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A Field Guide to Grunge
This book is your gateway to the 90's gritty, plaid-wearing underground.
A Field Guide to ... delves into music’s most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever.
In A Field Guide to Grunge , Steve Wide explores the dynamic scene that sprung from the ashes of punk and underground metal in America’s Pacific Northwest. From the sludge metal of Melvins and the noise punk of Mudhoney, to the point where Nirvana blew the charts apart, this book examines the artists, albums, music labels, who’s who, and hangouts that shaped an alternative scene into a worldwide phenomenon.
A Field Guide to ... delves into music’s most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever.
In A Field Guide to Grunge , Steve Wide explores the dynamic scene that sprung from the ashes of punk and underground metal in America’s Pacific Northwest. From the sludge metal of Melvins and the noise punk of Mudhoney, to the point where Nirvana blew the charts apart, this book examines the artists, albums, music labels, who’s who, and hangouts that shaped an alternative scene into a worldwide phenomenon.
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96 pages, Hardcover
Published September 7, 2021
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March 18, 2022
I love the whole layout and idea of this book that I'm planning on buying the rest of the series.
However I'm so deep into this topic that I was mentally adjusting the Grunge Family Tree (the exclusion of Mad Season where Mark Lanegan, Layne Staley, Mike McCredy and Barrett Martin should be connected. Barrett Martin also needed to be connected to Skin Yard. I guess one could argue for Mark Lanegan and Kurt Cobain to be connected via their scrapped Lead Belly project? Maybe Susan Silver deserved a bubble? Again. I am too deep) but this was a cute one sitting read with little facts and an overall decent look at the ~grunge~ scene.
I also had some quibbles about the bands included in the Legacy sections, well, not quibbles about the bands but the genres they were put under (A Perfect Circle is not Nu-Metal/Post Grunge and Tool is not industrial.) But any one can argue those things.
Fun.
However I'm so deep into this topic that I was mentally adjusting the Grunge Family Tree (the exclusion of Mad Season where Mark Lanegan, Layne Staley, Mike McCredy and Barrett Martin should be connected. Barrett Martin also needed to be connected to Skin Yard. I guess one could argue for Mark Lanegan and Kurt Cobain to be connected via their scrapped Lead Belly project? Maybe Susan Silver deserved a bubble? Again. I am too deep) but this was a cute one sitting read with little facts and an overall decent look at the ~grunge~ scene.
I also had some quibbles about the bands included in the Legacy sections, well, not quibbles about the bands but the genres they were put under (A Perfect Circle is not Nu-Metal/Post Grunge and Tool is not industrial.) But any one can argue those things.
Fun.
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