Is it just me or did Rock n Roll climax with the grunge movement? Everything since is ear-drivel…

wtf….whose talking about nickelback and crap?
i cant find the comment….?

As i read down the list. i was looking for a list of my own to snag some songs on Itunes. Then I noticed the thread turned into a flame thread. and whomever put madonna on here. I had to Lawl. We definitly have some Trolls on this forum

I think Nirvana definietly had a huge impact on grunge and so did alice in chains.

1. Nirvana- In bloom’
2. Nirvana- Man who sold the world
3. Alice in chains- Heaven beside me
4. Pearl Jam- Black
5. Soundgarden - Fell on black days

but thats what i think. And i see alot of good choices. = ] LOVE NIRVANA AND THE GRUNGE MOVEMENT R.I.P KURT COBAIN

In no order

Warm Machine - Bush
Chemicals Between Us - Bush
Machinehead - Bush
Everything Zen - Bush
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Low - Cracker
Pearl Jam - Go
Trippin On A Hole - Stone Temple Pilots
Sex type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots
Geek USA - Smashing Pumpkins
XYU - Smashing Pumpkins
Dead And Bloated - Stone Temple Pilots
Get Born Again - Alice In Chains
Would - Alice In Chains
Man In The Box - Alice In Chains
In Bloom - Nirvana
Lounge Act - Nirvana
Hey Man Nice Shot - Filter
Evenflow - Pearl Jam
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots
Loungs Fly - Stone Temple Pilots
Sour Girl - Stone Temple Pilots
Plush _ Stone Temple Pilots
Angry Chair - Alice In Chains
Gotta Get Away - Offspring
Interstate lovesong - Stone Temple Pilots
On A Plain - Nirvana
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

Greedy Fly - Bush
Backwater - Meat Puppets
Things - Meat Puppets
Comedown - Bush
Pepper - Butthole Surfers
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Butthole Surfers
Rooster - Alice In Chains
Again - Alice In Chains
Doll Parts - Hole
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
We’re In This Together - Nine Inch Nails

Sponge- Plowed ( part nirvana, part social distortion)

Nirvana- Drain You

More of a greaser punk fan so thats about all i can say. I do love the screaming trees and mudhoney but im drunk and its late.

this list is icky. look at my damn SN and i will tell u 4 a fact that soundgarden sucks. the list is as follows
1. you know your right- nirvana
2. creep- Stone Temple pilots
3. drain you- nirvana
4. piece of pie- Stone Temple pilots
5. army ants- Stone Temple pilots
PS. seriously soundgarden is like horrible. it is the worst thing to come out of the 90’s

aerosmith is the best band in the world

Excellent list! xD

Well I’m a noob from INDIA…..
And in my country there are very few people who listen to grunge or particularly mainstream grunge.
Only Nirvana is quite famous & people won’t know wat the AIC,Soundgarden & STP is !!!!!!
The people in my country loves Linkin Park & I WAS also a noob fan of LP. People finds Linkin Park as the greatest Rock band ever followed Nickelback & GreenDay.
& ya for them Rolling Stones, The Clash Sucks…..
well they dont know wat the music is.

My list is as follows

Rape Me - Nirvana
Plush - STP
Blow Up The Outside World - Soundgarden
Spin The Black Circle - Pearl Jam
We Die Young - Alice In Chains

These are my top 5

Well MudHoney,Temple of the Dog,TAD,Smashing Pumpkins are also great….

Well 5 is very less to show the full glory of the GRUNGE…..

And ya Nickelback sucks a big one,
Creating a shits named as Far Away,Photograph & Rockstar.
And in next 10 births too Nickelback cannot come close to any shity grunge band even.

I hope whomever posted Nickelback or Creed meets an untimely and painful end; after which they burn in soft-core mediocre rock hell with their favorite bands.

all of you’s people that got all grumpy about bands being “corporate” and sellouts, yur on the rollings stone mag web site, and all of the songs in the list are awesome!!!

wow i gonna kill some one i cant belive so people think alice in chains made grundge and ther better then nirvan omg wow nirvana #1 band ever period alice in chains are good mined u but they were a follower or nirvana not a beginer like nirvana i cant belive people think alice helped make a new style its ALL nirvana thats like saying the beatles and the spice girls made pop no only the beatles did.

soundgarden - every song in loud love, badmotorfinger and superunknown and also from their starting album ultramega ok

this is the true list of grunge…. every thing from punk rock to psycadelic mixed with heavy metal .

Alice in chains FTW

Alice in chains is easily the best grunge band…… nirvana is not that good….. their songs are ok but i dont understand why it was a bigger deal when kurt died….. LAYNE IS A WAY BETTER SINGER FROM A WAY BETTER BAND…. should of been a bigger deal when he died R.I.P

Nirvana-Lithium/Smells Like Teen Spirt
Alice in Chains-Man in the Box
Pearl Jam-Alive/Jeremy
Stone Temple Pilots-Plush

Nirvana and Alice in Chains aren’t the creators of Grunge, but they are where its at!
Pearl Jam is great, but i think a lot of there songs are too soft to be concidered grunge.

Nickelback and Creed are not GRUNGE BANDS they play softcore music.

nirvana-heart shaped box
temple of the dog-hunger strike
pearl jam -yellow ledbetter
nirvana-rape me

oh and card tricks- seaweed

would- alice in chains
man in the box- alice in chains
aneurysm- nirvana
school- nirvana
come as you are- nirvana
retarded- afghan whigs
between the eyes- love battery
nearly lost you- screaming trees
i can’t shake it- melvins
jesus christ pose- soundgarden

ok, no one should put bush. and definately not oasis!!! thats alternative retards! not grunge. and no nirvana did not invent grunge. i’m pretty sure bands like mudhoney and mother love bone did.
here comes sickness. awesome. beautiful grunge song.

1 NIRVANA - In Bloom
2 ALICE IN CHAINS - Man in the Box
3 PEARL JAM - Even Flow
4 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Plush
5 Q.O.T.S.A - Go With the Flow
5 SILVERCHAIR - Tomorrow
6 HOLE - Celebritry Skin
7 L7 - Pretend We’re Dead
8 MUDHONEY - Today is a Good Day
9 SOUND GARDEN - Black Hole Sun
10 SNOWFLAKES - Nothing’s Right
(my band)

* Eric’s Trip - My Room
* Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
* Pavement - Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
* Silverchair - Slave
* Skin Yard - Inside The Eye
* Mudhoney - Overblown
* Soundgarden - Birth Ritual
* Alice In Chains - It Ain’t Like That

Just recently got Nirvana Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream and Pearl Jam Ten on vinyl

who says grunge did not exist? you obviously forgot about Green River, who did not become big superstars like Nirvana, and whoever put nickleback down is a degenerate corporate capatilist fuk

who says grunge did not exist? you obviously forgot about Green River, who did not become big superstars like Nirvana, and whoever put nickleback down is a degenerate corporate capatilist fuk

Anything and everything by the Pixies - they created grunge, not “corporate mainstream”

PS:
slaves&bulldozers-soundga rden
jesus christ pose-soundgarden
ok…I’ve got Soundgarden tattoo on my shoulder!

Black hole sun-soundgarden
superunknown- soundgarden
loud love-soundgarden
fresh tendrils-soundgarden
like suicide-soundgarden
say hello to heaven-temple of the dog
hunger strike-temple of the dog
right turn-alicemudgarden
black-pea rl jam
stardog champion-mother love bone
angry chair-alice in chains
violet-hole

Here’s a short list of great early (1985-93) Seattle grunge tunes released on other labels than SUB-POP:

1. H-hour - Medley (C&Z Rec)
2. Mother Love Bone - Half Ass Monkey Boy (Stardog Rec)
3. Skin Yard - 1000 Smiling Knuckles (Cruz Rec)
4. Temple Of The Dog - Pushin Forward Back (A&M Rec)
5. Tad - Throat Locust (Giant Rec)

The SUB POP release of Soundgarden “HIV Baby” mentioned in my last post was the B-side of SP-83, released 1990 in a tiny small amount, as a Sub-Pop Singles Club Free Bonus 7-inch. I’m a proud owner of this gem

7-inch vinyl will never die!

Here’s some of the original grunge. Best from early Sub pop releases (SP 10-100):

1. Soundgarden - Sub Pop Rock city (from SP 25)
2. Afghan Whigs - Retarded (SP 60)
3. Nirvana - School (SP 34)
4. Mudhoney - Mudride (SP 21)
5. Tad - Satan’s Chainsaw (SP 27)
6. Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet (SP 61)
7. Big Chief - Blow out kid (SP 53)
8. Henry Rollins - Earache My Eye (SP 72)
9. Poster Children - Thinner Stronger (SP 88)
10. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tristessa (SP 90)
11. Soundgarden - HIV Baby (SP)
12. Swallow - Zoo (SP 25)
13. Lubricated Goat - 20th Century Rake (SP 65)
14. Fluid - Tin Top Boy (SP 57)
15. Skin Yard - Start At The Top (SP 47)

Nirvana - MV
Nirvana - D7
Smashing Pumpkins - Bodies
L7 - Everglade
Soundgarden - Spoonman
Pearl Jam - Animal

Would? - Alice in Chains
Drawing Flies - Soundgarden
Porch - Pearl Jam
In Bloom - Nirvana
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots

Thank god for grunge.Seriously, 80’s glam rock is so overatted (so is R&B). Nirvana is top of the list with teen spirit/about a girl/heart-shaped-box etc, followed closely by alice in chains. they totally rock.

Nirvana-all apologies
Hole-Miss world
Screaming trees-more or less
Pearl jam-yellow ledbetter
Temple of the dog-times of trouble
Soundgarden-fell on black days

Upon further review, here’s the new list.

State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Drain You - Nirvana
Big Empty - STP
Rockin’ in the Free World - Neil Young

there…

Chicago Grunge = Naked Raygun. That’s where it’s at!!

WTF is your problem! Why is it that a band can only be great if they are not mainstream. You people tend to think that once more than a thousand people have heard of a band all of a sudden they aren’t great anymore. Nevermind is hands down one of the best grunge albums of all time. Mudhoney and the Meat Puppets are amazing bands too and definately helped inspire Nirvana, but that doesn’t take away from the genious that is Cobain. Oasis is NOT grunge and doesn’t belong on this list. They are a great band with some amazing songs, but they aren’t grunge and that’s what we are talking about. And whoever put Creed or Nickelback on their list deserves the punishment of having to listen to Creed or Nickelback for the rest of their lives.

State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots
Monkey - Bush
Them Bones - Alice In Chains
Cover Me - Candlebox

sappy-nirvana
hands all over-soundgarden
wicked garden-stone temple pilots
pissant-smashing pumpkins
negative creep-nirvana
blood-pearl jam
would?-alice in chains
touch me i’m sick-mudhoney
this is shangi la-mother love bone
violet-hole

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” - Nirvana
“Jeremy” - Pearl Jam
“Doll Parts” - Hole
“Black Hole Sun” - Soundgarden
“Man In the Box” - Alice In Chains ???

Oh..whatdafuckever!! Here’s the real list:

SOLAT (State of Love and Trust)
Down in a Hole
Fell on Black Days
Lithium
I Nearly Lost You

1. “Got Me Wrong”- Alice in Chains
2. “Pepper”- Butthole Surfers
3. “Tomorrow” - Silverchair
4. “Like I Care”- Helmet
5. ” Everything Zen”- Bush
6. “Animal”- Pearl Jam
7. “Outshined”- STP
8. “No Rain”- Blind Melon
9. “Oh, the Guilt”- Nirvana
10. “Pocket Full of Shells”- Rage Against the Machine
11. “Pushing Forward Back”- Temple of the Dog

A few of my faves…

smells like teen spirit - nirvana
not for you - pearl jam

1. Man in the box- Alice in Chains
2. Them Bones- Alice in Chains
3. On a plain- Nirvana
4. Smells like Teen spirit- Nirvana
5. Outshined- Soundgarden

plus many many more mostly by soundgarden and alice in chains.

if you put nickelback or bush in your list your a dumb ass fan boy who probably still buys keychains and patches of their favorite bands.

you dumb fucks, stop turning this into a nirvna/pearl jam rivalry. eddie and kurt were friends at the end. and they both roacked hard in their own respective ways.
anyone who lists creed or nickleback should be shot.

earth died screaming- tom waits with claypool (back in his primus heyday) off of bone machine. dirtiest song of the grunge area. period.

everclear - you make me feel like a whore

I love Grunge so much:)!!!

Bleed The Freak- Alice in Chains
The Day I tried to Live- Soundgarden
Courdoroy- Pearl Jam
Israel’s Son- Silverchair
Now this is a real list, this isnt radio only songs, this list is for the true enthusiast that know’s his grunge

Nirvana~ Blew
Nirvana~ Aneurysm
Nirvana~ Dive
Nirvana~ Milk It
Sound Garden~ Black Hole Sun
Alice In Chains~ Man in the box
Stone Temple Pilots~ Plush

wtf, oasis grunge??

heart shaped box- nirvana
rearview mirror- pearl jam
days of the new- touch, peel and stand
tool-sober (dunno if they’re consider grunge)
temple of the dog- hunger strike

I think some of you lost their mind somewhere… probably about being brainwashed by commercial radio and loving the one who copy… what the hell are you talking about: Nickelback, Bush, Oasis (dumb fuck superstar attitude)… Grunge is just about taking every rock genre into an album…either punk, heavy stuff, blues and whatever else…
Gallagher will never be Eddie Vedder because Vedder has conscience of something else then his own fucking belly…

Lithium — Nirvana
Not for you– Pearl Jam
Jesus Christ Pose– Soundgarden
Crown of thorns– Mother Love Bone
Silverfuck — Smashing Pumpkins
Would? — Alice in Chains
Rockin’ in a free world — Neil Young

Lyrics have to be for something…

possum kingdom

stahl- yes i love hole. coutney loves voice is so good and the song writing is awsome. so dont hate!

grunge was a media and corporate invention. so naturally, Rolling Stone produces lists like this.

“People who insult Pearl Jam today are the same kind of people who insult the Beatles or Pink Floyd - You’re trying way too hard to be cool.”

Good quote dude

Breathe and State- PJ
Motherlove bone- Stardog champion and crown of thorns
AIC- Rain when I die
Nirvana- Smells like teen spirit

Grunge NEVER existed. None of these artists recognized such a genre. It was record companies who created this mythic category to rid the airwaves of hair-metal.

“1)Arms Wide Open- Creed
2)You Remind Me - Nickelback

or anything by:

Candlebox
The Spin Doctors
Goo Goo Dolls
Hootie and the Blowfish
Staind
Days of the New
Lifehouse ”

HAHAHAHAHHAHA
okay.
oh my. that was a laugh.

haha does anyone actually like Hole?

yawn…. i’m bored…

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Touch Me,Im Sick - Mudhoney

the earlys 1990s..were great..

Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam
State of Love & Trust - Pearl Jam

yeah, my teenage music genesis did consist of a regular class skip to read RS, but man, a reality show? I just don’t know anymore…

I recommend a poll to find out who are the best bands that appeared post-grunge. I’m old so I have a hard time coming up with any, but I would say the Killers, Coldplay, and Kid Rock, eh, John Mayer is alright… Jack Johson, Ben Harper too. I think every act to come out after grunge has sucked except them.

Even mid grunge there were a ton of great bands that weren’t grunge. Live, Primus, Dave Matthews, Counting Crows, Cake, Rage, all good bands that appeared during that time, but weren’t grunge.

What’s the problem?

seriously, if the only thing you can post is how out of touch and stupid RS is - why do you continue to come to the site? if you have such better music sites and information - why not spend your time there?

don’t really know if pearl jam is grunge or just great rock - but the kid who says PJ is corporate is an idiot.

in circles-sunny day real estate is my personal fave also liked any deep cut by alice in chains that wasn’t a single, soundgardens jesus christ pose and alive by pearl jam. loved anything by nirvana, they totally chnged music, got rid of all that hair band bullshit of the late 80’s.

Peep this:

The Breeders-”Cannonball”

That bassline…So damn tempting!No matter what genre,it’s one of the best basslines ever,next to the one in “Rapper’s Delight”.I wonder why any rapper hasn’t sampled that yet?

I always liked:

Ugly Kid Joe.

I think they’re tragically overlooked when it comes to killer music from the 90’s

1)Arms Wide Open- Creed
2)You Remind Me - Nickelback

or anything by:

Candlebox
The Spin Doctors
Goo Goo Dolls
Hootie and the Blowfish
Staind
Days of the New
Lifehouse

“All those grunge bands were OK for their time, but nothing comes close to Nickleback. Chad Kroeger is god and nobody rocks harder. Kurt Cobain couldn’t hold Chad’s mike stand for him.”

That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read! You just made my week, man!

1. I dont know anything. Mad Season
2. Nothing to Say. Soundgarden
3. Dive. Nivana
4. It aint like that. Alice
5. Porch. Pearl Jam
6. Crown of Thorns. MLB

MUDHONEY-make it now
MUDHONEY-suck you dry
NIRVANA-rape me
ALICE IN CHAINS-would?
QOTSA-go with the flow

hmmm…some more genius from the Jim-brain - would Matthew Sweet’s “Girlfriend” fall in? I don’t know, I might be like the other speds on this list cofusing seattle rock with anything from the early nineties. That song had classic drum break - I’m just sayin -

All those grunge bands were OK for their time, but nothing comes close to Nickleback. Chad Kroeger is god and nobody rocks harder. Kurt Cobain couldn’t hold Chad’s mike stand for him.

Cumbersome-Seven Mary Three

It’s smashing’s bullet with butterfly wings, no the world is… u moron!

Nirvana-Drain you
Pearl Jam- Evenflow
Smashing Pumpkins-The world is a vampire

I Want You (She’s So heavy) - The Beatles

Madonna - Material Girl

Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Alive - Pearl Jam
Sliver - Nirvana
Spoonman - Soundgarden
100% - Sonic Youth
Debaser - Pixies
Doll Parts - Hole
Down in a hole - Alice in Chains

Mad Season: November Hotel
Pearl Jam: almost everything

Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana
War For My Mind - Smithereens
Dream All Day - Posies
Man In The Box - AIC
In Bloom - Nirvana
Spoonman - Soundgarden
Big Bang Baby - STP

(ok, so I like the pop side)

Worst - Candlebox

Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone
Outshined - Soundgarden
Freedom - Rage
Big Empty - STP
Rooster - Alice in Chains
It Ain’t Like That -Alice in Chains
Porch - Pearl Jam (unplugged version)
Black - Pearl Jam
Animal - Pearl Jam
State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
Silverfuck - Smashing Pumpkins

Rearviewmirror - PJ
Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana
Rusty Cage - Soundgarden (and the Johnny Cash version)
Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone
Dollar Bill - Screaming Trees

Oaisis is the greatest rock band? What?

STP isnt grunge either! stick to Seattle, people. And this list is impossible, how about underrated grunge songs, like B-sides? anything unacceptable to radio off of AIC Dirt is hardcore - “Sickman” “Rain When I die?” ca-maaan. And whoever put on “Star Dog champion” - nice work, my friend, you get it.

-”Evenflow”, Pearl Jam
-”Black Hole Sun”, Soundgarden
-”Got Me Wrong”, Alice in Chains
-”Today”, Smashing Pumpkins
-”Plush”, Stone Temple Pilots
-”Heart Shaped Box”, Nirvana
-”Santa Monica”, Everclear (ok, don’t know if it’s really grunge, but close enough for me.)
-”Lump”, Presidents of the United States

Hungerstrike by Temple of the Dog
Sex Type Thing by Stone Temple Pilots
Angry Chair by Alice in Chains
Rusty Cage by Soundgarden

Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden
Aneurysm - Nirvana
Go - Pearl Jam
You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) - Mudhoney
Would? - Alice in Chains

Love Buzz - Nirvana
Spoonman - Soundgarden
Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots
Miss World - Hole
Glorified G - Pearl Jam

Please!!!!! To The people who posted OASIS. Man!!! You Need Music Re- education! Oasis Is Not A Grunge Band. Please Check the Genre of Bands that you will post…No wonder the new generation of rock bands are not as good as the 70’s and 90’s..

In no particular order:

Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Alice in Chains - Rooster
Soundgarden - Spoonman
Faith No More - Epic
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Blind Melon - No Rain

Are some of you nuts? I’ve seen people here mentionning Oasis, BON JOVI, Skid Row, Pixies…They’re really good bands (excepet from BonJovi), but what makes you all think they’re grunge? As far as I’m concerned, nothing british is grunge, and nothing as happy as “Here comes your man” is grunge either. Faith no More came to be a grunge band with the years.

what about the Pixies? the Breeders? They are the real thing. they, the Pixies at least, inspired this movement. They are the very best bands of grunge and alternative rock.

i must say that you are pretty rude to the best music ever made..(except for Beatles and yeah, the obvious you know) It can only be grunge were you can listen to the special harmony and feeling even on rally simple songs like “plush” and “even flow”. But in grunge only we can also find a really stage so deep that blues is high, for example “something in the way”, “moist vagina”. I can agree that there may be at percent or two of the commercial stuff in the grunge, but is that all negative? I mean i´ve been listening for all kinds of music for years and grew tired of it, but not grunge. and also: Kurt Cobain isnt by far a Lennon but he is the closest anyone will ever get to a lennon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N oel_Gallagher

Where in there does it say Paul McCartney ever said that about Noel Gallagher? All it says is that George Harrison basically thought they sucked, haha.

I guess Wonderwall has never heard of the phrase “Imitation is the best form of flattery”. So Mr. McCartney was just returning the compliment . Anyway, where is the proof that he ever said that?

Wow. So much great music…I’m a fan, and Oasis rocks, but def not grunge. Bush neither. and ps, WOW, to that idiot that said Pearl Jam was corporate…do you have to wear a helmet all the time man? Cause someone as stupid as you must require one at all times…

Oasis is not grunge, absolutely true. That’s because they were above grunge rock. But the reality is if we will talk about 90s rock, be it grunge or Brit-Pop, Noel Gallagher has one thing he can say about himself that Kurt Cobain and the grunge pussies can say for themselves, and that is that the Beatle himself, Paul McCartney, even said Noel Gallagher is the greatest songwriter of his generation. So let’s hear the Oasis haters crap on them now when someone like McCartney says something like that, it speaks volumes. Like it or not, you Oasis haters have to deal with it, Oasis is the greatest rock band, period.

No love for Mudhoney, the Melvins, or Treepeople? I’m disappointed.

Anyone who says Pearl Jam sucks is either saying it because they heard Kurt Cobain say it, who was alive for only 2 out of Pearl Jam’s 8 studio albums, or they’re saying it because they blame Pearl Jam for bands like Creed; Nickelback, etc… Which would be as ridiculous as blaming Led Zeppelin for Poison or Ratt,

or,

option 3, they’re completely tone-deaf

Whatever your 3 choices above are for hating Pearl Jam - You’re not cool or punk for showing off your bad taste.

People who insult Pearl Jam today are the same kind of people who insult the Beatles or Pink Floyd - You’re trying way too hard to be cool.

Are you kidding about Borrowed Tune being grunge? I mean, I know it’s on Tonight’s the Night, but it isnt even close to grunge. You you could have said But Only Love Can Break Your Heart and it would have made just as much sense.

Melvins
Mudhoney
AIC
Fudget unnel
Pearl Jamb blows!

pearl jam was anything but corporate. they spearheaded a f-cking federal investigation of Ticketmaster with the Justice Department for anti-trust violations. If that isn’t punk, I don’t know what is.

The WIPERS: Youth of America.

oh and OUTSHINED by soundgarden is amazing too

Hey craig soundgarden is the only grunde band to when a grammy for best album… go comment on pop rock and give timberlake my regards

1)Fell on Black days -soundgarden
2)In Bloom- Nirvina
3)Rooster- ALICE
4)Alive - Pearl Jam
5) Plush- STP
5)

seriously why the hell are you guys arguing over such pointless rubbish, music is music,, it shouldn’t be fought over to such extremes, people hate pearl jam, people hate oasis and vice versa, get over it!

Neil Young circa 1973-1975
Danger Bird
Stupid Girl
Revolution Blues
Drive Back
Borrowed Tune, etc….

long gone day.mad season
lounge act.nirvana
sex type thing.stp
sludge factory.alice in chains
indifference.pearl jam
beyond the wheel.soundgarden
hunger strike.temple of the dog
you know you’re right.nirvana

that one dude was right, grunge was overated, nirvanas good, some pearl jam, but like…what else….soundgarden was terrible (admit it) as well as bush so i mean
just shut up all grunge lovers, its not that great a genre

Pearl Jam and Oasis are by far the two greatest bands to emerge from the 90’s. Name one decent piece of shit album to come out of Britain before DEFINITELY MAYBE in 94.

Also, everyone who thinks Pearl Jam uses the same forumla for all their albums needs to seriously pull their head out of their ass. Just try to draw a connection between VS.-YIELD-RIOT ACT, because I gurantee you can’t find any. They are, and will always be, the most inventive band to come out of the 90s

Mad Season - River of Deceit anyone?

Cobain IS grunge. Temple of the Dog was good. I don’t think people can really knock Pearl Jam. Alice in Chains turned out to be more timeless than the others now that grunge is gone.
Alice in Chains - “again”

I don’t think grunge is defined by a specific sound. It’s the attitude, delivery, energy, and style (aka. flannel) with which these bands share in a particular scene, the Seattle Scene, if you will. All these bands have those things in common. They’re music was heavy (emotionally and sonically), dig. Soundgarden, Nirvana, Sreaming Trees, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam are grunge, even though they each had their own unique sound. That is why I leave STP out of this group. They are more in a sense glam at the very core. Great music was born in that gloomy, rainy, city. I also like Oasis,but calling Oasis Grunge is like calling James Brown Bluegrass.

Although Nirvana is perhaps more accessible, to me AIC’s music has SOO much more to offer. Many ppl list Man in the Box for AIC which really doesn’t exemplify their sound. Better is (Would?, Nutshell, Down in a Hole, No Excuses). Also, to call Pearl Jam corporate is ridiculous.

In the academic world there is a word for what Oasis passes of as music: plagiarism. Hell even their look and hairstyles have been ripped off from the Beetles. Now if that is not “corporate” I don’t know what is.

Pearl Jam follow the same formula? Nice one “Spike”. Because Binaural sounds like Ten and Vitalogy. Help,Help sounds exactly like Alive and driftin. Idiot

Nirvana - too many songs to mention really, but Tourette’s, Scentless Apprentice, Drain You and SLiver would offer a nice summation.
other than that, Screaming Trees deserve a look. and PJ, Alice in Chains, SOundgarden, but they’re pretty much covered here. Face Soundgarden song is either Jesus Christ Pose or Mailman

there was a lot of good music to come out of the grunge-era ’90’s, whatever you want to label it. Many of those artists (like pearl jam for instance) are still putting out quality records today. i personally think that grunge was taking rock back to it’s roots (especially in comparison to the neo-metal that followed) by rebelling against the glam-rock of the 80’s, and putting a little heart and feeling back in to a genre that had become superficial over the course of a decade.

i think the girl who said the whole bit about trent and beck being the only two that made it out of the scene unscathed says a lot. because one of the greatest aspects of what SHOULD make a music career, and a legendary one, besides one ended in tragic death, is the idea of longevity and creative growth. i love pearl jam, but i think they grew stagnant. we all know about the sad mega-group revival to regrouping syndrome. so yeah nine inch nails, still around, still keeping it fresh. beck, still around, still keeping it fresh. i hate classification analysis, we should leave all this shit for the fucking scientists. when did humans become significant for their rank? rollingstone is schlock.

I find it so funny little phony poser bitches like spike who think they’re all punk cry about how corporate PJ is - while the people who started punk …

The Buzzcocks
The Ramones
The Dead Boys
The Clash
The Bad Brains

all love Pearl Jam - you f*kin idiots.

Even Bad Religion who has started to become a legendary punk band opened for PJ & loved PJ for giving them the opportunity to back when no one knew who Bad Religion was.

Oh yeah, “we tried so hard to kill off your kind with the first punk movement”

Were the Clash apart of that “movement”? Were the Ramones? Funny… Eddie Vedder was at Johnny Ramones side when he died, & Joe Strummer was going to go on tour with Pearl Jam before he died… & here you are, a NOTHING, a NOBODY - there is no “we”, YOU didn’t do ANYTHING - While the real fathers of the movement like Joe Strummer & Johnny Ramone were great friends with Eddie Vedder & Pearl Jam you ***PHONY*** idiot KID

Pearl Jam does NOT repeat the same formula… How the hell would you know when you don’t even listen to their albums?

EXAMPLE: Pearl Jam’s latest album has 5 hard rock songs in a row - As opposed to another Pearl Jam album like No Code where only 2 of the first 5 songs could even remotely be considered hard rock - It’s more like one song

Pearl Jam does NOT repeat the same formula anymore than ANY other legendary band EVER has - Be it Pink Floyd or Zeppelin

AND SPEAKING OF IRONY- You’re saying Pearl Jam repeat the same formula & that makes them corporate… YET HOW MANY “PUNK” BANDS REPEAT THE SAME FORMULA?! practically ALL of them, whether its Social Distortion, the Misfits, Dead Moon or the Ramones, so STFU poser

“spike”, what a phony name for a phony stupid kid.

Pearl Jam rules. The End.

Grunge is probably the most overrated thing in the history of rock. It lasted for about 2 and a half years, yet the music media makes it seem like the only important musical event since the start of the 90’s. There were only 4 important bands to come out of grunge, and these are their most important and popular songs without a doubt:

Rooster - Alice In Chains
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

They each have 2 or 3 other important songs as well, but certainly none of them were the most important band of the past 3 decades (contrary to what Rolling Stone’s Immortals list might say).

For the record, if we’re gonna talk about grunge as a rock sub-genre, we should first try to establish criteria. i.e. gloomy sound (even on the up tempo numbers), world weary lyrics, complete lack of fashion sense, ect. Bands like Oasis and the Pixies don’t belong there - neither band was so limited in its reach. For that matter, Mother Love Bone was way to glam to be considered grunge. And as for Nirvana, they transended the bounds of any one genre - Cobain may have been rock’s last true genius.

“gycerine” and “swallowed” by bush…”zero”, “1979″, and “bullet with butterfly wings” by smashing pumpkins, but other than that…wasn’t a fan of the grunge…

FYI Legalalien - if PJ is not corporate, why does every record repeat the same formula? The true mark of corporate rock is a band that does not grow. Say whay you will, PJ repeats the same dull formula over and over ad nauseum. I can accept that people like you like PJ, after all, there are dopes who swear the Dead are good music too. Get it - your the 90’s version of a Deadhead. How sad - we tried so hard to kill of your kind with the first punk movement.

To the stupid dumbsh*t kid who wrote Cobain was a better musician than Lennon …

Cobain wasn’t fit to lick the sh*t out of Lennons assh0le you little twat.

Oh you mean TV shows as in Letterman & such? So the f- what? So what? Pearl Jam plays Saturday Night Live for once in ten years & some moron like you comes along & tries to bring them down for it - Maybe if Madonna release an album in 2006 you could make the comparison you stupid c*nt.

go listen to your 80s hair metal, same for you “betty”

You wrote, “Last year Pearl Jam did more tv shows then Madonna.”

They did? I can’t recall one show Pearl Jam did on MTV - not ONE, you IDIOT

They made like 1 official music video for their last release, it barely got played on Mtv/Vh1, & what the hell show did Pearl Jam play on MTV? You wanna tell me? You mean VH1 Storytellers? That’s the only thing remotely close to what you’re talking about.

f-ing idiot.

If Cobain didn’t blow his fuqqing brains out….I might have. Best career move you ever made, Kurt.

ha,ha, ha, that’s funny and true, the only 90’s acts who have grown with dignity are Beck and Trent Reznor, and i’m a 90’s girl.

Remember Eddie Vedder screaming on a music video this:
“Turn off those lights, this is not a tv show!”

Well:
Last year Pearl Jam did more tv shows then Madonna.
Chris Cornell is following the steps of Duran Duran and Sheena Easton doing James Bond songs.
Nirvana music is the new soundtrack of sitcoms and tv series.
And Courtney Love is turning into Michael Jackson.

You can say that the 80’s where the “Greed is good” decade, but at least that was honest,
couse the 90’s where the “i don’t wanna be a rock star, i wanna be real” decade, really fake and pretentious stuff.

Sorry to say this “grunge people”, but you are staring to sound like your parents, move on, is 2007!

Why am I the only one whose mentioned Toadies?! “Possum Kindgom” is a hell of a song, and so was the album, Rubberneck! Dammit!

Also, I like the material that Alice in Chains and Soundgarden came up with on their final albums, most notably “Again” and “Blow Up the Outside World,” respectively.

The best? What a retarded question. I am so tired of this has been, bubble gum joke of a magazine trying to come off as some kind of authority. They are never right about anything!!!

Ok, this won’t be an arguement against Oasis in general, just for Oasis to be on this list. True, Oasis was around at the same time as ‘grunge’ bands, but Oasis was part of the Brit pop-rock scene which was actually a counter-action to grunge. The most notable instance of this is Blur’s Parklife, which was a direct reaction to how miserable Damon Alburn thought American rock had become and so he wanted to make an album that entrenched in traditional Brit-pop. Oasis was also part of this reaction. So to bother mentioning Oasis in this list for Oasis fans is really a smack in the face to what they stood for. I mean from anything I’ve ever read of them talking about grunge they hated it.
And yes grunge is a made up label anyways for some cross-breed of 70’s metal and post-punk sound. Grunge was actually just a word maybe up by a receptionist at Sub-Pop from my understanding. But I still like general idea the sound it’s meant to encompass

Pavement - Gold Soundz

Oh my God! A Rolling Stone article about 90’s rock that doesn’t involve Pavement! Big step R.S.

1: You Give Love a Bad Name-Bon Jovi
2: Headed For a Heartbreak-Winger
3: Armageddon It-Def Lepperd
4: 18 and Life-Skid Rowe
5: Nothin’ But a Good Time-Poison.

Grunge Blows. Deal.

Yeah, I put up a top song list from a different and defunct magazine, and the fine people at Rolling Stone took it down immediately. It was a great list and took a while to type, but RS felt threatened.
Opportunist Boomer Trash.
Go back to your Eagles or Doobie Brothers, and leave the grunge/alt/emo/indie/etc to someone else.

no matter what, nirvana’s “smells like teen spirit” will forever remain the greatest grunge song ever.

wow. I’ve had cds of all those bands, and now their coming back. All the poser christian rock bands are going to copy them, and
this is going to really suck.

nirvana - aneurysm
pearl jam (not grunge) - not for you
pixies - wave of mutulation
soundgarden - rusty cage

Oasis are one of the best bands of the last 20 years, but not grunge (whatever that is). Grunge is a media creation- so they can categorize and compartmentalize a new genre of music to sell us.

If you are talking about the alternative-rock music scene of the 90s, then Oasis is included. In this case, of all the MAINSTREAM bands, I would rank the 90s thusly (taking into account influence on the alternative genre):

1. Tool
1a. Soundgarden
3. Alice in Chains (still unapppreciated by so called ‘experts’)
4. Pearl Jam
5. Nirvana (lower because of their limited output)
6. Oasis
7. The Smashing Pumpkins
8. Kyuss
9. Radiohead
10. Local H

Hey, just wanted to comment. I like all these lists. Some of focus more on “grunge” as a musical style, which means sludgy 70’s influenced metal with punk/noise rock elements (Melvins, Green River, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Soundgarden’s first 3 albums). Some of the other lists, which include Pearl Jam, Oasis, Screaming Trees, etc., are based less on the grunge musical style and more on a broader alternative music scene, influenced by grunge, which became popular after “Smells Like Teens Spirit.” I think these lists are just as valid as the lists based on the stricter definition of grunge, because they reinforce the point that everybody learned from grunge: distortion is beautiful! All kinds of great new music was made after grunge by just taking beautiful music that other bands already developed and adding more fuzz. Everclear added extra fuzz to Neil Young and Tom Petty. Radiohead added extra fuzz to U2. Kyuss added extra fuzz to Black Sabbath and Metallica. And so on. And we’re all better off for it!

Long live the Electro Harmonix Big Muff!

Hey, look … it’s back up.

www.pastemagazine.com

Write something super negative about RS and they’ll take it down real quick like.

Good long, Rolling Stone sucks.

It’s amazing that they are the most popular U.S. music magazine and apparently know NOTHING about music.

This is such a gutless, irrelevant list. Are these the best “grunge” (whatever that even means) songs or simply the most popular songs of that era? Man, it’s amazing that a so-called music magazine has such lack of music knowledge. At least make an interesting case for some lesser-known, equally good songs from the era. This is getting dangerously close to what “classic rock” has become…the same stale, tired songs from the same bands while there are thousands of good songs by the same and other artists of the “classic” era that are ignored. My guess is that in a few years we’ll start to hear these very songs mixed in with Boston and Led Zeppelin on dull classic rock radio stations.

Uptown Girl-Billy Joel
Thunder Rd.-The Boss
The Boys Of Summer-Don Henley
Yellow Submarine-Beatles
Piano Man-Billy Joel

1.Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
2.Bullet With Butterfly Wings-Smashing Pumpkins
3.Lake Of Fire-Meat Puppets
4.Territoral Pissings-Nirvana
5.Lithium-Ni rvana
6.Lounge Act-Nirvana
7.Jeremy-Pearl Jam
Oh and no one will ever replace Nirvana no matter how hard they try-Kurt Cobain is the greatest musician of all time and John Lennon or Freddie Mercury don’t have anything on him.

Tourette’s - Nirvana (best song of all time, grunge or not)

Where’s my mind - The Pixies

Bull in the heather - Sonic Youth

Again - Alice ine chains

What else is new - Dinosaur Jr.

P.S. Oh yeah, by the way, f— you SKULL FREAK, you should blow your brains out, you’re probably one of those Kimveer Gill/Dylan Klebold types, aren’t you??

in bloom

even flow

man in the box

outshined

nearly lost you

cool thing

Grunge is a stupid term for rock. Pearl Jam and Nirvana sound nothing the same. Grunge is simply a late 80’s early 90’s form of rock and roll. Therefore, Oasis and Nirvana top the list. Pearl Jam takes 3rd and the Lemonheads and smashing pumpkins take 4th and 5th. Noel Gallagher and Evan Dando still dominate today.

reach down- temple of the dog,,deep-pearl jam,, rusty cage- soundgarden,, cinnamon girl- neal young,, man in the box- alice in chains

1 My Hero–Foo Fighters
2 Doesn’t Remind Me–Audioslave
3 In Bloom–Nirvana
4 Alive–Pearl Jam
5 Spoonman–Soundgarden

good songs. but in my list,

#1. Smells Like Teen Spirit(Nirvana)
#2. Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
#3. Man In The Box (Alice in Chains)
#4. Outshined (Soundgarden)
#5. Jeremy (Pearl Jam)

oh ya how could i forget the Pixies, Frank Black is the man

jack pepsi - tad
in and out of grace - mudhoney
drug store - dwarves
lysol - melvins
turn on the water - afghan whigs
oasis? grunge? are you freaking kidding me? OASIS!>?!?!?!?! what are we gonna lable blue cheer soul cause they came out when otis redding was big? grunge was a retarded term anyway but at east see past your cable provided music channel for once on a topic. best grunge band ever?

CAT BUTT!!!!!!!

Spike says “Pearl Jam is the most overrated group of wanna-be corporate designed crap in Rock history”

What an idiot you obviously have no idea about music and have never listened to anything after Ten. How many pearl jam videos have you seen of theres or how many times have you seen them in interviews? Even though I am not a huge Pearl Jam fan they are not even close to corporate. Now go throw in your Nickelback and Creed albums. Best grunge band ever is the Melvins.

OASIS! OASIS! OASIS! OASIS! OASIS!

OASIS! OASIS!

At least they`ve maintained throughout the years! Where`s nirvana, alice in chains, and soundgarden?

Whoever brought up Oasis in the first place, thanks! I love seeing such vitriol and animosity towards the best band in the world. I love “grunge” but Oasis easily is the best thing to come out of the 90’s. Not one band can touch them for songwriting, attitude, and playing for the love of the music.

BTW, Stardog Champion really defines grunge for me. In the end, it’s not about categorization it’s about the songs. Not one of the grunge bands has written better songs than Noel and company.

Oasis haters, let me have it

Pearl Jam- Not for You
Smashing Pumpkins- Cherub Rock

skullfreak is figgin’ gay. Whoever brought up Oasis is friggin’ gay. And I wouldn’t consider pearl jam to be grunge, and if they were not from Seattle, nobody else would either. If Stone Temple Pilots were from Seattle they would be in the top five though.

Sonically, no band did anything that Pixies didn’t do before them and, lyrically, no grunge band accomplished anything that REM didn’t do on their first 6 albums. (Listen to “The Wrong Child” as one example). Except for Smells Like Teen Spirit and In Bloom.

The best of the bunch then is:

“Heaven Beside You” and “Would?” - Alice in Chains

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” “On a Plain” “Sliver” “About a Girl” and “Rape Me” - Nirvana

“Porch” by Pearl Jam

“Backwater” by Meatpuppets

“Rusty Cage” “Burden in my Hand” by Soundgarden

“Violet” by Hole.

and even though it came over a decade late, “The Letter” by PJ Harvey

THE MULSUM
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THE MULSUM
THE MULSUM
THE MULSUM
THE MULSUM
THE MULSUM
THE MULSUM
THE MULSUM
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Jesus Christ Pose Soundgarden

the cult started “grunge”,aka rocks swan song………………….

temple of the dog - hunger strike

Grunge sucks….always has, always will. I’m glad Cobain blew his friggin’ brains out…

the mulsum - the guachigua song
i agree

i remember too THE MULSUM!
oh my God The best live band i´ve ever seen
the guachigua song is a great song

yeah i remember

who remembers the mulsum and their grunge anthem “the guachigua song”
THE BEST SONG I´VE EVER HEARD
VIVA THE MULSUM

If I’m trying to make a definitive list of the key songs, following grunge’s arc from obscurity to commercial success, maybe it would go something like this:

“Touch Me I’m Sick — Mudhoney (THE definitive grunge song)
“Freak Scene” — Dinosaur Jr.
“Flower” — Soundgarden
“Gigantic” — Pixies
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” — Nirvana
“Would?” — Alice in Chains

Some of you guys included Mother Love Bone and Pearl Jam. These bands were not grunge. Some of you had Screaming Trees. I’m with ya there, great band, but again, not grunge.

best grunge songs of all time..

1. say hello to heaven - temple of the dog
2. smells like teen spirit - nirvana
3. alive - pearl jam
4. black hole sun - soundgarden
5. jeremy - pearl jam

Bad list:/ i would say

1. About a girl/On a plain - Nirvana

2. Tonight, tonight - Smashing pumpkins(not really grunge, more like 2nd wave grunge, alternative)

3.The day i tried to live- Soundgarden

4.Even flow- Pearl jam

5. Marigold - Dave Grohl (Shows the things that Grohl was capable to do but couldn´t in Nirvana, makes you think of George Harrison)

Wow rolling stone! Way to go off on a limb. Why not call this list the most obvious choices of all time? By the way, Pearl Jam is the most overrated group of wanna-be corporate designed crap in Rock history!

Pearl Jam - Alive, Evenflow, Porch, Go, Not For You, Do the Evolution
Soundgarden - Hands All Over, Outshined, Burden In My Hand
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smashing Pumpkins - Silverfuck, Cherub Rock, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Zero
STP - Plush, Big Empty, Creep, Army Ants, Interstate Love Song
Alice In Chains - Would, Rooster, Man In the Box, Stay Away
Jane’ Addiction - Jane Says, Stop
Mudhoney - Touch Me I’m Sick
Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
I Mother Earth - One More Astronaut
Live (come on give them their due) - Pain Lies On the Riverside, I Alone, Stage
Collective Soul - Smashing Young Man, Shine, Gel
Moist - Leave It Alone, Resurrection
The Headstones - Settle

If you want a really good insight into grunge or alternative or whatever label you want, there’s a great 4 part series on The Ongoing History of New Music with Allen Cross on the 90s at edge102.com. The double helex theory is interesting, although I think a little flawed.

Alice in Chains - Angry Chair & Got Me Wrong
Toadies- Tyler (a must) & Possum Kingdom
Pixies - Where is my Mind
Soundgarden - Outshined
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome

I’m so happy I grew up in the late 80s early 90s.

Mudhoney-Touch Me I’m Sick
Nirvana-Big Cheese
Soundgarden-Searching With My Good Eye Closed
Alice In Chains-It Ain’t Like That
Pearl Jam-Animal
Screaming Trees-Winter Song
Smashing Pumpkins-I Am One
PIXIES-Velouria
Mother Love Bone-Crown of Thorns
Temple of the Dog-Pushin’ Forward Back
Green River-This Town
Hole-Jennifer’s Body
L7-Shitlist
Stone Temple Pilots-Where the River Goes
Love Battery-Between the Eyes
anything by Dead Moon, The Fastbacks, 7 Year Bitch, The Gits, or The Supersuckers

All of this stuff just scratches the surface. There is still so much great music left to be discovered from that time period.

Grunge was born and it died in Hunger Strike’s four minutes.

it’s PIXIES all in caps and no “the” other guy going by “Hunter”

i think we should all thank Guns N Roses…because if they never stripped down hard rock/metal and brought a seriousness back to the rock scene none of those “grunge’ bands would have EVER gotten signed in the first place…GUNS and Metallica together buried hair metal and opened the door for a new style of music…it is no coincidence that grunge really took off when GNR and Metallica were on a break….

Get a job, Hunter. You are a bore.

helter skelter - the beatles

Oh, and I like how Rolling Stone writes “Nirvana impersonaters” as if Nirvana didn’t impersonate anyone - How about the Pixies & the Melvins you idiots?

Pearl Jam wrote a whole hell of a lot better songs than Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Who gives a CRAP about “impact” when you’re sitting around by yourself getting stoned? NO ONE, you care about how good the song is.

Get it through your heads & quit being such SHEEP.

*Pixies

The Wagon - Dinosaur Jr
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pizies
Dumb - Nirvana
Betterman - Pearl Jam
Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr

“Grunge was the natural progression of hair metal rather than a completely new and inventive genre. GNR was the main link”

Whoever say this, is right, Guns, Janes and The Replacements stared all.

the 90’s are dead guys!

I’m still waiting for grunge to make a comeback. Mudhoney and Local H are the only true flag wavers that I know of today.

Everybody knows that Tad was the best grunge band of all time. Besides Come and Afghan Whigs of course.

Take Hole off of the list, put on Screaming Trees & Mudhoney.

MUDHONEY - YOU GOT IT (KEEP IT OUT OF MY FACE)

And you forgot Mother Love Bone.

wrong, wrong, wrong list.

The best song from Nirvana is All Apologies.
Pearl Jam is right.

Soundgarden’s is either “Outshined” or “Jesus Christ Pose.”

Wrong Alice in Chains song……”Would” is the correct pick. And Hole never had a good song. That and “Temple Of the Dog” was totally excluded, along with “The Melvins.”

anything nirvana or hole or pearl jam or i dont know

Hate The Police - Mudhoney.

I know it’s a cover but they’ve made their own by ending nearly every show with it. As they themselves say: it’s the best Mudhoney song they never wrote.

teen spirit kicks ass, nuf said
drain you kicks ass
geek USA kicks ass (alternative)

can people just stop complaining ever? RS tries to celebrate grunge so you cry over it? whatever

Smashing Pumpkins - I am One; Today
Pearl Jam - Alive
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box
STP - The big empty

Grunge was the natural progression of hair metal rather than a completely new and inventive genre. GNR was the main link in the evolutionary chain, taking off the spandex and makeup and writing more idiosyncratic lyrics.

AIC, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam, in particular, would have been good in any era because they all combined good songwriting, great musicianship, and 2 of the best rock voices ever with Cornell and Staley.

“Julie Paradise”-Screaming Trees
“Mona Bone Jakon”-Hater
“Here comes Sickness”-Mudhoney…hell, the entire self titled Mudhoney debut.
“School”-Nirvana. NO RECESS!!! Love that one.
“Slaves and Bulldozers”-Soundgarden

And my two cents-Soundgarden didn’t make a grungeish tune after Badmotorfinger, and Pearl Jam is a classic style rock band, nowhere near grunge.

Those years were some of the best ever in rock history. In a way I hope their really isn’t a revival of it though, unless today’s kids can bring something new or unique to it( I doubt it, though).

Most of my favorites are on the list already, but:

1. The Wagon - Dinosaur jr.
2. All I Know - Screaming Trees
3. Bleed Together - Soundgarden

Why didn’t we just call this list “List your favorite songs by Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and maybe Smashing Pumpkins or Hole or something”

I hate the word Grunge
Just as the Punks in the 70’s didn’t like being termed “punk” music, so too I’m sure these bands hated the term Grunge. Someone tell me how Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana sound similar to each other.. then I might agree. Otherwise.. I never want to hear the term Grunge again in my life.

AIC - “Sea Of Sorrow”
Soundgarden - “The Day I Tried To Live”
Pearl Jam - “Rearview Mirror”
Nirvana - “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter”
Candelbox - “Cover Me”

Dive-Nirvana
I’ll Stick Around- Foo Fighters
Got Me Wrong- Alice In Chains
Drain You- Nirvana
Today- Smashing Pumpkins

Anyone who thinks “grunge” or as it should be called the “Seattle Sound” is probably a moronic yuppie who is stuck in the “Greed is good” days of the 1980’s.

“Die Yuppie Scum” ~ Charles Manson

alice in chains - rooster
nirvana - smells like teen spirit, lithium, heart shaped box
pearl jam - evenflow, alive, jeremy

i think early foo fighters deserves an honorable mention
“big me”
off their self titled

Nirvana- Negative Creep and Heart Shaped Box

Pearl Jam- State of Love and Trust, and Yellow Ledbetter

Soundgarden- Room A Thousand Years Wide and Outshined

Alice In Chains- Nutshell, Would, Angry Chair

Temple of The Dog- Hunder Strike

Screaming Trees- Nearly Lost You

yes nirvana was an overated band, overated in the fact that they weren’t rock and roll monsters bangin groupies by the hour or very stylish(initially). They did not belong in the media. But that doesn’t overshaddow the fact that they were still brilliant.

1. Alice In Chains
2. Pearl Jam
3. Nirvana
4. Stone Temple Pilots
5. Bush

Cornell has a nice voice but he can’t write a meaningful lyric

Alice in Chains were the most talented and the Pixies were the most fun and creative band of that era.

oh yeah, oasis is horible and completely boring and unoriginal

Puke and Cry - Dino Jr.
Bed of Roses - Screaming Trees
I am One - Smashing pumpkins
Loud Love - Soundgarden
Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Entire Alice In Chains ‘Jar of Flies’

Oasis and Nirvana both rock at the same time

Radiohead and Nirvana were both heavily influenced by The Pixies. Radiohead’s Pablo Honey was therefore not a grunge rip off album.

Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Nirvana - Lithium
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome

Hole!!! WTF is hole doing there? Soundgarden were the best of the bunch, hands down.

that’s Scott Weiland, Corgan is working at Mc Donals.

ha, ha, ha, is true, and i think Scott Weiland is doing xmas songs, or is it Billy Corgan?

Remember when the 90’s generation use to laugh at the 80’s generation?
mmmm let me see:

Last year Pearl Jam did more tv shows then Madonna.

Chris Cornell is following the steps of Duran Duran and Sheena Easton doing James Bond songs.

Nirvana music is the new soundtrack of sitcoms and tv series.

And Courtney Love is the new Michael Jackson.

Oh how things change!

oasis teabagged the beatles’ white album and called it their own.

1.) alice in chains- junkhead
(key lyric: what’s my drug of choice, well what have you got)
2.) soundgarden- mailman
3.) nirvana- frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle
(key lyric: to come back as fire and burn all the liars, leave a blanket of ash on the ground)
4.) pearl jam- deep
5.) stone temple pilots- trippin’ on a hole in a paper heart

The two records that I love playing now as much as I did then…….Soundgarden-”Badmot orfinger”, and Pixies-”Doolittle”, they are the most expansive, creative and inventive records of that era, and they still revolutionary in 2007.

oh man!, the 90’s are so dead
Who cares?

oh yeah, Far Behind - Candlebox

labels aside, Soundgarden was truly one of the most innovative and moving bands of the late 80’s to late 90’s era. From their song-structures, themes, delivery, and slight delving into the avant-garde. It’s a bit hard to see past the commercial aspect of these bands into the deeper meanings of their art. But this one stood out as the most original of the era, but didn’t get the credit they deserved because they were not as influencial (emulated) as their sonically dissimilar peers, Pearl Jam and Nirvana. And of course, current projects of late rock singers can always shine a negative light, but Cornell and Shepard were poets in their own right at the time.

Pearl Jam - Porch
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Soundgarden - Outshined
Alice in Chains - Sludge Factory
Supersuckers - I Say Fuck

toadies-possum kingdom

Ok, the word “revival” by its definition suggests the return of something (as in “revived”). So in this case, a grunge revival. It has nothing to to with anything new, necessarily.

Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and the rest are all great, but obvious.

Anybody remember that song “Sister” by the Nixons?

a revival only occurs when something thats completely new manages to push itself through a devoted underground demographic and into mainstream exposure. the next era of rock n roll revival wont sound like nirvana or anyone before it, just in the same way that nirvana was revitalizing and completely fresh and unlike anything before them. there are already bands that steal from secondary sources, like jet and interpol and the bravery and crap like that and their music is disposable and insincere. Those bands are not culturally relevant in the way that the music they impersonate was when that music was new. So i don’t really see how nirvana impersonators would work out any more successfully in reviving rock n roll than any of those other bands that hermetically seal themselves to the stereotypes that other bands have already established for themselves. screw of montreal, too.

Pearl Jam: “Porch”
Smashing Pumpkins: “Quiet”
Stone Temple Pilots: “Big Empty”
Oasis: “Slide Away”
Pixies: “Tame”
Pearl Jam: “Evenflow”
Nirvana: “Lithium”
Smashing Pumpkins: “Zero”
Oasis: “Forever”

Pearl Jam: Porch
Smashing Pumpkins: Quiet
Stone Temple Pilots: Big Empty
Oasis: Slide Away
Pearl Jam: Evenflow
Nirvana: Lithium
Smashing Pumpkins: Zero

Revival???

Grunge never went away… American modern rock radio has been raping our ears with the same recycled grunge for 16 years.

The only revival I want to see is a return of well-informed and unpredictable DJs with their own setlists.

Grunge, the most overrated rock genre ever! There was only one real significant band, and that was Nirvana, that’s it! Pearl Jam, LAME!. Alice in Chains, BORING! Soundgarden, OVERRATED! I’ll give props to The Smashing Pumpkins, they were good.

Most importantly however, yes, Oasis is not grunge, that we all know, but Noel Gallagher’s writing ability was far superior to anything that what’s-his-name from Pearl Jam ever wrote or sang or did. Fuck Pearl Jam, a bunch of nobodies who cry about leaves falling off trees.

i noticed a few posts down that someone said, “oasis are the biggest band in world.” in england they may be the biggest thing, (but according to the NME any band playing a few notes on a Telecaster are the band that will save all life on earth) Oasis are good but in America, theyre in that whatever happen to bin. No one gives a shit about their new songs here. They topped out after Morning Glory.

Pearl Jam - Not for You
Alice In Chains - We Die Young
Mudhoney - Suck You Dry
Soundgarden - Hands All Over
Nirvana - Love Buzz

Let me clear up one thing… Oasis SUCKS! And to anyone dismissive of these great songwriters, go fetch yourself another Scott Stapp CD

People, give some love to the band that inspired it all, The Pixies!
Debaser- Pixies

Pearl Jam - “Alive” or “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”

Nirvana - “Come As You Are” or “In Bloom”

Soundgarden - “Black Hole Sun”

Bush - “Comedown”

Stone Temple Pilots - “Plush”

Neil Young

News to you all! Grunge was born in Minneapolis with the Mats and Husker Du. Best songs were Kids Won’t Follow by the Mats and Turn on the News by Huster Du.

Any Avril Lavigne song

Pearl Jam - Alive

Paw - Sleeping Bag

Alice in Chains - Would

Soundgarden - Searching With My Good Eye Closed

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

“Radio Friendly Unit Shifter” - Nirvana

Outshined - Soundgarden
In Bloom - Nirvana
Black - Pearl Jam
Interstate Love Song - STP
Rooster & Heaven Beside You - Alice In Chains

Freak Scene- Dinosaur Jr.

Nirvana-”Smells Like Teen Spirit”(the jumpoff of all grunge songs,more so anthems)

Pearl Jam-”Alive”

Stone Temple Pilots-”Plush”,”Wicked Garden”,”Tripping On A Hole In A Paper Heart”,”Sour Girl”(lovely ballad,smooth bassline)

Rage-”Freedo m”(th e type of grunge song that would make Bob Marley proud),”Bulls On Parade”,”Guerilla Radio”,”Sleep Now In The Fire”
(look out y’all-Rage 2007!)

Alice In Chains-”Man In The Box”,”Rooster”

Hole-”Miss World”,”Violet”,”Malibu”

1) Nirvana “Lithium”
2) Alice in Chains “Man in the Box”
3) Soundgarden “Outshined”
4) Guided by Voices “Everyone Thinks I’m a Raincloud”
5) Pearl Jam “Even Flow”

This list is dumb. It’s like asking for the best rap song of all time. That’s a “tad” more broad in scope, but you get the idea. And it seems you implicitly felt that the best grunge songs had to be singles.

Best Grunge Rock Songs EVER!!!

1.) Nirvana- “In Bloom”–in my opinion THE quintessential grunge song: ambush-double-flam-beginning, the slow-melodic-cynical-lyric-ver se and the sick-to-my-stomach-approach to the chorus, the guitar solo that is almost all feedback and anger, and finally the video which has the guys in drag beating the shit out of their instruments.

2.) Pearl Jam- “Jeremy”– the first song that I ever got sick of hearing, because of the amount of airplay. Aside from that it was also the first band that made me want to know everything about the lead singer. Kurt was the dark prince and Eddie Vedder was the socially conscious, emotional soldier fighting for truth and justice…with ROCK!

3.) SoundGarden-”Rusty Cage”–hits like a phillips head into my brain. This song solidified my love for this band. Fast, Heavy, Low, Dark, and Chris Cornell Wailing–I mean fuckin’ reaching sooo far for notes that he has no business hitting. Amazing band.

4.) Alice in Chains-”Down in a Hole”– Jerry Cantrell is a hell of a song writer. Moody, dark, and just plain depressing, but wonderful vocal harmonies that somehow rise up out of the gloom. It is kinda depressing knowing that in this music was Layne Staley pretty much screaming for a way out of his own skin.

5.) The Smashing Pumpkins-”Today”–guitars full of fuzz and distortion and feedback. An unconventional band, really. I never heard a singer like Billy Corgan before ever. Throw in James Iha guitar solos of multiple foot pedals and massive feedback and D’arcy being that weird, hot alternative chick that I wanted in the worst way and you’ll understand why I chose this band.

For all those who put down MudHoney and Screaming Trees, I understand where you are coming from, but honestly these bands–maybe not these songs–but these bands definitely defined grunge. Period.

On the cusp: Hole”Violet”, Live”I Alone”.

Pearl Jam: “Even Flow”
Nirvana: “Breed”
Soundgarden: “Spoonman”
Alice In Chains: “Rooster”
Mother Love Bone: “Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns”
Temple of the Dog: “Hunger Strike”

I’m an Oasis fan, but Jesus Christ enough already! I’m sure Q’s website will have an Oasis thread for you to baste yourself with.

Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Alive - Pearl Jam
Outshined - Soundgarden
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Right Turn - Alice in Chains

they all suck

Best record ever made was made during the ‘grunge’ period. Hate to say it like that. Everyone should own Sugar’s ‘Copper Blue’. Greatest record ever made.

Alice Said by the Screaming Trees.

Grunge was ok. If you had the angst of a 15 year old, who didnt understand the world. OASIS is for people who relish a good time and want to live for ever…. Booze & coke versus heroin. I would go with the booze and coke.

You are right…..Pearl Jam is a truly, GREAT rock band.

Pearl Jam - Alive
Pearl Jam - Black
Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution
Pearl Jam - Go
Pearl jam - Animal
Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
Pearl Jam - Porch
Pearl Jam - Given To Fly
Pearl Jam - Betterman
Pearl Jam - Yellowledbetter
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Pearl Jam - Corduroy

No other band has had this many quality rock songs!

Green River-Swallow my Pride
Mudhoney-Suck You Dry
Nirvana-Big Cheese
Soundgarden-Loud Love
Tad-Jack Pepsi

Nearly Lost You: Screaming Trees
Feel the Pain: Dinosaur Jr.
Hunger Strike and Say Hello to Heaven: Temple of the Dog

in bloom, lithium,come as you are and smells like teen sprit -nirvana

Grunge is a myth. The media just needed a label to put on all those great, and VERY different bands that all hit from the same area at the same time.

pearl jam is not a grunge band just cuz they are from seattle…and Nirvana did not invent grunge, they popularized it if anything. Go take the time to read a book for five minutes about any of the early bands signed to sub pop, DGC or Geffen. Everyone seems to be forgetting Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, the meat puppets

Today-Smashing Pumpkins

Jane’s Addiction didn’t start anything. The first grunge song was Wild Thing by The Troggs in 1966. Iron Butterfly was even closer to grunge than JA.

Janes Addiction started it all peeps. carry on.

Slow Scorch - Gruntruck

GRunge Grunge Grunge…….All I can say is LONG LIVE MOTLEY CRUE!!

heart shaped box-nirvana, great haunting song
them bones- AIC, possibly the grungiest song ever
even flow-PJ, not very grunge but still good
spoonman-soundgarden
wh o was in my room last night- butthole surfers, not sure if it came out in the 90s though

Gallagher Bros. are poofsters!

Some of these people are idodic. British bands were great that came out at the time, but most started on Sub Pop. Puddle of Mudd and Bush came out long after the movement was almost over, so they don’t even factor. Mudhoney and Screaming Trees would be a good addition. Mother Love Bone was a different sound, that was great but not grunge in any way.
‘Touch me, I’m dick’ by Citizen Dick should be on there though. Ha ha!!!!!

Kudos on most, but I would have gone for ‘Alive’ for Pearl Jam and a more rocking less radio played song by Soundgarden. So over ‘Black Hole Sun’. ‘Man in the box’ is good though, we should all have ‘Facelift’. Hole rocks!

Follow Mudhoney’s family tree and you will magically have… grunge.

smashing pumpkins- bullet with butterfly wings!
billy corgan screaming “despite all my rage i’m still just a rat in a cage” was thunderous!

Debaser-The Pixies

Polly-Nirvana

Tod ay-Pumpkins

Drain You-Nirvana

Kurt Cobain never even thought he was grunge, he though nirvana would be seen as new wave.

True grunge is not marketable. Bleach was the closest thing to grunge they did and it sold few copies

Nevermind was pop with grunge backdrop and it dominated.

In Utero was neither pop nor grunge, according to Kurt. Many people see that album as the door to what was later dubbed ‘alternative’.

Furthermore, Oasis was brit pop not grunge. Oasis was the biggest band after nirvana hands down.

Definately maybe and whats the story are fucking brilliant albums. They contrasted grunge well. They were for the most part upbeat tracks about confused idiot kids who didn’t want anything more than 20 cigarettes, a guitar, a casual fuck, and a pair of sneakers that fit.

Nirvana was more than Teen Spirit

Drain you, lounge act, on a plain, tourettes, very ape, scentless apprentice, server the servants, dumb, heart shaped box, lithium, in bloom, breed, rape me, anyuersim.

A grunge list without Mudhoney is like a British Invasion list without the Beatles. Nothing else is really relevent if Mudhoney isn’t on this list.

My Wave- Soundgarden

Keeping the same bands, for Nirvana it would be Tourette’s
For Pearl Jam I agree on Jeremy.
It’s a toughy for hole cause I don’t think they should be in the top 5 so I’ll say Backwater from the Meat Puppets.
Soundgarden christ! there’s so many but I’ll go with The Day I Tried to live, and Rooster for Alice In Chains.

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
Nirvana - You Know You’re Right
Hole - Doll Parts
STP - Where The River Goes
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose

Any song off Ten
Any song off Nevermind
Spoonman-Soundgarde n
Chloe/Crown of thorns-MLB
Say Hello to Heaven-Temple of The Dog
Backwater-Meatpuppets

Oasis sucks and always will suck, there’s no way they could even be considered for this list.

Oh, I forgot The Smashing Pumpkins. Another great rock band from the 90s that were a lot better than the grunge era.

Nirvana is the only real band from the grunge era of the early 90s. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden are both extremely overrated bands from that era. Thankfully, it is not the grunge era, and there have been some pretty good bands since, such as Green Day, Blink-182, Rage Against the Machine, and yes, even Oasis. People may hate to love’em, but they love’em anyways.

Why the hate towards Oasis? They only are the biggest band in the world!

Great call on Raygun. They own Chicago.

Revivals take at least 15 years, so the time is just about ripe.

pearl garden or sound jam?…

Just listen to the ‘Singles’ soundtrack and move on!!

Also, didn’t Dinosaur Jr. start grunge in the 80’s?

How about some Chicago love:

1) Anything by Naked Raygun!
2) Any Jesus Lizard Song!

Although these guys pre-date grunge a little, thir influence on all things grunge is easily seen!

aren’t there enough grunge-imitators out there already? maybe not in spirit, but certainly in sound. not necessarily a great thing.

Song X-Neil Young and Pearl Jam

Doll Parts? You can’t be for real! Hole didn’t leave a lasting legacy of anything. AND Rooster was way better than Man in the Box. Where are the Pumpkins? Just buy the soundtrack to Singles and that’s all you need!

Grunge sucked then…..and it sucks now. Same fuqqing magazine that gave Neil Young & Pearl Jam 4 1/2 stars for mirror ball…..worst fuqqing album of the 90’s. Seriously….I know you ALL want grunge to return, butt it ain’t happening…

that douchbag makes me dislike oasis more than i already did. way to go oasis boy.

didn’t forget Danny-just kept it 90’s style. Cinnamon Girl is freakin great grunge! Long live the Godfather and keep on rockin in the free world! Now go sell your computer and buy a guitar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stone Temple Pilots: Plush
Soundgarden: Room A Thousand Years Wide
Alice In Chains: Got Me Wrong
Temple Of The Dog: Your Saviour
and yes, definitely Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit

You guys are all forgetting the Godfather of Grunge — NEIL!

“Farmer John”, “Cinnamon Girl, “Cowgirl in the Sand”, “Welfare Mothers”, “Sedan Delivery” — to name a few.

Oasis- Gods yes-grunge no.
Alive- P.J. (though Black’s a better song)
Smells Like…you know what-you know who-and that’s why!
Cherub Rock - S.P.
Sex Type Thing-S.T.P.
Would-Alice in Chains -why?
“Know me broken by my master” that’s a lyric as honest as they come. Isn’t that what it was supposed to be about? U tell me

Puss- The Jesus Lizard
State of Love and Trust- Pearl Jam
Start Choppin- Dinosaur Jr.
Chapel Hill- Sonic Youth
No End In Sight- Mudhoney
Like Suicide- Soundgarden

“Blurry” - Puddle Of Mudd

“Spoonman” - Soundgarden
“Where Is My Mind?” - The Pixies
“Lithium” - Nirvana
“Would?” - Alice In Chains
“World Wide Suicide” - Pearl Jam
“Plush” - Stone Temple Pilots

Dude…..Radiohead’s not grunge or post-grunge. I just looked it up on wikipedia.

Uh, yeah, that’d be a good list if Radiohead never existed. Seriously, did you miss that?
Creep, Just, My Iron Lung… take your pick.

Melvins - Nightgoat

Hunger Strike- Temple of The Dog

“torn like an old dollar bill”

Visc t’n v’affan’cul
break on through

wow … two of the five songs on your list we’re Written by Kurt Cobain … interesting …

Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
Fell On Black Days- Soundgarden
Man In The Box- Alice In Chains
Sex Type Thing- Stone Temple Pilots
Alive- Pearl Jam

And if we’re talking post-grunge….
Everlong- Foo Fighters
Figured You Out- Nickelback
Be Yourself- Audioslave
So Cold- Breaking Benjamin
Gylcerine- Bush
One Last Breath- Creed
She Hates Me- Puddle Of Mudd
Animal I Have Become- Three Days Grace

“Ignorance is Bliss”

That’s the only reason the Gallagher brothers haven’t killed themselves out of self-disgust .

Of course Oasis is better than the entire grunge scene! Oasis may not have been grunge, and that’s because they had more talent than those Seattle pussies who never got enough breast milk from their mommies. Let’s see, Kurt Cobain’s endless rant about how crappy the world is, or Noel Gallagher who acknowledged the world is crappy, but it’s still better to wake up in the morning knowing you can still have a good time with booze and chicks? Yeah, obvious choice.

Sliver - Nirvana
Alive - Pearl jam
4th of July - Soundgarden
Man in a Box - Alice in Chains
Dollar Bill - Screaming Trees

NO ONE said “Nearly Lost You” by Screaming Trees?!

Comparing Oasis to nickelback is insanity. Oasis is definitely one of the greatest bands of the past two decades. Nirvana and Pearl Jam were great rock bands. The rest of the seattle groups weren’t bad, but they don’t even have a single song as good as Oasis’s worst songs. Most people who don’t like Oasis haven’t even heard Definitely Maybe. Fuck off. Long live the Gallagher brothers.

Noel Gallagher is a fucking talentless wanker. If I want to listen to the Beetles, I’ll do just that. Why would I want to listen to a group of poser imitators? BTW all you Oasis fanboys out there, that was a rhetorical question .

1. Jeremy- Pearl Jam
2. Jesus Christ Pose- Soundgarden
3. Man In The Box- Alice In Chains
4. Evenflow- Pearl Jam
5. Hunger Strike- Temple of The Dog

Nirvana is the most overrated band EVER!!

No Mudhoney? Jesus, that’s stupid even by your standards.

a grunge revival?? god no..the first one was bad enough….

You can mock the list all you want, but the most important records of the 90’s rock scene came out of those amazing Seattle bands. Secondly saying that Oasis dropped the best music of the 90’s is as asinine as saying that Nickelback is the best rock group of the new millenium.

anything buy ARCHERS OF LOAF

Nirvanas 2nd album totaly had an Impact on everyone

Chloe dancer/crown of thorns- Mother love bone
We die young- alice in chains
Alive- pearl jam
Say hello to heaven/ reach down-temple of the dog
You- candlebox

nirvana are so over rated its unreal, any of the above are far better.

Nirvana-In Bloom
The Lemonheads-It’s a Shame About Ray
Smashing Pumpkins-Drown
Pearl Jam-Alive
Meatpuppets- Backwater

Oasis should be considered grunge. Definitely Maybe is a grunge record in my mind. If Oasis was grunge they would be on top with nirvana. Noel Gallagher is god.

“I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn BLACK”
Hunger Strike? c’mon that sucks

Creep - Radiohead
Not grunge now, but Pablo Honey was a complete grunge rip off album. So, grunge song and great song.

Reach Down (from the Temple of the Dog album) should’ve been on the list.

I never said Oasis was grunge. My point was that Oasis was and still is better than anything in rock during the 90s. Call it grunge, call it alternative, or punk, but Oasis was better.

Dumb and In bloom Nirvana Angrychair Down in a hole Alice in chains

1-would,alice in chains
2-smells like teen spirit,nirvana
3-man in the box,alice in chains
4-rooster,alice in chains
5-plush,stone temple pilots

and also i think oasis is a great rock band, but stick to the subject matter oasis is not grunge period, the closes they ever came to that was headshrinker or morning glory. and thats a stretch.

Would? - Alice In Chains
Dead & Bloated - Stone Temple Pilots
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter In a Small Town - Pearl Jam
Hunger Strike - Temple Of The Dog
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

would - alice in chains
(great lead vocals)
alive - pearl jam
(disturbing topic of incest becomes an anthem)
heart shaped box -nirvana
(the line: i wish i could eat your cancer when you turn back, come ON)
the day i tried to live -soundgarden
(condemnation of corporate music from one of the generations greatest vocalist.. fast forward to audioslave)
cherub rock or drown - smashing pumpkins
(great songwriter, great band period)

Hey Anonymous, you may be better suited on the NME.com website with the rest of the Limey Lovers.

Oasis Sucks!

Limey go home!

Anything by The Melvins,Mudhoney,Screaming Trees,TAD,AIC,and Soundgarden.

Grunge Rules!

Oasis was snide, snotty and pretentious.
.A pretty good character set for rockers, but didn’t rock it old school Americana, as was grunge. Too fluffy for me, anyway.

Where did my list go???

Oasis is not Grunge, my friend.

It doesn’t matter what the greatest grunge rock song is or was, Oasis made rock better in the 90s. To the haters-find better songs than these.
Live Forever
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Cigarettes and Alcohol
Lyla
Champagne Supernova
Slide Away
The Masterplan
Whatever

Plus, Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory from 1994 and 1995 respectively, are far superior records to anything from the grunge era. Nevermind by Nirvana would be a distant third behind those two records in the top 10 records of the 90s.

that has to be the most generic grunge list ever. kudos, rs!

Just about anything Nirvana. They practally invented grunge.

its over now by alice in chains
about a girl nirvana
my wave soundgarden
could you be the one husker du (they were grunge in the 80’s)
rockin in the free world you know who
1979 smashing pumpkins

People can bitch and moan all they want about it being over played or over hyped, the fact of the matter is that Smells Like Teen Spirit IS the greatest grunge song ever.

Smashing Pumpkins- cherub rock
Pearl Jam- corderoy
Alice in Chains-Rooster
Mother Love Bone-Heartshine
Screaming Trees-No One Knows
Nirvana-Lithium
Temple of the Dog-Times of Trouble
Stone Temple Pilots-big Empty
Soundgarded-Rusty Cage

Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns

Pearl Jam - Alive

Alice in Chains - Junkhead

Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days

anyone would say that smells like teen spirit is the top….well it seems obvious you do write for rolling stone

*Rain when I die, Angry Chair and Grind-Alice in Chains
*Frances Farmer, Heart Shaped Box and Drain You-Nirvana
*Go and Alive-Pearl Jam
*BlackHoleSun and Outshined-Soundgarden
*Nearly Lost You-Screaming Trees

Plush - Stone Temple Pilots

Pearl Jam does not belong on this list…ANYWHERE!

No particular order:

1. Alice in Chains - would
2. nirvana - you know you’re right
3. soundgarden - rusty cage
4. soundgarden - outshined
5. alice in chains - down in a whole
6. temple of the dog - say hello to heaven
7. nirvana - all apologies
8. alice in chains - don’t follow
9. alice in chains - rooster
10. nirvana - smells like teen spirit

something about today - screaming trees
about a girl, return of the rat, scentless apprentice, oh, screw it…ALL NIRVANA FOR GOD SAKES!!!

sweet obilvion- screaming trees
teen spirit- nivana
touch me- mudhoney
jesus christ pose- soundgarden
anything by the alice in chains, tad, even some afghan whigs ??
chloe dancer- mother love bone

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter and Aneurysm (can’t spell) - Nirvana

Sludge Factory and Rain When I Die - Alice In Chains

Hunger Strike and Say Hello To Heaven - Temple of the Dog

Fourth of July and Burden In My Hand - Soundgarden

Little Things by Bush (just kidding)

Pearl Jam-Alive
Alice in Chains-Would
…..But it does’nt realy matter beacuse all these songs are great

All of these songs are great choices, except for maybe Live. How about “Touch Me, I’m Sick” by Mudhoney.

Rain When I Die - Alice In Chains
Porch - Pearl Jam
Slaves & Bulldozers - Soundgarden
Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana
Violet - Hole
Winter Song - Screaming Trees

hell yeah i totally forgot about mother love bone…..what about temple of the dog-hungerstrike?

What about something by Live? They were pretty good. Still are.

Rock on, your list is almost an exact replica of what I thought as soon as I saw the topic!!

Rooster–Alice in Chains
Alive–Pearl Jam

Mother Love Bone - Stardog Champion