The Sane Psycho

Also, as a metalhead, how could you say that AIC was the only good grunge band? I love Alice In Chains with all my heart, but you do realize there were other grunge bands who fell squarely into the heavy metal camp, right? Soundgarden? Tad? Gruntruck? My Sister's Machine? Bleach era Nirvana? L7? The Melvins? Skin Yard? Blood Circus? Hell, since you love hair bands so much, why not try Malfunkshun or Mother Love Bone? Both bands had a hell of a lot in common with glam bands of the time, and Mother Love Bone's self titled compilation was every bit as good of a glam album as anything by Guns 'n' Roses or Motley Crue. Even better, I'd say. What do you think about those bands? They got lumped in with the grunge movement during their time, but there was plenty for metalheads to enjoy in all those bands. And since you love glam so much, I would really recommend Mother Love Bone. You'll love 'em.

Nick1976

Grunge is just another dumb label that mass media seems to assign and require for everything. All those bands (MLB, Pearl Jam, AIC, etc) were nothing more than glam/funk/hair bands that rode the wave of attention that Nirvana (a non-Seattle band) brought, and proceeded to completely change their sound and image to assimilate. Talk about zero musical integrity.
In general, MLB is considered a grunge band, but every time I listen to them all I get is glam rock/80s hair metal vibes. A couple songs could be considered grunge I guess, like Stargazer... but I really don't see what makes this band "grunge" as the primary genre of music they fit into.

If you consider grunge a scene and not a genre, then I guess the fact that they are from Seattle and have Gossard/Ament among the members could qualify them. The transition from Hair metal to grunge was pushed strongly by the record companies, and most were eager to kill Glam and bring in Grunge bands. The reason for this is many of the metal bands sold millions of albums in the 80s/early 90s, and when it was time to renew their contracts, the record companies were going to have to give them record contracts worth millions because these glam bands had proven they could sell lots of records. When these glam bands were living in the gutter and they got their first record deal, they were lucky if the got $200,000. For example, Motley Crue renewed their contract in 1991 for 25 million dollars. The record companies figured they could sign a grunge band from the gutter for $200,000, and get a good 4 or 5 albums out of them before they had to renew their contracts and give them the big bucks. Then they could drop all the Glam bands they did not want to pay large sums of money to and could write them off as losses on their taxes. "Hair Metal" never deserved to get pounded. Those bands had talented musicians who actually practiced and played cool, catchy songs with balls and energy. Musicianship in popular music went down in many ways after the 80's, all the way to the pathetic state that it is today. At least hair metal was fun. The thing that sucks about grunge is that its after-effects still permeate rock music today. It sucked out all the energy that made rock music exciting. Modern rock bands still take themselves too seriously because of grunge, with the depressing songs, somber lyrics, boring vocals, and bland rhythm sections . Its like bands are afraid to just have fun and rock out with a catchy tune laced with piercing vocals, crunchy riffs, and blazing solos. JanI Lane was a ****ing awesome songwriter, if people only know him because of Cherry Pie is because they are some incultural idiots than don´t know s hit about music. Uncle Tom's Cabin rocked (and was a true ballad by definition, as opposed to what became known as a ballad). It's still one of my favorite songs today. Cherry Pie? It was catchy and cool and all of that. But Uncle Tom's Cabin--that was a real song.

Frownland

He's a glam metal fan. Those aren't real metalheads.

AIC's best work was their s/t. That's a pretty weird record tbh.

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Lucem Ferre

Grunge was behind 9/11.

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MicShazam

Hair metal dudes were badass and banged many chicks and were secure in their sexuality and I really hate grunge and Nirvana was just whiny and depressing and men in wigs are good at playing music and men in flannel are not and here's a random bunch of Youtube links of terrible songs with said men in wigs.

grindy

Grunge was the 9/11 of the 90s.

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The Batlord

Glam is Seal Team 6.

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Oriphiel

Tbh, Hair Metal >>> Grunge

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The Sane Psycho

Ooh, spicy hot take.

Glam and grunge are both great.