Grunge or late 80's early 90's rock...

[JanMichael]

Whatever one wants to call it those bands fucking ROCKED!

Alice in Chains, Soundgarden...Nirvana and why not Hole too (Doll Parts?). A little metal with a little punk and a tad bit of distortion.

Oh and how could we pass over Pearl Jam with ALIVE! And of course there were many others.

Sure you may not like them all, bands and songs alike, but shit they rocked and mostly played their own fuckin' instruments...Not like the pop canned crap out now.

I guess I'm just feeling nostalgic like any 39 year old X'er might...

[leeroysphitz]

1. I'm with you. My two favorite rock bands wouldn't have come to be without

this era.

Sleater-Kinney and Foo Fighters.

[Capn Sunshine]

2. Audioslave

also owes its roots to the Seatte scene

[Radical Activist]

5. I still love Rage Against the Machine

a thousand times more than Audioslave.

[JanMichael]

10. Same with me.

Still have the CD's in the car.

[Radical Activist]

3. Great time in music.

the late 90's sucked. We had a few good years of rock rival in the early 00's with groups like the White Stipes, The Strokes, The Hives etc. Things suck again right now. We're in the down part of the music cycle right now.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2EkcT9q28Q

Things don't suck right now.

[Radical Activist]

12. One video

can't make up for a mountainload of crap on the radio right now.

That's a pretty good song. It sounded like 80's retro. Maybe one reason I don't like music right now is that so much of it is mimicking the 80's and I hate 80's music.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I can give much more.

But come on dude, radio is ALWAYS crap, that's hardly a new phenomenon.

And bands like The Hives and The Strokes were heavily influenced by late 70s/early 80s post-punk bands too, the same stuff that influenced bands like Bloc Party..

[Radical Activist]

15. Yes, that's generally true.

But there was a short time in the early 90's when sounds that were different and alternative got on the radio and national exposure. That isn't happening right now.

[BulletproofLandshark]

4. The soundtrack of my high school years (Class of '94)

Good times.

[Aristus]

6. I'm 39, too. And I love those good old grunge days.

I loved being young, going to great concerts, coming out of the arena deaf and ready for some really awful fast food that could turn your insides into vacuum-cleaner bag lint. I loved being able to drink like a fish and not have it affect the action with the ladies. I loved running around with a great group of friends, going to cool clubs, and feeling like I had the world on a string. I liked riding around in a too-small car packed with couples making out like bandits. As a target for bullies myself when I was a kid, I loved being the go-to guy helping protect the smaller guys in our gang from getting pummmeled by drunk assholes. I loved being the only straight pro-gay-rights soldier most of my friends had ever met. I loved going to dinner with my hang-out pals and picking up the entire tab, sometimes running into hundreds of dollars (Army pay, and nothing else to spend it on... )

I loved grunge life... B-)

[Diamond Dave]

7. Don't forget Tool.

[leeroysphitz]

11. The video for Sober was a revelation. I know they have a full repertoire but

that song left an impact...

[Diamond Dave]

16. Still put on a great show.

Saw 'em last month in Austin.

[leeroysphitz]

18. I've never seen them live but I heard Maynard could be a little shy...

Is that still the case?

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Not a big fan of grunge, but there was plenty of great alternative.

And most of it was stuff your average listener never heard of, much like today's good music.

[leeroysphitz]

14. Right. Like Cibo Matto then or Great Lakes Myth Society today.

The good music is out there but you have to DIG for it.

[JCMach1]

19. Gotta Know Your Chicken

That was a great song!

[Kucinich4America]

17. Nirvana - In Bloom (original version)

From the days when they were a local band whom the rest of the world had never heard of.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ESIq1Opbc

[Tafiti]

20. Agreed.

Although you left out three bands that were responsible for probably hundreds of bands' existence: Helmet, Fugazi, and The Pixies. And you also left out Faith No More - '92's Angel Dust was an instant classic. Also as mentioned above: Tool. I still listen to all of these bands and the ones you mentioned on a regular basis. Somehow it just hasn't gotten old.

[JanMichael]

22. It wasn't meant to be a complete list.

That's why I said "And of course there were many others." because as you point out there are many, many, others.

I think too that I was sort of being geographically focused on Seattle. Not that it's the only place from which "Grunge" bands are from.

[Jamastiene]

21. Agreed.

Hole was my favorite of all of them, along with Nirvana.

[Guava Jelly]

23. 90's alternative was the shit..

Some of my favorite music came from this era.
Also Live through this by Hole was a great Album
You forgot Sublime and No Doubt and Bare Naked ladies

[mitchum]

24. It's the last time that rock music had any relevance to youth culture

[Swede]

25. Love the grunge.

Love it.