Beyond that was the beginning of alternative rock and the exhaustive, redundant slog of bands that followed for the duration of the ’90s. While everybody-including the artists themselves-has their own definition of what constitutes grunge, for the sake of this list, we end grunge with Kurt Cobain’s death (with a few exceptions for stragglers in the year that followed).
What follows is a list of the best songs from that era. It was a dark and dire time, and soon it was clear that the movement had nowhere to go but down.īut before the movement unraveled, it offered some mind-blowing music. Pearl Jam was trying to hold it together, retreating from the spotlight as fast as they could Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots and hordes of others were battling horrid drug addictions and struggling for survival. Grunge had been building steadily in the late ’80s before exploding into the mainstream in the early ’90s, but in 1994, it was fading fast.
1 and confirmed that grunge was no longer an isolated genre but an international phenomenon, Kurt Cobain’s suicide shook the scene to its core. Shortly after Soundgarden’s Superunknown went to No. Twenty years ago, grunge had reached its peak.
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