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Aug 4, 2014 · The 35 Best Anime of All Time. 49. Green River – “Swallow My Pride”. Green River is one of the first grunge bands to have success in Seattle’s burgeoning music scene in the late 1980s ...
Feb 20, 2023 · To commemorate the 100th episode of The Grunge Bible Podcast, we compiled our ranking of the top 100 grunge songs. You can find the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, or wherever you stream your podcasts. Grunge Bible’s Top 100 Grunge Songs. 100. Touch, Peel, and Stand - Days of the New. 99. Big Rock Show - Sweetwater. 98.
- “In Bloom” by Nirvana
- “Yellow Ledbetter” by Pearl Jam
- “Serve The Servants” by Nirvana
- “Black” by Pearl Jam
- “Doll Parts” by Hole
- “Lithium” by Nirvana
- “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana
- “You Know You’Re Right” by Nirvana
- “River of Deceit” by Mad Season
- “Would?” by Alice in Chains
Unrestrained and possessed of an urgent, disembodied frustration and restlessness, “In Bloom” is a song that commands strong reactions, and even discomfort. It is forceful, with a cathartic current, and serves as a disruptive antidote to the trepidant, conformity-abiding mass culture. With the force of a hammer, “In Bloom” harnesses the carnal, exc...
One of the most poignant, affecting acoustic numbers in the grunge canon, “Yellow Ledbetter” has a diffuse, haunting sensibility and a folk-rock silhouette that caresses, soothes, and torments. It is a song, nay, a tale, about grief, loss, and memory and it evokes such a potent sensation of melancholy that it is best listened to sitting down. It pr...
“Serve the Servants” is often neglected in appraisals of Nirvana’s best tunes, and in other critics’ defense, Nirvana’s catalog is so saturated with tectonic, revelatory anthems that we must forgive the occasional omission. With some of the most textured, dynamic percussion in music history, and a slacker-core guitar tempo, “Serve the Servants” is ...
“Black” is an elegiac, a soaring, heartrending accomplishment that expands the very scope of what music can achieve. “Black” is Pearl Jam’s magnum opus, a song with such an emotive profundity and visionary textural intricacy that it will lay the hardiest among us low for days. It builds on a bedrock of sorrow and grief until it reaches its sonic cl...
The raw poignancy of Courtney Love’s voice in “Doll Parts” is harrowing and quietly authoritative. Although the tone is measured and the acoustic is tender and pared-down, the song is deeply confrontational and visceral to behold. Hole’s most enduring strength is that they can convey emotional volatility and inner turbulence with a tightly-construc...
Droning, unflinching, unfailingly dark – that’s “Lithium” for you. One of the most unsettling, gripping, relentless anthems in the grunge canon, the song reverberates, leaving listeners shell-shocked. Self-loathing, agony, and disdain drip from the scathingly wrought lyrics and remind us of the brutally nihilistic tendencies that differentiated gru...
The anthem of a generation is perhaps a tired moniker, but in this case, the trite just so happens to be, well, right. Nirvana displaced resistance and anomie into art in the form of a paranoid, venomous, delirious piece of sludgy majesty. The guitar chords and tempo shifts alone are enough to elevate this song to a special place in the late twenti...
Dirty, gritty, and possessed of a disconcerting, hollow paranoia, “You Know You’re Right” is a hell of a downer, and that is meant as the sincerest of compliments. The instrumentals are tuned way down with a heady industrial patina and discordant tempos. Paired with Cobain’s ambivalent vocals, which deviate organically from apathetic despondency to...
An earthy plaintiveness permeates “River of Deceit”, lending its measured, thoughtfully constructed acoustics a sublime, candid realism. Candid and deeply felt, lyrics of self-reflection like “my pain is self-chosen” feel stirring, like an elegy of sorts. “River of Deceit” distills the pensive, cerebral, self-effacing current that runs like a vein ...
How to explain Alice in Chainsto a rookie? “Would?” is a good starting place for accessing their harrowing, unvarnished, unflinching intimacy. It is turbulent yet tightly constructed, restrained yet saturated with unmediated sorrow and woe. “Would?” can be a confronting experience, drawing listeners in with an elusive, throbbing tempo and alluring ...
- Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Official Music Video) Nirvana’s 1991 song Smells Like Teen Spirit isn’t just one of the best grunge songs of all time; you might even say it’s the definitive grunge song.
- Hunger Strike — Temple of The Dog. Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike. Hunger Strike was Temple of the Dog’s most iconic song, released in 1991. Not just the song, but the band itself, came about because of the death of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell’s friend Andrew Wood.
- No Rain — Blind Melon. Blind Melon - No Rain. No Rain was Blind Melon’s second single, but it was by far the best-known song of their work. Part of its icon status came from the accompanying music video, which was widely played on MTV.
- Rooster — Alice in Chains. Alice In Chains - Rooster (Official HD Video) Rooster was released in 1993 as part of Alice in Chains’ second album. The song’s title came from lead singer Jerry Cantrell’s father, who was nicknamed “Rooster.”
Jul 3, 2024 · Updated July 3, 2024 91 items. Ranked By. 9.3K votes. 884 voters. Voting Rules. Grunge songs... The music of the 90's was the best...imho. And Grunge was king. With bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots and so much more there are a lot of great tunes.
Jun 12, 2023 · Mad Season was the first proper grunge supergroup. The band featured members of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Screaming Trees. Their single “River of Deceit” would climb the Billboard charts and become their biggest hit. Mad Season only released one album before schedules and addiction put the band on hiatus.
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100 BEST GRUNGE SONGS · Playlist · 85 songs · 1.3K likes
