Album Rating: 4.7
anyone else really dig how beefy the drums sound on the new album? they always sounded kinda thin back in the '90s
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Album Rating: 5.0
But what really makes something grunge? A baritone lead singer and downer lyrics? Thrash was characterised by sped up heavy metal with influence from hardcore punk, right? What is grunge characterised by?
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Grunge is more the name of the movement (comparable to NWOBHM). Grunge bands are usually just alternative rock.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"What IS grunge? None of the big 4 really sound like any of the others."
"grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song dynamics, and apathetic or angst-filled lyrics. "
pretty broad definition. aesthetics and geographical origin have something to do with it, too.
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"Grunge bands are usually just alternative rock."
not really, it has a very broad spectrum of influences
SG and this band were mostly inspired by metal, in fact this IS a metal
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Also damn never thought i'd see a bad rating for this album on this thread huh
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You can still be alt rock while being inspired by metal.
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Album Rating: 5.0
""grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song dynamics, and apathetic or angst-filled lyrics. "
pretty broad definition. aesthetics and geographical origin have something to do with it, too."
I suppose the contrasting dynamics and angst-filled lyrics part is the basis classification. I just don't think fashion choices and geographic location are enough criteria to really create a genre.
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That was poor wording; I'm not too sure how to explain tho
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Grunge. "Slow verse building up to loud angsty chorus blanketed in guitar.
Grunge was a tag term used to define the Seattle scene of an alternative underground with roots in punk, hard rock and the origins of metal.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Grunge is more the name of the movement"
this. it was a reaction to the excess of the 80's. it wasn't just the music, per se.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
You can still be alt rock while being inspired by
metal
Outside the grunge scene,The Smashing Pumpkins were
influenced by metal as well. They pretty much mixed the
riffs of Zeppelin and Sabbath with the distortion of
bands like My Bloody Valentine.
So heavy metal did have quite a bit of influence on alt
rock.
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lol when people start accepting 'contrasting song dynamics' as a key hallmark of a particular style you know it's been stripped of all meaning
grunge was a descriptive term for a kind of abrasive punk/garage rock that eventually became shorthand for bands that had little to do with the music it was initially meant to describe. not that complicated
nirvana is the only one of those big seattle bands that had solid roots in that stuff
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agreed
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Grunge to me is best understood when contrasted to 80's glam. Those bands had a reputation for cheesiness and copiusness.
Grunge was a revolution that went against all that. It
brought a new sense of expression to rock and roll. And they were bands with which young people could easily identify.
Pretty much hard rock + distortion in musical terms, though like Dominion implied, you had to be from Seattle to be called grunge.
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rolling stone critic dannyboy89
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Album Rating: 5.0
Album Rating: 2.0
Lol why?
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well uh Stone Temple Pilots were from Cali but they were grunge
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Album Rating: 5.0
i never heard stp referred to as grunge
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their first 2 were pretty grunge-y!
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