THIS WEEKEND METALSUCKS IS GOING TO PLAID
Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 3:29pm by Kip WingerschmidtIn lieu of all the ludicrous speed you maniacs tend to imbibe over the course of a typical weekend, we here at MetalSucks encourage you to join us this weekend in confronting a beast of a different nature for a couple daze and get yr motherfucking grunge on!
Yes, that forgotten genre (for most) will be getting its very own tribute, MetalSucks style. For one weekend only, Axl, Vince, and I will be showing our love (and hate) for the Seattle-spawned early 90s craze known as GRUNGE.
Sure, it’s largely nostalgic, but it’s also essential to revisit the building blocks of our experience of rock, and I think I speak for all of us here at MetalSucks in saying that while we’re pretty happy to have grunge as a thing of the past, we continue to look back on that time with a severely stoned smile…
So dig out the flannel and get ready for some action, Jackson! ‘Cause this weekend it’s on, Eddie Vedder and all…
-KW
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Gruntruck.
My Sister’s Machine…
And how did a bunch of bands who sounded nothing alike, but just dressed in a similar fashion, be lumped into a largely non-existent genre whose name was a media creation?
I actually have My Sister’s Machine “Diva” on CD/on my iPod, believe it or not. That song “I’m Sorry” still kicks ass to this day…
Andrew, that song does kick ass. They only put out two albums. Both excellent hard rock efforts.
As much as i liked Pearl Jam and Nirvana back in the day, their legacy is a double edged sword. They made hair metal look so silly that most of those bands rightfully lost their audience.
Unfortunately they also took the wind out of the overall surge in interest in metal from the 80s. Legit metal bands had difficulty getting signed and supported.
Probably worst of all, they inspired a generation of mopey crap like Staind, Creed, and Seether. Mainstream rock has yet to recover.
On the other hand, Mudhoney and Screaming Trees rule.
Retrograde, your on point bro.
People still love grunge. Maybe its just the nostalgia of it, but my band, a mix between thrash/groove/hardcore/jam music/and u name it, played a cover of Nirvana’s “Breed” at our last show and got the whole crowd goin insaine. We had several people come up on stage and sing along and head banging and jumping around was rampant. By far the best response all night–grunge music enjoyed by a metal crowd. Don’t try to say grunge killed metal in the early 90s, metal killed metal in the late 80s. Things go in cycles.