After the 1991 release "Time" their album, Nirvana became one of the largest in the world. Worldwide success of this album - only the second studio album recording - has pushed the band in the spotlight as a leading figure in the grunge music explosion that followed, with dozens of bands playing the same hybrid of punk and metal sounds. Not bad for three children of Generation X, who buy their clothes from thrift stores and have even been described as too lazy to use shampoo.
"Grunge" The term was originally used as slang for "dirt" by Mark Arm, the man in front of Green River, Mud honey, and then when he tries to describe how the dirty guitar sound used by the group. It was later adopted by Bruce Pivot, founder of the Seattle label Sub Pop, as the collective name given to describe a new batch groups appeared in the Seattle area in the wake of the success of Nirvana.
No doubt the three most famous of these bands Pearl Jam, Sound garden and Alice In Chains. All three classic grunge acts, but also have their own distinctive quality and style. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam is very influenced by British acts like The Who and classic American rock acts such as Neil Young, and the album then experimenting with elements of folk and world music. Sound garden - led by Chris Cornell - has held more aggressive, with a voice hoarse from Cornell and guitarist Kim Thayil riffs combined with a sound like a dirty Led Zeppelin. Meanwhile, Alice In Chains perhaps the definitive grunge band, by setting the guitar sludge that has more debt for heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath classic punk.
The emergence of new scenes captured by filmmaker Doug Pray Hype in 1996 his "documentary! That includes interviews with several key players in the grunge. It also states that the film is never out of Nirvana's breakthrough hit their" Smells Like Teen Spirit "for the first time, and other original sequence in a live show concert early grunge, from places like Seattle Crocodile Café emblem and El Corazon.
These sites (and others) in Seattle have maintained a good reputation for live music, both locally and globally, to this day and all the fans who want to experience the live scene for themselves can choose between a number of hotels to stay in Seattle. However, current customers are encouraged not to trash their rooms, an activity that many grunge superstars are out of town for fun!
Influence of the grunge movement is still unclear at this time. Sonic Youth, though not strictly grunge band, have a huge impact both artistically and professionally in Nirvana (that's because the youth council, Kim Gordon as Nirvana signed with major label RGC before the release of Nevermind) and is still touring and recording today. New bands like Giant Drag and Silversun Pickups also have adopted a heavy guitar sound and introduces a new audience for grunge typical, almost twenty years after its original incarnation. You have to believe Kurt Cobain would be proud of them.
Andrew Regan is an online freelance writer, Scotland. He is a keen rugby player and enjoys traveling.
