Post Grunge Explosion Also Ran bands. Classic Or Dud/Search & destroy

pre grunge still boss - TAD!! SCREAMING TREES!! << still awesome

Similarly, For Love Not Lisa.

But was there a Suck Boom that I'm unaware of? Because they didn't miss that train.

No. They were too separate and genius and wonderful.

Destroy that horrible horrible band My Sister's Machine. Remember those grim fucks?

AARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

How.....*HOW*...can you cite the wonderful Redd Kross as having anything to do with fuckin' Grunge??? They WAAAAYYY predate all that stuff.

Yes, you are correct sir!

sixteen deluxe, especially their excellent final album "emits showers of sparks"

Except they had an album after that.

other than that ...

Behold.

did DIG ever do ANYTHING ELSE

Behold

Is that true? I seem to remember Melody Maker & NME loving them.

the posies, on the other hand, are worth searching for their don fleming-produced "frosting on the beater" album. they weren't exactly a grunge band either, but the wall-of-distorted-gtrs sound was clearly an attempt to jump on the grunge ship, and the first half of the album anyway is some pretty great pop.

Urge Overkill and Weezer are gods among men.

-- Ned Raggett"

Exactly.

Do Mogwai count? 'Cause I have to tell you, Like Herod owns anything any grunge band ever produced.

If anything, "Grunge" sounds like Redd Kross, not the other way around.

http://www.rockometer.com/photos/reddkross.gif

Redd Kross in 1987!

^ rules

I wouldn't call Mudhoney "post-grunge", being that they're the definite article to the bone.

I just know what I hate! ;-)

http://villagevoice.com/issues/0030/eddy.php

Mr. Eddy is on the money! (I sold back all my Placemats Sire-era albums some months back when I realized very clearly I was never going to listen to them again -- ever).

Fuck, even Johnny Bon Rzeznizkz would think you guys have lost it!

Prime Bon Jovi kills the Goo Goo Dolls WTF? Mike, do you rate Third Eye Blind on an album/home listening basis? I have Blue. I did defend it on here at one point and had a number of perfectly pleasant listens to it, but I have absolutely no need to hear any of it ever again. I haven't for at least a year and half probably.

No no, it's perfectly logical.

This passion is fantastic.

But getting back to the question, American post-grunge was irreversably crippled by the likes of the fucking Presidents of the United States of America and, to a lesser extent, Everclear. Throw in Cake as well. I can't believe these poxy bands haven't been mentioned yet after a whole day of nostalgia, but there you go.

Actually, Apex Theory's album and EP are both really good.

And "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D. is a fine single.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), March 14th, 2004.

God Machine and genius are words that do not belong in the same sentance. No they weren't grunge at all, just depressed.

Anyone else like the first two Fun Lovin' Criminals albums?

Of all the bands that were inexplicably popular in the UK but unknown in the US, surely they were the worst.

But they are least partly responsible for a decent pizzeria in Dublin.

Bizarre thread. Folks were labeling all kinds of bands grunge.

Just like radio stations/MTV/Music Mags back then

But I don't remember any radio stations calling Buffalo Tom, the Pooh Sticks, Redd Kross and the Goo Goo Dolls "post grunge."

Of course, I didn't listen to a ton of radio back then.

over here in the uk spin doctors and lemonheads got called grunge on Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops :D

btw that Dig album mentioned way upthread was good. Did they make another?

In fact im gonna listen to that Dig album today

But I don't remember any radio stations calling Buffalo Tom, the Pooh Sticks, Redd Kross and the Goo Goo Dolls "post grunge."

I've never heard a radio station call anything "post grunge".

S: Molly" and "Plowed" by Sponge. "Wish You Were Here" and "Drive" by I.N.C.U.B.U.S. All of Foo Fighters singles. All of Bush's singles. The one about Superman by Three Doors Down. The Chad Kroeger song from the Spiderman soundtrack.

D: Anything else Chad Kroeger has ever done. Creed. Staind.

I did a search for Bullet Lavolta and they came up in this thread which is amusing because if anything, the Boston band was about two years ahead of it's time, but those were a crucial 24 months.

One of the CDs I picked up yesterday on my first excursion to a local record store in ages is a live-plus-odds-and-sods Bullet LaVolta release that came out, apparently posthumously, on Matador Records in 1991 awesomely entitled "The Gun Didn't Know I Was Loaded." Although it's a very rough, bass-heavy recording done at the time on the air of Boston college juggernaut WERS 88.9FM (and recorded over a similar live session by The Pixies, according to the liner notes!), it reminds me of when I first moved back to New York in 1989 because the band played out there quite a bit at that point. They were also one of my earlier interviews, though I cannot recall for whom. They had a singer named Yukki (pronounced Yucky). They rocked unpretentiously and righteously.

This song was always a favorite of mine and it leads off this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6Ldl9BByQ

To be sure, a track this heavy and instilled with punk attitude (and sure, grungy, if you insist) was an anomaly in the world of major labels BC (Before Cobain) yet RCA Records bought the rights to an early TAANG! album and Metal Blade EP, reissuing them together, and even coughed up the funds to record the prophetically-titled "Swandive" album. Released the same day as "Nevermind," it lacked the fire of the earlier material (but is well worth the $1.64 used on Amazon.com right now) and the band left us shortly thereafter.

But this disc rekindles memories of seeing the band back in the day as I made my first tentative steps living on my own in New York. Five bucks well spent.

So many of the forgotten indie bands mentioned in this old thread I listen to now like they're the hot new thing.

for reasons i cannot explain, this revival has reminded me of this crew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9sH7AoRd14

I really wish the band Sponge didn’t suck because it’s such a great 90s dirtbag/grunge band name .