The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread

[Joe Mac]

I mean Nevermind is the only grunge album that should be on the list.

It is 1001. So we can go a bit beyond the boomer albums MoFi and fuck Chad fawn over.

 

[Hemotep]

I mean Nevermind is the only grunge album that should be on the list.

Your opinions today =

 

[Nee Lewman]

Your opinions today =

I mean I don’t even think it is a grunge album…

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Yeah from an American that’s like me saying that Nevermind is the only grunge album that deserves to be on this list. If it was a personal list for sure but overall perhaps not. One thing I’m finding refreshing about seeing peoples rundowns in this thread is that after years of seeing a very pro US bias on these forums there being a more fair representation of British music outside the big artists 60s and 70s.

I like more Britpop band than I like Grunge bands (I think).

 

[Nee Lewman]

I like more Britpop band than I like Grunge bands (I think).

That’s because Stone Temple Pilots is the only grunge band and Bush. And they both suck.

 

[gaporter]

Modern Life Is Rubbish is a way better blur album.

I'm biased of course but I would be fine with any Blur album making the list. Except Leisure I suppose, but even that album is way better than some of the stuff I've pulled for this exercise so far.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I mean I don’t even think it is a grunge album…

Nevermind is a Grunge album based on how Grunge is defined. You might not like the term Grunge (as most of those bands did not either) because it’s much too generic of a term but as defined Nirvana was “grunge” even though they don’t really sound like Pearl Jam or Sound Garden.

 

[Joe Mac]

I like more Britpop band than I like Grunge bands (I think).

Yeah I like Britpop more than grunge too, not hard in fairness, but like any scene dig beneath the headliners and you find a few interesting oddball things and a big pile of derivative shit. I kinda think there was probably more interesting things going on in the same countries at the same time.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Nevermind is a Grunge album based on how Grunge is defined. You might not like the term Grunge (as most of those bands did not either) because it’s much too generic of a term but as defined Nirvana was “grunge” even though they don’t really sound like Pearl Jam or Sound Garden.

I went through this the other day. I don’t accept the dumb way it was marketed.

 

[Joe Mac]

I'm biased of course but I would be fine with any Blur album making the list. Except Leisure I suppose, but even that album is way better than some of the stuff I've pulled for this exercise so far.

Yeah Leisure and the Great Escape are the two that I’d not have on a list.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

That’s because Stone Temple Pilots is the only grunge band and Bush. And they both suck.

Those are second wave grunge bands and you know it.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Those are second wave grunge bands and you know it.

The only way grunge works is second wave. Lol. And according to Wikipedia STP is one of the “big six”

 

[Nee Lewman]

I’d call Mudhoney grunge. They don’t suck.

 

[Joe Mac]

Those are second wave grunge bands and you know it.

Aren’t bush just a load of middle class Londoners playing at being an American grunge act but with all the edges polished off for the radio?

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I went through this the other day. I don’t accept the dumb way it was marketed.

Contrary to popular opinion the world doesn’t give a shit. Grunge is a style (bad, good, or indifferent) it still exists whether you agree with it or not.

 

[Nee Lewman]

The world can fuck off.

 

[Joe Mac]

Contrary to popular opinion the world doesn’t give a shit. Grunge is a style (bad, good, or indifferent) it still exists whether you agree with it or not.

To be fair that’s contrary to Lee’s opinion, the world tends to go with the generic over arching thing, it’s easier.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I’d call Mudhoney grunge. They don’t suck.

Mudhoney, Tad, Seaweed, they were all grunge.

BTW, You will enjoy the Mudhoney chapter in Our Band Could Be Your Life. It really shines a light on the Seattle music scene and Sun Pop at the time.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

The world can fuck off.

LOL!

 

[Nee Lewman]

Mudhoney, Tad, Seaweed, they were all grunge.

BTW, You will enjoy the Mudhoney chapter in Our Band Could Be Your Life. It really shines a light on the Seattle music scene and Sun Pop at the time.

Shit i forgot about Tad. I don’t know seaweed. I may never get out of Black Flag at this rate. Also, Fred Armisen should get Ben Stein’s role in the inevitable Ferris Bueller remake.