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Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the mid-1980s in the U.S. state of...

wrote in the Houston Press that "Hey Hey, My My" was stylistically "proto-grunge grunt rock". In 1980, the song was used as the title theme of Dennis...

anything the Replacements recorded". Salon.com described the album as a proto-grunge effort. The Harvard Crimson described it retrospectively in 1985 as "gritty...

unromantic as it is fantastical". Rolling Stone has called the record "proto-grunge", and bands such as Melvins, Nirvana and Hole have covered their work...

were influential for the grunge music scene in general, also being cited by the Melvins, Mudhoney, and Dinosaur Jr. German grunge band Alien Boys named themselves...

1969 Studio Wally Heider Recording Studios, Hollywood Genre Acid rock proto-grunge Length 9:13 (Album version) 3:35 (Single version) Label Reprise Songwriter(s)...

what we're doing?" The next album, In My Head, with its powerful bluesy proto-grunge-metal, did seem to finally be a cohesive follow-up to their previous...

music show, 120 Minutes, and subsequently helped the burgeoning Seattle grunge scene gain attention and exposure to a somewhat mainstream audience. The...

Les Paul, "Old Black". The NME named "Cinnamon Girl" an example of "proto-grunge". The song was written in double drop D tuning (DADGBD). This tuning...

Fugazi and Big Black, the album ended up having a Metallica influenced proto-grunge sound. The band said that this was simply the result of getting professional...

Young's 1990 release Ragged Glory, has widely been considered a precursor of grunge music with the bands Nirvana and Pearl Jam having cited Young's heavily...

The Meat Puppets, Napalm Death, and Redd Kross. L.A. residents and proto-grunge band Melvins have played the Troubador numerous times, including live...

Flag-style hardcore punk." In 1982 Turner formed Fungus Brains as a proto-grunge and punk rock group with Simon Adams on bass guitar, Peter Maddick on...

Dry as a Bone/Rehab Doll is more energetic and less murky than many proto-grunge artifacts, it's arguably the most effective and enduring building block...

elements of grunge and alternative rock before those styles became popular; Palmer and Asregadoo considered the record's sound "proto-grunge". Allender...

rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge, shoegaze, and Britpop subgenres in the United States and United Kingdom...

"The Baby Tree", the musique concrète passages of "Home" and "XM", and proto-grunge in "Mau-Mau (Amerikon)". Mostly, however, the songs are delivered in...

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Genres Garage rock psychedelic rock Proto-grunge Years active 1966-1972 (reunions thereafter) Labels Hexagon ABC Past...

elements of grunge (distortion-heavy guitars, sneering vocals), but the Mono Men filtered these through a mimicry of 1960s Washington proto-punk, garage...

commercial success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge and later Britpop in the 1990s. Despite this, many post-grunge bands adopted a hard rock sound and the...