Grunge recommendations?

Sgt. Sensible · 18-10-2006 3:30pm

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 · 18-10-2006 4:41pm

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

BossArky · 18-10-2006 5:39pm

- 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 · 18-10-2006 7:11pm

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 · 18-10-2006 9:11pm

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 · 19-10-2006 10:14am

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 · 19-10-2006 10:15am

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

Ho-Hum · 19-10-2006 11:56am

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 · 19-10-2006 9:05pm

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 · 19-10-2006 10:17pm

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 · 19-10-2006 10:29pm

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

Acid_Violet · 20-10-2006 2:59pm

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 · 20-10-2006 4:29pm

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 · 20-10-2006 6:35pm

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

JC 2K3 · 20-10-2006 6:47pm

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 · 20-10-2006 6:48pm

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

The Meat Puppets

YEAH BABY!!!

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

Sgt. Sensible · 20-10-2006 6:49pm

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 · 20-10-2006 6:53pm

Has anyone said Husker Du yet?

Sgt. Sensible · 20-10-2006 7:16pm

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 · 20-10-2006 7:28pm

JC 2K3 wrote:

Has anyone said Husker Du yet?

Yep!

Ho-Hum · 20-10-2006 7:41pm

Sgt. Sensible wrote:

80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

Love that band, they're definitely worth a look if you like the song above ^^

crazy angel · 20-10-2006 7:53pm

alice in chains- some may disagree with me on them being grunge though
blind melon- some of their earlier stuff was heavier and grungy, try the song dumptruck
green river- supposedly the founders of grunge
hole-....yea
L7
the melvins
pearl jam
screaming trees
soundgarden
temple of the dog
mad season
malfunkshun
love battery
TAD
Paw
tripping daisy
mother love bone
butthole surfers
candlebox

then theres some post-grunge stuff that you might like....
bush
quicksand
silverchair
stone temple pilots.

oh yea and jerry cantrell, chris cornell have some solo stuff too.

hope its a help to you!

BossArky · 20-10-2006 8:46pm

Earthhorse wrote:

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.

Yeah good catch, I meant Purple.

DerekD Goldfish · 21-10-2006 1:03am

Sgt. Sensible wrote:

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.

well if your going to mention wire you may as well mention Gang of Four long before the current crop of post punk revivalists were ripping them of there were influencing a massive amount of bands particularly im america dispite being from leeds

John · 21-10-2006 1:06am

I really don't like Kurt Cobain's music (barring his work with Melvins on Houdini and with Earth on Extra-Capsular Extraction) but I remember some magazine (probably the enemy) printed his personal top 50 albums and there were some cracking bands in there.

DerekD Goldfish · 21-10-2006 1:14am

he did have decent taste even if I agree nirvana were overated(not total muck mind) he was also a big fan of the raincoats who are probaboly my favorite girl band of all time

sonic juice · 21-10-2006 2:23am

I hated and couldn't stand Nirvana's album 'Nevermind' ,but I loved 'In Utero',thought it was a masterpiece.

Sgt. Sensible · 21-10-2006 5:29am

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

well if your going to mention wire you may as well mention Gang of Four long before the current crop of post punk revivalists were ripping them of there were influencing a massive amount of bands particularly im america dispite being from leeds

I was thinking of Gang Of Four (and many other bands) but where do you draw the line? Anyway check out Squirrel Bait. There's a band that should have got more credit.

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

he did have decent taste even if I agree nirvana were overated(not total muck mind) he was also a big fan of the raincoats who are probaboly my favorite girl band of all time

Yeah, what I particularly liked about Kurt Cobain was his humility, he always went out of his way to namecheck and promote bands that he loved.

JC 2K3 · 21-10-2006 1:17pm

Kurt Cobain had great taste in music. He is directly responsible for my love of the Meat Puppets and the Pixies and hence indirectly responsible for my love ooof Soonic Yoth, Dinosaur Jr. Husker Du, other SST bands etc.

Muzzy · 21-10-2006 1:32pm

Marcy Playground, early 90's they were like Aslan in the sense that U2 took all the fame, Marcy Playground never got the chance to "Blossom" because they came out at the same time as Nirvana.

They are kinda chilled out, but defnitly worth a listen, here's their best known tune, Sex and Candy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=knJdFs0CqYc

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