His Name is Alive! damn that brings back memories

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What happened in '91 was that Nirvana came out with Nevermind, all of the other music listed was OK but didn't do anything revolutionary.

With Nevermind came the grunge period and the end of the hair bands of the '80s (Poison, Ratt, Twisted Sister, etc).

As noted above, pop music still dominated the charts, as it still does.

I really don't think the metal thing died off until about 1993-94 to be honest, ironically around the time of Cobain's suicide. In 1992, Guns N Roses and Metallica were just as popular as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Def Leppard were still scoring hits. Aerosmith were still all over MTV, etc....

the really ironic thing is that after a few years most of the grunge/alternative bands broke up, disappeared or died... and the big hair metal bands are still at it

Poison did a 40-city tour with Def Leppard last summer
Mudhoney did some touring too, but guess who had the bigger venues and bigger audienes?

Hair metal bands are riding a nostalgia wave, while grunge/alternative groups are not.

A few more good albums of 91 (forgive me if they are not late 91, but they are still from 91 regardless)


Skid Row - Slave To The Grind

Death - Human

Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Motorhead - 1916

Well, unfair analogy considering Mudhoney were never more than a cult band even at the height of alternative. It's not like we're talking about Pearl Jam or Smashing Pumpkins. Now when Soundgarden announce tour dates, that will be a better comparison.

Nice. I can't remember anyone else here (although I'm sure we aren't alone) who HATES Pearl Jam's "Ten". It's weird, I actually enjoy a few songs they did later, but this one.... gag.

I bought into the Pearl Jam hype, how they were supposed to be this supergroup and their music was going to be some great stuff. I bought "Ten" on the day it was released, listened to it probably five or six times trying to like it, but I never stopped hating that music. It wasn't that it was "just OK", it was bad.

Never really liked that album.

If it wasn't for Ten, we would have been forced to listen to MC Hammer's "Dance...Ya Know It".

Think about those alternatives.

How about what I was actually listening to in the fall of 1991, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub?

lol, not really. There are always choices and there certainly was back then. I was also listening to Teenage Fanclub and playing the snot out of Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" in the late Fall.

Oh Sept 24th. What a day in music that was.

I never thought of Soundgarden as grunge. Do they?

I actually think the 90s would have been better off had Nirvana never existed.

They are and they do.

I always used him as a punchline, but the last time I did that must've been years ago.

No, they don't...none of the "grunge" bands ever used that silly made up term to describe themselves..."grunge" was more a media created buzzword to lump together bands and a certain style....

Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine on lead guitar? It's better than The Yardbirds!

First time I heard that song it reminded me of the band CHEAP TRICK.

I thought music died a slow and agonising death from about half way through '89 so the early 90's for me is an AWFUL time. :-( with a few exceptions. It has never properly recovered.

It's better than what we have these days! (I know, that's not saying much at all)

The music was called grunge before the media used it as a buzzword.

Please, you show me in one interview anywhere Soundgarden (or Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains for that matter) accepted and promoted the term for themselves as you purport they did....good luck with that, as it is well know that all four of these bands found the label to be ridiculous....