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Old 07-11-2010, 22:23
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Would people like it or would they dislike it.
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Old 07-11-2010, 22:27
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I'm not a grunge fan, but I'd welcome it over most of the crap in the UK TOP 40.

Gimme somebody with a grungey sound like Hole over the likes of All Time Low ( For The Music Industry ) anyday.
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Old 07-11-2010, 23:09
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Some of the 90's alternative grunge groups have released new albums in the last couple of years but none of them have been that successful.
I guess the closest to grunge music recently is the Pretty Reckless album which I really enjoy.
The 90's had a lot of great music from grunge/alternative to trip hop but somehow it doesn't get the hype and media attention that 80's music does.
I could see grunge influenced music being successful as long it has a pop edge and not too hard or heavy. The fact is most people don't like really hard music, they like pop melodies they can sing along with not noise and screaming.
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Old 07-11-2010, 23:59
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Grunge wasn't just a random thought in someones head - it was written as the antitheisis to hair metal and grandiose rock productions. In it's own way, it was just as anti-establishment as punk was.

I love grunge, but it was very much of it's time, a genre that could only ever have thrived commercially in the early 90s. Having said that, I loved the most recent Alice In Chains album!

And it should go without saying that any grunge comeback would be a million times better than today's Top 40.
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Old 08-11-2010, 00:45
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I love grunge, but it was very much of it's time, a genre that could only ever have thrived commercially in the early 90s.
Exactly. As you say, grunge was at its core a reactionary musical movement, without the cultural conditions that created it you would just have some rather meaningless bleak music and flannel shirts.

I look back on grunge fondly, but this generation needs something as relevant as grunge was to get excited about. Grunge now would make about as much sense as disco would have in 1990.

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Old 08-11-2010, 01:09
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Any reinventions is forced and contrived. If it did come back it'd have no proper place. Then again, most of the music we hear today (popular music) is forced and contrived.
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Old 08-11-2010, 01:38
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'Grunge' was a movement at a certain time and place rather than a genre, really, so it couldn't really come back. I'd welcome something similar happening today, though.
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Old 08-11-2010, 01:51
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Isn't the post-hardcore movement (or the recent form of it that started around 2000) the New grunge.Some of the bands have elements of grunge in their sound anyway.It is a very diverse scene (or group of multiple scenes) - if you dig a little bit into it you will probably find a few bands that appeal to you if you haven't already.
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Old 08-11-2010, 01:57
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Eight posts and no mention of Killdozer... tsk, call yourselves a Music Forum

That type of music lives on but the indie scene in the US is really growing. I'd bar entry to American musicians as I expect an influx of fey waifs singing songs of DSH and misery any day soon
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Old 08-11-2010, 08:58
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Any reinventions is forced and contrived. If it did come back it'd have no proper place. Then again, most of the music we hear today (popular music) is forced and contrived.
gotta agree with this...

personally i hated grunge, imho its the worst form of rock music ever conceived.
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Old 08-11-2010, 08:59
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post grunge music is around and it's not very popular at least not compared to nirvana and pearl jam's popularity. Grunge was just a modern form of punk which will come again but to try and keep the idea of grunge alive is pointless.
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Old 08-11-2010, 09:01
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Grunge was a reaction to music of the generation at the time. Like Punk, its appreciation today is about the music that made the genre so great rather than reinvention or reinterpretation.
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Old 08-11-2010, 17:16
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The UK had a small Grunge Post Punk movement.And some of it was good early Feeder around there Swim and Polythene days with there Smashing Pumkin and Nirvana feel.Same with Idlewild's early work and EP's even Teenage Fanclub.Euginus,Wilt from Ireland.Anyone remember a good band from Greenwich called the Llama Farmers had a small cult thing going on great band too sad they split up too soon.Ash during there 1977 and Nu Clear Sound days was alittle bit grungey.Placebo even pay homage too Nirvana The Pixies and Billy Corgan's work and Charlotte Church has a thing for Mark Lanegan recently.Billy Clyro were fans of Grunge The Subways and some other's Dinosaur Pile Up.
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Old 09-11-2010, 14:49
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Why were Bush considered "the British Nirvana"?
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Old 09-11-2010, 15:00
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Why were Bush considered "the British Nirvana"?
they came from London but got the post grunge tag.
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Old 09-11-2010, 15:07
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Rember Silverchair? they were fun.

On Biffy you can hear the Nirvana influence in Blackened Sky. But by Only Revolutions its gone. On a side note, I think Puzzle often sounded very Foo Fighters esque at points, the Nirvana influence continues....
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Old 09-11-2010, 15:22
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Rember Silverchair? they were fun.
Frogstomp and Freak Show had the Grunge infulences on it but there others were forgetable.Year 2000 and Greatest View were okay but the others ever weak.But Silverchair did start great before they grow up.

Some of Feeder during there early days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzLnGOt8FMw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQdYX3eykrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uxlyx4nPc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wep2Zf7VwCw

It has the Pumpkin sound.
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:11
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Whisper it, but Nickleback's first album is pretty much pure grunge from start to finish. They're the only band I can think of who changed from grunge to post-grunge!
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:13
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I bloody hate Nickleback.
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:14
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I bloody hate Nickleback.
I don't like them either, only the odd song, but if you have Spotify check out their first album (and even their second) - it was before they hit the mainstream, and it all has that classic grunge sound.
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:17
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post grunge music is around and it's not very popular at least not compared to nirvana and pearl jam's popularity. Grunge was just a modern form of punk which will come again but to try and keep the idea of grunge alive is pointless.
I thought Grunge was more about reviving the Hard Rock sounds of the early '70's personally.There was a '70's punk element in it, but it was about adding a little more musicianship without reducing the aggression.Very similar to early '80's hardcore punk - which was even more aggressive however (which eventually led to Metalcore, which morphed into Thrash Metal etc.etc.)

It's all become part of the process of Hard Rock, Punk, Metal, Alternative Rock, Psychedelic rock even Prog coming closer together these days.What people call punk these days is far removed from what it was originally was in the late '70's.
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:18
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Whisper it, but Nickleback's first album is pretty much pure grunge from start to finish. They're the only band I can think of who changed from grunge to post-grunge!
I personally don't see Nickelback as grunge. To me, they are more mainstream rock, not alternative rock like grunge.
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:26
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I don't like them either, only the odd song, but if you have Spotify check out their first album (and even their second) - it was before they hit the mainstream, and it all has that classic grunge sound.
I do not. however i will endevour to have a listen if I ever get the chance or I see it in fopp or such like.

I used to always get Nickleback and Puddle of Mud mixed up. I am to this day not sure why.
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:35
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I personally don't see Nickelback as grunge. To me, they are more mainstream rock, not alternative rock like grunge.
Or more similar '70's Hard Rock.Calling it mainstream rock is very confusing, especially to older rock fans like me who has lived through alot of different rock styles that were considered mainstream.
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:40
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I guess the closest to grunge music recently is the Pretty Reckless album which I really enjoy.
I bought this today. I only knew Make Me Wanna Die and I'd heard Miss Nothing once.

Listening to the first track at the moment.

Not too bad.
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