| - Alice In Chains - Black Sabbath - Doors, The - Green River - Led Zeppelin - Mudhoney - Metallica - Nirvana - Pearl Jam - Screaming Trees - Smashing Pumpkins - Sonic Youth - Soundgarden - Temple Of The Dog |
| The rising stars Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament (former members of Green River) began playing with Malfunction frontman Andy Wood. Together they formed what would become Mother Love Bone. Songs like "Chloe Dancer (Crown Of Thorns)" and "Stardog Champion" were somewhat softer than previous Grunge bands had experemented with. The band's ultimate goal was to expand their audience world wide and maybe even bring a few other Grunge bands with them. However, the untimely death of frontman, Andy Wood, crushed any chances of the band moving on to better things. The Tribute album, created by the Ex-Mother Love Bone members and Soundgarden was called Temple Of The Dog. The album would eventually go on to sell 2 million copies. Soundgarden would go back to doing their own thing. As for Gossard and Ament, they eventually teamed up with California Surfer, Eddie Vedder and became Pearl Jam. They soon began working on their first album TEN. Meanwhile, in early 1991, another even more critical album was being produced. |
| The Grunge Revolution PART I - THE BEGINNING The Grunge revolution, it was a time when abitious young men and women ruled the airwaves with loud raunchy guitar riffs and rough lyrical stylings. It was one of the few periods in time when people felt that a small garage band from Seattle could become one of the greatest bands in the world. Some even had greater aspirations for the new grunge sound. When the sound broke into mainstream, a few felt that this was finnaly the end of corporate rock and that finnaly kids would be able to control the record industry and with it the airwaves. What would become a revolution, began with the punk rock fan base in the Remote region of Seattle, Washington. This became the breading ground for hard core punk acts, since the area was virtually ignored by all other major artist of the time. The punk fan base consisted of social outcast regected by popular culture. Kids went out to see local shows like Skinyard and the Melvins most of whom were fellow musicians. Inspired they went on to create bands of their own. Soon these future artist were ready to create their own albums. Compilation albums like Deep Six and Sub Pop 200 let new comers see what exactly was going on in the scene. |
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| The music was loud abrasive and at times offensive to those who normally embraced popular culture. It was everything Punk music was supposed to be only it had something conventional punk didn't have, a melody that you could hum to. Somewhere along the line the term Grunge was used to describe the sound. It sort of fit since the scene was becoming infamous for using loud distortion guitar sounds to create many of the band's main riffs. The now legendary Sub Pop records began signing artist like Soundgarden. They used to call this 'grunge' the sludge movement. But most people aren't familiar with that term. |
| "To me, they were heavy, they were a 70's heavy band. Long hair Jamming, Zeppelin, thats what they sounded like and they were good at it." - Charles Aaron, Spin Magazine |
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| 1) The Genre Known As Punk - The Article - Some Questions 2) The Grunge Revolution - The Beginning - Album To Change Albums - End Of An Era 3) The Punk Manifesto - Belief System Outline 4) The Genre Known As Alt-Rock - The Article |
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