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Originally Posted by pepper_green
sonic youth - Dirty
who cares!! the Yoof doing some blues licks and boogie. it's one of the best grunge albums.
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Nah man, ain't no grunge album. A bit rockist, sure, but artier than its given credit for. I just fucking love "JC" ... and "Theresa's Sound World" ... and "100%" ... last ⅓ of the album is all jam, baby. Yeah, it's "alternafied," but it set them on the path to Experimental Jet Set and Washing Machine (both of which take the best parts of Dirty and break them down into two completely different albums that are essentially perfect), and, later, Rather Ripped, which isn't the best SY album either, but it finally found them doing their weird take on "pop" perfectly.
Ain't no grunge album though dog. What the fuck even is a grunge album? Aside from every Mudhoney album ever, that is. is it Superunknown, In Utero, Vitalogy? Those three completely unrelated and dissimilar records — a metal goes hard rock mainstream record, a noisey punk record and America's U2 —that are for some reason lumped into the same category?
No, it's coming to me now... Grunge is any kind of rock that wasn't
explicitly metal that came out in America between 1988 and 1996. So Temple of the Dog AND Built to Spill AND Melvins AND everything in MTV that wasn't British or electronic or black, from basement to stadium. Makes total sense. Dinosaur Jr and Blind Melon and Weezer and fucking Spacehog and every single other thing with guitars.