which is the best of the big 4 Seattle 90's Grunge Bands

I like all of them except Pearl jam personally

hmmmm hate them all so much....hate peal jm the least ill go with them.

why?

ehh not relly into that type of music, but did go to a peal jam concert and they put on a good show.

wow coool where did you see them

Alice in Chains fer meh.

in new york. madison square

wow, that's like saying what child do you like. I think it would be a tie between AIC and nirvana.

I'm really surprised that AIC is not getting more love from some of you who are into metal.

I love 'em. Jerry's guitar tone has always been killer I think. And Layne's voice was one-of-a-kind.

AIC and Pearl Jam are about equal for me. I only like a handful of Soundgarden songs. I really liked Temple of the Dog though. I used to be a big Nirvana fan, but I outgrew that age.

Soundgarden and AIC for me.

They're pretty sweet. They had Soundgarden and Pearl Jam members together! But they only had 1 album I think.

Soundgarden all the way!

DUDE LOVE ALL OF THEM EXCEPT PEARL JAM. I love pretty much everything by soundgarden everything by Nirvana and a lot of stuff by AIC

Nirvana is the obvious one.I think it's a shame nobody ever talks about where that sound came from.

The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, The Meat Puppets, the almight Black Flag too! Nirvana would still sound like sludge metal if they hadnt heavily borrowed from the Pixies.

what about mudhoney, that's were Nirvana got their sound from. Tha was there fav live band and they even stole mudhoneys drummer for a while. Also check out green river.

@ telecrater

Sure your not thinking of the Melvins? Kurt thought Dale Crover was the best drummer ever, but went with Grohl too avoid breaking up the melvins.

I never listened to any mark arm projects like Green River. I dont know where I would find it to begin with....
hidden in a record store in seatle.

For these I must say Nirvana... not a huge fan tho.

For me, soundgarden is horrible (soz, i know there are many who love it.) but somehow for me its horrible and most crappiest song is Blackhole sun.

I think that pearl jam should stop being put in this catagory because they are much more of a traditional rock, mixed in with grunge.

Oooh, that hurts! To be honest though, I prefer the juxtaposed title than the song. I don't hate it, but it is nowhere near Soundgarden's best.

As for the Pearl Jam argument, grunge was more of a scene than a genre. Pearl Jam may have had different influences to some of their contemporaries, but they were still part of the same scene none the less.

i like all of em... specially alice n nirvana, ill go 4 alice cause i think most have gone 4 nirvana

lbackholesun, rock, dont listen to anyone that says the contrary

grunge had nothing to do with the music. it was definitely just a scene.

I agree specially since Soundgarden and Alice in Chains started playing something that sounded like Metal.

I choose Soundagrden because they had the best singer and had lot of solos.

Dude, no way. Chris Cornell may have the biggest range out of all of them, but Layne Staley was a ***ing amazing singer.

I know totally and grunge was actually invented by green river
Nirvana's smells like teen spirit was actually a riff sort of ripped off the pixies

I believe Kurt said about the song "I was trying to write the perfect pop song. I was basically ripping off The Pixies".

agreed

hey does anyone here listen to silverchair

nirvana would kick all teir ass's in a fist fight

Holy crap man it's been ages! Where've you been?! Welcome back

busy growwing old and moving

Well it's good to see you on here again, where have/are you moving to?

Well BHS, honestly I may judge Soundgarden too much, but honestly Blackhole sun is boring song and over played around the stations and darn hype of it so I may have made to me somekind of antipathy of it.

If I compare it to songs like Hand of god, Rusty gage, Cold **, Sub pop rock city or Burden in my hand. These are just from different planet than Blackhole sun is which just not do justice their best part that is Cornell. Very good singer yes.

Btw, do anyone know band Blood Circus?

There were other seattle band that never "made it" that were great.

The melvins was one and who could forget Mudhoney

I think Pearl Jam is, by far, the best band listed. However, as stated above, they're almost in a different genre than the rest of these guys. Granted, their earlier stuff was pretty "grungy."