The prog "Grunge"? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I picked Soundgarden. Green River and Mudhoney are the roots......Nirvana should not even be considered grunge, they were pop music loved by MTV and FM radio......Cobain is a doosh.

Alice In Chains, hard metal......Pearl Jam like em a lot...but I struggle calling them hardcore grunge...pop rock music probably in my book.

The heaviest psychedelic purge coming from Seattle was the short-lived projetc Temple of the Dog.
Soundgarden + Pearl Jam / Mother Love Bone = TotD.

After all, one of their song lasted 11 minutes - they had it hard and long overcoming the grief over the death of Andrew Wood.

I always saw Soundgarden as the most Prog grunge band having some prog-ish songs. My Friend always said otherwise looks like I proved him wrong Big smile

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Anyway I wanted to tell you guys about the bet which I sadly lost a couple of minutes ago. I said the more melodic grunge bands, who survived after the Grunge craze died, would get the most votes, but I could only choose one band and it had to get 40% of all votes.

Two bands came to mind Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

I thought about which band I should choose for the bet ( while listening to "Ten" and "Superunknown" respectively) and foolishly chose Pearl Jam.

If I had chosen Soundgarden I would have won but you can't win 'em all I guess.

Now I have to buy that b*****d drinks for 2 weeks.

On the bright side my theory was correct , in a way. Grunge bands that diversify are the favorable ones.

Thanks Guys for voting it means a lot to us Grunge kids. Smile

Oh and keep voting maybe I can still avoid buying 4 gallons of drinks in the following 2 weeks!

Edited by Weirdamigo - August 03 2010 at 06:31

Black Hole Sun is prog, IMO.

I don't think that Soundgarden are suitable for inclusion, but some of their songs are prog.

I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution

Soundgarden is the proggiest/most psychedelic from the list, AIC - the heaviest, Nirvana - the greatest... PJ - a nice rocking band, never uderstood the "grunge" label though, probably it was invented for wannabies such as Stone Temple Pilots... and No, the so called grunge did not kill music, it saved it from the awful hair metal so it was one of the most progressive things to happen in the early 90s :)

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From the list, Soundgarden. Outside the list, The Melvins, of course.

Blind Melon?

Triceratopsoil wrote:

The Quiet One wrote:

Triceratopsoil wrote:

wrong section

They have already corrected the poster, no need to remind him again and in such a cold way.

Missed that, and I didn't think I was being cold.

If you know that he's a new guy, you can tell him where the correct section is, and since you're here, you can add something to the purpose of the poll...

Triceratopsoil wrote:

wrong section

They have already corrected the poster, no need to remind him again and in such a cold way.

wrong section

Poll Question: Most prog-like grunge band
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Pearl Jam	13	[11.11%]
Soundgarden	47	[40.17%]
Mother Love Bone	2	[1.71%]
Nirvana	12	[10.26%]
Alice in Chains	39	[33.33%]
Temple of the Dog	1	[0.85%]
Green River	0	[0.00%]
Love Battery	0	[0.00%]
Mudhoney	0	[0.00%]
Stone Temple Pilots	3	[2.56%]
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