Alice in Chains - Grunge or Metal? - Democratic Underground

leftist_rebel1569

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:03 PM
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Poll question: Alice in Chains - Grunge or Metal?

This was the topic of debate amongst me and my friends a while back...I say they're a grunge band because they come out of Seattle around the same time the other grunge bands came out and they pretty much look and sound like a grunge band, although most of my friends classified them as metal. What do you think?

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kwolf68

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:07 PM
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1. Grunge...is what

Grunge was metal and punk inspired.

AIC were progressive and most likely many would say grunge, but I would say progressive metal in the vein that Faith No More, Peppers, and Soundgarden were taking metal in the early 1990s...

The real kicker is Cantrell's guitar playing. No grunge players play like him. JC is completely a metal player which emphasized dazzling guitar leads.

Its also worth a note that AIC opened for Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth on a tour back in the early 1990s and you don't get any more metal than that.

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rppper

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Sun Jun-13-04 04:46 AM
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14. side note about soundgarden......

they were one of the last metal bands of the 80's...the final throes of 80's metal anyhow...louder than love came out in mid 89...their look changed but their music stayed pretty much the same...meaning they were always well produced. soundgarden and AIC were always a little better than the competition because of the fact their line ups were solidified early. together they put out some of the best rock of the 90's...

i saw the concert in the aloha bowl where soundgarden broke up...the bassist flipped off the crowd, the band, spat in disgust, and just walked offstage.

R.I.P. layne.......

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Taverner

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:08 PM
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2. Both. Next question :)

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Droopy

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:08 PM
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3. I would just classify them as rock-n-roll

That's definitely not metal. I'm not up on today's metal bands, but if you want to hear what real metal sounds like listen to some 80s era Metallica, Megadeth or Anthrax.

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reprehensor

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:13 PM
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4. Option 3: Gretal.

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Philosophy

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:14 PM
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5. They're only like my favorite band ever!

I just about know all the words to every single one of their songs. Oh, and I say they are grunge, and grunge itself is a subcategory of metal.

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MrSlayer

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:14 PM
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6. Metal at first then contemporary rock.

They were out before the term grunge was coined and were considered Metal. They opened for Slayer on the Clash of the Titans tour in 1990. Their early stuff is really heavy but they got weak and commercial later on. Soundgarden can also fall into this category. Grunge was term applied to anyone who came out of Seattle once Nirvana and Pearl Jam hit.

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frylock

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:25 PM
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7. but don't poo-poo nirvana..

their bleached CD is fantastic. Just about anything that came out on the SUB-POP label pre-90 kicked royal ass.

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Beware the Beast Man

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:26 PM
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8. Only one band from Seattle truly classifies as "grunge"

And that would be Mudhoney...they had that gritty, fuzzed-out Stooges meet Blue Cheer sound. The rest of the Seattle bands had that same common thread, though, which is why most got lumped into the so-called "grunge" sound (or Sub-Pop sound).
Alice in Chains were a metal band, better yet a hair-metal band, before they capitolized on the whole Seattle underground thing (around '90). They were never really in the same sphere as the Sub Pop and C/Z records bands were.

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frylock

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Sun Jun-13-04 12:50 AM
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12. green river?

i'm just sayin.

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chenGOD

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Sun Jun-13-04 10:37 AM
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15. Errmmm what about The Melvins???

Mudhoney's great and all, but I'd put the Melvins as Grunge with a capital G.

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Beware the Beast Man

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Sun Jun-13-04 09:00 PM
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16. Grunge? No. Heavy as fuck? Definitely!

The Melvins were in a class of their own. Sadly, I never got to see them live, but a buddy of mine went and had to leave after 20 minutes because they were too damn loud!

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mitchum

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:50 PM
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9. Weren't they originally a hair metal band who had been kicking...

around for a few years (with little success) who decided to get down with the $eattle $ound?

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Beware the Beast Man

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:53 PM
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10. Ye$$

Like I posted earlier, the Seattle scene was very insular- everyone knew each other & often toured together, exchanged personnell, etc...AIC were never a part of that movement.

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LostInAnomie

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Sun Jun-13-04 12:08 AM
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11. One of the best...

... yet least credited bands of the 1990's. I own everyone of their CD's.

RIP Layne.

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JohnKleeb

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Sun Jun-13-04 12:52 AM
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13. deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerek

umm whats alice in chains?
:D
I had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuch to drink.

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