What is Grunge Music all about? | Hughbass Music History, Ep 9
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- What is Grunge music?The era of punk rock and heavy metal led to many splinters of musical expression. One of the more fascinating genres to evolve from its core was grunge. This sparsely researched and largely underappreciated category of cultural significance is at the heart of much of our listening habits today, and helped spur an important arm of the post-modern feminist movements in pop culture. Join me for this first episode exploring its captivating connections to our modern music landscape.
Credits:
Literary References:
Ryan Moore, “Sells Like Teen Spirit”. NY University Press, (2010)
Cathrine Strong, “Grunge: Music and Memory”. Charles Sturt University, Australia (2011)
Gina Arnold, “On the Route 66 Road to Nirvana”. St. Martin Press, NY (1993)
Visual Components:
Video elements from VH1 News Special: Grunge (2001)
Smashing Pumpkins: NY Times, Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images, 1992
Soundgarden: www.Musicfeeds.com, Emmy Mack, 2019
L-7: www.Peel.fandom.com, John Peel Wiki, 1990
Nirvana: www.Happymag.tv, Artist feature, 2020
The Cranberries: www.Rollingstones.com, Dermot Lynch/Limerick Leader, 2018
Pearl Jam: www.grammy.com, PHOTO: GIE KNAEPS/GETTY IMAGES, 2018
Mudhoney: www.theknowmagazine.com, Ashley Whiskerd, 2019
Alice in Chains: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, 1991
Green River: www.subpop.com, Charles Peterson, 2020
Bikini Kill: www.nytimes.com, Pat Graham, 2019
Cinderella: www.globaltexanchronicles.com, Walter Price, 2013
Poison: Https://melodic-hardro...
InCrest: www.therockpit.net, 2018
Kurt Cobain: www.mirror.co.uk, Jane Lavender, 2020
Pearl Jam 2020: www.latimes.com, Danny Clinch, 2020
Pearl Jam taking on Ticketmaster: www.rollingstones.com, Eric Boehlert, 1995
Logic: www.revolt.tv, 2019
Lorde: By Krists Luhaers - RF_3006_Lorde@Arena_Krists_Luhaers-5, CC BY 2.0
Billie Eilish: By Toglenn - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
Punk rock: www.latimes.com, Angela Boatwright, 2020
Metal music: www.flypaper.soundfly.com, Jeremy Young, 2016
Riot Grrrl: www.theguardian.com, Olivia Laing, 2013
Grungeslinger: do512.com/even....
Grunge Concert Photos: www.billboard.....
Music:
“Swap Meet”, Nirvana, from the album Bleach, 1989
“Go”, Pearl Jam, from the album Vs., 1993
“Quiet”, Smashing Pumpkins, from the album Siamese Dream, 1993
“Sing, Say, Song” Corey Highberg, from the album Self Inflicted (Unpublished) 2014
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This is probably the best description and definition of grunge music. While punk, blues, hard rock and metal tend to be much more well-defined, grunge is a bit of a mash-up. It was more a social movement / philosophy towards punk, rock and metal fusion. Soundgarden were a heavier grunge band that bordered on metal at times (like "Flower" and "Jesus Christ Pose" are fairly heavy). Pearl Jam were really an alt rock band, stylistically speaking. Nirvana were more closely related to Sonic Youth and The Pixies than any of their more prominent grunge contemporaries.
So, defining grunge from a purely musical perspective doesn't quite work. But if you define grunge as punk / hard rock / alt rock / metal fusion with dark, cynical, contradictory lyrics and a focus on sounding raw (avoiding slick production and often being anti-reverb and similar effects), it starts to make sense. If you hung out with your friends wearing cheap clothing, getting wasted and caring about social issues (but not doing much about it because you were more a nihilist than an activist), then you were probably grunge. If you recorded simple rock music with shitty recording equipment, you were probably grunge.
It makes a lot more sense now because I listen to all the grunge bands and hear so much variety that they don't really sound like a single musical genre. And that's because they never were. They were a single musical movement.
Love that High Fidelity is on the TV in the background!
very useful for my music work very underrated
The Cranberries aren't at all Grunge
yes, he should edit that claim out.
Yeah I generally don't think of the Cranberries or the Smashing Pumpkins as grunge, it's alt rock that's sort of in the same vein, but not what I usually think of when the topic of grunge comes up
You clearly don't know music 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@seancagney-kerzich1134 It's not at all controversial to point out that the Cranberries are not grunge. Looks like I 'know music' better than you, Sean.
I prefer grunge than hair metal. Grunge is more relatable and serious.
Hey, are there any artists that combine grunge with trap? Like post-punk and Lil Peep but more grunge oriented?
Stone temple pilots and soundgarden for me.
The Champion of Apathy. 😅
Great stuff! I sent you an e-mail and hope you will be on my show.
Grunge the musical anthem of Gen X. You should have had RATM, in your intro. RATM havnt sold out yet.
i’ve seen rage labeled mostly as nu metal, maybe thats why?
Nothing nu metal @@jackpotshotyou
Nu metal is more xennial@@jackpotshotyou
I was 16 when Grunge exploded. It was magical. This music was for us Gen X kids who had Baby boomer parents who only cared about was work. We are angry teens. I would roam the streets in anger and Vandalize cars and buildings while listening to these grunge bands. The best times of my life were in HS. I hated hair bands before grunge. I will never forget one important day for me. I was at a HS party and Nirvana smells like teen Spirit played. The whole room became quiet. Everyone was bobbing their heads and at the end of the song. One guy jumps up and yells” What the fuck was that?
grunge generation are 80s highschool kids
@@ftrsaliyf-zd4wk I disagree. Us younger Gen X were 15- 18 in the early 90s. We were the coming of age teens when Grunge exploded. 80s Gen X were already out of HS when it happened. We were the spotlight.
It was the next phase of punk, it was a mix of slowed down 70s punk and Grebo..
bruh...i think you're too high and fading in and out of the video ... oh wait.. is it me?
Now i know wath is gronge
Bikini Kill
Green River
Logic
Billie Eilish
Lauren