Which Grunge band do you prefer?

[Lambsbread]

The big 4.



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So who will it be?

Nirvana for me.

[courts]

Dude, no Mudhoney? I mean I can understand leaving something like Blind Melon off (even if I died inside a bit) or Screaming Trees but come on...

[Lambsbread]

Dude, no Mudhoney? I mean I can understand leaving something like Blind Melon off (even if I died inside a bit) or Screaming Trees but come on...

Shoot I can't believe I forgot Mudhoney

f**k

[courts]

Oh well, guess it didn't matter. I went with Alice in Chains just because they had a larger body of work to really evaluate and not really any duds. But my write in choice should be obvious. I guess there might be a few others like Green River or the Jesus Lizard (yes they count) that I'd at least give honorable mention status...

[Lambsbread]

Oh well, guess it didn't matter. I went with Alice in Chains just because they had a larger body of work to really evaluate and not really any duds. But my write in choice should be obvious. I guess there might be a few others like Green River or the Jesus Lizard (yes they count) that I'd at least give honorable mention status...

Mad Season was good too.

[angus]

I have about four pearl jam CDs from back when I was in my 20s.  One day, I just realized that about four and a half of them totally suck.  Not sure why I ever listened to that garbage.

[minionofmidas]

write-in Tad.

j/k. Nirvana. Seriously, they're matched here with an act I never liked all that much, one that got boring to me fairly fast, and one I dimly remember one video from. None of which have all that much to do with Nirvana, either.

[bgwah]

it's cute how almost every single 15 year old goes through a Nirvana phase

[minionofmidas]

it's cute how almost every single 15 year old goes through a Nirvana phase

At least when I was fifteen and had a ticket for the very next Nirvana show, Kurt Cobain committed suicide instead.

[© tweed]

Nirvana's the most punk

[Mechaman]

I guess that makes me the protest Soundgarden vote.

Seriously, that band it is like an orgasm in the ears.

[Lambsbread]

I have about four pearl jam CDs from back when I was in my 20s.  One day, I just realized that about four and a half of them totally suck.  Not sure why I ever listened to that garbage.

Ten was their only good album lol

[Lambsbread]

it's cute how almost every single 15 year old goes through a Nirvana phase

Is that a bad thing? Lol

[Lambsbread]

I guess that makes me the protest Soundgarden vote.

Seriously, that band it is like an orgasm in the ears.

This.

Nirvana > AIC > Soundgarden > Mudhoney > Pearl Jam (IMO)

[Dancing with Myself]

I am not a diehard grunge guy, I rather like classic rock and old school punk. But I do listen to some grunge every now and then with each band minus Alice in Chains having a song that I rank in my favorites (I like a song by Jerry Cantrell though when he was singing solo, but I never really liked the band, I don't know why.)

The top two of the list I like the best is either Soundgarden or Pearl Jam. But if I had to choose one of the two because "Pretty Noose" is in my top 10 favorite songs.

[Boris]

Nirvana ripped off Mudhoney hard

[patrick1]

Pearl Jam.  They are very spotty and a good deal of their output over the years I don't like but overall I go with them.  I saw them in concert last year and they put on a great show.  The Cameron Crowe Pearl Jam 20 documentary I watched the other night was also good.  It gave a good overview of the Seattle scene.

[dead0man]

Nirvana ripped off Mudhoney hard

You say that as if every musician (or artist for that matter) hasn't ripped off somebody else, hard.

Anyway, I went with Soundgarden....I proabably actually enjoy Nirvana a little more (more punk), but as a GenX'r, I was trained to avoid the bandwagon.

[Boris]

I'm certainly not complaining. In Bloom is one of the songs I use for my alarm!

[Хahar 🤔]

I remember Mookie Blaylock from back when I cared about the NBA. I had swimming lessons on Friday nights, and after they were over my dad would drive me back home and the radio would be on and we would listen to Mookie Blaylock and Adonal Foyle and Antawn Jamison and the rest of them. They always lost, of course. Those Warriors teams were awful, just like every other incarnation of the Warriors in my lifetime. That's probably why I have no interest in professional basketball. In 1995 the Warriors had the first pick in a draft that included Kevin Garnett, Rasheed Wallace, Jerry Stackhouse, and Antonio McDyess. They picked Joe Smith. My dad tells me that story all the time; he has never forgiven them for it.

[Boris]

Yeah, you were just born in the wrong place at the wrong time. I remember playing basketball with my friends in one of the myriad of basketball hoops on our street (it was a common neighborhood courtesy to allow anyone to play in your driveway whenever - this was the 1997 or so) on those warm, sunny, spring days. We'd turn one of those portable radios to Chicagoland's alternative rock station, Q101.1 (which went off the air in 2011), enjoying 90s hits from Deep Blue Something's Breakfast at Tiffany's to Alice in Chains's Grind to Counting Crows' Mr. Jones. Then at night we'd watch Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman tear it up, maybe juxtaposed against terms such as "Monica Lewinsky" and "Slobodan Milosevic." But those days are long gone. Now one basically spends their time writing mindless papers and drinking beer, totally absolved from the responsibility of creating a Zeitgeist worth fighting for.

[Lambsbread]

Counting Crows' Mr. Jones

Haven't heard this song in forever oh man...

[minionofmidas]

Nirvana ripped off Mudhoney hard

Which explains why Mudhoney too has stayed with me.
And it's just as obvious they listened to Sonic Youth and the Pixies. (And the Melvins, obviously, but that has locational causes.)

[Stardust]

AiC. Easily the most metal of the 'big four' of grunge.

[Mr. Taft Republican]

Soundgarden is the most meaningful and original. Superunknown is one of the only albums that hold over from that era.