The TRUTH About Grunge Music...
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- What is the best grunge band? Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam? Spiritbox, Baroness, Vended and more chime in.
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@FinnMcKentyPRMBA STOP THIS EDDIE VEDDER SLANDER!!! Eddie is an Amazing Vocalist, you and the rest of these clowns who crap on him don't know what y'all are talking about!!!!
Honestly I was gonna reply the same thing. Finn has a unique way of putting down other peoples favorite bands, it’s quite repulsive.
Nirvana sucked compared to mudhoney, screaming trees etc. Mudhoney fan way longer and Nirvana were Johnny come latelies to a party that was already full swing.
soundgarden, aic, nirvana then pearl jam and lets not forget stp...awesome and smashing pumpkins. not seattle but definitely lumped in or out with the others. stp copped so much shit over their first great great album then took a turn w purple being eclectic w the spirit of grunge. we really just called it alternative bc it all got played on alt radio. suck it finn.lol. love u bloke. im australian were strange
Hole were totally legit, 'miss world', 'take everything' etc ... fully grunge AND cool!. Sure ...not near the end (Kurts dead, Courtney hitting holly-wood with her nose-job - and to be fair, they kind of had to reinvent them as pop rock and pop punk was taking over). Un cool was bush, Silver chair, Stone temple pilots, creed - all second wave grunge rip offs. Hole were prob effn cooler than pearl jam for starters....You're just SO wrong with saying 'nobody said they were cool'
Honestly, my pick isn't AiC for the guitars, but for the vocal harmonies. Jerry and Layne had such phenomenal vocal chemistry
This is the correct answer.
@@Osirisjb21 yup!
Honestly, as an adult, I listen to Alice in Chains more. Nirvana is glorious but all of those bands had some exceptional and endearing facets to them.
Best vocal harmonies in rock.
In terms of music, I completely agree. If we are talking about influence its hard to argue against Nirvana.
Oh, and I'm a Gen-X guy and I held the same opinion back in the 90's.
Im 48, Gen X, always preferred AIC. Nirvana is inarguable, but AIC wrote more complex, moodier stuff imo
It's interesting, I strongly preferred nirvana growing up but in recent years I've listened to more AIC. I don't know how their record sales or today's streams counts compare
@lightfeather9953 I like nirvana but I think a lot of people think about them the way football players think about the new england patriots. Of course they were the most popular and successful. I think enough time has passed and now, that people who weren't caught up in the social movement just listen to the music. I don't think there's any discussion that alice in chains is infinitely more interesting to musicians, just more dynamic.
Yes. The normies then and now like nirvana. The people into music back then liked Alice in chains
@@lightfeather9953 Nirvana is over 30 million monthly on Spotify. More than a lot current pop stars/rappers.
I'm 52. I actually saw Alice In Chains live on the Clash of the Titans tour with triple headliners Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth. I wasn't there for Alice In Chains, to be clear. But I have to give them credit in hindsight for coming out and giving it their all on a tour where they were the odd man out. Subsequently, though, I did come to like a few of their songs, especially "Would?"
INTO THE FLOOD AGAAAIIINN SAME OLE TRIP IT WAS BYAAAAAAAAAAAAACK THEEEENN!
So i made a big muhstaaakeee
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Goated song.
Best tribute song to Andy Wood by far.
@@melrupinski88nah gotta be "Say Hello 2 Heaven"
My favourite grunge band is definitely Alice in Chains, but Nirvana's importance is undeniable. It's a shame we didn't get a lot of output from them, it would have been amazing to see the directions they would go for.
As good as the last three AiC albums have been since they’ve become old men, can you imagine how good 50 year old nirvana would be?
Yeah exactly
AiC' my favorite but Nirvana's the greatest
@@jonvonjoni3045Jerry Cantrell's newest solo stuff is god-tier, too. Better than newer AIC, imo.
@@jonvonjoni3045who knows? Its not like they were reinventing the wheel? Kurt Cobain doesnt have one of the best voices of all time - give your balls a tug! Layne Staley blows him away!
Seattle sounded like them in the Grunge days, though. So whether they want or not, they are top of the list.
“Your moms wispy hairs” sounds like a dashboard confessional song my girlfriend in high school would listen to when she was mad at me for some reason
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I was dating a girl and things weren't going well for us. One night I was listening to Badmotorfinger and Jesus Christ Pose was on. She started talking about how terrible his voice was. I didn't even know how to respond It felt like she wanted to fight. I just said, "okay" and didn't bite.
The next day she called me and asked me to come over.
She said, "We need to have a talk."
"Do we need to have a talk, or 'The Talk'?"
"The talk."
"I knew this was coming last night."
"How did you know?"
"You said Chris Cornell's singing was bad. I could tell you were trying to start a fight."
"Yeah. I was. Too obvious?"
"You couldn't have chosen a worse example."
lol. You lucked out.
How grown up to not just say what is bothering you but instead try to "start a fight"
Should've said bye bye that night
Get out of my car, stranger.
you dodged a deadly bullet
I'm blown away with how Revolver has milked these interviews for so long
One of these days the member of the bands gonna leave and Revolver will not notice because they have been looking at these for so long
Squeezing they four long teats over and over
Layne Staley was the best live vocalist to ever live.
Yeah layne from the chains is the best grunge band screw nirvana all their music is trash I just don’t like Dave Grohl none of their music ever stuck I don’t care yk Alice In Chains all the way!!!
@@Dylan-so7hh yea Kurt even said layne had the best voice in Seattle.
It’s a tie between Alice In Chains and Soundgarden. -Poser here
agree 100%
@Brettwbeyer14 Seriously. What's wrong with preferring AIC and/or Soungarden to Nirvana? Nirvana was pushed more by the mainstream, but I think they're both objectively better than Nirvana. Pearl Jam is whatever.
@@Christian-vq8rd i dont know. this guy is going purely off of significance of that moment in time. I believe the test of time is more important. Looking purely at the music and output, I put all three of the others above, including Pearl Jam. Nirvana had 2 banger albums; bleach and nevermind. in utero is alright. they were out of material after in utero even if cobain lived. the other bands had more output and more to offer all together. soundgarden was good in the 80's. then they did 3 banger albums in the 90's. AIC did 4 banger in the 90's then black on blue in their post Staley return was a banger. Nirvana really had one creative songwriter, which was kurt. most everything evolved around him. the other bands were different, where they behaved more like real bands that each had their creative imput and wrote songs. I believe that's the key diffrrence IMYO. Nirvana limited themselves with a very formulaic song writing style. They even were self aware of it with the Song Vs Chorus Vs
@Brettwbeyer14 The only reason people prefer nirvana is because they follow the mainstream and never bothered to fully comprehend the musical geniuses of AiC and Soundgarden. They listen once, aren't attracted to its weirdness, and dismiss and label Nirvana as the best. Nirvana is a simple band with simple music (not an insult) which is why people are more attracted to it. It's usually anyone who plays an instrument who can grasp the _art_ of Cornell and AiC. Because they foster more musical understanding and appreciation.
@@bigdawg6308 Well put.
The real best grunge band is the friends we made along the way.
The only correct answer
Wholesome.
Who are all sadly no longer with us
Luv U Mr. Lance
95% of them ODd in the 90s
Jerry Cantrell has said AIC was not a grunge band. He always considered himself metal.
And?
I dont consider AIC or Soundgarden to be Grunge
I'd agree with him there, they're closer to metal than they are to other Seattle bands. But grunge is kinda just a blanket term for that era of Seattle alternative anyway. A lot of them sounded different from one another
Alice In Chains is like Pantera or Metallica mated with some sort of alt-rock grunge band, candlebox or something like that. I think they’re the best “grunge” band but I know they’re more metal based and laynes vocals can never be duplicated.
Crue has denied being hair metal or glam (I think others have as well IIRC). Meshuggah claims not to be djent.
SO WHAT?
Obviously, a spade is still a spade regardless if the creator tries to distance themselves from some such (generally regrettable) label.
Just a question how come STP doesn’t ever make the list? Timeless songs and the Deleo brothers were and are monster musicians!!
they were from LA, not seattle.
Grunge didn’t have to come from Seattle, Technically Nirvana didn’t come from Seattle either…Small town Aberdeen was not Seattle…Just wondering..I
Always refer to grunge as the big 5 because of STP..
I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. Wicked Garden anyone?
@@ConcertFootageNate Waitwaitwait. Grunge has to be eitherall Seattle OR a sound. In the latter case, AIC and Soundgarden don't belong. So it's the first? Then STP don't belong.
Stone Temple Pilots' my favorite, and it's surprising that nobody even remembered them. A grunge band with a more diverse musical palette, and their vocalist was nothing less than Scott Weiland. But yes, I have to agree that Nirvana can be considered the best in terms of cultural impact. They're all great bands nonetheless.
Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, The Melvins
You’re clearly a real rocker with that list. I’d add Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone and that’s your top tier complete.
This is the correct answer
I'm gen x and AIC is my favorite grunge band by far
Same, and that was also true for me when I was a teenager. But even teenaged me who would have still ranked Nirvana first on a list of grunge bands, because of how influential they were. Without Nevermind blowing up the other 3 bands probably would have never become nationally prominent to the extent they did either.
No doubt, Nirvana was the most Important, but AIC the Best in most aspects.
To me it's Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, tie Nirvana and Pearl Jam
Thank you sir 🙏🏻
@@MidWanker-Minis I never really considered Alice in Chains and Soundgarden grunge bands. They were metal bands that wrote some grunge songs.
Agree
I've tried and tried but Layne Stanley's voice gets on my flipping nerves!
For me it's Stone Temple Pilots. They're my favorite, and it's surprising that nobody even remembered them. But yes, I have to agree that Nirvana can be considered the best in terms of cultural impact. They're all great bands nonetheless.
I’m one of the millennials hyping AIC. My parents were huge into drugs back in the day and AIC was the soundtrack to their destruction, and is what I remember from the grunge days
Damn...
That's what most of us remember from those days
Oof. That's dark...
Fortunately, AIC is one of those bands that can truly never be replicated
Because they are the best band. Thank you sir 🙏🏻
I know few 15 year olds who could play like Kurt Cobain. Sure, I could play scales and a little sweepie here and there - having the accentuation and sense of rhythm is something only few people have in the world. Look at "Smells like Teen Spirit": Everyone can play the chords, yet 99% fail on playing it right. The mix of sloppy and tight is something which is hard to achieve.
100%
Yeah even popular bands cover rhythm guitar badly sometimes, like on live shows. They'll get the basics but miss all the little details that sometimes ruins the feel for me. It's a neglected art.
Yeah, and also how you rake the strings is a big part of it too. For me at least. I always manage to get it right when I play his stuff.
Nirvana was like a tsunami that washed over the music landscape. If you were a Gen X kid your entire musical world got thrashed about like a snow globe. One day it was wall-to-wall cock rock and the next is was flannels and mumbles... just that quick.
Yep
And then you matured and discovered Alice in chains
If you were a sad MTV mall GenXer, then maybe.
Never heard of 80s LA/OC punk?
WI had few options outside the mainstream in the pre-internet days.
@@MidWanker-MinisI discovered Alice In Chains, still think Nirvana is better. But that’s because they sound absolutely nothing alike.
I would say "Nirvana changed everything in an overnight" is an urban myth. in 1992, at the height of Grunge, Def Leppard was outselling Pearl Jam and Bon Jovi, GnR, MrBig, Aerosmith etc were still on the radio. Things really changed in 1993 - thats the year when MTV changed its music format.
There is definitely a bit rear-view misremebering about how suddenly tastes shift. Guns N Roses arguably remained the biggest rock band in the country post-Nirvana, despite being a band from a genre (hair metal) that was in the process of being killed off. Use Your Illusion debuted in the same period as Nevermind and Ten and was a monster success, their videos were all over MTV, you couldn't get away from them on the radio, and GnR was also doing massive arena tours well into the Grunge era. Van Halen of all bands also had an album go triple platinum in 1995, which is even past the lifespan of Grunge and into the early Post-Grunge era, and they were a bit like the elder statesmen of hair metal.
There absolutely was a sea change in musical tastes ushered in by Nevermind, but it was not quite as immediate or complete as often portrayed when looking back. It was mostly the mid and shit-tier hair metal acts that were done overnight, the better ones lingered on for a few years.
@@ahorsewithnoname773In general, people with angsty musical tastes tend to downplay the popularity of what normies were actually listening to. Yes, Grunge was big in the 90's, but a lot of popular 90's music didn't fit the grunge aesthetic at all. Also, Grunge was big with the 12-16 white guy demographic.... And they are going to tend to over amplify what they were into at that time.
I heard an interview with Mark Slaughter of the band Slaughter. He said it wasn't grunge that killed his style of music it was the business. Said MTV got a new president who was the programmer of KROQ at the time and straight up said we will never play those bands again.
Wrong. I "was there" and whoever was still selling records after Nirvana, was doing so based on momentum or selling to people who didn't have access to MTV or radio. Nirvana hijacked the music industry. Whatever did not sort of sounded or looked like Nirvana, was on its way out. Cancelled.
Hysteria was the last super successful album before Nirvana hit. And it was "overnight". The moment Smells Like Teen Spirit came out... that was it. The 80s died instantly. This was the music of the 90s. Period.
I am not even a grunge fan. Never liked Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains... but Nirvana was a nuclear bomb.
@@emartinezr Lots of other people were there too, living during the 1990s isn't unique. In any event memory is fallible. Look at what albums were selling the early 90s and who was still touring.
Teenaged me was way more into the grunge bands than most of the hair metal stuff, but bands like GnR and Van Halen were still releasing records that went platinum and doing arena tours well after Nevermind hit the shelves. Nevermind did usher in a change in musical tastes, but it wasn't as overnight as portrayed. It took a few years before it fully played out.
I am the same age as Finn. I have been big a fan of both Alice in chains and Nirvana. I prefer Alice in Chains. Trust me it has NOTHING to do with millenials, i just find A.I.C. music a bit more exciting. When i was younger i listened more to Nirvana, but as i grew older my opinion changed. To use trends as a reason for why i like A.I.C more than Nirvana is just cringe asf. I'm to old to care about what trends in music. I have to say that i still love Nirvana's music very much.
I feel like Alice in the Chains is the hardest to pigeonhole out of the big 4. They skirt the edges of a few different genres (grunge, heavy metal, psych rock) and are the heaviest sounding out of the big 4. They almost belong in their own category entirely. Really cool band all in all.
Ohkay Pre-Nirvana overnight(?!) explosion, there was Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, Green River, Malfunkshun, Melvins, Bam Bam, Sound Garden, & Skin Yard.
Jane's Addiction!
Wow I forgot to list Jane's! Gen X fail, sorry@@jovanreid6782
The whole MTV unplugged sets from those grunge bands back in the day were killer.
My favorites were always TAD and Mudhoney, but the most important will always be Nirvana.
Hit the nail right on the fucking head man. I remember being a kid and popping that Salt Lick/God’s Balls album in the cd player for the first time and hearing “Axe To Grind”. It was a life changing experience. Anyone who hasn’t heard that record front to back is missing out on the grungiest album of all time.
Mudhoney also an excellent choice. To this day they still have a hell of an energy in their live sets.
Took me way too long to scroll for someone who actually knows. Mudhoney hands down and still going to this day. I'd say Tad is just under or on the same level as Melvins since they really only had a couple good albums each. Nirvana def most influential after the fact outside the scene but def not the best.
actually Baroness likes to run into the crowd when headliners to their concerts are playing and he passed by me at a Mastodon show and i can confirm Baroness is a bit bigger than i thought.
Feeeeee-eeee-eeed my eeeeyees
(Can You Sew Them Shut)
🙏🏻 thank you sir
You are right about Pearl Jam having a lot of Mid-songs, but they are frikkin fantastic live. They sound so much better live than their studio recordings sound
Especially when they cover Hide Your Love Away by the Beatles. Truly awesome.
Ten (1991) ✔
VS (1993)✔
Vitalogy (1994)✔
No Code (1996) ✖
Yield (1998)✔
Binaural (2000) ✖
Riot Act (2002)✔
Self-Titled (2006)✔
Backspacer (2009)✖
Lightning Bolt (2013)✖
Gigaton (2020)✔
Dark Matter (2024) ❓
Ten was and still is a classic release.
Can't say much about them as live act, but if we talk about their studio stuff, they always seemed like a proto butt rock band to me sound wise. At least what I heard from them. I'd say it is my least favorite of all OG grunge bands. Maybe I'm missing out on something.
@unholy_raccoon Ten,VS,Vitalogy, and Yield are great albums.
As much as I'm a Nirvana fanboy and a fan of PJ, SG, and AIC, I hafto go with Green River. Not only did they gave us the first grunge record with the Come On Down EP, but their break up led to the creations of Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, and Pearl Jam. Thankfully, we still have Mark Arm as one of the still living grunge singers alongside Eddie Vedder.
R.I.P to Layne, Chris, Scott, Mark Lanegan, Andy Wood, Ben McMillan of Skin Yard and especially Kurt, which today is what would've been his 57th birthday.
The first Pearl album was epic.
Honestly, the 2nd was better imo (they're both amazing) but after that they do start to fall off. Vitalogy is hit & miss but when it hits, it hits hard.
Ten is one if my fav albums its a bit depressing though 😭
@@KuLaydMahn 100% agree. VS was peak Pearl Jam.
Finn I'm saying you're wrong. Alice in Chains is tops for Grunge. I grew up in that era and experienced it all first hand. Growing up in Portland at the time we got a lot of trickle down acts from the Seattle area. Absolutely Nirvana had an immeasurable impact on music but as for lasting legacy its AIC all the way.
Well i grew up in that era and i’m from seattle so i guess my personal experience trumps yours. See how silly that argument is?
if your from that area then surely you watched Alice In Chains back in 1988 dressing up as glam rockers while Nirvana looked the same in 1988 as they did in 1991.
@@EdtheFED6132Kurt wanted to be underground so much that made the biggest 90's pop album.
STP's first two records are "grunge" but they fought hard to shed the motif.
They also weren't considered grunge despite some similarities because grunge was never an actual subgenre of rock. The criteria for grunge was pretty much being a Seattle band that blew up in the early 90s, which is why the canon was limited to 4 bands and even those 4 had at least as many differences in their sound as similarities. Grunge was never more than a convenient media label for a tiny handful of Seattle bands that weren't hair metal.
I'd say grunge was a movement, like surf rock or rockabilly, but more popular and widespread. It died quickly as many bands were dubbed post-grunge by 1994 @@ahorsewithnoname773
Stp to me is pure, unfiltered awesome rock and roll
Seattle Grunge was a huge cultural shift. It was in the 90’s what the British Invasion was in the 60’s. Those bands brought the music back to earth and had depth and feeling that resonated with a lot of people.
*me breaking into Guantanamo bay to rescue Finn, I find him tied to a chair, barely conscious with stacks of pearl jam and Skaa records piled on the floor. I pull out my MP5 to silence "Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish playing on repeat on the record player. A single tear wells up in my eye as I look at the tattered and broken man "my god... What have they done to you?" I whisper*
I rock back and forth in the corner, holding myself and whispering the chorus of a Goldfinger song over and over
I'm 24 and found grunge on my own. AIC is honestly beyond grunge. But if you ask me "the best grunge band", I'd for sure say Nirvana. But I'm a musician and AIC appeals to me more artistically.
Mudhoney!
I'm always happy when my favourite rocker FMK reacts to rockers react to videos.
alice in chains. facelift is a 'no skip'. i like nirvana, the make good songs but their lyrics are mostly abstract nonsense.
My vote goes to Rotten Apple.
I was already into punk before 'grunge' broke, so I never got into it. It was the record industry trying to sell 'rebellion' to teens. The music wouldn't freak out parents too much.
Why not just enjoy both like I did? Who cares about record companies. Punk is pretty niche of a sound to be the only genre a person listens to.
Nah, gangsta-rap took over the "scare your parents" factor.
Grunge, alt-rock, and Sonic the Hedgehog annoyed your parents, hip-hop and Pokemon terrified them.
Exactly. Minor Threat and Void scared my parents way more than Nirvana or Soundgarden.
One funny thing is Krist Novoselic doesn't understand all of us thinking that Nirvana changed music, because his view is that Nirvana just was a continuation of what Husker Du and Replacements were doing in the 1980's.
Alice In Chains were pretty gritty and nihilistic ..... But Death Metal and Gangster Rap stirred more controversy than Grunge.
Nirvana is everyone’s favorite as a kid; then AiC is everyone’s favorite in their 20s/30s; then in your 40s+ you realize it’s been Nirvana all along.
... it's Nirvana the whole time for me.
Soundgarden will always be the best
I actually never was a big fan of Nirvana until about 26. But that was mostly because they were overplayed to annoyance.
Was nirvana when I was young 49 and it’s still nirvana..Is what it is!! Kurt died grunge died, I don’t feel AIC is grunge at all!!
I personally like AiC more, but Nirvana is the greatest grunge band.
Nothing ''killed'' grunge. The main players either died, or burned out, or got into other projects. Then it was a natural meld into Alternative. It wasn't killed like hair metal receiving a fatal punch killed.
grunge was a one trick pony... it died a natural death
Any time you want to do videos about grunge, I’m super on board. Not necessarily because it’s my favorite music, but because it was such a pertinent movement that happened in my youth, so I’m still fascinated by it.
AIC music actually aged well. Kirt Cobain is a cultural icon, it tricks people into thinking nirvanas music is better then it is. Millenials are less emotionally invested in the whole MTV cultural icon aspect of it, and AIC music is just better.
This ☝🏻
Alice in Chains is grunge for frat bros.
Nevermind is the not only the greatest grunge album, but one of the greatest music albums of all time. The same cannot be said about any AIC albums. MTV didn't make Nirvana great, Nevermind did.
Change title to: "Bunch of Washed Out Members of Bands Everyone Got Tired of Years Ago Name the Same 3 Bands Over and Over and Talk Forever About One of Those 3"
Melvins are the heart of grunge…it still beats.
Bleach was the last grunge album by Nirvana.
AIC are great, but were groove metal…very good groove metal.
Mudhoney also great.
Slaves and Bulldozers by Sound Garden is the best grunge tune of all time. Sounds like Melvins, but with the Cornell phenomenal voice.
New life goal: attain the confidence of that old dude in the locker room.
Anders has said Pearl Jam isn't grunge & KoRn isn't nu metal. Man has the worst genre takes.
Still inviting him to the BBQ even though he'll probably bring some vegan swedish meatballs or something.
He'll argue with you on everything but in a non-confrontational way so it's just humorous.
When I hear some kid “shredding”, I feel like I want to take a nap.
Nobody gives two farts how fast you can play and all the finger tapping crap.
It’s just a buncha noise.
People want to hear great SONGS! 😎🤘
Another band nobody talks about that I feel doesn’t get credit for making great songs and great albums is Stone Temple Pilots.. I know they came from San Diego and not Seattle but I feel they were part of that movement and that sound/song writing.. they had some amazing songs too
Purple, Core, and No. 4 are classics. Never really got into Tiny Music.
@@anony-moon yeah … all those albums are amazing from start to finish… Robert and Scott were amazingly talented song writers…
Most culturally influential: nirvana. Most palatable to the masses: Pearl Jam. Best guitars: Alice In Chains. Best singer: sound garden
I can't disagree tbh
Nirvana is the correct answer but Alice in Chains is my fav. It was one of the first rock bands I rlly loved. I also rlly loved Nirvana, but it feels like it's more teen music. Alice in Chains feels like it's more broad and you can enjoy it at an older age without going nostalgic millennial mode. Also, I would be lying if I said the popularity of Nirvana didn't affect me. Seeing all kinds of ppl, the emo kids, the popular kids, ghetto kids, nerds, everyone had a Nirvana shirt or hoodie in highschool. I honestly got tired of seeing the logo everywhere. I'm gen z btw if that matters
I like that Lars’ kid didn’t name Lars as a drumming influence. Tells you everything you need to know.
Nirvana is more popular because everyone knows ‘smells like teen spirit’. The newbies the normies like nirvana.
I've genuinely always preferred Soundgarden to Nirvana - not disputing who's more "important" "iconic" etc., their music just sounds better to my ears - and there was a 20+ year period there where people thought you're just being contrarian if you said that. Things have shifted a little bit, it seems.
I think the best grunge band is whichever one you like the most
Edited to add that Live Through This is a pretty good album but in general Hole sucks
My fav modern grunge bands are Softcult (though more shoegaze, they've covered two Nirvana songs extremely well) and Superheaven (who got some heavy attention with that "it's useless I tried to no avail" meme sampling their "Youngest Daughter" song).
Nirvan never did it for me. However...Soundgarden sitcks to this day
Of the "big four" Soundgarden is my favorite. I like all four. Soundgarden was the best live IMO. I'm sure other people would disagree with that based on their experiences.
Complete opposite for me. But Black hole sun is an all time classic
@@oopsydaizi3s824how to say you've listened to only one song without saying you've only listened to one song
Nirvana is the best without a doubt, but Alice In Chains is my preferred jam
Once eddie vedder started playing guitar, things went downhill. The music for Ten was written before Vedder got involved, so thats why its different than later albums
Did he play on yield? I never knew he wrote guitar parts.
I actually didn’t know that! Explains a lot
I hate bands who have 3 guitarists unless they do something very interesting. It annoys me enough when bands with 2 guitarists just copy each others parts (unless it's a specific touring guitarist)
I think he started to help writing the music on Vitalogy. He was a big Fugazi fan, it shows in the song "Spin the black circle"
Vs was the best pearl jam album and dissident is their best song
The fact he answered “who is the greatest grunge band?” with Social Distortion 💀💀💀💀
Love starting my morning with a Mr. Finn upload
Kurt Cobain wasn´t a bad guitarist at all. People who say that don´t know what makes good or bad playing. Also have they ever tried playing come as you are and sing over it? That shit is hard to do.
Screaming Trees over Nirvana
I'm one of those people who never liked the name Grunge. Grunge was a word that was made up by the media for musicians who came from the same place. None of the bands sounded the same. They just lived in the same state. Pearl Jam was a jam band who hated overproduced studio music. Alice in Chains was mostly metal. Soundgarden was rock with a splash of blues. Nirvana was a punk band that went mainstream.
If you're truly a hardcore music nerd you would bring up Tad.
Tad was awesome.
Tad and the melvins
I got into Metal in 1991 at the age of 13. My first tape was Judas Priest Painkiller. It made me buy a guitar to become Heavy Metal. When Nirvana came out and crushed my style, Grunge became my worst enemy. #the90swerebullshit
Massive Alice In Chains nut here but Nirvana were the definitive Grunge Band.
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My FAVORITE grunge band is Stone Temple Pilots and im surprised no one brought them up, but obviously Nirvana is objectively the greatest grunge band. Their level of domination is not on opinion
Mudhoney: Cool, cool guess we're chopped liver.
Finn I have to say i agree with you about Pearl Jam love the first album. But my friend cannot be allowed to watch this video because to him Pearl Jam is the greatest band in the history of music. I swear to God we went to a concert he made me listen to every live bootleg Pearl Jam song That exist. I shit you not Pearl Jam forgot they wrote half of these songs😂
Nirvana is the Beatles of Grunge
Alice and Chains is the Rolling Stones
Soundgarden is Led Zep
Pearl Jam The Who
Alice in chains is the best grunge band. Finn mkenty if I see you I fight you.
I was in Seattle going to shows a ton during this time. Nirvana started off punk with Bleach, and journeyed into pop grunge with NeverMind. On the ground at the time Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains were the kool respected bands. Nirvana got huge because people were watching Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Alice In Chains, TAD, Grunt Truck, Melvins etc... Chris Cornells first wife Susan and Mark Lanegan had to twist sub pop's arm to even listen to Nirvana at live shows.
Dinosaur Jr. is still the best and most diverse grunge band, yeah, his voice isn't amazing but he's a damn good guitar player.
MUDHONEY!
Nirvana 100% blew up the scene. They were the biggest Grunge artists and made me fall in love with the scene. But as I get older.. I prefer Soundgarden and AIC more now.
Never liked Nirvana much their lyrcs were nonsensical AIC wrote meaningful songs.
Nirvana, obviously! Really not close. Their sound was the blueprint and they were the band that changed music. The “before and after Nirvana” event was real. No doubt about it. Finn seems to forget that both Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were metal bands on Headbangers Ball BEFORE Nirvana blew up with Smells Like Teen Spirit.
TAD
My name is Tadd lol
Greatest: Nirvana
Best musicians: Soundgarden
Most popular: PJ
My favorite:AIC
20:04 - That's WILD. Never in my life made those two connections. Haha
You're so innocent
I think it was Alice Cooper who said Chris Cornell is know as “The Voice” in the Rock community.. Cornell in my eyes is the best singer of all time.. just raw emotion and what a powerful voice 🐐 🙌🏻
Im glad Finn said it. Nobody wants to admit Hole is just flat out terrible.
1. Grunge is not even a category. It was an adjective a Sup Pop PR person created to describe Mudhoney's music during the release of their 1st album.
2. Two things destroyed the Seattle scene. 1. bad copycat bands (Bush, Silverchair, Stone Temple Pilots, Creed, Nickleback) 2. Time. No scene like Glam, Electronic, Punk lasts for ever. People crave new stuff.
3. Best "Grunge" band can only be decided by either success (Nirvana's Nevermind has sold 22 million copies) or the 1st band that started it all, sound wise. (The Melvins) or the band that lasted the longest. (Pearl Jam)
I agree that the copycat bands mostly sucked, but Grunge as a full fledged phenomena was actually even more shortlived than most music sub-genres.... Part of it was the bad copy cat bands but just as important is how quickly the big four Grunge bands failed to keep the genre alive.... Cobain killed himself in '94, Layne fell into major drug addiction by the mid-90's, and Pearl Jam made big changes to their sound after just two albums. Soundgarden really was the only band not to falter.
I agree about Pearl Jam. However, I think the best is a title that should be shared by Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. Nirvana was definitely the most influential, and they were heading in a direction that would have made them the best, but then Kurt Cobain was suicided. 😢 If In Utero, Unplugged, and "You Know You're Right" were any indication of the direction they were going, they would have been the best.
All 4 are great,my favorite genre that I got to grow up in as well,but its Nirvana. AIC and Soundgarden was out first but Nirvana blew it up and paved the way for the others.
Woooow. Bro. U are the only person I have ever talk about pearl jam like that.. But that's exactly how I feel!! I love about 4 of their songs.. The rest is either egghh.. Or most of it actually really really sux!!!
I was doing seasonal factory work when Better Man hit. We could tell the time based on how many times that damned song played.
The only correct answers are “Nirvana” or “Obviously Nirvana, but I liked ______ more.”
Alice on Chains > Nirvana
Yes. F*cking love Nirvana. They opened Rockmusic and covering songs for me. But I have to say, nothing compared to buying "Dirt" and hearing the CD (yes...CD!) for the first time with Layne Staley yelling on me. I like all "Big Four" but nothing comes close to the vocal harmonies between Layne and Jerry. And sure, Chris Cornell sings like Robert Plant but there is something about Staley's dissonant voice, which makes him imo the most unique Singer of that time.
Nuh uh
why is this guy saying that everybody is wrong for not choosing Nirvana as the best grunge band.
For me is definitely Alice in Chains
I appreciate 90s Alternative but I am not a fan of the "Grunge Culture" which was the beginning of todays woke/sjw culture, pushing for political correctness in music etc. Kim Thayil of Soundgarden has said "Grunge" was manufactured by the Press and Record labels and he said they always considered themselves as an Alternative band.
fave bands from this era: Alica in Chains , Mother Love Bone, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Pearl Jams debut
I hate how true this is and it's very obvious now from the ones who survived into the age of social media. Somehow, Gen X libs are the most uptight authoritarian group of people on that side of the political isle.
And yet they made the best music... My generation of late millennials are the least talented people in all of existence but have similar politics to their gen X helicopter parents
alice in chains softer, often acoustic songs are typcially peoples favorite side of them .
Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney
Nirvana for me for sure. Im not all too familiar with any of the other bands music but Nirvana just has something special to them, a sense of realness, a sense of rawness, vulnerability, and felt very human and were able to connect with it on a deep level. Nirvana all the way
Soundgarden is just great. They transcend grunge and are just great. RIP Chris Cornell.
Courtney Love did it …
Most culturally important/big: Nirvana.
The best: Sound Garden.
Finn’s reaction to this video is the epitome of the statement, “You can be right, or you can be happy.” Love it!
I 💯 agree with Finn on this one. Any answer other than Nirvana would be like asking, “who was the best band of the British Invasion era?” and then going rogue by not choosing the Beatles. As if being wrong makes you more interesting.
Nirvana is the most important, but Soundgarden is one of the best bands ever, not only they were great players, but their songwriting is incredible, really honest too