakestH

I loves grunge me.

I'll not bother listing the classics (dirt, superunknown etc), since most with even a fleeting interest will already have them. Try these albums:
Melvins - Houdini/Stoner Witch/Stag
Soundgarden - Ultramega OK (their debut, and it's awesome. Whatever you do don't buy it in HMV as it's 30euro,get it off ebay for a dollar instead)
STP - No. 4 (Their best album imo, not a huge fan but this is really good)
Screaming Trees - Dust
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish/Siamese Dream (not grunge per se but essential albums from that era)
Temple of the Dog - temple of the Dog (brilliant album this, features the full Pearl Jam band minus vedder with Chris Cornell on vocals. Check out the song 'Hunger Strike', which includes Vedder on guest vocals)
Mother Love Bone - Apple (Pearl Jam previous band with Andrew Wood on vocals)
Mad Season - Above (features Layne Staley of AIC and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam)
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff/Early Singles

These should get you going

sonic juice

DadaKopf wrote:

Hows about Mother Love Bone?

Anyway, why 'Grunge'? How about other things that sound deadly in the same way, like Pussy Galore and that whole Washington DC 'Pig F*ck' scene?

I didn't say I was going to commit myself to some institution of perpetual Grunge music for the rest of my life,I just said I was in the mood for some Grunge and I was wondering what the best grunge music was to listen to in this particular mood!

dream brother

Alice in Chains would be my personal favourite, SAP, Jar of Flies, Dirt or Alice in Chains, all these are great rockin' grunge album, but they sound way better than the other so-called grunge bands. Their unplugged album is one of the best acoustic albums ever.
Also Mad Season - a kind of grunge super group, very good album

Sgt. Sensible

Earthhorse wrote:

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

Can't go wrong with them.

In fairness, they were mtv/radio friendly AOR groups that major labels picked up on and pushed after the hype that exciting small venue live shows and good cheaply recorded records from bands like Mudhoney, and Nirvana generated between around 1988 and 1991.

Some picks, grunge proto grunge post grunge whatever.

Mudhoney
Soul Asylum before they were ****.
Quicksand
Babes In Toyland
Husker Du Zen Arcade era.
The Replacements
Hole - she's a nutter but the band rocks.
Screaming Trees
Jesus Lizard
Tap!

Just reminded myself to go look for some Killdozer stuff.

sonic juice

Thanks I'll check them all out-I love the replacements 'Let it be' album,classic.

dr.bollocko

Who said hole? Someone reccommended hole!
**SLAP**!

Earthhorse

Sgt. Sensible wrote:

In fairness, they were mtv/radio friendly AOR groups that major labels picked up on and pushed after the hype that exciting small venue live shows and good cheaply recorded records from bands like Mudhoney, and Nirvana generated between around 1988 and 1991.

They were still grunge and the two albums I recommended are stellar, which is really what the OP is looking for.

Black NG-60-90

dr.bollocko wrote:

And why in the **** are mudhoney so famous? They su-hu-huck and always have.

Dude, Mudhoney are the most grunge band of all time. Of course they can't play or sing but they wrote some great songs and albums and helped define the Seattle sound.

fillmore jive

why not buy 'goo' and 'dirty', sonic youth's answer to the whole grunge movement?

calex71

fillmore jive wrote:

why not buy 'goo' and 'dirty', sonic youth's answer to the whole grunge movement?

i'd be more of a goo man myself on my 3rd copy of that album, started off when i was 13 with a copied tape upgraded to cd when i started working years later lol , recently upgraded to the delux double cd lol.

Not sure if its considered grunge but "slanted and enchanted" by pavement
is up there with my all time favorites,

Black NG-60-90

dr.bollocko wrote:

Who said hole? Someone reccommended hole!
**SLAP**!

*BAMMMM*:D I like Hole. Courtney's a bitch but i still like Hole. Who doesn't think Doll Parts and Violet are great songs?

dr.bollocko

Anyone with sense. Hole are a joke of a band. They are absolutely ****ing awful. Truly horrendous. Less a band and more a post-grunge fart these days.

BleakestH

Yeah i ****ing hate hole myself.

Sgt. Sensible

dr.bollocko wrote:

Anyone with sense. Hole are a joke of a band. They are absolutely ****ing awful. Truly horrendous. Less a band and more a post-grunge fart these days.

You've got nothing of any interest to contribute here so why not sod off like a good chap.

Sgt. Sensible

I forgot about Helmet. Deadly if you like Black Sabbathy stuff.

BossArky

- Silverchair's "Frogstomp"
- Stone Temple Pilots "Core", "Plush", "Unplugged"
- Pearl Jam "Unplugged"
- Nirvana "Unplugged"

plus a few more... after than the rest just tinkers out into noise... grunge, the soundtrack of my teenage years

SueL

sonic juice & co., you should all check out 50 Foot Wave, the new band fronted by Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses). Absolutely brilliant if you ask me

www.50footwave.com

www.throwingmusic.com

Go to the Free Music section of the site and have a listen!

Hope you enjoy!

sueL xx

Earthhorse

BossArky wrote:

- Stone Temple Pilots "Core", "Plush", "Unplugged"

Plush is a single on their debut album, Core. Did you mean Purple? The STP Unplugged is an underrated gem, even if it is a little short.

BleakestH

Sgt. Sensible wrote:

You've got nothing of any interest to contribute here so why not sod off like a good chap.

Pointing out the ****tiness of hole seems pretty interesting to me.

Black NG-60-90

Can't forget Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Might not be pure grunge but its a classic

Ho-Hum

Alice In chains definitely gets my vote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuUmaj4KoM

Don't know if they count as grunge but give Failure a look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1f0hibkGk

Acid_Violet

Black NG-60-90 wrote:

*BAMMMM*:D I like Hole. Courtney's a bitch but i still like Hole. Who doesn't think Doll Parts and Violet are great songs?

'Live through this' is pretty damn good. Very catchy, can get bored of it, but definitely worth a listen nevertheless.

Mudhoney are pretty basis, I think, tbh I've only heard Overblown, but if their other stuff is like that, then they're pretty bad.

For Grunge, Smashing Pumpkins up to Mellon Collie were pretty much there alright.

Sgt. Sensible

Acid_Violet wrote:

'Live through this' is pretty damn good. Very catchy, can get bored of it, but definitely worth a listen nevertheless.

Mudhoney are pretty basis, I think, tbh I've only heard Overblown, but if their other stuff is like that, then they're pretty bad.

For Grunge, Smashing Pumpkins up to Mellon Collie were pretty much there alright.

Mudhoney's Superfuzz Bigmuff mini album and their eponymous first album are essential, definitive grunge. Their live shows were fantastic (until I saw them in 1992). I lost interest after that. I think they did too. Overblown's lyrics are about the death of the scene. But they were the antidote to the horrible jingly jangly baggy and shoegazing porridge that was big at the time.

Sgt. Sensible

I'd shove My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver in the grunge box too.

Acid_Violet

Sgt. Sensible wrote:

I'd shove My Bloody Valentine

I love My Bloody Valentine to bits, but most people find them very hard to get into. They'd be more brit-pop, but if you're into stuff like Air, or distortion, or weird sounds then you should get Loveless, most definitely.

DerekD Goldfish

im not one for getting fussy over genres but MBV were nowhere near grunge and quite a bit away from brit pop as well still a great band though.
Personaly I think most "grunge" was muck but if you want to check out some stuff that influencd grunge try The Meat Puppets,The Jesus Lizard and Big Black

fillmore jive

my bloody valentine are grunge? now way. has anyone said anything about blind melon? now they were a great seattle band.....

JC 2K3

Blind Melon weren't grunge and they weren't from Seattle, Shannon Hoon was from Indiana and Blind Melon was formed in LA.


Can someone define grunge? The term confuses me. Is it a style of music or any band from Seattle in the 90s?

JC 2K3

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

The Meat Puppets

YEAH BABY!!!

http://www.wohlers.org/puppets/
http://www.wohlers.org/puppets/fillmore/

Sgt. Sensible

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

im not one for getting fussy over genres but MBV were nowhere near grunge and quite a bit away from brit pop as well still a great band though.
Personaly I think most "grunge" was muck but if you want to check out some stuff that influencd grunge try The Meat Puppets,The Jesus Lizard and Big Black

MBV used heavy bass, riffs and fuzz and rocked hard, especially early stuff which predated the Seattle bands. Loudest band I've ever seen play. I don't really like getting fussy over genres either since they tend to overlap all over the place. I think it's far more interesting to find out what bands' influences are. But the mighty Big Black? Punky industrial stuff in a league of their own I would've thought. They used a drum machine after all. I read a funny interview with Steve Albini once where he said he kept getting approached by hair metal bands who wanted him to make them grunge. He produced Bush didn't he. Anyway I'll throw in Shellac and 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

JC 2K3

Has anyone said Husker Du yet?

Sgt. Sensible

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

Personaly I think most "grunge" was muck but if you want to check out some stuff that influencd grunge try The Meat Puppets,The Jesus Lizard and Big Black

And MC5 and Iggy and The Stooges (hilarious commentary there). Kurt Cobain loved The Wipers who were a great sort of surf punk band. Mudhoney liked Oi punk and early Wire. Rush were also a big influence I believe, on Husker Du and The Pixies at least.

Sgt. Sensible

JC 2K3 wrote:

Has anyone said Husker Du yet?

Yep!