03-30-2016, 10:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman
The thing that connected them was the specific kind of angst. Like many genres, grunge was actually quite experimental. A simple grunge song would be Lithium, not really alternative or punky. Now put grunge with a heavier alternative sound and you get PearlmJam. Put it with garage rock, Mudhoney. Punk, Green River. Glam rock, Mother Love Bone. Heavy Metal/Hard Rock, Soundgarden. Psychedelic, Screaming Trees.
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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman
Major elements were raspy riffs, punk, metal, and alternative influence, lazy vocal delivery, hard drumming, and the angst effect that was specifically relatable to the anger of youths. But some of these can be traded to experiment with the sound EXCEPT for the teen anger. Without that, it's not grunge. And of course, many of these need to stay to truely retain the sound, but switching out a couple is experimentation.
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I think you bought into the marketing scheme when you were younger and have done a lot of mental gymnastics to rationalize it.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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