Grunge band power rankings 1 Alice in Chains 2 Soundgarden 3

>>71229841
LOL, none of those bands are even grunge

>>71229923
Those bands are the epitome of grunge

>>71229937
t. a pleb

>>71229923
Right, and Metallica's hip hop

>>71229987
wrong again, fucko

>>71229923
I think you may be all alone in that opinion

1. Puddle of Mudd
2. Weezer
3. Collective
4. Green Day
5. Pearl Jam

How can you say that, Nirvana was what put grunge on the radar and Kurt's voice and songwriting were truly a God given gift

https://youtu.be/bpFuH8vcXbw

>>71229841
First two are right, rest all have pretty uneven discographies and can be fudged around depending on how you weight things. So, I more or less agree OP.

>>71230040
>Singing one pitch is a gift

>>71230040
>zero vocal range
>god given gift

>>71230040
1. Nirvana
2. Soundgarden
3. Alice in Chains
4. STP
5. Shit jam

>>71230017
yeah, I'd be alone in that opinion if I was on Reddit. Maybe you should go back there.

>>71230040
gross

>>71230063
wrong

>>71230061
>>71230062

Howabout you faggots vocaroo yourselves trying to scream an A#4 with good control and tone, since it's so easy

>>71230062
>>71230061
>>71230186
3:09

>>71230040
>Nirvana was what put grunge on the radar
exactly, they're pop shit

1. Early Soundgarden
2. Melvins
3. Green River
4. Skin Yard
5. Malfunkshun

>>71230186
Done
https://youtu.be/fvtQYsckLxk

>>71230186
I mean I doubt he was trying to do that he just happened to.

Stone Temple of the Dog Jam Pilots

>>71230222
Yeah, cause he happened to have an amazing voice.

EVERYBODY SAYS
YOU MUST HAVE LOST YOUR HEAD
WELL
ONE MORE TIME
IS GOOD ENOUGH
FOR MEEEE

>>71230213
truth

>>71230256
You don't have to be amazing to do something amazing by accident

>>71230213
Popular music is good sometimes

>>71230256
I like his voice, but it's like fat Mike's. It's not an amazing voice, but it fits the music

>>71230314
Agreed

>>71230309
>>71230309
>>71230309
>>>71230213
>Popular music is good sometimes
That is one hell of a bold statement

>>71230305
It wasn't an accident! Lol

>>71230352
Unlike you

>>71230213
>no Mr Epp and the Calculations
Fucking pleb

>>71230314
If you want a perfect pretty voice then listen to Rihanna man.

>>71230389
Fuck off faggot. You obviously know nothing about music
>singing and octave higher on accident

What a retard

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>>71230405
>Women
>Pretty
Quit trying to pull a fast one

1 Nirvana
2 Alice in Chains
3 Soundgarden
4 STP
5 Shit
6 Pearl Jam

>>71230465
>shit higher than Pearl Jam
this guy gets it
Pearl Jam sucks cock.

>>71230426
Notice how I never said I didn't like his singing. However his singing isn't amazing. You can't sing an octave higher by accident but that doesn't mean you're hitting the right note. I may not know much about music but I have ears.

>>71230503
Just because you have a perfect voice doesn't make you a good singer. People enjoying your music is what makes you a good singer. Art is about imperfection, the little flaws in his voice are what makes it so good.

For all those who said 'Nirvana', please leave this board forever.

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>>71230636
>enjoying music
Kill yourself

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>tfw still no official release of Illiteracy Will Prevail

What is grunge exactly?

1. The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Pixies
3. Nirvana
4. Rusty
5. Alice In Chains

Weezer is grunge?

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>Alice in Chains
>Grunge

This whole thread is like a fever dream.

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>>71230867
>arguing about genres

How very plebian of you all. Exactly what I've come to expect from /mu/.

>>71230887
I'm not even arguing anything this entire thread is cancer.

>>71229841
1. Nirvana - Undoubtedly the least pleb on the list, not only are there pop songs really good, so is the experimental shit
2. Pearl Jam
3. Sound garden
4. Alice in Chains
5. STP

Would you classify Meat Puppets, Pixies, and Melvins as grunge?

>mfw all these poser plebs who weren't there and don't even know what grunge meant

1. Tad
2. The Screaming Trees
3. U-men
4. EARLY Green River
5. Silverchair

Love power rankings.

1. Soundgarden
2. Alice in Chains
3. Nirvana
4. Pearl Jam (although i think they're a top tier band, and not really grunge per se)
5. Wellwater Conspiracy (don't expect anyone to agree, just living through the 90's in my late teens, this was the band.)

>>71230992
Meat Puppets: no...psychedelic cowpunk
Pixies: no...college rock
Melvins: no, but close...proto sludge metal

>>71231139
Thinks music is rigid by genre.

They're grunge. Look at the names you've given their "style". Name 10 other bands in each of those "styles". You can't. Because you're splitting hairs. They're all grunge.

>>71231177
Pffft.

>>71231319
Excellent point.

>>71231177
"Grunge" isn't just a synonym for "early 1990s alternative rock."

>>71231388
No, it isn't. Another excellent, astute point. What else you got, kid?

>>71231411
That's not even an argument.

>>71231450
No, it isn't. An argument isn't required. You gave a truism. Work is hard. The sun is bright. Great job. Again, what else you got?

>>71231508
If butthurt was logic your conclusions would be valid.

>>71231527
Wow. Good luck, lad.

>>71231047

frogstomp age silverchair, amirite?

>>71230970
this is correct despite the previous shitposts in this thread

>>71231139
your bullshit genres are bullshit
but you are correct in that neither of those bands are grunge

>>71231047
where do i start with screaming trees
i've heard their collab ep with beat happening but that's it

>Soundgarden
>Alice In Chains
>Mudhoney
>The Screaming Trees
>Nirvana

STP & Pumpkins only get honorable mention because they werent from Seatle. Melvins & Pixies are respinsible for grunge sound as godfathers while not being grunge themselves. PJ was just clean safe arena rock.

>>71231595
Who needs luck when you've got skills.

>>71231767
Grunge isn't even a genre. That's just independent rock from Seattle 1988-1995.

>>71230213
>Early Soundgarden
My man, they have plenty of gems from their early days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh3ilsTZo0c

>>71232191
Has never participated in the music industry. Success is 100 percent luck. But if you don't want me to wish you luck, then eat a hairy cock, lad.

>>71231806
>PJ was just clean safe arena rock.
>implying they all weren't

>>71231796
I Nearly Lost You is their most accessible

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYm8HotzmSw

Let me fix it for you

1 Alice in Chains
P O W E R G A P
2 Soundgarden
3 Nirvana
P O W E R G A P
4 Stone Temple Pilots
5 Pearl Jam

>>71232255
Might be what it takes for you to be successful. Ain't bad advice with your attitude.

>>71230040
his songwriting is average and so is his voice

>>71232379
Say what you want about songwriting. I disagree, but you can have your opinion. There was literally no one with Kurt's voice in the early 90s. There was no one (for better or worse) with Axl Rose's voice. A unique, identifiable voice was the calling card for success with early 90s rock. Kurt was absolutely in that discussion.

>>71232255
no u

>>71232416
I have the same voice from the same problem. Acid reflux ate his vocal cords.

>>71232416
His voice is nothing special considering the massive amounts of artists who sound almost identical. He made decent music but is overrated as fuck

>>71232489
I don't want to argue, but name 3 singers who had a similar sounding voice. Not "rough, agressive voice." But similar sounding. Name 3. Or 2.

>>71232550
If you can't let's just say it. Chris Cornell is the voice of Grunge. Beyond the Wheel et al.

>Hole
>Frank Zappa
>Son House
>Nirvana
>Die Antwood

Fucking plebs get on my level

>>71230338
>Implying James Brown isn't the GOAT

>>71229841
what about Mad Season?

layne staley become the epitome of grunge vocalist for me. fuck kurt

>>71232796
And he's still got it too.
I saw himive a couple months ago and he can belt like a motherfucker.

>>71233122 Absolutely worthwhile album.
My bro and I play Wake Up as a tuneup song. Simply great vocals, great bass line, and some good rock guitar on top of that.

>>71233145
Go away. You're worse than Hilter. And worse than a shistorm. You're worse than Shitler.

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Hating on Nirvana, let alone not placing them no.1 on """grunge""" lists is the easiest way to know that you're a dirty plebeian

>>71230970
this

>>71233337
Wake Up is a good one. Long Gone Day really does it for me though.

>>71233424
Yeah, me too. Layne Staley's last part--"I fear agin like then.." still makes my skin crawl, 20+ years later.

>>71230062
He has something like the 10th~ highest range in rock history laddy.

>>71231128
>living through the 90's in my late teens
how fucking old are you mate

>>71233489
He literally doesn't, not even fucking close.
You could find 500 shitty power metal singers that show more range in one song than he did in his entire career.

>>71233498
40. U?

>>71233550
>>71233498
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMmbUmKN0E#t=0.273341

I'm a man. I'm 40. These are just kids...

>>71233524
https://www.concerthotels.com/worlds-greatest-vocal-ranges

I'm just going off of this my dood.
He doesn't have the best, but it's still pretty damn good.

>>71229841
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HERE COMES THE ROOSTER

ALICE IN CHAINS ISN'T GRUNGE

>>71233382
this. They were objectively the best grunge band. Their (Kurt's) song structures were simple but incredibly effective, his lyrics were abstract but uncompromisingly honest
>i travel through a tube and end up in your infection...cmon that's brilliant
and their sound was dense with raw emotion, the guitars wailed and the drums smashed and it all sounded like one last riot before the apocalypse. Name another fucking grunge band that conjure up that same tidal wave of feeling, or really any band in general

pro tip: you can't

>>71230040
That is an old Leadbelly song.

Grunge is a stupid term.

>>71233768
>>71230040

Yeah, I'm the guy who said say what you want about his songwriting....but you're giving credit to him for writing a Ledbelly song. And it isn't even a great Ledbelly song.

>>71233836
Pick a Bale of Cotton was better....

>>71229841
1.AIC
2.STP
3.Soundgarden
4.Nirvana
5.Pearl Jam

>>71233910
This. STP is the best tho.

new pearl jam is better than old pearl jam

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this is the best fucking album ever

>>71229841
1 Soundgarden
2 Pearl Jam if there had been nothing after Vitalogy
3(2) Alice In chains
Actual 3 Pearl Jam because they didn't stop at vitalogy
4 Nirvana. Fuck you they have good shit even if they are a meme at this point
5 Stone Temple Pilots

>>71232291
prettty much

>>71229923
(you)

...Musicaly speaking, Alice stays the final boss and you know it.

>>71229841
>>71232291
>>71233910
>>71234531

Anybody who puts Pearl Jam and/or STP about Nirvana is shameful

Let's break it down

Alice in Chains is the go-to band for people who want to be contrarian about Nirvana's hype.

"They're better".

Yeah, not really.

Alice in Chains reached greater heights than Nirvana, but Nirvana was consistently great. Even their b-sides are good.

Alice in Chains was made from the ashes of a glam band and it shows. These were guys who saw the new wave of alternative rock coming and changed their tune and started doing heroin and talking about suicide. Before that they were writing songs about pussy and football.

You can hear the traces of it in their music, sometimes in Jerry's leads, or just some heavy-handed and frankly corny songwriting in general.

That isn't to say they were not a great band, because they were, but Nirvana was consistently better.

STP has some cool songs but they don't really strike me as even contending with the others besides Pearl Jam which is a terrible band anyway

Soundgarden were all technical MONSTERS, all very skilled at their respective instruments. However, they often fell into Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath aping and didn't reach much beyond that. They have a lot of great cuts throughout their albums, but they just don't stack up with Nirvana, and are slightly behind Alice in terms of stellar songs.

Pearl Jam is a fucking joke and anyone who ranks them above the previous needs to get their ears checked.

So it goes Nirvana>>>Alice in Chains=Soungarden>>>>>>>>>>>Shit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pearl Jam

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Does /mu/ like grunge?

>>71230970
I'd switch AiC with SG tough, otherwise I agree. I'll never understand the hate towards Pearl Jam here, the only "arguments" I've seen here are pretty much "Ten is bad", "Eddie is a pussy" or just "Buttrock". Their first three albums are solid, the rest are kind of meh with at least one or two great songs.

>>71233752
They had one grunge album: bleach
Nevermind was just regular rock and in Utero was arguably noise rock at its core, especially the albini mixes

>>71236411
TL/DR
Nirvana sucks

>>71237309
I have no argument: the post

God forbid you read something

We're running out of hope if like 15 lines of not that much text is too much for brainlets like you

>>71237537
First day on 4chan?

>>71237608
TLDR is usually reserved for actual long posts not a couple of lines

I've posted two part posts that are way past 2000 character limit and dont get tldrs and plenty of replies, its just brainlets anon

Stone Temple Pilots is the most contrarian choice in this thread, no doubt. I still like them, but name one thing they did that was unique at the time that the other big 4 grunge bands didn't do.

>>71237621
tl/dr

>>71234363
I remember getting this album for Christmas along with Tony Hawk Underground (PS2) and my first electric guitar. Good times. Haven't listened to Pearl Jam in years, but I remember liking a few songs off that compilation.

>>71237663
reddit gold for you sir!

>>71237858
Yes. Quite. I rather enjoyed that.

I think at this point it is tough to dispute the fact that Nirvana is objectively not only the best grunge band but the best band for the rock genre of the 90's. Anything to stop hair metal would've been great but kurt brought so much more.

AiC tripod is one of my favorite albums of all time.

>>71238559
People who say Grunge killed Hair Metal are the same people who say Green Day killed Grunge.

>>71229841
In terms of cultural relevance/impact:
1.Nirvana
big gap
2. Melvins
3. Alice in Chains
4. Pearl Jam
gap
5. Soundgarden
another big gap
6. STP
another big gap
7. Rest of the bands

In terms of quality material:
1. Alice in Chains
2. Mad Season
3. Melvins
4. Mudhoney
5. Nirvana
6. Soundgarden
7. Mother Love Bone
8. Pearl Jam
9. STP

>>71238559
I mean, sure, if you're an angsty, tween girl or a self hating/cutting middle school kid, then yes, they're the best. But for the discerning ear, they're not even in the top ten.

>>71240226
>To the discerning ear

lol

Nirvana shits on every other grunge band it's a fact

Nirvana is still the best fuckers, no matter how much you meme about them

>>71240290
>>71240301

For feels maybe, but not for musicality. I don't listen to music for feels.

Why is Nirvana so appealing to tweens despite the fact their contemporaries wrote far more compelling music? What is it about Cobain's simplistic angsty horseshit that attracts them like flies?

>>71240369
>Cobain's simplistic angsty horseshit
You said it yourself.
"No one understands me, I'm a special snowflake, my heart hurts"

>>71240326
Music's whole point is feels lol

>>71240369
this is bait

>implying pearl jam wrote more compelling music

if you're a dadrocker with a passion for melodrama maybe

>implying soundgarden wrote more compelling music

soundgarden were good musicians but their music is just zeppelin and sabbath tropes

>Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains MAYBE. Most of the time Alice in Chains were playing pretend and being edgy because it was the new cool thing to do.

That's where Kurt shines. You can tell he was always a weirdo. His lyrics are also miles better than the rest too. Alice in Chains talk about suicide LITERALLY with no irony. Sooooo edgy.

Tell me how soundgarden or aic is touching the manic screams of a song like negative creep, or hairspray queen, or mexican seafood.

>>71240453
>implying Alice In Chains weren't doing the same thing

>"I'm just see-through faded, super jaded, out of my mind"

literally reads like a glam band trying to be edgy

>>71240499
So, which are you?
An angsty, tween girl or a self hating/cutting middle school kid?

>>71240568
I can't argue your points: the post

>>71240499
"At home
Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a V
Dead lay in pools of maroon below"

or

"Raaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh
AAAAAAArrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh
My wife is a slut."

The choice is yours

>>71240672
bait

The Foo Fighters destroyed what little legitimacy that Nirvana had years ago.

>>71229841
Melvins
Soundgarden
the rest

>>71230338
he's right though