Using the sludgy, murky sound of the Stooges and Black Sabbath as a foundation, Grunge was a hybrid of heavy metal and punk. Though the guitars were straight from early ’70s metal, the aesthetic of grunge was far from metal. Both the lyrical approach and musical attack of grunge were adopted from punk, particularly the independent ideals of early ’80s American hardcore. The first wave of grunge bands — Green River, Mudhoney, Soundgarden — were heavier than the second, which began with Nirvana. Nirvana was more melodic than their predecessors and they also had signature stop-start dynamics, which became a genre convention nearly as recognizable as fuzzy, distorted guitars. After Nirvana crossed over into the mainstream, grunge lost many of its independent and punk connections and became the most popular style of hard rock in the ’90s. :twisted:
Also dem stimm ich doch glatt mal teilweise zu. Wie ich selber schon geschrieben habe sind für mich eben bands wie z.B Green River (die eigentlich Ausgangsband der ganzen Seattle-Entwicklung) „grunge“ im eigentlichen Sinne. Aus dieser Band haben sich dann zwei Schienen entwickelt…zum einen Klassischer Rock mit „Popappeal“ (MLB, Pearl Jam) und zum anderen „Pseudo-Punk“ mit ebenso großem „Popappeal“ den man Bandintern aber abstritt (Mudhoney, Nirvana).
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