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Popular Music Studies: Alternative Rock
Week 4
US Alternative in the 90s
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The ‘Seattle Sound’
• Grunge / Sub Pop
• Garage rock, Alternative Rock,
Hardcore, Heavy Metal
• Mudhoney
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Nirvana
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Nirvana
• Bleach (Sub Pop, 1989)
• $606.17
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Nirvana
• ‘Nevermind marks the coming of age of alternative rock and the death of some cherished and deep-seated beliefs about authenticity, selling out, and the artistic purity of the rock & roll underground.’
• ‘The beginning of one era… and the end of another.’
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Nirvana
• Nevermind (DGC, 1991)
• Initial $65,000 budget
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In Bloom
He’s the one who likes all the pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he don’t know what it means
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Nirvana
• In Utero (1993)
• Produced by
Steve Albini
• MTV Unplugged
in New York (1994)
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Kurt Cobain
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Grunge…
• Green River – Mother Love Bone – Pearl Jam
• Ten (1991) outsold Nevermind on initial release
• ‘…saddled with the same meaningless genre tag.’
• Large classic rock influence – little musical similarity to Nirvana?
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Pearl Jam
• Vs (1993)
• Protracted battle with Ticketmaster
• Used the hype and then shunned mainstream interference to retain their creative control
• No Code (1996)
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Soundgarden
• Formed 1984
• “Hunted Down” (Sub Pop, 1987)
• Ultramega OK (SST, 1988)
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Soundgarden
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Alice in Chains
Dirt (1992)
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‘Girl’ bands in grunge
• L7
• Formed in 1985
• Started “Rock for Choice” (1991-2001)
• Bricks Are Heavy (1992)
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‘Girl’ bands in grunge
• Hole (formed in 1989)
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Riot Grrrl
• Named for a fanzine put out from 1991 by Allison Wolfe, Kathleen Hanna and other female musicians
• Frequently associated with grunge
• Bikini Kill (1990-97)
• Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars, 1993)
• Sleater-Kinney
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PJ Harvey
• Rid of Me (Island, 1993) produced by Steve Albini
• First solo album To Bring You My Love (1995) still highly US country, blues, folk influenced; produced by Flood.
• Success in both US and UK
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Liz Phair
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Rage Against the Machine
• Blended rock/metal with rap
• Rage Against the Machine (Epic, 1992)
• Politically charged music and agenda
• Addressing of authenticity…?
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The Aftermath of Grunge…
• Dave Grohl formed Foo Fighters after Kurt Cobain’s death
• Colour and the Shape (1997)
• Some bands, like Pavement, continued to actively avoid the mainstream.
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Smashing Pumpkins
• The standout alternative rock band of the 1990s, after Nirvana
• Began with numerous UK influences –
goth rock, shoegaze, psychedlia
• Soon incorporated hard rock, metal, grunge
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Smashing Pumpkins
• Siamese Dream (1992)
• Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
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Punk revival
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Weird Rock
• A line from Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa
• Through the Minutemen, Butthole Surfers, etc…
• Primus