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Crap.

Hey, I already tipped the balance yesterday!

That was my moment!







Crap.

The Kid wrote:Boring riffs and melodies, and a singer who always struck me as the David Coverdale of 'grunge.'

I think this thread has just been Coverdaled.

placeholder wrote:Wait, wait; people seriously consider "grunge" to be its own genre? I thought it was some label- or press-manufactured term, like "new wave."

Everyone likes to pretend like there is no 'grunge' sound, and a lot of the bands in that 'scene' had their own things going on, but there were at least some key 'grunge' elements.

Steve from Mudhoney did a good job of demonstrating it in some movie, by playing a barre chord.

I don't remember precisely what he did, but it was something like:

A barre chord punk-style (all downstrokes, whole thing, sharply)

A barre chord metal-style (palm muted w/upstroke, just the bottom strings, sharply)

A barre chord grunge-style (the bottom half of the chord, washy up/down strokes, with the occasional high string hit, not that sharp)

He may have been joking, but I think it was pretty accurate, actually, to posit the 'grunge' essence as a drunk hybrid of punk, garage rock, and heavy metal.

Soundgarden was much more of a metal band. I guess the lack of stereotypical metal solos made them slightly grunge. Or something. Live, they had a diffuse flabbiness to their sound that also differentiated them from more rigorous and therefore 'proper' heavy metal.

I wouldn't dispute that they used strange time signatures etc. I just think they made quite bad music with them.

Rick Valentin, of the excellent Poster Children, once unfortunately said on '120 Minutes' wrote:"Grunge? All we know is Grunge."

so great.

kerble wrote:

Rick Valentin, of the excellent Poster Children, once unfortunately said on '120 Minutes' wrote:

so great.

Yes. Grung(r)eat.









Last post of the day. Must stop. Now.

kerble - what's your take on them?

nick92675 wrote:kerble - what's your take on them?

" :- | "

All I have to say is, from everything I know about them, Matt and Kim are two very funny people and even if I don't Soundgarden, they can get a pass with that in my book. Sometimes a few, smart and strategically placed jokes and one-liners can indeed cover a multiple of musical sins.

Oh, yeah, and I can teach just about anyone to sing like Chris Cornell.

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