(July 4, 2015 at 9:12 am)Dystopia Wrote: Grunge is basically a label for any rebellious music that came out of the Seattle scene - Nirvana is essentially punk influenced along with some rock and roll classics and Kurt Cobain confirmed that - Pearl Jam is harder to define and Alice in Chains is definitely metal, labeling them just as grunge is demeaning.
That unplugged tune defined in a moment why glam metal had to die-- too much self-aggrandizing masturbation, too little sincere communication with an audience participating in a shared experience. I mean, stand Axl Rose and Kurt Cobain together, and you'll see that one's a fucking peacock, and one's a serious artist.
That's not to undermine the great contributions of great metal artists, which for the most part I like better-- a very small percent of them were Poison.
I'm curious how you are defining "metal." I see it as rooted in certain song structures, certain musical philosophies, certain lyric themes, etc. Alice in chains has some vaguely metal-sounding stuff, but I don't see that overall they have the attitudes or sound that I would call metal.
