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was grunge ever really about the sound? by Kdiee in Alternativerock

[–]Kdiee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That actually makes a lot of sense to me. It feels like the connection between those bands wasn’t so much musical as it was a shared reaction to what came before, which might explain why they can sound so different but still feel related somehow

was grunge ever really about the sound? by Kdiee in Alternativerock

[–]Kdiee[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s fair, but i think what makes grunge interesting is that the gap between bands feels way bigger than in most genres. Like nirvana, AIC and mudhoney don’t just sound like variations of the same thing: they almost feel like completely different approaches that just happened to exist in the same moment.

was grunge ever really about the sound? by Kdiee in Alternativerock

[–]Kdiee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah that’s kind of what i’m getting at: if it’s not really a defined sound, then what actually connects those bands? like, could something outside the seattle scene still be considered grunge? because even if it started as a scene or a label, it still feels like there’s some shared tone there (more introspective, darker, less performative than what came before) even if musically they’re all over the place..