Alice in chains ...not grunge?

[highway blues]

Ive been listenting to there music lately

im feeling more of a heavy metal vibe ,its dffrent than pearl jam and nirvana.

i beleive they got labeld grunge becuz they orignitaed from seattle..

anyone else see this?

[Sweet Raptured Light]

Ive been listenting to there music lately

im feeling more of a heavy metal vibe ,its dffrent than pearl jam and nirvana.

i beleive they got labeld grunge becuz they orignitaed from seattle..

anyone else see this?

I thing they are both, I mean they sound like a borderline grunge to me.

[Dead Flower]

Yeah, you could say the same about Soundgarden.

Pretty much any band from Seattle was labeled grunge in the 90's.

In fact, sometimes they didn't even need to be from Seattle. Stone Temple Pilots, for example.

[LCG]

The subjects dealt with in their songs are those that would be associated with grunge. And as Dead Flower said, you could say the same thing for Soundgarden etc.

[The Sandman]

I see them as more hard rock, with grungy elements.

[highway blues]

i really dont see any grunge! i mean pearl jam and nirvana piss grunge u can fele it , but Aic feels diffrent

[kaddisonmoore]

yeah i feel the same... i dont like soundgarden as much i mean they have some great stuff too though

[Gash]

They were originally marketed as a metal band before the whole "Seattle movement" went down.

I don't really see grunge as being the music genre of a lot of the bigger bands in the "movement" really. As far as I'm concerned, AIC were a metal band, Nirvana were a punk band and Pearl Jam were almost like a classic rock band. Mudhoney and Dinosaur Jr e.t.c I see as grunge if anyone.

Edited June 8, 2007 by Gash

[bluesy]

First of all, Nirvana and Pearl Jam sound nothing alike. Grunge was a Seattle movement that was comprised of four bands; Alice in Chains were one of those bands. The thing that made people associate grunge with a certain sound and image was their radical difference to the pop-metal trend of the 80's. On those grounds, you could see how the commercial press and general public could perceive the stylistic contrast and then market grunge itself as a trend that was made up of certain clothes, attitudes, and style of music. When you get into the intimate details, none of the four original grunge bands really sound exactly alike, but in the broad scope of things, they had enough in common - especially when you compare them to mainstream rock at the time - to warrant their own category.

[DCGNR]

First of all, Nirvana and Pearl Jam sound nothing alike. Grunge was a Seattle movement that was comprised of four bands; Alice in Chains were one of those bands. The thing that made people associate grunge with a certain sound and image was their radical difference to the pop-metal trend of the 80's. On those grounds, you could see how the commercial press and general public could perceive the stylistic contrast and then market grunge itself as a trend that was made up of certain clothes, attitudes, and style of music. When you get into the intimate details, none of the four original grunge bands really sound exactly alike, but in the broad scope of things, they had enough in common - especially when you compare them to mainstream rock at the time - to warrant their own category.

Exactly -

[Dead Flower]

Pearl Jam were almost like a classic rock band.

Absolutely. Very different from Nirvana - especially Bleach Nirvana.

[Guest Ohdistortedsmile1789]

First of all, Nirvana and Pearl Jam sound nothing alike. Grunge was a Seattle movement that was comprised of four bands; Alice in Chains were one of those bands. The thing that made people associate grunge with a certain sound and image was their radical difference to the pop-metal trend of the 80's. On those grounds, you could see how the commercial press and general public could perceive the stylistic contrast and then market grunge itself as a trend that was made up of certain clothes, attitudes, and style of music. When you get into the intimate details, none of the four original grunge bands really sound exactly alike, but in the broad scope of things, they had enough in common - especially when you compare them to mainstream rock at the time - to warrant their own category.

Thank you, I was thinking of posting something similar before I read this.

Attempting to classify Alice as something other than Grunge just isn't worthwhile.

[vulgar]

i hate it when people do that.

[Opax]

I've always thought of Alice as more of a metal band..

grunge is less of a genre, and more of a scene, or an image..

thats why many bands during that era will get the label "grunge."

theres a quote somewhere..I dont have it on hand..

but, its Dave Grohl saying something like "Alice in Chains are not grunge."

here I found the exact quote..

"Grunge is not flannel. Grunge is not long hair. Grunge is not Alice In Chains and whatever. I think Grunge is just a bunch of friends drinking a lot of Henry's and trying to play music when you really can't." --Dave Grohl

That sounds like Punk, thank god Dave Grohl stopped being such a dick when he formed Foo Fighters.

Listening to Jar of Flies you get a compeltly different perspective of Alice in Chains, so I would say they are just a good band.

[mike bibby]

They are grunge metal