Your top 5 Grunge albums?
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Topic: Your top 5 Grunge albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your top 5 Grunge albums?
Date Posted: June 11 2023 at 05:31
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I guess Grunge is the most significant of the 1990s Rock genres. It's also one I'm quite fond of, and my favourite albums are: 2. Nirvana - In Utero (1993) 3. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991) 4. Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992) 5. Pearl Jam - Ten (1991) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: June 11 2023 at 06:04
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My list is boring... Pearl Jam - Ten Nirvana - Nevermind Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger In Utero and Dirt would be in my next 5 with Live Through This, Siamese Dream, and Bricks Are Heavy. |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: June 11 2023 at 06:13
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Nirvana - Bleach Melvins - Ozma (or Houdini or Stoner Witch) Tad - 8-way Santa Mudhoney - Piece of Cake L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 11 2023 at 06:17
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I'm no expert at all. But I think these albums hold up excellently: 1. Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia (1991) 4. Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992) 3. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991) 4. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) ... and it really depends where you draw the line: 5. Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992) ...as the NY "noise rock veterans" were kind of lumped into Grunge in the early 90's, along with Smashing Pumpkins (and a few more). A little like our Dutch, Belgian, French and Italian Canterbury Scene-bands:) -alternatively I'll go for Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle (1992) too. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: June 11 2023 at 07:49
I wouldn't say so.  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
mathman0806 wrote:Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: June 11 2023 at 07:49
nice ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: June 12 2023 at 13:14
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some hot stuff ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 12 2023 at 14:50
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Despite loving Nirvana, I just about get a top 5 list together, and this has RYM's no. 1, 2, 3, and 5 plus the Neil Young album that they surprisingly tagged as grunge. Gotta avoid Soundgarden, they never did anything for me. This is the list to beat when it comes to "boring"... 1 Nirvana - Nevermind 2 Nirvana - In Utero 3 Alice in Chains - Dirt 4 Pearl Jam - Ten 5 Neil Young - Mirror Ball But still, 5 albums that I like, an honest list...
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: June 12 2023 at 15:55
Replace Sweet Oblivion (don’t know it) with Plush (Stone Temple Pilots) and that’s my boring five! Temple Of The Dog is an incredible album😎 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 13 2023 at 03:04
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Grunge brought me back (at least partly) to rock music in the very early 90's, because I'd spent most of the late 80's into Jazz and JR/F, mainly because I destested most "rock" and the 80's production values. But I must say that Grunge never became a vein that I investigated deeply. I mainly skimmed the surface
2.5 out of five (I'd go for Ragged Glory rather than Mirror Ball) and the other two (three) would be in a top 15  I know they're not really tagged as Grunge, but close enough for me (West Coast bands), but RHCP's BSSM and RATM's debut rank right up there as my top "grungy" releases. Bubbling under would be Superunknown or Badmotorfinger, Dirt, Mad Season, Vitalogy, In Utero, Mirror Ball, etc... . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: June 15 2023 at 05:28
In my case, Grunge didn't say me much in the '90s and actually, I didn't get into it before the mid-2010s when I had become more fond of Metal, and maybe Punk too. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 16 2023 at 01:54
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All I can manage Soundgarden - Superunknown Pearl Jam - Ten Nirvana - Nevermind almost tempted to put in King Crimson - Red to make a 5 but I guess I'm inviting enough controversy by including Rush as it is!
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 16 2023 at 01:59
Test for Echo is not grunge.
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Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: June 16 2023 at 02:04
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Alice in Chains - Dirt Soundgarden - Superunknown L7 - Bricks Are Heavy Nirvana - In Utero Local H - As Good as Dead Other excellent releases: Hole - Live Through This Alice in Chains - Facelift, s/t, Black Gives Way to Blue Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs Nirvana - Nevermind, Bleach L7 - Hungry for Stink, Smell the Magic Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Louder Than Love, Down on the Upside Stone Temple Pilots - Core, Purple Mother Love Bone - Apple Mad Season - Above Temple of the Dog - s/t 7 Year Bitch - Viva Zapata! Lots of great stuff to choose from
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: June 28 2023 at 16:06
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According to RYM, the album The Rite of Spring (2016) by the Chinese Jajatao is one of the most popular and high-rated in a grungy "new wave".  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 28 2023 at 20:30
Well, Test For Echo is probably closer to a grunge album than Counterparts. |