OleEinar

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@BeatBoy, contemporaries of the Griphon. I have the self-titled album and it’s worth it. I would also add the album by Trees reviewed by Supersoul.

I also only know the other work, nice but I don't remember it being essential. If you like things of this kind, I recommend Dando Shaft, if you don't already know them.

It's the third one in 5 months. Enough.

"The problem is that if you define grunge this way, you consider it a true genre," no, if you read carefully, I talked, like you, about attitude, which musically expresses itself differently from band to band, while still sharing common characteristics. Here too, we would need to agree on what we mean by "genre," and we could even say that it doesn't make sense to talk about "genres" at all. Sometimes I don't understand this insistence of yours on going against the grain for the sake of it. It seems to me that in just a few years, in a confined space, dozens of bands have emerged with an attitude and a way of playing that have something in common (while, I repeat, in their diversity) and that in many cases have intertwined and even collaborated with each other (that there were also feuds and rivalries seems all too obvious and very human to me). I don't see what's wrong with giving a name (conventional as much as you like) to this phenomenon, and I don't see why this name can't be "grunge," given the very fitting meaning of the term. The important thing is to have the mental clarity not to lump everything together indiscriminately and, above all, to recognize the differences between a band like Mudhoney and what the other Seattle bands were after '91, especially from those who were their epigones. Everything else seems to me to be discussions that are irrelevant.

Could you send some samples?

I've been searching for it for a life, so since you're inviting people to buy it now, you also need to tell us where to find it at a price possibly lower than the 40 euros of the Japanese reprint... otherwise, unfortunately, we’ll have to resort to alternative means. I would have liked the review to be a bit less verbose and more streamlined, but you still deserve the 5 stars.

Please Christian, next time give me just one at a time.

Yes Dave, but Alessio knows it and says he is not tolerant, so I don't see where the coherence is lacking.

I'm not entirely in agreement with you, but I realize that until we come to a common understanding of the meaning of "grunge," we risk saying the same things without realizing it. If for you "grunge" means << what the media has inflated with the name grunge >> (meaning the Seattle bands from '91 onward and their imitators), then I agree with you; Mudhoney are not really related. However, I like (I don't know if it's legitimate or not) to return to the literal meaning of the term and use it to refer to that underground music scene or movement (not a genre, then) that developed in Seattle from say the mid-'80s until the boom of '91. In Mudhoney (and before them in Green River), as well as in early Soundgarden, early Screaming Trees, the very early Alice in Chains, the Nirvana of "Bleach," Tad, and other smaller bands (see that nice document which is the compilation "Sub Pop 200"), I see, expressed musically in more or less different terms, the same dirty, rotten, and decadent attitude that is contained in the word "grunge." Over time, with success, each of these bands took their own path, growing increasingly distant from one another, and becoming less and less "grunge," except for Mudhoney, who in this context seem to me to be the most "grunge" band of all.