Does anyone miss Grunge or The Seattle Sound?

[Miller77]

Im 35 years old so yea I love this type of music. For years Ive thought about putting together a band who covers the classics and writes orginals in this mold. For years no one seemed to be interested, however recently I talked to a drummer who is eager to do the same thing. Now Im stoked and have been going back and listening to all my old tunes. Its actually has me on the verge on wanting to sing, and let me tell ya thats something I cant do.

Im just curious if anyone else miss's what I consider to be the last true scene in rock music.

[Bookkeeper's Son]

No

[guitartango]

I suppose it beats being in a Justin Beaver tribute act. Trouble is that i have heard it all before, punk, new wave, old wave, microwave. There are plenty of tribute bands out there doing the circuit, so why not.

[FrankenFretter***]

I'm not sure I miss that sound per se, but those were some good times back in the early 90s. I happened to live in Seattle from 1991-1995, so I was in the middle of it all for a while. Now I wish I'd gone out more to see more music.

[R_of_G]

It doesn't seem like there's a shortage of bands still drawing from more or less the same sonic palette.

[Robert****]

Nope.

[markb]

Grunge? Tried one of those pedals once

[Commodore 64***]

I'd rather listen to Justin Beiber.

[sunvalleylaw]

I enjoy some of that sound. (And it is actually fairly varied). And miss some of those times. I am a Tacoma native, and was a Tacoman back then. So, yes, in a way, I miss the sound, or more properly, I miss a time when a more organic rock sound was more popular.

Here is a thread where some of my thoughts on the era were collected. http://www.thefret.net/showthread.ph...etter-or-worse

Besides the more known bands, I have also enjoyed Mudhoney, Green River, and the like as well.

[Ch0jin]

I'm surprised by the lack of Grunge love. I did, and still do enjoy it! (and i'm 41). When I'm not trying to sound like the Black Keys or White Zombie, it's Grunge all the way. I sling my guitars too low to play past the 7th fret, get lost in 10 minute song intro/outro's made up of random bends and scrapes and bucket loads of fuzz, and I understand that flannel shirts (Flanno in Australian) are supposed to be worn around the waist, not buttoned up.

Oh and I think the best set finisher is to just drop your still turned up guitar on the ground and walk off through the wail of feedback. Although that might be more a punk rock thing than a grunge thing....

[deeaa*]

me 2...all my own music is largely grungish as well.

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[Tynee]

I miss the times of my life that accompanied that musical period. I can't say I'm sad that we moved on from Grunge, but I wish we had replaced it with something better than what we have now.

Edit: Let me clarify, I wish we had replaced Grunge with SOMETHING definable. When we look back on the 90's, they have a sound. The 80's have a sound of their own. The 70's, 60's, and 50's all have specific sounds. What will be the defining sound of the ought's?

[Tig***]

I don't miss all of it, but I appreciate what it did at the time. The music "business" needs a little shaking up to get out of a rut from time to time. Unfortunately, the business jumps on the new bandwagon and subsequently destroys and drowns the raw spirit.

I am glad some of the musicians that the grunge era launched are still recording. Chris Cornell and Dave Grohl are making better music recently than in the past, for instance. I can still listen to most of Alice In Chains' albums and enjoy them.

[Katastrophe]

I dig parts of the grunge scene... McCready is an amazing player, and can rip on a Strat.

Jerry Cantrell was easily one of my favorite 90s players with AIC. It's debatable whether they could be considered "grunge" though.

I love Cornell's voice, but Kim Thayil's (don't know if that's the right spelling) playing in Soundgarden drove me nuts for the most part.

I enjoy Grohl more with the Foo Fighters than I ever did when he was with Nirvana. Cobain's playing, again for the most part, drove me nuts as well. I guess I just didn't "get it." Oh, well.

[omegadot]

Only 26 so I only enjoyed it because my older brother forced it on me at the time. I now enjoy it because I just enjoy it. I find a certain honesty in a lot of the music that resonates with me. I'll always really enjoy a lot of the music from that scene even if I don't necessarily listen to it a lot.

[Photomike666]

Ah grunge, the final death note of the last true guitar based rock.

Got to admit to it didn't inspire me. I was a teen in the 80's, and was metal through & through (still am just quietly). But the late commercialism of metal split it into factions, and the infighting and bickering over whether death metal was better then thrash metal weakened the overall scene.

Then the bombshell hit; Judas Priest vocalist came out of the closet. We all looked out metal regalia of leather, studs and chains and went - oh shit. Heavy metal was dead almost overnight. We no longer had an image, band members cut their hair & the fans fell away.

Out of the dust rose grunge, a new dirtier sound and a new manly image. But the untimely death of Curt brought it all tumbling down.

The 90s was not a great era for guitar music. New metal & rap metal were poor attempts, and only a few bastions from the old days held the fought. Little has changed since.

[R_of_G]

The 90s was not a great era for guitar music. New metal & rap metal were poor attempts, and only a few bastions from the old days held the fought. Little has changed since.

Maybe not in mainstream popular music but otherwise, the 90s abounded with great guitar music.

[hubberjub***]

On some level, grunge is responsible for bringing rock music back into popularity. For years, the closest thing to rock that you could hear on the radio was glam metal. Grunge really brought the focus back to the music. I was never really into Nirvana, but Pearl Jam is still an amazing band.

Maybe not in mainstream popular music but otherwise, the 90s abounded with great guitar music.

Very true.

[deeaa*]

Oh yeah...I just listened to Temple of Dog album while driving...me likes.

There was a lot of bad grunge too, and I don't honestly even know what qualifies as Grunge, but in the 90's there were many bands that were very guitar-centered and, most importantly, were not feeling commercially driven. Rather something honest, something a bit raw and original. That's always the best. Of course producers soon took over and commercialized much of it, but the vibe was certainly there.

And that to me is always the most important thing about bands. They need to sound honest. Sure, some album worked over 5 years in studio can sound good too, but in general I just prefer a coarse honest drunken take of noise over that. And grunge was largely just about that.