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

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.

Wow, I thought I had idee fixes. (That said, Chuck's talk on Nirvana in Accidental History is some great stuff.) The great alternate history of our time: Andrew Wood never dies, Mother Love Bone continues to one extent or another and Eddie Vedder + Pearl Jam music never becomes famous. Result?

ever listened to their debut?

Yes, unfortunately. That was a mistake.

So how come the lifeless shmucks in Alice in Drains never did a song one zillionth as catchy or rocking or energetic as "You're in Love" or Ratt's excellent 1983 indie EP version of "Walkin' the Dog" (much LESS "Round and Round")??? Which should partly answer Ned's question.

Partly, indeed. Context -- Ratt were 'big' in the sense that I knew about them when "Round and Round" hit in 1984 and they appeared on the Top 40 station I listened to in upstate New York, which was as good an indicator as anything. But hell, I even remember more songs from Quiet Riot at that time from the same source.

But I can't sing! I can grunt a bit.

I dunno if "Lay It Down" was a "smash single," but it did get a very entertaining video.

But you know who the BEST bubblegrunge band were? Days of the New!!! Their second album, after the main guy fired everybody else in the band, is a stone cold world-rhythm-disco hard sludge classic, no shit.

Static X!! And do those first two Crazytown singles count??

Seven Mary Three seemed so totally leaden (at least in their hit -- heaviest bubblegrunge hit ever, maybe??) that sometimes I wonder if I could appreciate them now in a stoner rock sense. I doubt it, though.

I had forgotten how good that Posies "Frosting On the Beater" album was.

Please don't interpret this as a defense of Pearl Jam, but WRONG!

Plus, Collective Soul's first and biggest hit was basically that old church song "This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine."

Uh, no. Have you ever heard "this Little Light of Mine" (recently covered by Firewater, btw). It sounds nothing like "Shine". They're both a fuckin' TRIAL to listen to (even F'water's version, honestly), but they're nothing alike otherwise.

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 .