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Grunge is back!
Or, perhaps better stated, Grunge Is Not Dead.
For the record, I used that word (grunge) while grinding my teeth. I generally dislike it, and use it more to describe a time period and geographic rock movement (RE: Seattle) than I do an actual musical genre. If Alice in Chains became popular 3 years earlier before the mainstream media coined that term they would have been a metal group. If Nirvana became popular two years earlier we’d refer to them as a punk group. If Pearl Jam became popular earlier we’d be talking about their similarity with The Who and a splash of Neil Young rather than lumping them in with Nirvana. Grunge was always a media buzz-word to create hype about the Seattle movement.
(That’s not to take anything away from what grew up out of the underground Seattle scene at that time, I just don’t consider it a musical genre).
That being said, those bands comprise some of my absolute favorite, and certainly my favorite “contemporary” (can they even be called that anymore?!) music.
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Pearl Jam – Backspacer
Every three or four years Pearl Jam releases an album, an event that usually triggers a fair amount of nostalgia for me. Pearl Jam was pretty much the band that got me into music when I was an impressionable ten year old (ironically) first finding out what I liked and didn’t like. I was in the 5th grade (I believe) in 1992 when I first heard Ten and was immediately hooked. This is what music was supposed to sound like to me, and I’ve been a fan ever since. I recall buying Ten, Vs., Vitalogy and Yield when they came out (for some reason skipping No Code), taking me right through high school.
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