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Old 08-17-2015, 01:56 PM   #11 (permalink)
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As far as I'm concerned, Grunge rock is basically a copy of this.



In fact, when it first started becoming popular, I was like, "WTF? This is just a re-hash of Neil Young."

If you asked me if the following song was a different genre than the above song, I would answer "no."

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Old 08-17-2015, 02:36 PM   #12 (permalink)
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As far as I'm concerned, Grunge rock is basically a copy of this.

I'd never heard that before, (interesting how much that sounds like a Black Sabbath riff if you just overdrive it) and I'd agree really. Grunge is just a slightly more aggressive, perhaps dirtier version of that (Neil Young having a bad day haha).
And especially when it comes to Nirvana, in terms of structure to most of their songs, it's always just the old fashioned verse-chorus formula. There's nothing much new there, just presentation.
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Grunge influences:







Take those two and you've pretty much got the basic building blocks for grunge.
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Green River is oft-mentioned as an influence on grunge. And yes, they are from Seattle.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_%28band%29
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I thought they were supposed to be grunge.
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Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Nickelback are probably the biggest influences on grunge imo.
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I thought they were supposed to be grunge.

They formed in 1984 and never had the commercial success of what later became the grunge movement in the '90s.
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I always thought that Jim Morrison and the Doors influenced grunge.
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Old 08-19-2015, 09:47 PM   #19 (permalink)
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I think Redd Kross had a pretty signficant impact on Nirvana.
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