I am a huge music fan. I listen to all types of music, all day long. If i could I would permanently have headphones in my ears at all times. One style of music that I love, is a genre called grunge. Grunge started in the late 1980′s and really ended in the late 1990′s. Its origin is from Seattle Washington where must of the grunge bands were from. Grunge style music is a dark more gothic look on rock and roll. It’s a kind of rock that doesn’t care about what people think, it just rocks out. Grunge was really commercially successful with a band called Nirvana. I’m sure most people have probably heard a few songs by them and the late frontman, Kurt Cobain.
Nirvana really help make grunge music successful in the nineties. But Nirvana actually isn’t my favorite of the grunge bands. There are so many good grunge bands such as Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and my favorite of all time, Alice In Chains.
Alice In Chains is a dark, rough around the edges band. The lead singer, who is now dead due to a heroin overdose was Layne Staley. A few of the bands main themes in the music were about dealing with depression, sadness and sticking it to the man. This band is a in your face kind of band that has wonderful performances. Last year I was lucky enough to see Alice in Chains front row in St. Louis, and in the same year I saw them again in Ft. Myers Florida. It was incredible, and probably the most memorable concerts I have ever been too.
I really enjoy the music and I hope who ever reads this would give grunge music a chance and listen to it a little bit. There are wonderful things to hear from this genre.
Also for any Nirvana fans out there, this week Nirvana released the 20th anniversary of their first album Nevermind, with unreleased tracks and audio clips, just in case anyone wants to go get it. Enjoy.
September 29, 2011
nikosodini
3 responses to “Grunge”
Laura
October 3rd, 2011 at 20:24
I really love music too. I like all different types of music and don’t think of myself as bias. However, when you first said this type of music I thought that it would be something that I would not consider. Once I kept reading I realized I enjoyed a lot of the bands that you mentioned. A couple of them I was not aware of. I think that I would consider searching for this type of music to broaden my horizons.
zackgondek
October 14th, 2011 at 03:01
Hey man great post! It’s good to see someone my age have an appreciation for grunge as well. To me it seems like grunge was the last stepping stone to bring us into the modern rock age. It was that cherry on top that brought be the deeper soul that hadn’t really been seen since the blues era and it was desperately needed.
jnberry3
November 9th, 2011 at 04:37
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I remember the day I heard about Kurt’s passing vividly. Me and a buddy country cruised all day long knocking back forties of Micky’s Malt Liquor ICE [yes, they used to make it in ICE] and chain smoking Kool Filter Kings and Marlboro Reds. If I recall the order when A Live Bootleg, Incesticide, Bleach, In Utero, and Unplugged in rotation. I was upset by many artists’ deaths in the 90’s B.I.G., Big Pun, and Big L, each contributed to the music industry in great ways. But Kurt’s passing was an end of a certain movement in America, to me ‘grunge’ died with Kurt Cobain, as well as Laine Staley. It was a unique decade to say the least. Michael Pitt does a pretty good job of playing an adaption of KC in Last Days.
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