I Like Grunge

Thanks for the reminder guys, the thought of adding him had crossed my mind earlier but I forgot to do anything about it. He's here now, and when the brainz have done their work I've got a couple of reviews ready 

To be honest I never get the 'Grunge style', like you already said before, so many bands in so many different styles and influences putted on the same ground, I mean, it's quite weird.

Edited by progshine - 02 Jul 2010 at 10:57pm

Pekka wrote: Backspacer actually might be my favourite Pearl Jam album, though I've only heard about a half of them properly.

Balthamel wrote: I saw Alice in Chains at the Roskilde festival last weak and they were great, love their long drooning stoner sound. realy great band.   and saw Them Crooked Vultures whom have post-grunge sound with Dave Grohl on the kits realy impressive.

Maybe I should give another spin for the record? 

VS is a good album.  The first 3 songs are probably the best known: Go, Animal, and Daughter.  Dissident and Elderly Woman Behind the Counter are both good songs too.  I haven't listened to it in awhile, so there are probably others, but those are the ones that I remember.

Vitalogy has Spin The Black Circle, Tremor Christ, Nothingman, and Corduroy.  I have most of the rest of their albums and there are some pretty good songs scattered throughout but I haven't listened to them in quite awhile so can't really recommend anything specific.  Binaural was pretty good, and actually I really enjoyed Backspacer when it came out.  I listened to it a number of times, but not recently.  Hmmm.. sounds like my next listen should be Backspacer.

The guitar playing resembles Pearl Jam.  The clean vocals at the beginning do remind me of Eddie Vedder in early Pearl Jam.  The ones at the end reminded me more of Temple of the Dog, which was also a project that Eddie sang on.

Thanks guys! So all the black metal fanatics talking about this album weren't wrong with the Pearl Jam connection, heh.

Edit: I'll check out that video now.


Edited by Vehemency - 07 Jul 2010 at 4:49pm

I own Ten, VS, Binaural, Pearl Jam and Backspacer. Ten is quite brilliant, VS great in places but as a whole somewhat unsatisfying (Go and Rearviewmirror are my favourites). I've listened to Binaural only a couple of times and haven't really gotten anything from it, but the self titled is a really good rock album. Strong material with no big downhills or uphills. Backspacer was a massive surprise, and a positive one. Good straight ahead rocking, a couple of really beautiful songs (influenced by Eddie Vedder's soundtrack to the movie Into the Wild, I guess) and some calmer rockers, all in perfect balance on an album of perfect length.