Which do you listen to more/like more? What do you think about the four main players in the Grunge and Brit-pop movements?

I certainly prefer "grunge".
Well what should I say of the "Big Four"?
They're amazing  :D
You can't beat Alice In Chains,Layne's voice is crazy,it's amazing.
Pearl Jam are still going strong with a new album out the 2nd May (1st here in Europe  :D )
Soungarden rock so hard,it's a shame people only remember the Superunknown album because their previous stuff are amazing.
And Nirvana...well what can I say.

I think it's a shame that alot of other great bands of the time are forgotten like Mother Love Bone, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Green River and MUDHONEY! They rock and they're also still around with a new album (Under A Billion Suns) that was released in March.

Grunge may be dead but it certainly lives on..somehow.
Just forget this post-grunge rubbish like Nickelback etc..

I certainly prefer "grunge".



Me too.



Well what should I say of the "Big Four"?
They're amazing  :D
You can't beat Alice In Chains,Layne's voice is crazy,it's amazing.



Layne's voice is one of the best I've ever heard, and certainly the best in the genre, though Chris Cornell's voice is a very close second.



Pearl Jam are still going strong with a new album out the 2nd May (1st here in Europe  :D )



Haven't followed Pearl Jam much in recent years, but I look foward to their new album.



Soungarden rock so hard,it's a shame people only remember the Superunknown album because their previous stuff are amazing.



I always thought Down On The Upside was their best work, and Badmotorfinger better than Superunknown. I have all 3 of these CDs, and Superunknown isn't bad, but isn't their best. I'd love to get some of their pre-Badmotorfinger CDs.



And Nirvana...well what can I say.



Everyone is gay?  ;D All Apologies lyrics, not my own words there, but I couldn't resist.



I think it's a shame that alot of other great bands of the time are forgotten like Mother Love Bone, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Green River and MUDHONEY! They rock and they're also still around with a new album (Under A Billion Suns) that was released in March.



Mad Season's "Above" is a killer CD. Barret Martin Baker from Screaming Trees and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam are on it along with Layne. Mark Arm (from Mudhoney) can be heard on "Right Turn" on the Sap CD. Also, I've found a fairly rare Alice in Chains/Pearl Jam collaboration called "Alone", not to be confused with the Pearl Jam song by the same name. Don't forget Temple of the Dog, and Mark Lanegan from Screaming Trees also did "Long Gone Day".

In other words, they aren't forgotten.



Grunge may be dead but it certainly lives on..somehow.
Just forget this post-grunge rubbish like Nickelback etc..


Audioslave isn't bad, and some of Godsmack's stuff is really good. I like a lot of Tool's and KoRn's works too, though I'm not sure if they are considered post-grunge. Days Of The New, Big Wreck and The Nixons had promise, well, not really - they had one or two songs that were great anyway.

Blur and other Brit-Pop like bands were good

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Cornell was a better singer than Staley.

Blur were also better than Oasis, though Oasis benefit from some disgracefully blatant anti-Blur media coverage.

I also meant to say that I prefer the grunge movement. The bands were simply more talented than the britpop brigade generally (barring the obvious Radiohead - though I don't consider them britpop). Ironically, Nirvana were probably the least talented of the big four of grunge. 

Ironically, Nirvana were probably the least talented of the big four of grunge. 

Yeah,I agree.If you compare them to the other 3 you see there's much more creativity in those bands but hey,if Kurt wasn't dead,Nirvana would have also moved on in another direction.

I prefer Britpop. But I consider myself more of a British music fan than American. The only grunge bands that I thought were outstanding were Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. Nirvana and Pearl Jam are highly overrated.

Yeah,I agree.If you compare them to the other 3 you see there's much more creativity in those bands but hey,if Kurt wasn't dead,Nirvana would have also moved on in another direction.


No one can doubt Kurt's prodigious talent as a songwriter - even if alot of his songs did sound the same, but yes, I agree Nirvana were perhaps the least creative of the four in terms of versatility, variety.etc. Blur were the most 'arty' of the four bands.