| Yeah, I'm agreeing with shwax on this one. I've been called elitist about grunge before on Sporcle, but I'll reiterate the main issues. During the late 80s and early 90s, there were a number of locations where regional alternative rock scenes broke out. In my opinion, grunge can only be applied to Seattle. Furthermore, not every band from Seattle could necessarily be considered grunge. Certainly Sir Mix-A-Lot was active in Seattle at the time, but could never be considered grunge. As I see it, 14 of these bands could be grunge (1,2, 4-9, 16-18, 20-22.) Numbers 3, 10, and 14 were definitely influenced by grunge or share similar backgrounds, but were from southern California (LA/ San Diego.) Bands 13, 19, and 25 all hail from Chicago and owe more to the noise rock movement of Chi-Town (Big Black, Jesus Lizard, etc.) which was in its own way influenced by the noise rock/ hardcore of Austin, TX (Jesus Lizard (again), Scratch Acid, Butthole Surfers.) Bands 15, 23, and 24 are bands from Seattle, but seem to be more hangovers from the hardcore punk days than grunge. The other bands have been influenced by grunge, but probably only in the "Hey we could make money this way" way. Full disclosure: Numbers 1, 2 and 6 are occasionally separated from the grunge movement as well, as strange as that may seem. |
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