The Official Grunge Thread

[Cobe Kai]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Just because someone doesn't want to orally fellate Kurt Cobain's dead body doesn't mean they're a douche.

Honestly, I'm more interested in the conspiracy theory than Nirvana's music. My favourate bands from the general area and genre are

Melvins, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains.

and as for only discovering it 'last week'. I've been very much into grunge since I started listening to music properly.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Cobe Kai

and as for only discovering it 'last week'. I've been very much into grunge since I started listening to music properly.

And when was that?

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Originally Posted by Cobe Kai

If you weren't taking the micky then I'd be fine with it, but you're just being a douche.

It's no different to you slagging off Indie or Emo. And at least i've come to my conclusions by listening to it.

If you can't take it , don't dish it out.

[jackhammer]

Alice In Chains are shit are'nt they?

[lucifer_sam]

Yes indeed but so is Eddie Vedder and everyone who looks like him. Shame he didn't bite the bullet like Layne and Kurt.

[Janszoon]

I reserve my real ire for Stone Temple Pilots. Alice in Chains had some good songs. Pearl Jam had some good songs. Soundgarden had some good songs. STP just sucked and also seemed like a bunch of douchebags. The only thing even remotely connected to them that I ever liked was that solo Scott Weiland song "Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down".

[lucifer_sam]

What's your opinion on Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon)?

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I saw Blind Melon years ago

They were bloody awful , It`s also the only time i`ve ever seen a frontman try to start a sing-a-long & not one person in the crowd join in.

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

5 planks of wood takes to the stage for half an hour
Nobody notices

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

What's your opinion on Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon)?

Not really a fan. I had a roommate several years ago who was always trying to sell me on Blind Melon. He played me a lot of their stuff but I was never all that impressed by Shannon Hoon or the band in general.

[lucifer_sam]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

He was using heroin at the time. As far as I know, Blind Melon only ever completed one full tour. So if he was bloody awful, at least it was only once.

I think that his songwriting has a much broader appeal than the pretentious dogma of Kurt or the insensical ramblings of Eddie Vedder. He didn't exist to sell a movement or anything else, he really just opened up and sang about how plain life in general was. I'm not suggesting that the band itself was that great; the guitarist always seems to find an unoriginal way to write stuff. As a collective group, they are as far from influential to me as the Spice Girls.