>2-3 years before Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins>SP opened for them in 1988 and changed their sound at the drop of a hatI don't think grunge would've existed without this band.
I love this psychotic beach junkie music.
WELL IT'S JUSTLIKETHE SHOW BEFORRRRRRRE AND THE NEWSISJUST ANOTHER SHOW
>>129987748anybody seen Gift? I have the video tape still from... mid 90s?
I'm a huge SP fan and there's no denying that Gish is a knock off of this album. I do not think Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Jane's Addiction sound anything like eachother though.
>>129988528It’s not that they sound like Pearl Jam or Nirvana but Jane’s Addiction definitely did the heavy bass and distorted guitar sound before anyone else.
Yes even Trent said he changed his live shows after seeing them becuase they were so good
>>129987748Grunge had already started with the Deep Six compilation in 1986, 2 years prior Nothing's Shocking.
>>129988566Doesn’t matter if no one heard it
>>129988610It mattered in the pacific northwest where all the Deep Six bands played gigs and formed what was became known as grunge. They heard it.
>>129987748Ultramega OK came out first
>>129988566That's a good reference.That album shows how muddy and diverse were origins of grunge. In some parts it sounds influenced by heavy metal (Judas Priest, Maiden), in others it sounds influenced by punk, in some measure by garage, Sabbath, they were all over the place.But they also had some incipient 'Seattle sound', which slower and sludgier than heavy metal, with crazed raspy vocals, heavy bass and somewhat noisy and careless guitar parts. They even had those 'bad solos' that later became Nirvana's signature.It really shows that Fecal Matter's casette-album was heavily influenced by what they heard in that Seattle scene.
>Indie music was suddenly going to become the mainstream and Soundgarden was the band, not just from Seattle but the indie band that was out there kind of with the potential to do that before anyone else was. And the other bands that i can think of that were doing the same thing were the Chili Peppers, Metallica, Jane's Addiction, all predated by several years what became that year of 1992 you know, where suddenly it was "Seattle Seattle Seattle".>I think another band you can't leave out of this is Guns N' Roses and that Appetite For Destruction moment because that was a big eye-opener to the record companies, to radio programmers, to video show programmers worldwide, and I also think it's a very organic moment, an instant where an audience that was out there said to those programmers, to those stations, "We like this, You guys have been getting it all wrong, We don't know what's wrong with you but this is what we like, it's edgy, it's weird, it's crazy." It's not hair metal and you know, colorful spandex, it wasn't that far from that but by the same token it was and i think that got everyone's antenna up thinking maybe we don't know what's going on and it repeated itself with Nirvana.
>>129987748rateyourmusic told me they are mediocre as fuck.
nfsw artwork bro
Nothing's Shocking [Warner Bros., 1988]The Dream Syndicate revisited a/k/a Alice Cooper in the age of metal worship. Of course it took Alice three albums to get good, but then again his third had "I'm Eighteen" on it and these newcomers aren't even humble enough to try for one of those. Or lucky enough--as Alice has spent his life proving, luck didn't have a whole lot to do with it. But if they keep at it like the skilled pros they are, I'm sure they'll eventually land a "Only Women Bleed." C+
>>129990026This dude gets absolutely filtered by anything that came out after 1966.
>>129987748>Jewish Vocalist>90s Alternative music wouldn't exist without 5 minute songs of Junkies moaning Fuck off. Jane's Addiction is terrible. You can't actually listen to the whole album with Turning it off.Quit trying to rewrite history. We don't owe you Vermin anything
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i adore those 2 albums, NS and RdlH. What blows my mind is you hear their catchy fun tunes like Been Caught Steelin and then you get some emotion from Jane Says and you think you've got it figured out but then they had those alternative prog epics at the end of Habitual and those are some of the best songs ever regardless of genre. Classic Girl is one of my all time fave love songs and the Ocean kicks fucking ass between the screams, the energy, and the stadium filling distortion tone
>>129988528big fan of both bands and I never heard hat gish sounds like JA before, interesting>>129988539idk bands like Skin Yard or other early seattle guys were doing it already i think, and then you have Pixies
>>129988528big fan of both bands and I never heard hat gish sounds like JA before, interesting>>129988539idk bands like Skin Yard or other early seattle guys were doing it already i think, and then you have Pixies>>129988610it matters because the big 4 heard it
>>129989658llmao at the GnR mention, literally the most hair metal of the bands still big n the 90s
Super influential band. I saw them open for The Smashing Pumpkins, but honestly what makes them so different from the hair metal scene other than packaging
>>129990727>the ocean>jane says>pigs in zen>stop>three days>then she did>classic girlthese are all as good as the best grunge songs of the 90s, listen to Three Days and Then She Did those songs are on another level songwriting wise Dave Navarro was a talent
>>129990848listen to the songs >>129990853besides a few they dont sound remotely like hair metal, not nearly as produced way more strung out
>>129990827You don't really know what you're saying
>>129988540yeah, he sampled the scream from... I think it's Had a Dad on PHM
>>129989658wow.strong agree. as someone who was in high school 88-92, those were the bands that were doing the damn thing. I was checking dinosaur jr and sonic youth and nin and living colour, but the first band I heard where I was like "yes, this is the thing, this is what it should sound like" was JA Nothing's Shocking and I was definitely a big fan of G'N'R AFD and Lies , RHCP (had to be there, I guess) , and Metallica -- only because a metalhead friend got me into them right around when Nirvana hit, maybe 6 months before the Black Album came out.everything he said tracks. and I was in a mid-sized southern city with no radio play for any of that. we traded tapes and sometimes it was on MTV but I didn't have cable . and the college station didn't really play any of that, either. they were into even more obscure stuff.so if I was hearing this stuff, pretty much anyone paying attention was hearing it. there was a giant sea change and it was predicated on anyone halfway hip rejecting the image of what the music industry was invested in selling us.I don't think I've ever read anything that described this so exactly before, so thanks for posting that.
