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Poll Question: Most prog-like grunge band
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47 [40.17%]
2 [1.71%]
12 [10.26%]
39 [33.33%]
1 [0.85%]
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Points: 181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 13:32
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

And please, Stone Temple Pilots are not wannabees/posers/clones or whatever you wanna call them. They didn't even have anything to do with grunge. They are just a great rock band who happened to make it big at the same time that bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana did. That does not make them Pearl Jam or Nirvana clones.
 
Listen to "Where the River Goes" from the "Core" album, and then tell me that they're no good! Wink
To me, that song is like the "Kashmir" or "Stargazer" of the 90's!

Stone Temple Pilots are a great band in my book Thumbs Up. Although you have to say "plush" is a grunge song, at least to my ears. "Core" as a whole is more grunge than all of their later albums. 
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 15:06
I wouldn't call "plush" grunge. The only song on CORE that is kinda grunge to me is "Sex Type Thing".
And yes, mother love bone are amazing! Like a mix of early Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiction & Guns n Roses. Am i wrong?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 22:14
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

I wouldn't call "plush" grunge. The only song on CORE that is kinda grunge to me is "Sex Type Thing".
And yes, mother love bone are amazing! Like a mix of early Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiction & Guns n Roses. Am i wrong?


That's how I would sum up Mother Love Bone also.  They are a real hidden treasure.  
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 23:08

This is shrangi-la....

Old fav of mine.
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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2011 at 06:14
Such a damn shame that Andrew Wood died. They would've made it big time in a year or two!
"Stardog Champion" & "Bone China" are my favorites Approve
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I'm so happy that I found this poll! My two favourites Rock sub-genre... Love all those bands, except for Nirvana...

For me, Pearl Jam, Alice and Soundgarden!
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I dont know about being progressive, but when it came down to loud distorted guitars, dissonance, an aloof punkish attitude and cryptic lyrics, the pillars grunge was based on, the not mentioned sonic youth was the best of them (hint my screne name). I would say they were pretty progressive in an avant garde noise sort of way.
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Points: 2504 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2011 at 13:31
I went with Soundgarden in this one.  They seem the proggiest of all the choices, then I'd say probably Chains.  Soundgarden started out with a punk/heavy metal sound, but with parts of Badmotorfinger all the way through to Down On The Upside, major prog elements started to trickle in.  Odd time signatures, longer songs, crazy "filler" instrumentals and some songs lacking any type of a typical song structure.  


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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Grunge is the genre that killed music.
 
That's not in the options. Ermm
 
Grunge, for me, was a great revival of 70's hard rock with 80's metal influences. A great relief from weak metal genres like Power Metal and Glam Metal, and it's good to know that these were popular unlike other 90's stuff that was complete crap.
 
Though I know you just are an unshamed post-eighties-phobic.

I agree with you! I think so many people try to act like grunge killed music, but it was stupid people trying to copy grunge and turn it into pop like Seether, and Nickelback that came later, and tried to make soft music with sh*t lyrics to appeal to poplovers, and in their opinion rock lovers at the same time. That however is not Grunge's fault. I once heard some idiot post on an Iron Maiden video that they saw in an interview Lady Gaga stating Iron Maiden was her favorite band in the whole world, so are we to blame such a good band as Iron Maiden for her? Hell no! Grunge may have some punk influences, but to me it is very much progressive. The whole idea of grunge was to have odd time signatures, and Soundgarden took it even further with experimenting a lot. Chris Cornell is also quite the amazing vocalist!
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Have you guys heard of this band, www.shermanburns.bandcamp.com ? Definitely grunge oriented, but with obvious prog influences, they definitely don't have any reservations about showing it. I think the album is name your own price too.  Or at least it was...
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love Soundgarden and Pearl Jam

STP and Nirvana are also pretty kool

Soundgarden would be the one that heads in the prog direction the most of the lot 

but they are a long ways from prog to me
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Grunge is not a genre anyway.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2011 at 23:56
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Such a damn shame that Andrew Wood died. They would've made it big time in a year or two!
"Stardog Champion" & "Bone China" are my favorites Approve


I agree, his death was a huge loss to the Seattle music scene.  I was not even in kindergarten when those guys came out with "Apple," but that album resonates with me like few albums ever have.  It is definitely one of my desert-island records, and totally essential for any collection as far as I'm concerned.

I love all the songs they wrote, but my favorite would have to be "Stargazer."  Just beautiful.
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2011 at 00:14
King's X, but from the list, Pearl Jam
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Points: 1594 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2011 at 14:31
Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Black Hole Sun is prog, IMO. 

I don't think that Soundgarden are suitable for inclusion, but some of their songs are prog.
Only Cat Butt are pure grunge.
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Has everyone forgotten Screaming Trees? PJ if often proggy and the best.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2011 at 10:32
I´m gonna say Nirvana. Kurt was obviously a very imaginative soul, and I think he would have pushed the boundaries, especially when you count in the fact what Dave Grohl has developed into - you´d be facing something completely different, if they had overcome their drug issues and kept playing that is. 
Reason to this is perhaps the odd cello usage in Live unplugged, Kurt´s all over the place riffing - yet somehow still sounding in tune, In Utero album - and furthermore those two other guys were into art and whatnot as well. 
The other groups mentioned here dwell more in the rock field, and I basically think that Nirvana would have surprised us, if we´d only have had the chance to see them do so.
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Points: 3365 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2015 at 22:43
Originally posted by Andy Webb Andy Webb wrote:

King's X, but from the list, Pearl Jam

Agreed about King's X, but I'd replace PJ with Soundgarden. I feel they may be suitable for inclusion to the site someday as "prog-related," if mainly because of Badmotorfinger and Superunknown.
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Points: 43664 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2015 at 00:38
King's X are NOT grunge.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

King's X are NOT grunge.
 
I agree......more like alternative prog metal....if that genre even exists.
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