But briefly in the early to mid-’90s, Greg Dulli’s best-known band was everywhere, and Gentlemen is why. Overall, The Afghan Whigs don’t really fit in anywhere-too soul/R&B-influenced to be grunge, too corrosively heavy to be radio rock, too darkly self-absorbed in their lyrics to uphold punk polemics. In 1990, Sub Pop compiled Dry as a Bone and Rehab Doll to create the definitive Green River document. Following the split, Arm founded Mudhoney, while Gossard and Ament formed Mother Love Bone (along with Green River’s other guitarist Bruce Fairweather) and eventually Pearl Jam.
A year after Dry as a Bone, the full-length Rehab Doll was released, though by then the group had already disbanded. Mark Arm’s vocals, especially on a song like “Unwind,” were pure Iggy Pop, while the music to “This Town” doesn’t sound too far removed from what guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament would pack arenas with just a few years later in Pearl Jam. It’s fitting that Green River earned the designation first, as their mix of punk attitude and classic hard rock riffs was a blueprint for the entire grunge era. Green River – Dry as a Bone/Rehab Dollīefore “grunge” was used to categorize an entire subgenre of music, the word was employed by Sub Pop in a label catalog to describe Green River’s 1987 EP Dry as a Bone. Listen to selections from these albums via our Spotify playlist.Ģ6. So, as the nostalgia machine is in overdrive and most of grunge’s landmark albums turn 25 this year (just keep going through the lists to see which ones), we have assembled a list of its best recorded documents. We present our picks for the 30 best grunge albums. In fact, some of our favorites are from cities well outside of the Pacific Northwest. began to show different interpretations of grunge aesthetics. And it may or may not apply to Seattle bands only, though pockets of the U.S. It may or may not have killed glam metal. Heavy underground rock that splits a middle ground between punk and metal, more cynical and disaffected than angry, sardonic rather than earnest (unless you’re Pearl Jam), intense yet accessible, and above all loud. So, what is grunge? From a mainstream perspective, it’s Nirvana’s Nevermind. But while the vast and feverish press coverage and media hype surrounding grunge mostly focused on a handful of bands-Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden in particular (and subsequently, Hole)-there’s no denying that despite the cynicism behind it all, “grunge” as an umbrella covered a wide range of really good bands. And a lot of those bands were, by definition, grunge bands.
In its wake, a lot of bands were given major label contracts, often without the guidance to maintain them.
Grunge’s rise in the public eye/ear wasn’t necessarily overblown, though. And it’s telling that the documentary surrounding the explosion of the Seattle scene was titled, simply, Hype! The bands playing this perhaps dubiously named genre didn’t always care for the term-isn’t that always the case?-and its representation in the media often didn’t square well with the figures at the center of it, least of all its patron saint Kurt Cobain. At grunge’s peak, it was as much punchline as ubiquitous cultural force.
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