Recorded on April 10, 1996 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this continued the band's depressive creative decline. Here, they sound tired, leaden and devoid of any real passion.
Best track: 'Down in a Hole' - The one electric track to work acoustically.
Recorded on April 10, 1996 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this continued the band's depressive creative decline...
The grunge trend is dying? Quick! Cash in with a gimmicky Unplugged performance though we're all pretty over it now that our singer's a useless junkie
Was this album not well received at the time?
Thought this was Christgau for a second.
It had mixed (mostly negative) reviews upon release, yes.
Kerrang gave it a 2/5
They were performing grunge songs in 1996, it was outdated at the time
Lol no it wasn't. Alt rock/grunge continued to top rock charts up until like the early 00s
Alt-rock was still huge, yes, absolutely. But by 1996, the "grunge" thing was outdated and irrelevant.
It definitely wasn't. This was the content of a Kerrang in the summer of 1996.
Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Kerbdog, Mudhoney, L7, Screaming Trees and Smashing Pumkins are all featured in some way
Bon Jovi
So hair arena rock was not outdated in 1996 either?
This is from the next Kerrang.
Alice in Chains, Bush, Everclear, Silverchair, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, all written about. Most of these bands were written about weekly at the time.
Def Leppard
See
By 1996, Bon Jovi didn't sound like they did in the 80s. These Days from was voted the album of the year in Kerrang's readers poll in 1995.
Neither did Def Leppard. They returned more to their 80s sound in 1999.
And likewise, in 1996, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, had all shifted away from "grunge" sounds and tropes because it was no longer culturally relevant.
"Grunge" as a cultural phenomenon was 1991-1995.
Everything they ever did is shit.
Aside from Pearl Jam, and to a lesser extent Nirvana, most 90s alternative rock records were poorly reviewed.
I don't think culture worked that way when information wasn't as fast as it is today.
Not at all. Nu metal had taken over COMPLETELY by 1997.
Aside from Pearl Jam, and to a lesser extent Nirvana, most 90s alternative rock records were poorly reviewed.
Perhaps in shitty mainstream magazines that aimed to be as hip as possible, but not in metal and rock magazines.
The idea of "grunge" was already losing steam and relevance through the 1995. I'm not saying it was a quick shift away from the subculture, it was already petering out through 1995 and essentially without mainstream appeal by the following year. You could say that AIC's Tripod album was grunge's dying breath.
Fads linger FAR longer in the internet era.
Pic related is from May 1998.
Post grunge kept it alive and well long after 1995. Creed almost had a platinum album in 2001. Staind and Puddle of Mud sold several millions of records just in the US that year too.
I don't believe so.
Not at all. Nu metal had taken over COMPLETELY by 1997.
In 1997 zoomer, Limp was just breaking into radio and Korn was still openning for Megadeth and Danzig lol.
Nu metal broke with Follow The Leader, the first wave peaked in 99, and in 00 all the new bands like Slipknot, Evanescence, Mudvayne, LP, Papa Roach, etc flooded the market, and it was over around 05 when Atreyu and As I Lay Dying became the new thing.
Post-grunge, which had relevance into the millenium, is not grunge.
I feel this thread has gone off-topic. Yeah, AIC's Unplugged album is not that great IMO.
Post grunge is just commercialized grunge from outside of Seattle, but to the laymen it's the same shit. "real grunge" only died because Layne and Kurt died, SG broke up and PJ was considered kind of cheesey.
Post-grunge is basically just hard-pop-rock; it's quite stylistically, aesthetically, and culturally different to "real" grunge, which lost relevance after 1995.
If you listened to the radio around that time, or even for like ten years after, you'd hear just as much Nickelback and Godsmack as you did Nirvana and AIC.
And you'd hear the likes of Poision and Whitesnake on the radio well into the 90s too. It doesn't mean their music style still had cultural relevance.
Relevance in relation to what exactly? I've already proved that music magazines still wrote about grunge weekly way into the late 90s.
most 90s alternative rock records were poorly reviewed
smashing pumpkins? oasis?
STP and Tool that low
Contemporary mass cultural appeal. The music magazine you posted also talked about Bon Jovi and Def Leppard - it doesn't mean their style of music was relevant (in terms of contemporary mass cultural appeal) in 1996. As mentioned, the "grunge" acts had shifted away from the genre's stylistic conventions by this time, knowing that it had lost relevance (in terms of the definition defined above). Pearl Jam's No Code is widely seen as a departure from their sound, as was Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots' respective albums released in 1996. "Grunge" music had lost relevance, and even "grunge" bands knew it, which is why they evolved into various strains of milquetoast "alternative rock".
Opiate is an EP anyway so it says something that it's even on there.
Yet the bands that were influenced by grunge had enormous contemporary cultural appeal in the late 90s/early 00s, which says something.
Yeah, that's bands influenced by grunge, not grunge itself. T-Rex influenced bands into the 00s, it doesn't mean they had continuing relevance in those years.
There's like 2 alternative rock records on there. You basically disproved your own post.
Smashing Pumpkins were disliked by critics and Oasis were a non-entity to most Americans. Oasis also weren't "alternative rock".
1. Alternative Rock, Post Grunge
2. Post Grunge
3. Alternative Rock
4. Hard Rock, influenced by Grunge
5. Grunge
6. Grunge
7. Hard Rock
8. Post Grunge
9. Ska/Pop Rock
10. Industrial Rock/Alternative Rock
You basically disproved your own post.
I didn't.
I forgot about those guys Warrior Soul
youtube.com
Were you looking at a different list?
Great band. I saw them do a ''acoustic'' gig in 2010. Was completely blown away.
youtube.com
Listen to more music so you can hear how different genres sound.
And you'd hear the likes of Poision and Whitesnake on the radio well into the 90s too. It doesn't mean their music style still had cultural relevance.
I mean, in the early 90s it did. Not long after grunge happened though.
People think hair metal died in 1989, it didn't lol. There is a whole crop of late 90s/early 90s hair bands some of which had huge hits. Rock media doesn't tell you that though, you'd have to be an actual music fan.
A few songs such as "Got Me Wrong" and "Sludge Factory" had to be replayed numerous times due to error. Accordingly, the taping took approximately three hours to finish.
Yeah, you could hear new (what's now cliche) hair metal singles all the way into 1992