What is grunge?

Before the establishment of grunge music in the mid -1980s, there was straight punk rock, heavy metal and so -called "hair bands" who played a mixture of heavy metal and glam rock. Many local punk rock bands on the music scene in Seattle began experimenting with the fusion of heavy metal riffs and punk rock energy, affected by a group called Melvins. The new sound, developed first in Seattle, represented strongly distorted guitars and emotional texts supplied in a uneven and bold style. This made a member of one band Seattle, Green River to minimize the term "grunge", although it originally did not mean it as a compliment.

Although there were many local post-punk bands that were able to get national attention at the end of the 80s. Bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Alice in Chains, and the legendary Nirvana managed to attract the attention of mainstream labels. Rawness of the Sound, as is an example of Nirvany's Kurt Cobain and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, brought to the national music scene noVou punk energy and offered many launched 20-Somethings lifestyle that corresponded to their sense of anxiety and frustration.

culture in which Grunge's music has first become popular is very important for its development. If the 80s were marked, economically and in popular music, futility, excess and wealth, culture and music 90. The disillusionment and personal struggles were important topics in Grungeu, acting as a criticism of shallow hair bands and Vapid pop music.

In the Grunge movement, there were informal fraud. Bands like Alice in chains have leaned towards the alternative sound of heavy metal, while Nirvana hovered somewhere between punk and emerging emo sound. Pearl jam, on the hand, became almost mainstream with their mixture of pop, garage and heavy metal. A number of grunge bands have actively give up their sudden commercial successAnd it said that money and fame would prove harmful to the true spirit of music.

In the middle of the 90s. Kurt Cobain, the charismatic leader of Nirvana, apparently committed suicide after years of physical and emotional difficulties. Other bands disintegrated due to drug abuse or internal dispute between band members. Some of the original grunge bands, especially Pearl Jam, have continued performance, but their newer material does not always contain a distinctive punk and emo energy of their grunge years.