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Old 01-27-2011, 05:31 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mr dave View Post
i find it hilarious that there's now a revival for a style that the vast majority of the bands associated to it never used.

did Nirvana / Mudhoney / Tad / Screaming Trees / Alice in Chains / Soundgarden / Pearl Jam or any of those others call themselves 'grunge' before the press decided they needed a new marketing term to describe them? ....
Mark Arm apparently coined the term 'grunge', but mainly it was the media that labelled all these bands. It is a really loose term as the more hard-rock influenced bands like Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees sound nowhere near the more punk-influenced bands like Nirvana and Mudhoney.

As for a grunge revival? Just because it's 20 years after 1991 it doesn't mean that this has to happen. So far the only 'grunge revival' band i've come across is Violent Soho and they're nothing special. It's just media speculation.
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