wrong. "grunge" was the antithesis of the vapid "party party" 80's glam rock that was popular right before it hit. it put 1000 poofy- haired, lipstick wearing musicians out of work. The bands were all about inner turmoil and alienation, and feeling disenfranchised. which apparently struck a chord with the majority of the youth at the time.
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got brutally pwned by this
I remember an interview with a few of rock's "old guard" and Jon Bon jovi was whining about these new bands who play "weird tunings" and sing "out of pitch", and Robert Plant was crying about it as well.
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First off I said alternative not just grunge.
Second do you even know what audio compression means?
Third your citing what virtually every single record label on the planet was saying in 1992 hardly original.
The fact that you even mention the out of tune singing and strange tunnings of the these bands shows how little understanding you have of what I'm talking about.
To sound loud in the 80's, you needed loud vocals,(shout singing like in motley crue, or the siren singing like in maiden or van halen), for the guitars and drums, you needed high tempo with fast picking guitars, like def leopard, judas priest, van halen, even old metallica.
Than around 87, production tech changed rich bands like GnR s based on these simple riffs and singing, that sounded loud when overly compressed took over for a short time. Once these techs became more common the old 80's style started sounding dated from the get go. By 91 RHCP, The Black Album and Nirvana made the old shit sound dated.
Even metallica became simpler more riff based, with softer more raspier vocals, because surprise surprise thats what sounded good. Everyone acted as if it was some great social awakening or some bullshit reality was it was just a bunch of folk that didn't understand why there old music started sounding like shit all of a sudden.
