Vote Now Seattle Grunge

[Richard W]

Alice in Chains FTW! Layne Staley(RIP)= greatest voice of all time.

[CowboyFromHell]

I think the newest cd is fantastic. Looking forward to the next one.

The new version of AIC isn't bad, don't get me wrong. I just think the name should have retired when Lane passed. I know, I know. Alot of people will disagree on the concept of band names staying or changing when a member leaves, but when it's one that's key to the very soul of the band, I think it should change. Many will argue it and say that the rest of the band shouldn't have to "start over" because someone leaves or passes away but I guess I've got this "respect for what it was" and when it's not that any longer, let it go. Much like Axl and the GnR name for one example. I know that's an extreme example since everyone left but him. I also know there's the ACDC side of the coin where a band does just as well after a major change.

[Grim]

Soundgarden for me. and Pearl Jam.

[nateb]

I think the newest cd is fantastic. Looking forward to the next one.

I totally agree with this. Duvall is a pretty damn good performer. Loosing Lane was terrible and you felt it when watching listening to the band speak during the Black Gives way to Blue interview. You really experience that they lost a member of their family and not just a singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010QPE-rCXY

[horns666]

Saw AIC open for Van Halen in '90 @ Blosson music center. I was front row center. Nobody heard of them before..maybe "MITB...maybe. Nobody gave a shit. The pavillion was empyty. People buying beer, takin' a dump in urinals before VH came on. But I can hold my pee, because I don't fuggin' drink. So I watched and cheered the whole show. The band lterally thanked me, and played their asses off for...me!

With that said. I have a great singer freind. Prolly the best there is in my area...Ty Cook. He turned me onto Soundgarden, and gave me a new found respect for Chris Cornell simply by singing exactly like him. Ripper Owens had a cover band called Seattle. He stopped singing "Rusty Cage" after hearing Ty. You can't follow Ty on his turf. I love Layne (who doesn't) But Cornell is the true jem of this bunch...as singers go IMO!

With that said. I'm a metal dude ..so the Seattle sound is Queenryche and Nevermore.

So, I didn't vote because I really like AIC and SG. Even though I didn't embrace SG until 10 years ago (singer). I never liked PJ and Nirvana.

[Axegrinder87]

29 votes thus far, and none for Nirvana! LOVE IT!!!!

[joshulator]

Grunge killed 80s metal and I resent it for that.

(Don't tell anyone, but I did like Alice In Chains for a while...)

[Twitch]

I think grunge had more to do with the disheveled look of the band members. The bands that were labeled as grunge were all over the place style wise. I really dont think you could vote whos best in this situation for anything more than who you liked the best. Even the style of music that Sound Garden played that first coined the term was spades different than what they turned into in the 90s. The style they had in the 80s, when the movement started was like 70s rock on steroids. What they did in the 90s was its own thing, and probably only mildly similar to AIC, but the two were still different enough where the comparison in sound is apples and oranges. Nirvana and Pearl Jam were on totally different ends of whatever genre you could call it. They werent anything like AIC and Sound Garden and at the same time were nowhere near like each other either.

[horns666]

Johnny Depp is still in his Grunge faze..and it prolly cost thousands to look like shit.


Ahhh.. he could never look like shit..he's Johnny Depp!

[toejam]

Grunge killed 80s metal and I resent it for that.

No, it killed hair/glam bands... none of which were "metal" in the first place.

[toejam]

For me, of all the grunge bands, I'll have to say AIC were favorites followed by Soundgarden.

[jgcable]

Alice in Chains is my number 1 Seattle
Soundgarden is number 2
Alice in Chains is a great band.

[MetalMedal II]

No, it killed hair/glam bands... none of which were "metal" in the first place.

Agreed! Grunge killed off the then popular groups who loosely called themselves metal, but were still sugar coated pop songs. Grunge kicked off mainstream groups like Warrant, Firehouse, etc from the charts. Yeah, some good bands suffered as collateral damage but it didn’t stop bands like Pantera and Machine Head from becoming quite popular at the height of the grunge wave. And yes, there is irony in that Pantera initially was one of these glam bands before getting signed!

And Overkill were just as (un)popular in the grunge era as the 80s or even now. I call that being consistent!

[roodyrocker]

29 votes thus far, and none for Nirvana! LOVE IT!!!!

Nirvana was one of the most over rated bands in history! Perhaps they got no votes so far becauase they sound like a beginer garage band

Grunge killed 80s metal and I resent it for that.

(Don't tell anyone, but I did like Alice In Chains for a while...)

People claim that but I don't think Grunge killed anything. 80's Hair Metal/Rock or whatever you want to call it had simply run its course. It was around for over a decade. I personally love the 80's stuff but Grunge doesn't deserve as much credit as people give it. Thankfully Grunge itself didn't last all that long

[bibz]

Theres no way I could pick a dog in this fight. Thyall is amazing and so is Cantrell. Nirvana's dynamics won me over and gave me something to listen too after I got all the gnr cd's (hey, I was 12/13 ) but the depth of Soundgarden interested me greatly. I remember tuning my first guitar, a squier strat, to all the different crazy tunings on superunknown. My Wave and 4th of July and such. And rocking balls. Nothin' beats Jesus Christ Pose though! Covered the shit out of that song.

Dirt is one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. Of all time!