Grunge

Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, almost entirely in the Seattle area (“grunge” was initially used to describe only the emerging music scene in Seattle, also referred to as “the Seattle Sound”). Inspired by hardcore punk, metal (particularly 70s heavy metal like Sabbath and Led Zep and the overdriven proto-punk of the Stooges), and indie/ early alt. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Crisis Dance

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Nov 8 Sunday 8 November 2009 Today
Meat Puppets	Vaudeville Mews Des Moines IA, United States 41.585489 -93.622226	1 person attending Add shout
Marcy Playground	Republic New Orleans, LA, New Orleans, United States 29.94411 -90.0658	1 person attending Add shout
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Meat Puppets at Mojo's Meat Puppets	Mojo's Columbia, MO, United States 38.954529 -92.326151	6 people attending 1 shout Buy Tickets
Shonen Knife Jeff The Brotherhood	The Spanish Moon Baton Rouge LA, United States 30.437856 -91.185933	2 people attending Add shout
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Marcy Playground at House of Blues Marcy Playground	House of Blues Dallas TX, United States 32.785335 -96.808326	3 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Meat Puppets at Otto’s Niteclub Meat Puppets	Otto’s Niteclub Dekalb, IL, United States 41.930627 -88.753865	5 people attending Add shout

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Mad_Dingo704 wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Nirvana actually wrote the same song over and over. Puddle Of Mudd have tried different sounds from Blurry to We Don't have To Look Back Now. The New song; Space Ship shows they know how to rock.

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MrBartels wrote:
Wednesday evening

Nirvana - fucking great =)

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sulaimon wrote:
Wednesday morning

hi

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olanderm0912 wrote:
Tuesday morning

顶、你们说的什么啊、咋完全看不懂

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clintbeed6793 wrote:
Sunday evening

Alice In Chains is imo the best Grunge Band of all time

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NWG369 wrote:
last week

In all honesty, though, grunge really isn't a genre. And if it is, there are only a few bands belonging to it (like Green River, Mudhoney, and other similar bands). Unless we look at grunge less as a musical genre and more of a category along the lines of labeling a band by location or time period. By their location, time period, and clothing style alone (most of) these bands are technically grunge, but musically they're nothing remotely similar to each other.

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ShitTits404 wrote:
last week

nesovbe tagged Limp Bizkit – Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) and The Offspring – Hit That with grunge. 3 hours ago <<< FIND HIM AND CRUSH HIM

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imagesk8r6969 wrote:
last week

good music. just sumtimes 2 sad and angry. i'd rather b happy and have a good time. \m/

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Cloud197 wrote:
last week

I love Nirvana because there a band that can make a bunch of songs sound completely different, I mean they have songs that are kinda poppy, some more punk, some more soft, and even some metallic

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Baphometstar wrote:
last week

Layne RIP

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caffeinewolf wrote:
last week

grunge grunge grunge, you can hear grunge's influence on EVERYTHING.. listen to Mozart and feel THE GRUNGE.

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jaimebyrne wrote:
last month

why do some people think that commercial success means the music is automatically inferior? This is crazy. If a bunch of people like something and buy it how can that mean it is suddenly rubbish?

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Itose wrote:
last month

Hey, I'm a pretentious mess, Grunge does not exist, it is not a music style, Nirvana was so pop punk it hurts and Pearl Jam sold out with 'Even Flow', Black Hole Sun was crap because it was soo mainstream and popish. (Really its funny, go on any tag and people act the same, stop giving a shit and listen to the music already)

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krasherr wrote:
last month

its more of a scene and culture than a distinct music genre

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PrissyPrancer wrote:
last month

the word grunge was first used by Mark Arm from Mudhoney, NOT Mtv.

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nathan1208 wrote:
last month

Of course the 'big 4' bands all sound different, but grunge was more a way of describing the scene in Seattle from the late 80s to early 90s. The music was all pretty similar, if not the 'same'. So yea, broadly similar sounds, from the same area at the same time period. What's wrong with that? You can call grunge an MTV term created by The Man if you want (and of course grunge was latched on to by the media as much as anything else) but it doesn't change the music. There are some great bands here.

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NWG369 wrote:
last month

Creed sounds like Pearl Jam.

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bidjoca wrote:
last month

nirvana sounds like nirvana [2]

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dextercob wrote:
last month

nirvana sounds like nirvana =P

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NWG369 wrote:
last month

While Nirvana had aspects of punk music at times (most noticeably on their first album), they certainly weren't a punk band, and they only had a handful of songs that could be considered "pop". I don't see how this coalesces into "pop punk".

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