Grunge, what happened?

[fatty]

am i the only one who misses grunge? pearl jam is still my favorite band, even though i know no album is as good as ten.

smashing pumpkins, nirvana, alice in chains, blind melon. i know these bands aren't together anymore but does anyone listen to "Alternative" music anymore, or at least miss it?

and Creed, limp biskit, staind, and lincoln park all suck ass, i'm not talking about those no talent jerk offs.

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Grunge, what happened?



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[Dan]

Bush.

The band Bush killed grunge.

They broke in the US with music that sounded exactly like Pearl Jam. Became big and everyone realized the genre was co-opted by pussies named Gavin and they all started practicing on the turn-tables.

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[TomPoo]

the stars of grunge never wanted (or at least they projected this image) to be part of the mainstream... they never wanted star status and never wanted to be famous in pop culture.

in the end that is what happened.

Pearl Jam still sells out arenas, but does not have to have a video on TRL to do it. I think Soundgarden and Alice in Chains could also if they were still together.

and for the record, Linkin Park is amazing.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Eh, blame Courtney Love!

I always thought that bands like Dave Matthews and Hootie and the Blowfish were the natural, yet sucky, knee-jerk reaction to "grunge."

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[CovDiesel]

Grunge was great... as music.. as a fashon style...

but when Kurt died... it was all down hill from there.

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[brodieman]

the fans happened, fans change music all the time, the kids stopped listening to grunge, it stopped being popular. maybe kids got happier, maybe they got ghetto, or maybe htey started listening to blink, but some day soon all the music we love (or hate) now will be only heard on Q 104.3

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Most rock genres only have a few years of purity before they get absorbed into the larger music scene and become an influence. True grunge may be gone, but you can hear the influence of Nirvana or Alice in Chains in every rock song today.

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[fatty]

covdiesel, i know we have a lot of different opinions and that's cool, but you can't say grundge was a fashion style. it was a way of life, the idiot mass media made it a fashion style.

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[JerryTaker]

I'm pretty passionate about this one. Mtv ruined grunge, just like it went on to ruin all music.

When Nirvana and Pearl Jam wouldn't "play along" Mtv had to create their own "grunge" by shoving bands like Silverchair and Bush down our throats

They also mixed griunge in with the whole "college art-rock 120 minutes sugarcubes pavement & violent femmes" genre, with smashing pumkins trying to walk right along the middle, killing the hard edge...

meanwhile, that edge was being picked up by heavier underground metal bands like Fear Factory, Coal Chamber, Stuck Mojo, etc...

With Alternatives to "Alternative" people found their own genres, while Green Day (blech) opened the floodgates for punk to go mainstream,
wile pop-rock became awful rap-rock and grunge wannabes like Godsmack

with <I>all</I> the old grunge bands broken up (except Pearl Jam) grunge is quite done for, to live only on our old cd's...

RIP Soungarden, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, Faith No More, Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees, I Mother Earth, Eleven, etc, etc....

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[DarkHippie]

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[DaniGirl]

Drugs and suicide happened to grunge. Nothing will bring it back.
Kurt Cobain was the king of grunge in the early 90's. When he shot himself grunge went out the window. Music took a dump after that. Pearl Jam started sucking, Smashing Pumpkins got weird, Soundgarden broke up, Shannon Hoon overdosed, Layne Staley became an addict...you get the idea. Making music that people related to became really hard for alot of these bands and they didnt want to deal with the pressure anymore. Now we have to deal with Staind, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and other crap.
Grunge became way too mainstream as well and I think that is what most artists were apposed to. So, us as young teenagers in the early 90's are also to blame for the fall of grunge.


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[Jonkeu]

I agree with you Dani, The day Curt Died was the death of Grunge. It's sad to sit in a pool hall and hear rooster pop up on the jukebox like it's some part of 70's classic jam of stealy dan and steve miller band..

Grunge and alternitive music all changed once boy bands and Manson came on the scene.