philbymon wrote:Where was it? I read an article once that proclaimed that Soundgarden had successfully killed grunge...it may even have been Rolling Stone Mag.
You quoted Soundgarden, so I would guess you were referring to my last post.
I personally myself base the opinion simply by their style of music mainly, and they were one of the first bands in the grunge era that signed to a major label, Soundgarden was formed in the mid 80s, long before other popular grunge bands out of Seattle were around, Cornell was the original drummer for Soundgarden as well as the lead vocalist, I think until around 1990 or so, and grunge became most popular around '93, if I am correct
You can find a debate about the grunge era in the Rock Music forum at the MusicBanter site that is interesting to read.
As far as Rolling Stone and other media sources, well..I dont always agree with everything they print, its almost like wikipedia in a way, its not always accurate in every aspect, Rolling Stone may have been referring to the break up of Soungarden as the meaning to "they killed grunge" or a change in their style of music, but I dont really see it that way myself personally, but I am interested in what they meant by that statement, grunge was a very short lived era in music history, and then you go into the post-grunge era and so on, in conclusion, I simply believe that Soundgarden produced the best music/style from that era that best defines the Seattle Sound musically, this is only my personal opinion, I might add that Alice & Chains and STP are actually my favorite bands from that era.
We can debate further on the subject if you wish, theres just so much more information to discuss on the subject.
