When Did The Grunge Era End
When Grunge hit the scene and the Hair Bands and British Invasion When did the 1980s era end.
When did the grunge era end. There is some dispute over who originally coined the term but it is generally attributed to Mark Arm of the band Mudhoney. Id say the true 80s is 1982-1990 and 1980 1981 and 1991 could be fringe with the other decades. Out of the Los Angeles post.
It was misrepresented as being self-absorbed but actually addressed big themes things outside the artists. Men and women alike wore unkempt tousled hair with either short crops to deny their sex appeal or long to hide their faces as they sang about their innermost thoughts. Its a word that became synonymous with the Seattle sound.
Stone Temple Pilots Purple and the Melvins Stoner Witch both came out that year as did Holes Live Through This. The Death of Grunge March 12 2008 Its hard to say if grunge really died or if it just evolved into something else. Raw Production as opposed to that horrible lo-fi production can be quite amazing and can make it sound as.
A look at the etymology of grunge. Grunge wasnt nihilist or moany - they really did want a better world for everyone. Parallel to this was another aesthetic in which women would wear highly sexualized clothing and heavy makeup with dark eyeliner in contrast to their ungroomed peers.
Its a word that was used to describe a number of different alternative bands from the region in 1980s and then also. Where did the name come from. Nearly every era has a distinct sound to its music.
The 1990s are an era markedly known as much for the early explosion of Grunge music mostly rooted in and related to the Northwestern music scene popularized by Washington and burgeoning independent record labels such as Sub Pop. The genre is characterized by its distorted guitar with heavy feedback effects a fusion of punk and metal sounds and angst-ridden lyrics. For the START of the 80s the 70sdisco era seemed to end in 1980 maybe even 1979 but then again you dont get that Duran Duran 80s feel until 1982 or 1983.