The grunge scene started among middle class white teenagers in Seattle in the late 1980s, it is a hybrid of punk and heavy metal. Legend has it that two teens, who would later start the grunge band Mother Love Bone, screamed uncontrollably in a small Seattle coffee house called Java"Tude until the owner removed "hip to be Square" by Huey Lewis from the juke box. They argued that they had no way to relate to such a happy music in their soggy little town. Whether the story is true or not, it illustrates Grunge culture perfectly, angry middle-class youth you who feel depressed and alienated from the rest of society. Which results in a desire to rebel against authority. The generation of the early 80's was suffering from the austerity involved in paying for the economic excesses of the 1970s and 1980s and realized that they faced a constricting horizon of opportunity. Environmentalism was drilled into their heads, they where aware that the natural environment was badly degrading. They were painfully aware of the danger of AIDS, which was depriving them of youthful sexual experimentation and restricting their sex lives in general. Also, they were often personally affected family issues, such as divorce, and child, spouse and substance abuse. They felt they had been betrayed, and victimized by the older generation; therefore they rejected their ideology by creating their own subculture. A huge part of grunge culture is music. Two of the most well known grunge bands are Nirvana, led by Kurt Cobain, and Pearl Jam, led by Eddie Vedder, both of which are Seattle based. Grunge musicians were anti-mainstream and rejected the rock-star image; the artist was not placed above the audience. To express this attitude Eddie Vedder still dressed the same and allegedly drove the same old little car even after great success. Grunge Musicians are also known for preferring small, more personal venues and often jumping into the crowd at shows.
Grunge Grunge was the musical revolution that challenged the mentality of American pop culture. ... The name "Grunge- came from its original meaning, dirty. ... Grunge however has seemed to disappear from the musical radar. ... Other Grunge bands were not eager to take Nirvana's place. Soundgarden soon broke up, while Pearl Jam changed its music to sound less grunge. ...
I. Alternative Rock A. Brief History Alternative Pop/Rock is essentially a catch-all term for post-punk bands from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s. Though there is a variety of musical styles within Alternative Rock, they are all tied together since they existed outside of the mainstream. In some ways, there are two waves of alternative bands, with Nirvana's success in 1991 acting as a dividing point. ...
In the 90's grunge and hip hop were the two biggest movements. ... The genres of the 90's were grunge, hip hop, and alternative. ... The grunge movement was the movement of anger, rage and distortion. ... The birth of hip hop and grunge created the generation of rage and raw emotional anger. The Grunge movement changed the way children acted. ...
Nirvana, although not limited to grunge, performed in a relatively new music genre known as grunge. Grunge is a subgenre of the alternative music scene, emerging from Seattle. ... Grunge is a fusion of punk and metal. ... Some see this as one of the definitive songs of the grunge genre. 2.) ... The grunge style is believed, by many, to have only lasted a few short years. ...
At the same time the grunge movement was killing the popular Arena (Cock) Rock scene and bringing the common man into the spotlight. ... As grunge died down in the middle of the decade, and the underground movement of metal (with possibly the only exception of Pantera,) turned into a haven of Death and Black Metal (I'm not complaining or anything, but I digress) bands like The Deftones (Adrenaline,'95),and Korn (s/t,'94) began to emerge from California finding a middle ground between the heaviness of metal, Depeche Mode's & The Cure's beauty, and the grunge movement&#x...
However, during the 1990s, the emerging genre of grunge rock, as well as rap music gained popularity on the radio, and interest in hard rock and metal began to dwindle (Loftus 2007). ... The speculation behind this was that grunge was gaining so much popularity in the United States that it made no sense financially to keep airing music videos. ... Following the popularity of grunge, several subgenres of hard rock and metal continued to have an underground following to this day, although not at the level of success attained by Metallica, for example, in 1991 with the release of their fifth epon...
This time it came if a front called grunge. ... From the way they dressed to the way they talked, Nirvana and grunge became a formidable opponent to more talented rock artists. Grunge metal was influenced by alternative rock. ... And later, to the dismay of the pop world, singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain of Nirvana killed himself, ending the grunge movement. ...
These shoes became very popular with the Grunge and alternative styles of music listeners, a lot of who were skaters themselves. ... In the 90,s the image of their clothing made a change and started to be a cross between grunge wear (dark clothes, dirty look) and a street hiphop style (Baggy jeans and t-shirt, Representing brand names). ...
